One small decision in high school transformed James Whipper into the person he is today – a legend in the hip-hop world.agreeing to be a part of a hip-hop group in the 1970s with his friends, the Monroe resident began a 30-year career in the music industry. He was inducted as an honorarium into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999 as the first Latino hip-hop rap artist.
While historically concentrated in the Northeast, especially New York City, and the Midwest, the U.S. Puerto Rican population has not only increased but has become more dispersed during the last two decades.[5] In the 1990s the Puerto Rican population in Florida dramatically increased, making it the state with the second-largest concentration. Puerto Rican populations are also growing fast in other parts of the South, in smaller cities, and in suburban and ex-urban areas where a Puerto Rican presence is new. This new spatial distribution was accompanied by new patterns of migration from Puerto Rico and new professional and middle classes moving to these new areas, raising the potential for a new north-south economic polarization whose political implications are yet to be fully clear. This raises challenges to the more traditional stateside Puerto Rican political and economic narratives as a Northeast urban population loyal to the Democratic Party and New Deal policies.
U.S. Boricuas Poised to Debate P.R.’s Colonial Status as Congress Re-visits Issue
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“Can’t we have a situation where race becomes a secondary factor?” Dickson asked.Miklos argued the defense was trying to control the racial makeup of the jury.There were eight Caucasians and four blacks sitting on the jury, Schlesinger said. Four jurors were Hispanic, but the law does not distinguish Hispanics as a separate race, he said.Justices are expected to make a decision on the case sometime next year.
Michigan hired Rich Rodriguez away from his alma mater after failing to bring back one of its own. A man with ties to both the Wolverines and West Virginia might’ve helped. College football’s winningest program ended its coaching search Sunday, nearly a month after it started, by announcing Rodriguez would succeed retiring Lloyd Carr.
The Associated Press: Michigan Hires West Virginia’s Rodriguez
When they met, Ariza de Gomez and Gomez would talk on the phone. Soon, Gomez asked Ariza de Gomez if she wanted to go out sometime. But she said no.”I’m a lady,” she told him. “You have to marry me.”And so he did.His daughter was a witness at the short civil ceremony, but the couple does not remember much else. When you’re old, they explained, memories tend to fade. Afterward, they ate a shrimp dinner.
HispanicTrending: Latino seniors finding life renewed at center
“The strange thing is that (Gomez) made romantic music,” said Ildefonso Carbajal, editor of Indianapolis-based newspaper La Ola Latino-Americana. “When you hear about this kind of thing, it’s usually because someone got killed for singing ‘narcocorrido’ (music glamorizing drugs and guns). Supposedly, this guy never did that.”Mayraelisa Arroyo, on-air personality at Spanish-language radio station WSYW-AM (810), said Gomez moved from Chicago with his parents, siblings, wife and three sons to Indiana to live closer to relatives in the Alcauter family, who own and operate several locations of Merry’s Bakery.
Singer slain in Mexico lived in Avon since ‘03 | IndyStar.com
Body of popular musician killed in Mexico returning to Indiana
The draft regulations and the Senate bill assume that any remains found belong to federally recognized tribes, said Cleone Hawkinson, a founding member of the Portland, Ore.-based Friends of America’s Past. That includes remains from small bands of people who died out and left no descendants, and remains of indigenous ancestors to modern-day Latinos, including those who died just a few hundred years ago.”By changing the definition to include everything found as Native American, (the grave protection act) automatically applies to everything, before any scientific study. Then tribes can decide if they want to allow study,” Hawkinson said.
The Associated Press: Power Struggle to Control Ancient Bones
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Nearly 5,000 people (including 3,000 Iowans) braved a storm in the Midwest to pack an auditorium in downtown Des Moines and listen. Family farmers spoke of their community being invaded by the stench and pollution of industrial hog farms. Immigrants spoke of round-ups and police paying visits to kindergartens to yank children out of class. Longtime urban homeowners talked about the foreclosures and bankruptcies piling up in their neighborhoods. “Some things aren’t right and other things ain’t right,” said Barbara Anderson of the adjusted rate mortgages that had ensnared her Cleveland neighbors. “Predatory lending ain’t right.”
Heartland Forum Tackles the Real Issues
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It all began when Metzner was a student at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. After spending a student year in Barcelona, where he sharpened his fluency in Spanish and cultivated a taste for the Latino culture, he decided that this was the culture in which he wanted to start his first business. But the skyrocketing value of the euro vis-a-vis the dollar made raising capital in Europe too difficult, so he settled on Buenos Aires.
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