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Distrust of authority fuels virus misinformation for Latinos

August 14, 2020 David Klepper, Adrian Sainz, and Regina Garcia, Associated Press

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — When Claudia Guzman suspected she had caught the coronavirus, her friends and family were full of advice: Don’t quarantine. Don’t get tested. A homemade tea will help cure you. “They were saying, […]

MATTHEWS: Joe Biden’s comments about black voters part of a troubling pattern of disrespect

August 11, 2020 Stacey Matthews, North State Journal

At a conference of Latino and black journalists last Tuesday, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden gave some rather eye-opening statements during an interview on what he saw as the differences in diversity between the […]

Latino leaders urge better promotion of free virus tests

August 4, 2020 Anita Snow, Associated Press

PHOENIX — When some 45,000 coronavirus test kits went unused during a 12-day testing blitz in Phoenix’s hardest-hit Latino neighborhoods, it was clear Arizona health officials failed to adequately spread the word to a community […]

COVID-19 is ravaging America’s vulnerable Latino communities

June 22, 2020 Regina Garcia Cano, Anita Snow, and Bryan Anderson, Associated Press

GUADALUPE, Ariz. — A Hispanic immigrant working at a fast-food restaurant in North Carolina is rushed to the hospital after she contracts COVID-19. A sickened Honduran woman in Baltimore with no health insurance or immigration […]

WATKINS: “Latin-what?” Why UNC should abandon the term ‘Latinx’

May 20, 2020 Shannon Watkins, James G. Martin Center

By now, most people who have attended a wealthy college — or those who tuned into the Democratic presidential debates — have likely heard or seen the word “Latinx.” The anglicized Spanish term is the […]

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Getting coronavirus updates in Spanish is a mixed bag in US

March 29, 2020 Astrid Galvan, Associated Press

PHOENIX — Osvaldo Salas speaks a little English, but not proficiently. The suburban Phoenix man relies on Spanish-language TV and friends and family for information on coronavirus because state and local officials haven’t posted any […]