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5 unusual facts about Hispanic


Didier Hernández

He visited Europe and Asia, a total of 39 Countries around the world becoming a known artist among teenage Hispanic females in the United States.

Florida State Road 924

Funding issues caused the Florida Department of Transportation to mothball its construction plans for over a decade, but when the plan was revived, the changing demographics of the neighborhoods impacted by construction (an area with a predominantly white population in the 1960s became an area with a predominantly African-American and Hispanic population in the 1980s).

José La Luz

He also began a career as an organizer for several unions, which sought to organize the growing Hispanic workforce in the low wage manufacturing and service sectors.

Josh Alcala

Joshua Vincent "Josh" Alcala (born January 5, 1984 in Austin, Texas) is an American–born soccer player of Filipino and Hispanic descent.

Miguel Pardeza

After four years of law studies and Hispanic philology at the University of Zaragoza (1994–99), Pardeza prepared a thesis on César González Ruano, a Spanish journalist/writer.


Alejandra Gutierrez Oraa

In 2008, Oraa was chosen for a new style of "Reality Morning Show" at one of Miami's most popular Hispanic radio stations, Romance 106.7 FM.

Ana Cristina

On January 20, 2005, Ana Cristina became the very first Hispanic person to sing The Star Spangled Banner at a Presidential Inauguration.

Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars

The program brings talented African American, Hispanic/Latino, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander college seniors and recent graduates to Washington, D.C., where they are placed in congressional offices and learn about health policy.

Bergenline Avenue

Esther Salas, the first Hispanic woman to serve as a United States magistrate judge in the District of New Jersey, and the first Hispanic woman to be appointed a U.S. District Court judge in New Jersey.

Boyz-n-the-Hood

Hispanic rap group Brownside did a remake to the song called "Vatos In The Barrio".

Bull riding

Many early Texas rangers, who had to be expert horsemen and later went on to become ranchers, learned and adapted Hispanic techniques and traditions to ranches in the United States.

Carlmont High School

With the closure of Ravenswood High School in East Palo Alto in the early 1970s, much of its predominantly African-American and Hispanic student body was bused to other high schools in the Sequoia High School District, including Carlmont, which had an equally predominantly Caucasian population at the time.

Carole Marsh

Elections; American Milestones; Black Jazz, Pizzazz & Razzmatazz African American History Series; 1,000 Readers Biographies Series; Hispanic Heritage Books for Kids; Native American Heritage Books for Kids; Patriotic Favorites Series; Here & Now Books for Kids; Heroes & Helpers; Little Linguists Language Books and others

Charreada

Assemblyman Baca did not sponsor the resubmitted legislation, instead it was sponsored by a non-Hispanic member, John Burton.

Christianity among Hispanic and Latino Americans

A significant number of Hispanics are also Protestant, and several Protestant denominations (particularly Evangelical ones) have vigorously proselytized in Hispanic communities.

Conchita Espinosa

During her extensive career, Espinosa received many honors including the Richard and Dorothy Lear Memorial “Distinguished Educator Award” (March 1994) and the “Legacy of Excellence Award” presented by General Motors during the 1999 Miami Hispanic Heritage Festival.

Domiciano

The Hispanic name of Domitian (51 – 96 AD), a Roman Emperor of the Flavian dynasty

Don Tetto

This new single occupied the top spots on Hispanic networks HTV and MTV.

Enrique Bunbury

After adopting the nickname of Bunbury, taken from the Oscar Wilde stage play The Importance of Being Earnest, the musician teamed up with Héroes del Silencio, becoming a major number in the Hispanic rock scene.

ESPN Deportes

According to Nielsen, 5.5 million Hispanic households are subscribed to a plan that includes ESPN Deportes.

Félix Ortiz

Assemblyman Ortiz serves as President of the National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators, Vice-President of COPA USA, Chair of the Labor and Workforce Committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), and Executive Committee Board Member of the Council of State Governments (CSG).

Francisco Moreno Fernández

Moreno Fernández holds a PhD in Hispanic Linguistics and is Professor of Spanish Language in the University of Alcalá (Spain).

Frankie Segarra

Sergeant Major Jose Luis Santiago, who has the distinction of being the 2nd Battalion 9th Marines first Hispanic Sergeant Major and its first Sergeant Major since its reactivation on July 13, 2007.

Georgina Lázaro

She has also written poems that introduce children to Federico Garcia Lorca, Pablo Neruda, Miguel Cervantes' Don Quijote de la Mancha and other mainstays of Hispanic culture, as well as "Ya llegan los Reyes Magos!", published by Lectorum in 2001, geared to promote Puerto Rico's tradition and culture.

Hispanicization

Laredo, Texas; Chimayo, New Mexico; and Nogales, Arizona, for example, all have Hispanic populations greater than 90 percent.

Hudson Middle School

The ethnic makeup of the school is 35.9% White, non-Hispanic, 38.1% Hispanic, 11.7% African American, 10.7% Asian/Pacific Islander, and 1% Native American.

