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Until February 11th, you can support these new filmmakers by watching the films and voting for your favorite

/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ -- Get ready to press play on the latest Spotlight Dorado lineup of short films from rising Latino and Hispanic filmmakers....

/PRNewswire/ -- Get ready to press play on the latest Spotlight Dorado lineup of short films from rising Latino and Hispanic filmmakers. Starting today,...

McDonald’s USA Supports Cinematic Dreams of Rising Hispanic Filmmakers ...

The singer-actor and director Jesus Celaya discuss the importance of initiatives and film contests geared at Latino creatives.

“Vaccine hesitancy” has become a catch-all excuse to explain low rates of vaccinations among minority populations, but the problem is complex, said Nancy Mejía

/ Juan Delgado, 73, right, receives a COVID-19 vaccine shot from a health care worker at a vaccination site in the Mission district of San Francisco. Latinos who haven’t yet gotten the COVID-19 vaccine are much more likely than whites or Blacks to say they want a shot right away, a new poll finds. That unfulfilled desire could be an opportunity for public health workers to boost vaccination rates among the nation’s largest ethnic minority. A survey shows that unvaccinated Hispanics are almo...

Hispanics are the most eager for vaccines, survey says — but face obstacles The numbers highlight a need to remove barriers for working people who don’t always have time for a shot or have other questions.     COVID-19 vaccine is administered at Sadye Gibbs Martin Community Center in Plant City in March as part of an effort to make shots more accessible for Hispanic farm workers. A new survey says one-third of unvaccinated Hispanics say they want the shots, compared with 17 perc...

Print Hispanics who have yet to receive a covid shot are about twice as likely as non-Hispanic whites or Blacks to say they’d like to get vaccinated as soon as possible, according to a survey released Thursday. The findings hint at fixable, though difficult, vaccine access problems for the population. One-third of unvaccinated Hispanics say they want the shots, compared with 17% of Blacks and 16% of whites, according to the survey released Thursday by KFF. (KHN is an editorially independent...