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Records of Afro-Latino players who played in the Negro Leagues will finally be included among those added to the Major League historical record, the MLB announced this week. https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-latino-887c6d30-1d36-11ef-8072-9b12a11e4641.html?chunk=4&utm_term=twsocialshare#story4 #axioslatino

Key Underground Railroad to Mexico site closer to historic recognition #undergroundrailroad #axios #axioslatino https://www.axios.com/2024/05/07/us-mexico-border-underground-railroad-mexico-nps

Two U.S. House members want the FBI and CIA to declassify all documents related to the surveillance and harassment of Latino civil rights leaders from the 1950s to the 1970s https://www.axios.com/2024/03/14/fbi-cia-latino-civil-rights-joaquin-castro #axios #AxiosLatino #latino #latinohistory

A novel that Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez had ordered destroyed before his death has been released and is drawing mixed reviews
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/13/gabriel-garcia-marquez-until-august-texas #writing #axios #axioslatino

When JFK took power, he began a massive effort to reset relations in Latin America. On this 60-year mark of his assassination, Axios Latino is examining Kennedy's legacy in the region #jfk #vivakennedy #axios #axioslatino https://www.axios.com/2023/11/21/jfk-kennedy-latin-america-legacy

Former President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy were only supposed to drop by and say hi during a Nov. 21, 1963, gathering of Mexican American activists in Houston. Instead, something special happened 60 years ago today #jfk #lulac #vivakennedy #axios #axioslatino

https://www.axios.com/2023/11/21/jfk-kennedy-latino-civil-rights-dallas-houston-lulac

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The population of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. is becoming more diverse, and Mexicans now have the smallest share they've ever had, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center. #axios #axioslatino

https://www.axios.com/2023/11/16/us-immigrants-undocumented-mexican-diverse-pew-research

A vast majority of Republicans say they support installing deterrents such as razor wire and floating barriers in rivers to prevent immigrants from entering the country illegally, even if people are endangered or killed, a new survey finds #immigration #axios #axioslatino

https://www.axios.com/2023/10/31/border-barriers-immigration-republican

Joan Baez, a Mexican American counterculture folk singer who participated in some of the most critical moments of the Civil Rights Movement, is the subject of a personal and revealing new documentary "Joan Baez I Am a Noise" #music #JoanBaez #AxiosLatino #axios https://www.axios.com/2023/10/05/joan-baez-documentary-i-am-a-noise-latino

The percentage of U.S. Latinos living in poverty has dropped significantly in the last decade but is well above the national average.

16.8% of Latinos nationally lived in poverty in 2022. That's well above the nation's overall poverty rate of 11.5% #axios #axioslatino

https://www.axios.com/2023/09/28/hispanic-poverty-rate-census

A Texas woman, curious about what happened to an uncle who died while serving in World War I, found his resting place in France — likely one of several Mexican Americans who died abroad and whose stories have been largely forgotten https://www.axios.com/2023/09/05/latino-veterans-world-war-texas #axios #axioslatino

Hate crimes against Latinos rose again last year, while some of the biggest U.S. cities with large Hispanic populations saw record numbers of such crimes, a new report says #axios #axioslatino https://www.axios.com/2023/08/31/hate-crimes-latino-los-angeles-chicago

The U.S. State Department has released two formerly top-secret documents that shed light on the information President Richard Nixon received as the 1973 coup d'état unfolded in Chile #axios #axioslatino #chile https://www.axios.com/2023/08/28/us-declassify-chile-nixon-coup-briefings-cia

At an Illinois museum, holograms of actual Holocaust survivors and witnesses can respond to questions from visitors. Alabama's Legacy Museum features holograms of actors performing the words of enslaved people #axios #axioslatino #slavery https://www.axios.com/2023/08/27/ai-holograms-vr-museums-racism-slavery-antisemitism

A Tejana voice in the Middle East

Journalist and religious scholar Stephanie Saldaña's new book about refugees from the Middle East celebrates remembering — something she says her Mexican American family lost during their migration story to Texas #axios #axioslatino
https://www.axios.com/2023/08/24/tejana-latina-middle-east-refugees-iraq-syria

RT @RussContreras: A majority of Latinos say it's important to shift to electric vehicles to minimize climate change damage, but they expressed more interest in buying gas-powered cars over EVs, a new #AxiosLatino @Ipsos survey in partnership with @TelemundoNews finds https://t.co/tDVIovP5VU

A plurality of Latinos now says "neither" when asked which major political party cares more about them, according to the latest Axios-Ipsos Latino Poll in partnership with Noticias Telemundo.

