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Experts say divided opinions among racial groups reflect not only the unequal impact of the pandemic on people of color but also apathy among some white Americans.
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At the beginning of the vaccine rollout in 2021, data show Latinos lagged behind whites in vaccination uptake. In Florida, that trend is reversing with Latinos now taking the lead.
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Two rapid-testing initiatives the Biden administration released in the past week are inaccessible to some residents of multifamily housing, people who don’t speak English well, or those without internet access.
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Latin American music experts say that synergy between studio musicians and street demonstrators is likely to keep growing in a region where, historically, achieving reform is frustrating at best.
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This is the first of two reports on a potent new synergy between protests and protest music in Latin America — from Cuba to Colombia, from San Juan to Santiago.
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Dr. Raul Pino says there are pockets of the Orlando-area Latino community that still aren't vaccinated for COVID and that access problems include the inability to take time off the job to get the shot.
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A year ago, WLRN and NPR member station KQED worked on a project to document decisions made at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in both Democratic-led California and Republican-led Florida. Now, a year later, we wanted to understand how the pandemic progressed in our respective regions.
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Black Americans' vaccination rates still trail other groups, while Hispanics show improvement. In Florida, 26% of white people have received a COVID-19 shot, compared with 13% of Blacks.
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A survey shows that unvaccinated Hispanics are almost twice as likely as unvaccinated Blacks or whites to want a COVID shot. Many still face a variety of access problems, ranging from fear to time squeeze.
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President Trump steered many of Florida's Latino voters away from voting for president-elect Joe Biden and other state Democrats by painting them as socialists, guest Sabrina Rodriguez said.
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Hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans moved to Florida after Hurricane Maria devastated the island. Hispanics are the fastest-growing bloc of voters in the state, and whichever party woos them to vote for their candidate could decide the presidential election.
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Many Latinos who back President Trump bring the racial — and racist — complexities of Latin America to their demonization of the racial justice movement.