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Paul Cuadros is a journalism professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of the book A Home on the Field: How One Championship Team Inspires Hope for the Revival of Small Town America.

Lydia Gutierrez is an entrepreneur…

Max Baca on the 12-string bajo sexto and David Farias on the accordion comprise the ‘conjunto’ elements of San Antonio-based Los Texmaniacs.

Max Baca formed his San Antonio-based conjunto band Los Texmaniacs in 1997. In Tejano music circles, conjunto is the pairing of a twelve-string…

The unemployment rate for Latinos and African-Americans is three to seven percentage points higher than the national unemployment rate. (Flickr Photo by aflcio2008)

Nationally, the nation’s unemployment hovers around 10 percent. This does not include what some say would be about…

By Matt O’Brien - Contra Costa Times - 02/10/2010 — The number of illegal immigrants living in the United States dropped by 1 million in two years, according to new estimates by the Department of Homeland Security.

The government thinks that…

By NICK PIPITONE, The Monitor - 2010-02-05

EDINBURG — For Carmen, as for many people, a college degree represents an opportunity for a better future. But her future is far more difficult to ascertain than it is for most U.S.…

By Sara Miller Llana - CS Monitor Staff writer - Rio de Janeiro (Feb. 8, 2010) — Jacqueline Campos, a lifelong resident of Rio de Janeiro, says she is not inspired by the ideas being floated ahead of presidential elections…

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