In April, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that two Sacramento defendants were found guilty of wire fraud that stemmed from a case involving a fraudulent real estate company that targeted members of Sacramento’s Latino community. According to U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott of the Eastern District Court of California, five others indicted on connected charges […]

It’s hard to believe that it took five years to count the 2000 votes of farmworkers by the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board (ALRB). The votes were counted this week and it was clear that Latino workers, in this case, had no interest in joining the United Farm Workers (UFW) union. By a vote of 1,098 […]

According to the first annual New American Economy Cities index for integrating immigrant communities, the immigrant community in Fresno is paying around $1 billion in annual taxes and contributing over $3 billion annually to the local economy. Fresno ranked 35th out of 100 large U.S. cities in the study. According to the index, the numbers […]

Some great news for fans of Latino-focused films, the city of Coachella will be sponsoring two film festivals this October. The council made the decision in June to award city sponsorship to the Official Latino Film and Arts Festival as well as to Cinema Culturas – 2018 Coachella Valley Film Festival in the Fields. Both […]

In February, a federal judge ruled that election districts for the board of supervisors in a Central California county illegally dilute the voting power of Latinos and deprive them of an opportunity to elect candidates of their choice. The ruling came in a lawsuit against Kern County by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational […]

In February, the city of Sacramento filed a federal lawsuit against Wells Fargo that alleged that the bank directs African American and Latino borrowers into high-risk and high-cost mortgages. The lawsuit is also seeking monetary damages against Wells Fargo because the city claims that the mortgages forced the city “to divert resources intended for other […]

Motel 6 is facing another lawsuit, which alleges that it violated the civil rights of Latino immigrants by voluntarily giving the personal information of guests to federal immigration authorities. The lawsuit was filed by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) on behalf of the guests in federal court in Arizona. The lawsuit […]

According to an analysis of two national surveys by the Pew Research Center, about 11 percent, roughly 5 million people, of the estimated 43 million adults in the U.S. with Hispanic ancestry didn’t identify themselves as either Latino or Hispanic. The analysis was released in December 2017 and it states that the closer people are […]

The housing industry is eagerly courting a group of consumers, aged 20 to 36, that real estate professionals call Hispennials, which is a mash-up of Hispanics and Millennials. Rick Arvielo, CEO of Tustin-based New American Funding, states, If you look at the Latino population, their demographic is younger and they are just starting to buy […]

Ilia Calderon, a native of Colombia, will replace Maria Elena Salinas as co-anchor with Jorge Ramos of Univision’s flagship 6:30 p.m. newscast Noticiero Univision. Calderon will become the first Afro-Latina to anchor an evening newscast for a major broadcaster in the U.S. when she begins her new job in mid-December. It is a distinction she also […]