Jeff Tobolski

During the election he was endorsed by Chicago Federation of Labor, Service Employees International Union, Local 73, Chicago Firefighters Union, Local 2, LIUNA, Local 225, the Italian American Political Coalition and the Hispanic Illinois State Law Enforcement Association (HISLEA).

Jenaro Pindú

"Paraguayan Plastic Art in Hispanic Heritage Week" at the Institute of Hispanic Culture of Guaira Villarrica.

John Espinoza

He interviewed many important Hispanic figures including Public Broadcasting System news anchor Ray Suarez and actor/ activist Edward James Olmos.

John J. Schumacher

Ethnicity: African American, Asian American, Chicano/Latino/Hispanic, Native American, Pacific Islander, Person of color

Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra

He has also been deputy of the Assembly for Badajoz, General Secretary of PSOE of Extremadura, Executive Secretary of the Executive Federal Commission of the PSOE and teacher in commission of services for political matters of the Department of Hispanic Philology of the University of Extremadura in the Department of Education of Badajoz.

Juana Muñoz-Liceras

Juana Muñoz-Liceras is Professor of Hispanic and General Linguistics in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.

Justo Bolekia Boleká

His work has been studied by American professors interested in Afro-Hispanic literary production, and has been included in anthologies of poetry (Literatura de Guinea Ecuatorial, de Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo y Mbare Ngom Faye, 2000; La voz y la escritura 2006: 80 nuevas propuestas poéticas, 2006).

KSBT-LD

The station later aired Hispanic religious programming from Tele Vida Abundante after KZDF-LP became an Azteca América affiliate.

Marsh Giddings

In January 1874 the best he could do was to offer a reward of $500 for the arrest of those cowboys who had shot up a Hispanic dance in Lincoln murdering four men, the seminal event starting the wars.

Mauricio Claver-Carone

In an independent capacity, he also serves on the Board of Directors of the US-Cuba Democracy PAC, which purports to be the largest, single foreign-policy political action committee in the United States, and the largest Hispanic political action committee in history.

Moises Vela

He is the first Hispanic to serve in two senior executive roles in the White House, first during the Clinton Administration as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Advisor on Latino Affairs in the Office of Vice President Al Gore, and later during the Obama Administration as Director of Administration for Joe Biden, the Vice President of the United States.

Museo Nacional de la Máscara

Museo Nacional de la Máscara (National Mask Museum) is a museum in the city of San Luis Potosí dedicated to Mexico’s masked dance and ritual heritage from the pre Hispanic period to the present.

National Hispanic Institute

Ernesto Nieto is the founder of the National Hispanic Institute and has served as President since the organization's inception in 1979.

Panama Al Brown

Alfonso Teofilo Brown (1902–1951), better known as Panama Al Brown, was a bantamweight boxer from Panama who made history by becoming boxing's first Hispanic world champion.

Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez

As a result of playing comic relief roles, he was accused of perpetuating negative stereotypes about Hispanic men.

Ranchview High School

Some of the academic achievements of this first graduating class include National Merit Scholar, College Board's National Hispanic Recognition Scholar, Advanced Placement Scholar with Distinction, Coca-Cola Scholar and Terry Foundation Scholar.

Real-time sociolinguistics

There had been ongoing linguistic fieldwork for over a decade from 1984 to 1995 in Springville, a rural Texas community with a majority African American and Hispanic population and a minority white population.

René Marqués

The success of the play motivated Míriam Colón and Rodríguez to form the first Hispanic theater group with its own 60 seat theater, called "El Círculo Dramatico" (The Drama Circuit).

Ridgeway, Ontario

According to the 2001 census, the population was 28,143, broken down as follows: 92.8% White, 3.2% Aboriginal, 1.4% Chinese, 0.9% Black, and a very small percentage of Asian, Arab, and Hispanic populations.

Ruben Garcia, Jr.

In 2001, Garcia was appointed by Director Robert Mueller as an Executive Assistant Director for the FBI, achieving the second highest position in the Bureau and becoming the highest ranked Hispanic law enforcement officer in the United States at the time of his appointment.

Spanish language in the United States

Calvin Veltman undertook, for the National Center for Education Statistics and for the Hispanic Policy Development Project, the most complete study of English language adoption by Hispanophone immigrants.

The New Islander

Among some of the magazine's more personal pieces is a young man's recollection of the lessons learned while growing up in a Hispanic immigrant household, a young woman's reflection on an internship experience at the National Immigrant Justice Center, a young man's first-hand account of a Muslim protest in the streets of Paris, and an intoxicated student's unstable stream of consciousness.

Tipton, Indiana

Tipton Schools counts 1,851 students in K-12, with 97% being Caucasian, and the remaining 3% either African-American, Hispanic, Native American, Indian, or multiracial.

WCSB

The station also airs news and information oriented toward many of the ethnic groups represented in Greater Cleveland: Latin, Hispanic, German, Hungarian, Polish, Irish, Macedonian, Arabic, and Slovenian.

William Lantigua

Upon taking office, Lantigua became the first Hispanic mayor in Massachusetts history and only the second Dominican-American Mayor in the United States, after Mayor Alex Blanco of Passaic, New Jersey, elected 2008.


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