Immigrants in Los Angeles
By Pilar Marrero, La Opinión and FI2W reporter For years, California politician Rosario Marín, a model Latina conservative, was a rising star in the Republican Party. Last week, though, after she resigned her state cabinet position due to an investigation…
This weekend, Kurt Andersen’s nationally-syndicated public radio show Studio 360 featured a piece by La Opinión and Feet In 2 Worlds reporter Pilar Marrero on Gustavo Dudamel, the 28-year-old Venezuelan conductor who will take over the Los Angeles Philharmonic this…
Sara Espinosa chose to sleep on the street rather than leave her 12-year-old son to spend the night alone at a men-only homeless shelter. As a consequence, Sara, her son and her two daughters have been sleeping in her car….
By Diego Graglia, FI2W web editor In New York and Los Angeles, the effects of the economic slowdown are hitting hard in one important sector of immigrant communities: small business owners. A fixture of many New York neighborhoods, the bodega,…
By Pilar Marrero, La Opinión reporter and FI2W contributor The delay in Congresswoman Hilda Solís’ confirmation as secretary of labor hasn’t kept two ambitious politicians from racing hard to replace Solís as the U.S. representative from California’s 32nd District in…
Maybe not unprecedented like the Chicago Tribune‘s nor unexpected like Colin Powell‘s, but there were two other important endorsements for Barack Obama in the last few days. Los Angeles’ La Opinión and New York’s El Diario/La Prensa, two of the…
Despite appearances and poll numbers, neither presidential candidate has a lock on the Latino vote. The National Council of La Raza convention in San Diego, which just ended yesterday (7/15/08), showed that both candidates have to overcome a strong measure of…