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Poll: Among U.S. Latinos, Catholicism still largest faith

Catholics remain the largest religious group among Latinos in the United States, but the number of Latinos who identify as religiously unaffiliated continues to grow

The Independent UK

How one group aims to boost Florida Hispanic women’s voting power

TAMPA, Fla. — The presidential election campaign hasn’t even begun but a nonprofit is encouraging Latinas to be ready and exercise their voting rights.

Tribune News Service

Diverse Georgia Legislature made for awkward moments, learning experiences

ATLANTA — About six weeks into Georgia's 2023 legislative session, freshman state Rep. Long Tran started growing a beard.

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Judge refuses to delay funding vote for Pioneer Bank redevelopment in Humboldt Park

Judge Caroline Moreland found that the Hispanic Housing Development Corp. has no legal standing to seek a temporary restraining order to prevent the Chicago City Council from voting later this month to award $13 million to Park Row Development LLC.

Chicago Sun-Times

Would Florida higher ed proposals protect students or destroy state universities?

ORLANDO, Fla. — Lawmakers are weighing sweeping changes to Florida’s higher education system, including weakening tenure protections for faculty, putting a microscope on certain programs and specifying how United States history must be taught in core courses.

Orlando Sentinel

How Johnson did it: Flawless execution of ‘smart typical playbook in Chicago politics’ won mayoral race

Johnson won 29 of 50 wards, including a clean sweep of majority African-American wards. He won six Hispanic majority wards to Vallas’ nine. Johnson sealed the deal along the progressive-minded north lakefront and the hipster Milwaukee Avenue corridor.

Chicago Sun-Times

Universities grapple with diversity policies after GOP crackdown

AUSTIN, Texas — In July 2020, the president of Texas A&M University appointed a 45-member commission to examine the progress of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at the nearly 70,000-student flagship campus in College Station.

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Three charts on education levels by race and ethnicity

Black and Hispanic students had the lowest rates of enrolling in college and graduating four-year college within six years.

USAFacts

Hispanic ministers rally behind Vallas

The ministers took turns asking Vallas friendly questions about improving school safety and fighting violent crime on the CTA and in neighborhoods.

Chicago Sun-Times

Study evaluates cardiovascular risk disparities among young people of color with Type 1 diabetes

Understanding what’s driving these disparities could help target critical interventions.

Chicago Sun-Times

Federal judge weighs whether Miami needs to redraw voting maps before November election

MIAMI — When attorneys challenging the constitutionality of Miami’s voting map need to back up their allegation that district boundaries were drawn along racial lines, they just turn to the tape.

Miami Herald

Illinois Hispanic Chamber Of Commerce Endorses Paul Vallas For Chicago Mayor

The Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (IHCC) endorsed the candidacy of Paul Vallas for mayor of Chicago as the race heats up

Zenger

Large numbers of Hispanics didn't pick single race in census

The U.S. Census Bureau says 43% of Hispanics either didn’t respond to the question asking them to select their race or selected the “some other race” box on the 2020 census form

The Independent UK

Canela Media to Use Amagi’s FAST Marketplace

Canela selected Amagi's end-to-end FAST marketplace to help the Hispanic-targeted OTT provider enrich and monetize its content catalog

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The Independent UK

Black, Hispanic investors struggle with faith in crypto

Many Black and Latino investors were drawn to crypto by its promise to be pathway to wealth-building outside of a traditional financial system with long history of racial discrimination and indifference to the needs of low-income communities

Reason

My Comment on the OMB's Proposal to Turn "Hispanic" into a Race

The federal Office of Management and Budget has requested comments on several proposals to change the official federal racial and ethnic classifications. One proposal is to merge the ethnic question (are you Hispanic/Latino or not?) with the racial one (are you black/African American, white, Asian American, or Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander?),…

Fortune

Autism is more common among Black and Hispanic kids for the first time ever—but only because screening is better

The increase in diagnoses is from “this rush to catch up,” said David Mandell, a University of Pennsylvania psychiatry professor.

The Independent UK

Autism now more common among Black, Hispanic kids in US

For the first time, autism is being diagnosed more frequently in Black and Hispanic children than in white kids in the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday released the new estimates of how common autism is

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How Should a Bureaucrat Proceed if He Doubts a Contractor's Self-Declared Race?

For federal transportation contracting and for Small Business Administration progams, it's advantageous to have one's business certified as a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise, or DBE. The simplest way of gaining DBE status is for the business to be at least 51% owned by a member of one of the "official" minority…

Chicago Sun-Times

3 years, 4 million cases, more than 36,000 deaths: Numbers shape Illinois’ dismal COVID-19 story

Statewide death toll now is nearing 37,000 — roughly the equivalent of wiping out the population of Calumet City. Chicago area accounts for nearly half the deaths — about 8,000 in the city, over 7,500 in suburban Cook County.

Fortune

U.S. wage inequality shrank dramatically during the pandemic

New research shows how the pandemic’s unprecedented combination of factors favored low-paid, younger, less educated, female, Black, and Hispanic workers.

Chicago Sun-Times

Black mothers and babies deserve better odds at life

Modern prevention efforts have been effective among white, Hispanic and Asian mothers, but one thing is clear: Black mothers need help catching up to these lifesaving advancements.

Inverse

The Next Superman Movie Needs to Make One Major Change to the Man of Steel

As DC prepares to relaunch the Man of Steel, it’s time for a new take on the Superman.

Chicago Sun-Times

More Chicago mayoral endorsements: Abortion rights PAC backs Johnson; 3 police union supporters on City Council back Vallas

PAC chief says she doesn’t trust Vallas to support women’s reproductive rights, while 23rd Ward Ald.

Reason

The One Key Question No Justice Asked in the Harvard/UNC Affirmative Action Case

Harvard and UNC's defense is based on the perceived need for racial diversity; but how do they justify treating "Hispanic" as a Racial Classification?

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