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Beginning August 19th through September 30th, 2008, Dominican Republic-based foodservice company MercaSID and its brand, Aceite Cristol, will unveil Proyecto “MUJER Dominicana en Nueva York” (The Dominican Women‚s Project in New York), a major photo exhibition highlighting the lives and achievements of Dominican women across the Diaspora.

The Mundial Group released READ Fútbol Mundial, a new kids magazine about soccer, in May to Miami-Dade County elementary and middle school students. Approximately 20,000 copies were requested by local teachers to distribute to their students under the premise of encouraging non-fiction reading.

For the third consecutive year HispanicAd.com and AHAA bring forth the Hispanic Account Planning Excelencia Awards (HAPE).

This year, we will not be looking for Transcreations / Adaptations / Translations.

Differently from previous years, we have three new categories along with three new special mentions and recognitions.

Some 96 million voted in the 2006 congressional elections, an increase of 7 million from 2002, according to a report released by the U.S. Census Bureau.

This Independence Day, State Farm officially launches a lead sponsorship role in the National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO) Ya Es Hora (It’s Time) campaign to empower Latinos to become full participants in American life through increased civic engagement. The goal of the program is to help educate, mobilize, and integrate the Latino Community into the civic process.

Students designated as English language learners (ELL) tend to go to public schools with low standardized test scores. However, these low levels of assessed proficiency are not solely attributable to poor achievement by ELL students. These same schools report poor achievement by other major student groups as well, and have a set of characteristics associated generally with poor standardized test performance–such as high student-teacher ratios, high student enrollments and high levels of students who live in poverty or near poverty.

I guess once was not enough, so the group of angry, fear-mongering loudmouths mimicking Lou Dobbs, trying to make names for themselves by whipping up an anti-immigrant frenzy are at it again. Just read the headline below.

The Federation for American Immigration Reform is holding its annual “Hold Their Feet to the Fire” talk radio rally September 10 and 11 in Washington, DC. FAIR expects this to be the largest of these events with upwards of 50 to 75 talk radio hosts expected to broadcast from Washington. FAIR says the goal of the event is to “counteract the special interests attempting to set an amnesty agenda for the new Congress and the next president.” By Jose Cancela.

The Museum of Latin American Art (molaa) in Long Beach, CA selected The Miller Group as its agency of record (AOR), commencing with a re-branding effort. The effort consists of advertising, PR and interactive to drive traffic and membership to the museum. Advertising focuses on cable TV (throughout the LA ADI), outdoor, print and interactive, and features the museum’s exhibit “Wifredo Lam in North America and Carlos Luna: El Gran Mambo.”

It’s not every day that you see Caribbean and L.A. in the same sentence but Junot Diaz, a young, MIT professor from the Dominican Republic, is making waves in “Mexican” L.A. Diaz, the New Jersey-raised writer who was awarded this year’s Pulitzer for fiction, for his first novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” must have a lot of fans in L.A. Diaz’s book, which has made it on numerous bestseller lists across the country–including the New York Times’ list, has been on the L.A. Times bestseller list for the past 20 weeks.

Published by Manny Gonzalez – abece. CLICK above to read.

The purpose of this Tomás Rivera Policy Institute (TRPI) report is twofold: to provide an analysis of the enrollment trends for African American and Latino students among graduate professional programs in the fields of medicine, business, law, and public affairs, and to present other relevant data pertaining to African American and Latino students in graduate education.

A record-breaking 46% of Americans have used the internet, email or cell phone text messaging to get news about the campaign, share their views and mobilize others. And Barack Obama’s backers have an edge in the online political environment.

With the focus now squarely on the general election, the pressure intensifies to work those pieces of the demographic pie that could mean The White House. Among the tastier slices? U.S. Latino voters.