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Community News NCLR to Release First-Ever Survey of Health Care and Hispanic Community in the South ATLANTA, GA - The National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the largest national Hispanic civil rights organization in the U.S., will release the findings of the first multistate report to document the health care challenges, needs, and aspirations of Latinos in the South. NCLR will hold a news briefing on the report, The Health of Latino Communities in the Southern United States: Challenges and Opportunities, on Friday, September 17 at Saint Joseph's Mercy Care Services Clinic-North, 3367 Buford Highway, Suite 910, beginning at 10:00 a.m. Hispanics, the nation's largest minority and its fastest-growing population, have experienced their greatest growth in the South. The four states included in the survey - Arkansas, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee - are those with the highest percentage increases during the 1990s in the number of Latino residents. Yet, despite this exp...

Ground Zero Originally uploaded by nonny . Remembering September 11 Photo by Jonny "Nonny" Newman is part of a collection of Nonny's photos at flickr, showcasing New York City. Worth visiting.

Puerto Rico Sun is republishing this poem by Fernando A. Zapater In honor of 9/11 Victims SCORCHED EARTH By Fernando A. Zapater It keeps creeping upon me As an invisible tower of hatred You perceive it through your senses Where you feel the fire burn unto your soul I despise you suicide victims For you are the perpetrators Of your own invincible weaknesses How can I avenge your threat of killing me? Life is a destiny, it is also a tyranny With being alive, and all its serendipity When things happened and the culprit vanished Where do I unleash my anger? Darkness of night was afraid of my tongue of fire The sun was scared of the burning hatred of my desires Tell me earth where do I unleash my anger The one that burns my life with hateful anxieties For every time I fall, I push you down as I get up I’m only a human that stumbled once upon, One more time Mother earth where do I unleash my anger Brother sun, sister moon, tell me siblings where I do Tell m...

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