Mia Roberts Perez, one of the candidates elected yesterday to Philadelphia’s Court of Common Pleas, will be bringing more diversity to the bench where there are currently only a few Latino judges in a ...

Between smoke, stones and debris, groups of rescuers and volunteers working against the clock to save as many lives as possible, have managed to communicate to systematize their work, transforming the ...

As a self-identified “mixed girl” growing up in Northeast Ohio, Janis Bowdler wished for a long, blonde ponytail. Bowdler, appointed in April as the president of JPMorgan Chase Foundation, remembers ...

The Greater Philadelphia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (GPHCC) and its “roadshows,” which are free workshops for Latino small business owners, have given North Philadelphia corner store operator Miguel ...

Following a grand jury investigation, 15 members of a North Philadelphia gang have been arrested on a variety of charges stemming back to 2014 gun violence, District Attorney Seth Williams announced ...

The former mayor of Iguala Jose Luis Abarca and his wife, who are linked to the disappearance of 43 students, were arrested in Mexico City this morning. The arrest was made in the area of Iztapalapa, ...

Latin America and the Caribbean are among the places most at risk of climate change, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) released in early ...

Just a few days after Philadelphia’s anti-bullying campaign “Champions of Change” had their end-of-the-school-year celebration, a parent from Olney Charter School shared a video on Facebook that ...

"Damaris" of the lush black hair and inquisitive dark eyes is a single mom and for the past four years has been a sex worker in Mexico City, fighting day by day against discrimination and police ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection released a list of 243 cases across two dozen counties confirming to residents that their private water had been impacted by gas drilling, known ...

The practice of slavery during Colonial times brought many African people to the Latin American continent. In countries like Brazil, Colombia and Uruguay, Blacks account for a big proportion of the ...

As the United States undergoes a massive removal of confederate monuments and flags across the mainland, its oldest colony, Puerto Rico has yet to undergo a similar transformation. Throughout the ...