Latinas and all women have the human right to full information, resources, and services to make their healthiest decisions about relationships, sex, pregnancy and parenting.Focusing on teen pregnancy prevention as the main and only strategy to advancing adolescent sexual and reproductive health is not an adequate framework for doing so because so many of those [...]

Two Pennsylvania teens have been sentenced to serve jail time for their roles in the beating death of 25-year-old Luis Ramirez last July. Brandon Piekarsky, 17, was sentenced to 6 to 23 months, and Derrick Donchak, 19, received 7 to 23 months for their participation in the death of Ramirez.  The incident has been widely [...]

The nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court has brought the issue of diversity in the federal government to the forefront. Her nomination is no doubt historic, but this fact has distracted from an equally important piece of information: Latinos now make up 11 percent of President Obama’s first 300 nominees for [...]

Last month, 9-year-old Brisenia Flores and her parents were shot in their beds in Arivaca, Arizona by home invaders led by Shawna Forde, a member of the Minutemen, an anti-illegal immigration group, and representative for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). Brisenia and her father, Raul Flores, were killed.

Throughout the nomination process for Sotomayor, the White House has been quick to point out that the Supreme Court nominee has more years of experience on the bench, as a trial court and appellate judge, than any previous Supreme Court nominee. With so many years of experience also comes a reputation.

The White House has announced for the second time that the highly anticipated meeting to launch the Congressional effort for comprehensive immigration reform has been postponed. No future date was announced, just an assurance by an unnamed White house official that the meeting will happen soon.

Today marks the day television signals switch from analog to digital, and federal officials and broadcasters are hoping that today’s switch to an all-digital broadcast television around the country will go smoothly.

On Monday, when state Republicans in the New York Senate staged a surprise takeover of the chamber, they were joined by two Democrats, State Senators Pedro Espada Jr. and Hiram Monserrate.  While almost every other of their Democratic colleagues walked out, the two Latino lawmakers stood back in support.

In a report released yesterday, the Kaiser Family Foundation found sizable health disparities present in all U.S. states between women of different racial and ethnic groups. The findings indicate that the health of women of color suffer in comparison to white women in a variety of different ways – including various measures of the quality [...]