Entries by Cristina Costantini from 12/2011

The Latina Beauty Obsession

Publicado 12.01.2011

It's what's on the inside that counts. But for many Latinas, the outside seems pretty important too. A new study which surveys the past decade of...

Pew Study Says Two Thirds Of Undocumented Immigrants Have Resided In U.S. For At Least Ten Years

Publicado 12.02.2011

A new report from the Pew Hispanic Center estimates that nearly two thirds of the 10.2 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States...

Family Defends Claim Teen Killed Himself Over DREAM Act

Publicado 12.05.2011
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"The family of 18-year-old Joaquin Luna are standing by their claim that depression over his immigration status and uncertain future drove the Mission...

Most Popular Latino Baby Names In 2011

Publicado 12.05.2011

More Latino parents will be yelling "Jerónimo!" around their homes in the coming year, according to the annual list of most popular Spanish-language ...

Beardstown, Small Midwestern Meatpacking Town, Wrestles With Immigration Issue

Publicado 12.07.2011

Pam DeSollar, a kindergarten principal in the small town of Beardstown, Ill., remembers when the first Latinos started showing up in her sleepy manufa...

Milwaukee Finds Huge Racial Disparities In Traffic Stop Data

Publicado 12.08.2011

Black drivers in Milwaukee were seven times more likely to be pulled over by police than their white counterparts, while Latinos were five times more ...

Puerto Rico Hate Crime Law Would Exclude LGBTs Despite High Number Of Gay Murders

Publicado 12.09.2011

Two years ago, on a desolate street in central Puerto Rico, a gay 19-year-old named Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado was savagely killed: decapitated, disme...

Jorge Santini, Mayor Of San Juan, Baffles Public With Astoundingly Strange Christmas Photo

Publicado 12.12.2011

Nothing says Christmas quite like a stuffed leopard murdering a fear-stricken antelope. Err... wait, how did we miss that part of the Bible? Mayor...

Eva Longoria Pushes For National Latino Museum After 'Problem-Plagued' Mexican American Center

Publicado 12.19.2011
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"Television's highest-earning actress and a San Francisco art museum chief are two of the key figures in the bid to establish a new museum on the Nati...

More Latinos In Medical Schools Nationwide

Publicado 12.19.2011
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Acosta is part of a growing number of Hispanics who are applying to and enrolling in medical school. Since 2004, the number of Hispanic applicants to ...

Feds Condemn East Haven Police Department For Rampant Discrimination Against Latinos

Publicado 12.20.2011

The feds rolled into East Haven, Ct. to deliver a 23-page report with a harsh message: the local police regularly discriminate against and intimidate ...

Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio Sued By Undocumented Woman Shackled During Labor

Publicado 12.21.2011

Two years ago today Miriam Mendiola-Martinez gave birth while in police custody, after being arrested for using false documents to obtain work. She sa...

Pedro Armendariz Jr., Mexican Actor, Dies At Age 71

Publicado 12.27.2011

Associated Press MEXICO CITY -- Mexican character actor Pedro Armendariz Jr. died Monday at the age of 71. There was no immediate confirmation of t...

Mexican Band Releases Strange Spanish Language Cover Of Justin Bieber's 'Baby'

Publicado 12.27.2011

Bieber has surely met his match. K-LYZ Musical, a Mexican-American "duranguense" band from Washington state, has one thing right -- nothing says teen ...