More Latinos continue to favor the Democratic Party, but their allegiance is drifting. Some Latinos signal growing differences on cultural issues and crime — and give Republicans an edge in handling the economy #AxiosLatino #latinos

https://www.axios.com/2023/06/22/latino-drift-democrats-poll

RT @RussContreras: Tomorrow, #AxiosLatino will release a new @axios Latino-Ipsos @TelemundoNews Poll showing how Latinos feel about both Dems, GOP and what we think about EVs.

Hint: There will be no lowrider Teslas soon. #EVs

Subscribe to the Axios Latino newsletter!

https://t.co/IFZ9S2weDi https://t.co/kX8jQ1dQud

New virtual reality technology is allowing users to experience the triumphs and discrimination of a Negro League-era baseball player — or how to deal with xenophobia as a Muslim on a plane #vr #baseball #racism #axios #axioslatino https://www.axios.com/2023/05/15/new-vr-role-playing-insight-racism

Harry Belafonte broke racial barriers in the 1950s as a musician and actor. He also was one of the last surviving performers of the Civil Rights Movement who put careers in jeopardy to march and protest #AxiosLatino #axios #civilrights

https://www.axios.com/2023/04/26/harry-belafonte-civil-rights-era-performer-singer

Latino workers are crucial to the oil and gas industry but remain vulnerable to pollution and the future transition to renewable energy jobs, lawmakers and business leaders say.

https://www.axios.com/2023/04/25/oil-and-gas-climate-change-gabe-vasquez-sylvia-garcia
#AxiosLatino #Axios #oilandgas #latinos #NewMexico #Texas

Coming in #axios Latino this Thursday: The emerging Latino artists who sing country music. Their families come from Cuba, Puerto Rico, El Paso and New Mexico.

Subscribe to #AxiosLatino to get stories like this every Tuesdays and Thursdays. https://axios.com/signup/latino

RT @StefWKight: Today's @axios Latino newsletter is entirely dedicated to the topic of immigration. I was thrilled to get to work with @RussContreras @marina_ef @astridgalvan @ElleDubG on this edition

Read it here 👇
https://t.co/wDBLohOg9Y #axioslatino

Axios Explains: Why it's so hard to come to the U.S. legally.

Permanently moving to the U.S. was once as easy as getting on a ship or strolling across a border. Not anymore. #immigration #refugees #immigrants #axioslatino #axios

https://www.axios.com/2023/04/06/legal-us-immigration-process-explained

Minor League Baseball is honoring a 4,000-year-old Maya sport and other symbols of Latino identity as part of its Copa de la Diversión, a series-long initiative aimed at appealing to U.S. Hispanics

https://www.axios.com/2023/04/04/minor-league-baseball-mlb-latino-hispanic

#native #axioslatino #maya #indigenous #PokTaPok #mlb

Antisemitic incidents in the U.S. jumped to a record level in 2022, an annual audit by the @ADL shows. It's the third time in five years that reported episodes of #antisemitism were the most on record since the ADL began tracking such incidents in 1979.

#axios #axioslatino #adl

https://www.axios.com/2023/03/23/antisemitism-cases-record-levels-2022-adl

Few statues honoring Latina civil rights and other influential Hispanic women have been erected in the U.S. or Latin America

#AxiosLatino #Latina #WHM #WHM2023 #SavingPlaces
https://www.axios.com/2023/03/16/monuments-statues-memorialize-latinas-women-history

RT @RussContreras: Gadi Schwartz @GadiNBC to host new NBC News NOW primetime show. The Guatemalan-born Schwartz will be one of the few Latinos to anchor a national U.S. news show #AxiosLatino https://t.co/CsynpsTQAg

Gadi Schwartz to host new NBC News NOW primetime show. The Guatemalan-born Schwartz will be one of the few Latinos to anchor a national U.S. news show

#AxiosLatino #axios #NBCNews https://www.axios.com/2023/03/13/gadi-schwartz-nbc-news-now-primetime-show-latino

Tomorrow, @Axios Latino will have a story on a new generation of Latino artists singing Classic Soul aka Souldies aka Brown Eyed Soul aka Sweet Soul. #BHM #BHM2023 #souldies #soul #ArtLaboe #oldies

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