Word: hispanicization
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Cambridge's Black population rose approximately 25 percent to about 12,930 in the past decade. The recent census also noted a 43 percent increase in the city's Hispanic population. The group now numbers 6506.
And the numbers indicate that the city is more ethnically diverse than the rest of the state. Its Black, Asian and Hispanic populations all increased significantly since the 1980 Census.
"This election marks an end to an era of discrimination," declared a jubilant Gloria Molina, who last week became the first woman ever voted to a post on the Los Angeles County board of supervisors -- and its first Hispanic member since 1875. Molina, 42, the outspoken daughter of a Mexican...
Molina, a Democrat, cast herself as a political outsider and waged a scrappy campaign against Torres, also a Democrat, who outspent her 2 to 1. Molina was previously the first Hispanic woman elected to the state legislature and the Los Angeles city council. Her latest win makes her one of...
Betancourt said the group has had trouble obtaining adequate funds from the Undergraduate Council and the Harvard Foundation. In an effort to raise more money, he said he plans to organize a Friends of HFHA club, which would ask for donations from Hispanic Harvard graduates.