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CDC: Wide gap in how Blacks, Hispanics were treated for COVID-19

ATLANTA — Dramatically fewer Black and Hispanic adult outpatients were given the leading antiviral medication for COVID-19 than White and non-Hispanics — even as medical professionals knew they were less likely to get equivalent treatment because of long-pervasive racial and ethnic disparities.

Tribune News Service · Nov 7, 2022

DeSantis' Latino support grows as election nears

Latinos could help Gov. Ron DeSantis secure his second term as governor and propel him if he runs for president in 2024.

Axios · Nov 7, 2022

GOP attack on democracy goes back to '64

Republicans started complaining about "voter fraud" in Black communities 58 years ago. Look where we are now

Salon · Nov 7, 2022

Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Latino oasis in ruby-red Georgia, and the Hispanic vote

ATLANTA — For Zeucis Martinez, life in northwest Georgia has meant straddling two different majorities.

Tribune News Service · Oct 30, 2022

Florida Republicans cut further into Democratic support among Hispanics

TAMPA — In a nondescript strip mall in suburban Tampa, with a green “Space Available” sign still hanging above the doorway, lies a small battlefield in the tug-of-war for Hispanic voters in Florida.

Tribune News Service · Oct 29, 2022

Illinois student test scores remain far below pre-pandemic levels in reading and math

Students in all racial and ethnic groups saw their scores drop since 2019, exacerbating historic achievement gaps between white and Asian students and other students of color.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 27, 2022

In Florida’s most Hispanic district, Latina politicians spar over immigration and socialism

MIAMI — Not three weeks had passed since Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis made headlines all over the country after taking credit for sending planes full of mostly undocumented Venezuelan migrants to Martha’s Vineyard when U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar — a Cuban American freshman congresswoman from Miami — addressed…

Miami Herald · Oct 27, 2022

How Republicans’ ground operation with Hispanics could deliver Miami-Dade for DeSantis

MIAMI — Becoming a U.S. citizen was not at the top of Ovidio Rodriguez’s to-do list this year, though the Hialeah resident recently became eligible to apply after leaving Cuba five years ago.

Miami Herald · Oct 27, 2022

Clouted owner of senior home fined $1,500 after 3 residents died during hot spell as heat was left running inside their building

Newly released autopsy results show the primary cause of death for all three women was “environmental heat exposure due to hot residential building during heat-related weather event.”

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 27, 2022

Republican Mayra Flores rejected from all-Democratic Hispanic caucus

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus bylaws explicitly block Republicans from joining due to major policy differences between members in the past.

The Texas Tribune · Oct 26, 2022