Brilliant Media celebrated the 32nd anniversary of El Hispanic News, as well as sister publication PQ Monthly’s first year in print, with an all-ages party on Feb. 21 at Portland City Hall. People from across the Latino, LGBTQ, and allied communities were in attendance, including Portland Mayor Charlie Hales, who showed up to issue [...]
By Julie Cortez, El Hispanic News The Rose City’s two “football clubs” — the Portland Timbers and the newly-formed Portland Thorns — share initials (PTFC), a home pitch, and a common goal of connecting with the Latino community. Before the 2013-14 season even began for the Timbers on March 1, forward José Valencia visited the [...]
![“Va a continuar siendo confusa”, dijo Eliseo Medina sobre la lucha por la reforma de inmigración, “y mientras más continúen haciendo aquí [en Oregón], más fuerte será nuestra presencia en el Congreso”. Foto por Julie Cortez, El Hispanic News](http://www.elhispanicnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/DSCN0768-90x65.jpg)
By Julie Cortez, El Hispanic News Portland, OR — SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Eliseo Medina delivered a comprehensive report on the state of national immigration reform during a Spanish-language press conference followed by an English-language keynote address and Q&A on March 1 at SEIU Local 49 in Southeast Portland. Medina leads the union’s efforts to push Congress [...]
Venezuelan President Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías died March 5 after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 58. Chávez served as Venezuela’s president for 14 years, earning staunch defenders and fierce critics for his socialist reforms, changes to the country’s government and Constitution, and fiery criticism of the United States. The League of United Latin [...]
By Richard Jones, El Hispanic News Salem, OR — On George Washington’s 281st birthday, the Oregon House of Representatives voted 38 to 18 to endorse House Bill 2787 — the Tuition Equity Bill. Following this vote only two short steps remain before hundreds of children of undocumented workers can enroll in Oregon colleges and universities [...]
By Erin Rook, PQ Monthly Monika London grew up surrounded by music. The Portland-based DJ and producer, who goes by Monika MHz, started laying down beats at a young age on her toy drum and Sesame Street record player. Her mother’s vast record collection offered London an education in the best of Motown and disco, [...]
By Richard Jones, El Hispanic News Some 8.5 million immigrants in the United States currently hold green cards, according to Joshua Hoyt, but he says many cannot afford to take the next step — citizenship. The fees needed to complete the paper work for full citizenship are beyond the reach of many. Hoyt, co-chair of [...]
By Khalil Abdullah, New America Media Washington, D.C. — Kilmichael, a small town in northern Mississippi, is known to blues aficionados as the place where blues artist B.B. King first began his love affair with the guitar. To voting rights advocates, it’s a place that helps spotlight the ongoing need for Section 5 of the [...]
By Marcia Facundo, Latino Print Network “It is impossible not to recognize that the vestiges of discrimination take a long time to erase,” Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic justice to sit on the United States Supreme Court, writes in “My Beloved World” (“Mi mundo adorado,” Vintage, $27.95). In her memoirs, she reveals details of her [...]
