Advocates are organizing pop-up vaccination clinics geared toward North Carolina's Latino community, which has been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic but has low vaccination rates.
Centro Hispano gives away more than 1,400 bags of produce in 2020
Centro Hispano has been working to make sure families don t go hungry during the pandemic with a food distribution program. Author: Emily DeVoe Updated: 10:58 AM EST January 22, 2021
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. When the pandemic hit, Centro Hispano jumped into the action to help families who lost their jobs or had their hours cut. Most of these folks also have two small children in the house. Some of them got quarantined and they weren t able to work, it just got really intense, Angeli Sosa said. She serves as the Director of Social Impact for the organization.
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Rontarus Washington Jr., center, listens to the judge speak during a hearing in his court case on Jan. 19. 2021. At left and right, respectively, are defense attorneys Angela Keck and Adam Hall.
A detective testified Tuesday about meetings with a homicide victim’s husband that, apparently, the defendants’ attorneys were never aware of in a case that’s been pending for six years.
Rontarus Washington Jr., 24, is charged with first-degree murder and aggravated burglary in connection with the November 2014 death of his neighbor, 19-year-old Justina Altamirano Mosso. Washington’s attorneys, Adam Hall and Angela Keck, have suggested Altamirano Mosso’s husband, Felipe Cantu Ruiz, as a possible alternative suspect.
Students in Centro Hispano s after-school program reflect on Fall semester
The final assignment of the year was to create a video summarizing everything they did during the unusual semester Author: Emily DeVoe Updated: 5:10 PM EST January 12, 2021
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. While it wasn t the semester they expected, students in the after-school program at Centro Hispano, a nonprofit that serves Hispanic families in East Tennessee, made the most of it.
Typical activities were scaled back and groups were smaller than in the past, often switching to virtual when needed. For the final assignment of the year, students were tasked with making a video detailing the highlights from their semester.
As a member of the Madison City Council, Ald. Shiva Bidar sat through all-night meetings to vote on controversial developments, played an integral role in police reform efforts, advocated for the Latinx community and even organized an event to meet with the Dalai Lama.
But she recalls renovating the Randall School playground as an example of the concrete â and to her, rewarding â effect local government officials have in the community.
âThat is what I have always thought about local government is that itâs really tangible, and if you explain it to the average person what decision you re making and why that decision makes a difference in the city or in their lives, they can understand it because it s not five steps removed,â Bidar said. âThat s what I have found really rewarding in local government.â