Hispanic and Latino Americans

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — As Michigan's population shrinks, it's also becoming more racially diverse. Census data released this week shows that the number of Hispanic and Asian residents in the state rose by more than one-third over the past...

PHOENIX (AP) — A metropolitan Phoenix school district has launched an inquiry into a substitute teacher who wrote a letter that portrayed Hispanic students in a harsh light and was read aloud last week at the Arizona Legislature during a debate on...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico has retained its place as the most Hispanic state in the union — and Hispanics were responsible for most of the state's growth between 2000 and 2010. U.S. Census figures released Tuesday show New Mexico...

DAVIE, Fla. (AP) — More Hispanics in the U.S. are having to help loved ones battle the most common form of dementia — Alzheimer's disease. That has Alzheimer's groups pushing to raise awareness among Hispanics who are living into the decades...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- As Michigan's population shrinks, it's also becoming more racially diverse. Census data released this week show that the number of Hispanic and Asian residents in Michigan increased by more than one-third over the past decade,...

SOUTH BEND -- Alberto Juarez talked and listened as he joined a group of residents talking to candidates running for mayor and other city offices. Juarez said that he has plenty of concerns. He lost his job at AJ Wright, and he wants to know what the...

SOUTH BEND — Hundreds of Hispanics crowded into and outside of the South Bend Common Council's meeting Monday night to support a council resolution opposing a state Senate bill that would let police verify citizenship status if they have probable...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers on Tuesday sent the governor a bill that would make the state the first requiring public schools to include the contributions of gays and lesbians in social studies curriculum. The bill, passed on a...

SOUTH BEND - When Katharine Jefferts Schori was elected presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in 2006, Episcopalians everywhere gasped. Then many cheered while others objected. Jefferts Schori had become the first woman to lead the national church....

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Republicans gathering in South Florida to improve the party's outreach to Hispanic voters will tackle trade, education — and the elephant in the room, immigration — at a conference organized by the new...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Huffington Post and BET co-founder Sheila Johnson are launching a HuffPost section devoted to African-Americans. The section, "HuffPost GlobalBlack," is expected to debut in early March. The Huffington Post is set to make an...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The ranks of America's poorest poor have climbed to a record high — 1 in 15 people — spread widely across metropolitan areas as the housing bust pushed many inner-city poor into suburbs and other outlying places and...