CHANNEL: Latino

At 33, Ana Luna is one of the youngest leaders of a community development corporation in Massachusetts, as executive director of Arlington Community Trabajando (Working), in Lawrence.

NEWS BRIEF: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a new Spanish-language Web site, www.cdc.gov/spanish, that provides information on health issues of relevance to Latinos.

JudyAnn Bigby, MD, secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) for Massachusetts, wants healthcare institutions held accountable for their quality of care to patients of color.

She spoke to NEWz about this and other issues, following the Nov. 28 release of the state report, "Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities by EOHHS Regions in Massachusetts."

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BOSTON, Dec. 4, 2007—Latinos and African Americans each comprise only 6% of the population of Massachusetts, but they make up more than 50% of the state's residents who have HIV/AIDS. So says a report released yesterday by the Mass. Department of Public Health (DPH), called "An Added Burden: The Impact of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic on Communities of Color in Massachusetts," according to DPH press release.

Hispanic New Press and its El Planeta newspaper announced their third annual "Poderometro - Powermeter" 2007" 100 most influential people in the state's Hispanic community.

Wilson Hernandez, VP of the Ecuadorian Civic Center of Greater Danbury, and Danbury (Conn.) Councilor Tom Saadi disgree on a proposed city partnership with ICE that would allow their police to act as immigration agents.

The details of what the partnership's Memorandum of Understanding would spell out have yet to be revealed.

Former Boston city councilor Felix Arroyo opens up to NEWz on city politics and his electoral defeat (anti-immigrant factor), his experience as a new American (little discrimination), his Boston activist roots (1970s busing) and Latino political power (wake up!).

Danbury police participation with ICE would do great harm, says Celia Bacelar, publisher of a Portuguese- and English-language newspaper in Conn. And can police really tell by looking if you're from Ireland, Brazil or the Bronx? (In Portuguese and English)