Latinos
Preparations are underway for the San Sebastian Film Festival, which has become one of the most important movie events of the year. This week some of the participating filmmakers for the 61st edition were announced, with no shortage of Latin American talent.
In a new interview released on NUVOtv's Youtube channel, Jennifer Lopez, who acts as the channel's creative director, spoke of the new programming designed specifically for Latino audiences in the United States.
"The barriers have not changed in the last 30 or 40 years," she said.
While the city’s emergency manager is proposing to sell the city’s art, Latino business owners believe filing for bankruptcy could be the beggining of something better.
President Obama will be visiting several major Spanish-speaking networks this week as he attempts to garner more public support while the House mulls over the Senate's immigration reform proposal on the table.
Days after the Republican body of the House of Representatives stated that they would not support the highly-debated immigration reform bill, President Obama once more took to the airwaves in his weekly radio address to call for the House to pass the bill into law.
As Congress prepares itself for a major debate regarding the controversial immigration reform proposal from the Senate, former President George W. Bush plans to speak on the bill next week.
On July 3, the Pew Internet and American Life Project, which tracks social trends about the internet and technology, released a study focused purely on the social news and viral website Reddit. The study found, among other things, that a significantly higher proportion of Hispanics use Reddit, compared with White and Black Non-Hispanics.
With the immigration reform proposal due for a potentially earth-shaking debate this summer, another major Republican has issued his support for immigration reform, but some Democrats are becoming hesitant on the bill's tough border provisions.
On Sunday, legislators took to the airwaves as they argued their cases for and against the immigration reform bill's passage at the House this time around.
Apparently undaunted by the perilous road ahead in the U.S. House of Representatives on the pending immigration reform bill, President Obama in his weekly radio address called for Congress to pass the bill, declaring that "the time for excuses is over."
The Supreme Court struck down an Arizona law on Monday that would have required Arizonans to provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush argued for immigration reform, stating that more legal immigration would add to the American workforce and create more revenues from payroll taxes.
As a whole, Republicans are still on the fence regarding immigration reform, but they seem to be taking one large stance against adding in gay couples to the debate, as Sen. Marco Rubio's comments Thursday helped demonstrate.
Despite the earlier indications that the Republican Party was looking to come around on immigration reform, the party's stance has grown shakier as Congress prepares to debate the new immigration proposal this summer.
