Latino Community

The Durham Community Land Trustees has received a grant from UnidosUS to fund Durham Latino homeownership programs.

The Copa América soccer tournament semifinal in Charlotte last week was a unifying cultural moment for the region’s growing Colombian population.

Durham Police Chief Patrice Andrews reaffirmed commitments to the North Carolina Congress of Latino Organizations to prioritize hiring more Latino police officers.

Duke history professor Cecilia Márquez explores a complex history of Latinos in the South, from non-Black Latinos' "provisional whiteness" in the mid-20th century to being cast as "illegal aliens" in the post-9/11 period.

The Republican-sponsored House Bill 10 advances in the North Carolina legislature. Here's why immigration activists and community members are against it.

Nearly 11% of North Carolina’s population is Latino, but the state has no Latino elected officials serving in the legislature and statewide offices. Groups within the Democratic and Republican parties are making efforts to change that.

It’s an initiative by FaithAction and is accepted by specific government agencies in at least 10 counties in North Carolina including Guilford, Alamance, and Forsyth.

At a recent meeting, the city council approved a reimbursement of up to $1,000 to everyone who was affected by the Weaver fire.

In the first nine weeks that the COVID-19 vaccine was distributed in North Carolina, people who identified as Hispanic accounted for just 2.5% of those vaccinated. That's despite the group representing 10% of the total population. Since February, those numbers have improved somewhat, in part because of partnerships that removed barriers to access.

The relationship between the United States and its territory of Puerto Rico is complicated — and Anabel Rosa is stuck right in the middle of it. When she…