Fighting Racism | Hola America News https://holaamericanews.com The Midwest's Latino News Source Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:53:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://holaamericanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-favicon-32x32.png Fighting Racism | Hola America News https://holaamericanews.com 32 32 Woman Charged with Hate Crimes for Vandalizing Latino Restaurants https://holaamericanews.com/woman-charged-with-hate-crimes-for-vandalizing-latino-restaurants/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=woman-charged-with-hate-crimes-for-vandalizing-latino-restaurants Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:53:55 +0000 https://holaamericanews.com/?p=28751 Muscatine, IA – A wave of hate-fueled vandalism targeting Latino-owned businesses has shaken the community of Muscatine. On January 26, Mayor Brad Bark strongly denounced the incidents after several Latino-owned […]

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]]> Iowa woman charged with hate crimes for allegedly painting swastikas on Latin restaurants https://holaamericanews.com/iowa-woman-charged-with-hate-crimes-for-allegedly-painting-swastikas-on-latin-restaurants/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=iowa-woman-charged-with-hate-crimes-for-allegedly-painting-swastikas-on-latin-restaurants Fri, 31 Jan 2025 15:37:26 +0000 https://holaamericanews.com/?p=28599 By José Mendiola, Des Moines Register Muscatine, IA–An Iowa woman faces several hate crimes and a slew of other charges for allegedly vandalizing Latin restaurants with swastikas and calling in […]

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]]> Muscatine Mayor Condemns Hate After Latino-owned Restaurants Vandalized https://holaamericanews.com/muscatine-mayor-condemns-hate-after-latino-owned-restaurants-vandalized/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=muscatine-mayor-condemns-hate-after-latino-owned-restaurants-vandalized Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:38:46 +0000 https://holaamericanews.com/?p=28383 Muscatine, IA — Mayor Brad Clark took to social media to call out racist graffiti scrawled across two beloved local restaurants, Jibaro de Puerto Rico Restaurant and Guadalajara Mexican Restaurant. […]

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]]> How Mary Campos, 95, advocates for Iowa immigrants, youths of color https://holaamericanews.com/how-mary-campos-95-advocates-for-iowa-immigrants-youths-of-color/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-mary-campos-95-advocates-for-iowa-immigrants-youths-of-color Thu, 02 Jan 2025 21:17:25 +0000 https://holaamericanews.com/?p=27781 By Virginia Barreda, Des Moines Register Des Moines, IA-During one of her first interviews as a teenager, Mary Campos remembers a hiring manager saying she would not get the job […]

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]]> LULAC Davenport celebrates 65 years of empowering the Latino community of the Quad Cities and beyond. https://holaamericanews.com/lulac-davenport-celebrates-65-years-of-empowering-the-latino-community-of-the-quad-cities-and-beyond/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lulac-davenport-celebrates-65-years-of-empowering-the-latino-community-of-the-quad-cities-and-beyond Fri, 16 Feb 2024 21:04:07 +0000 https://holaamericanews.com/?p=24181 History of Council 10 in Davenport, Iowa In 1959, Henry Vargas conceived the idea of organizing local Mexican Americans of Davenport with the hope of achieving political strength with a […]

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]]> MLK would have been 95 this year. Let’s make his dream a reality. https://holaamericanews.com/mlk-would-have-been-95-this-year-lets-make-his-dream-a-reality/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mlk-would-have-been-95-this-year-lets-make-his-dream-a-reality Mon, 15 Jan 2024 23:52:00 +0000 https://holaamericanews.com/?p=23648 By Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Chuck Collins, Iowa Capital Dispatch This January marks what would have been Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 95th birthday. Nearly a century after the late civil rights […]

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]]> Tenoch Huerta’s Namor Honors Latin America’s Indigenous and African Roots in Wakanda Forever. https://holaamericanews.com/namor-tenoch-huerta-representacion-morena/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=namor-tenoch-huerta-representacion-morena Wed, 29 Mar 2023 18:33:08 +0000 https://holaamericanews.com/?p=21433 Tenoch Huerta will be a guest of honor at C2E2 in Chicago.  By Amelia Orozco, Hola America “If you don’t see it, you can’t dream it,” is something Tenoch Huerta […]

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]]> We All Need Help https://holaamericanews.com/we-all-need-help/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=we-all-need-help Sat, 19 Nov 2022 20:20:38 +0000 https://holaamericanews.com/?p=20774 On Tuesday November 15, 2022 Father Guillermo Trevino received the national 2022 Cardinal Bernardin New Leadership Award at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) fall meeting in Baltimore, MD. […]

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]]> Family of murdered Grinnell man wants stronger Iowa laws against hate crimes https://holaamericanews.com/family-of-murdered-grinnell-man-wants-stronger-iowa-laws-against-hate-crimes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=family-of-murdered-grinnell-man-wants-stronger-iowa-laws-against-hate-crimes Fri, 17 Jun 2022 19:12:37 +0000 https://holaamericanews.com/?p=19220 By Kendall Crawford, Iowa Public Radio The family of Michael Williams is calling for reform of Iowa’s hate crime laws. In 2020, Williams, a Black man, was murdered by Steve […]

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]]> Native demonstrators call for justice for missing and murdered Indigenous relatives https://holaamericanews.com/native-demonstrators-call-for-justice-for-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-relatives/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=native-demonstrators-call-for-justice-for-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-relatives Tue, 17 May 2022 04:11:05 +0000 https://holaamericanews.com/?p=18790 By Kendall Crawford, Iowa Public Radio Native communities marched throughout Sioux City on Thursday to bring awareness to missing and murdered Indigenous women and relatives. Demonstrators marched to honor those […]

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