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“This (Latino) perspective is essential for a judiciary that aims to serve justice equitably and with a deep understanding of all its constituents” -Illinois Latino Agenda

NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE— A four-week pilot program in Spanish, run by the Community Training Engagement Center, looks to address the state’s early childhood education labor shortage by supporting immigrant women to enter the workforce.  The training looks to assist Latinas who may be interested in becoming in-home care providers or opening their own daycares. The Childcare Initiative is supported by the United Way of Greater Nashua and funding from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.  Nine Latinas have recently graduated from the course—including Eloina Alvarado, who has an early childhood education degree in her home country of Honduras—according to New Hampshire Public Radio. The program looks to provide state-wide credentials to residents who may have informal experiences caring for relatives, friends, and neighbors or formal credentials in childhood education from their home countries.  The course covers the legal requirements to be a childhood provider such as emergency planning, child development theory, [...]

Bueno Vasquez discusses how Afro-Latinos experiences are influenced by race, skin tone, in ways distinct from those of other Hispanics, including struggling with their Black identity.

Angelina Villalobos is breaking barriers in a male-dominated space and has created 25 murals in WA, including one at a park in Lakewood.

CHICAGO ⸺The night before her first day of college, 23-year-old Samantha Caldera said she stayed up and cried with her cousins because they knew they couldn’t do anything to change their housing situation. Caldera was living doubled up at her grandparents’ three-bedroom home in Maplewood, Chicago, at the time, along with eight other relatives, an experience she said often led her to feel “stuffed” in her own home. “We felt helpless because we were all just students who could not contribute to a big solution,” Caldera said. “Doubling-up,” or when a person temporarily lives with others, is the most common way members of the Latinx community experience homelessness, according to a report by the Chicago Coalition For The Homeless. SUGGESTION: ‘Doubling Up’ Homelessness: An Invisible Crisis The fate of the Bring Chicago Home referendum proposing an increase in the city’s real estate transfer tax for properties over $1 million, with [...]