Latino

Brought into light
By Elizabeth Carey
September 28, 2011 - 1:00am
Maria Hinojosa, the first speaker for this year's University Lectures Series, brings Latino issues out of the dark.

Award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa shed new light on the contentious issues surrounding Latino immigration when she kicked off the Syracuse University Lectures Series on Tuesday. The audience filling Hendricks Chapel felt the impact of the Latina’s trailblazing work in investigative journalism in her lecture titled, “Making the Invisible Visible."

Hinojosa described the past two years she’s spent working on “The Latino List,” a documentary debuting this week on HBO, and “Lost in Detention,” a PBS Frontline documentary. She explained “the reality of being Latino.”

Senior Al Qaeda leaders in Iraq killed
By Drew Sagon
April 19, 2010 - 1:45pm
Plus, Andrew Cuomo could announce his candidacy for governor next week and a Long Island man is convicted in a hate crime case.

A joint Iraqi-US operation succeeded in killing the two most senior members of Al Queda in Iraq according to CNN today. The US military said the deaths of Abu Ayyub al-Masri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi are "a potentially devastating blow," to Al Queda.

CNY workers train to button up cleaner, greener homes
By Kelly Kim
October 21, 2009 - 10:34am
The new federal stimulus money to create jobs and weatherize low-income homes.

New York is receiving the most of the federal stimulus money to weatherize more than 45,000 low-income homes by blowing in insulation, sealing air leaks and installing energy-efficient lightning and appliances for free, according to The Post Standard.


The money will be given to local community groups and government agencies that hire local residents, most of whom are trained in the field through their community training centers.  Many nonprofit community groups such as...