Word: latina
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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When the Latino Men’s Collective (LMC) and Fuerza Latina proposed a blacklight party in Adams dining hall, the Adams House administration was happy to play host. But when several Adams residents alerted administrators that the party was being publicized under the phrase of “Barely Legal,” House administrators promptly told the groups to cease and desist—or lose access to the dining hall...
...Fuerza Latina President Jessica D. Acosta ’10 defended the name, saying that they just wanted to use something that “would be catchy...
...they hadn’t introduced me to Harvard, I wouldn’t have come,” Murillo says of the UMRP’s recruiting efforts. She asserts that her Latina host helped her build a web of culturally-based friendships which have endured her two years at Harvard...
...year she went from the Long Beach City Council to the State Assembly to the U.S. Congress. The child of a white mother and black father, Richardson, 45, won the district's special election with 67% of the vote after edging past State Senator Jenny Oropeza, a Latina, in the primary. Political observers watched the race closely as an indicator of the growing power of the Latino vote in California. Though both Richardson and Oropeza disavowed racial overtones in the primary, most of Richardson's endorsers were African-American and Oropeza's were Latino. "Yes, race does exist, but more...
...Cesar E. Chavez Community Center nestled in a garden next to the I-71 freeway less than a mile from Long Beach's busy industrial ports. Whether playing cards or eating meals, they rarely discuss politics. But on the few occasions that they do, most of the group of Latina retirees murmur their support of Hillary Clinton, though many like that "young boy, what's his name? Barack Obama...