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California population continues decline, driven by lower immigration, fewer births and pandemic deaths
California’s population declined by 173,000 between July 2020 and July 2021, bringing the estimated total to 39.37 million, according to state figures released Friday. By Sarah Parvini | LATimes | DEC. 18, 2021 | Photo credit: Al Seib / Los Angeles Times California’s population has continued to decline after falling ... -
Senate parliamentarian rejects latest Dem proposal on immigration
By MARIANNE LEVINE for POLITICO | 12/16/2021 06:57 PM EST | Updated: 12/16/2021 08:46 PM EST The Senate parliamentarian on Thursday rejected the most recent push from Democrats to include immigration reform in their party-line social spending bill, leaving party leaders scrambling for an alternative. The House-passed social spending bill included a provision ... -
Longtime Long Beach Congressman Alan Lowenthal says he won’t seek reelection
Congressman Alan Lowenthal and Mayor Robert Garcia enter exhibit hall A of the Long Beach Convention Center where migrant children found at the border without a parent were temporarily housed, in Long Beach on Thursday, April 22, 2021 | Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG By Jason Ruiz | Long Beach ... -
Tony Winner Sergio Trujillo Tapped to Direct Musical Adaptation of 'Real Women Have Curves'
Award-winning film about life in the barrio might soon be breaking barriers on Broadway. by Marc Hershberg | Forbes Barry and Fran Weissler, the producers of Chicago and Waitress, are now developing a musical adaptation of the acclaimed independent film Real Women Have Curves. Sergio Trujillo, who became the first Hispanic recipient of the ... -
LAPD arrests suspected shooter at Hollywood memorial for Vicente Fernández
Shots fired near where mourners gathered to remember Vicente Fernández on Hollywood Walk of Fame By CNS Author | December 13, 2021 - City News Service for KTTV-Fox 11 LA HOLLYWOOD - A man was in custody Monday for allegedly firing at a crowd near the Hollywood Walk of Fame, where fans had gathered to ... -
Vicente Fernández, ‘El Rey’ of Mexican Ranchera Music, Is Dead at 81
By Christine Chung Published Dec. 12, 2021Updated Dec. 13, 2021, 2:42 p.m. ET Leer en español Vicente Fernández, the powerful tenor whose songs of love, loss and patriotism inspired by life in rural Mexico endeared him to generations of fans as “El Rey,” the king of traditional ranchera music, died on Sunday morning. He ... -
Op-Ed: Biden resumes Trump's cruelest immigration policies. AMLO was able to avoid it
By Alberto Pradilla | Washington Post Opinion December 7, 2021 at 10:16 pm. EST Alberto Pradilla is a reporter on the site 'Animal Político' and author of the book 'Caravan: how the Central American exodus came out of hiding'. With the reactivation of the immigration program "Stay in Mexico", Joe Biden's ... -
Latino civil rights organization drops 'Latinx' from official communication
The action by the LULAC adds to the debate over a term embraced by younger Latinos and those seeking more inclusive, gender-neutral language. By Suzanne Gamboa | NBC News Domingo García, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, the nation's oldest Latino civil rights organization, has instructed staff and ... -
Commentary: Retaking the Immigration Narrative
Dr. Gonzalo Santos' Letter in response to LATimes Jean Guerrero Opinion piece Dear Ms. Guerrero, December 10, 2021 I am what you might call an activist professor at CSU-Bakersfield, who has taught the Sociology of Immigration and participated in the modern immigration rights movement since it began in 1994. I ... -
REPORT: Colorism in the Latino community
Most Latinos in the US believe that having a dark skin color affects their possibilities, according to a study by Gonzalo Alvarado | CNN En Espanol Most Latinos think that having a dark skin color impacts their chances of getting ahead in the United States, according to a recent study. ...
