As rents rise, an increasing number of long-established storefronts in New York City's Washington Heights have been shuttering.  

While African-American and Latinos combined make up about 30 percent of the national population, they only make up about 4 percent of its symphony members. Orchestras are starting to see this as a big problem.

Many schools in New York State could be deterring undocumented children from enrolling, alleges NYCLU in a survey released recently. Districts in the sampling of 139 were said to require birth certificates, social security numbers or ask about immigration status.

The state of California is presumed Democrat in the big picture of American politics, but move in a little closer and a few shades of purple start to appear here and there.

A New York school taxed by the arrival of Central American unaccompanied minors now finds itself at the center of a state investigation on its enrollment practices.

The thousands of Central American students who arrived in the United States in the large influx this year are juggling adjusting to a new life and their new schools, which are trying to adjust to their arrival and their needs.  

Behind the palm trees that line the streets of the unincoporated neighborhoods that make up East Los Angeles is a turbulent history borne from peaceful movements and epic battles led by heroes such as Cesar Chavez and Sal Castro.

For the first time in almost 50 years, states and localities have not been required to prove discrimination before making any changes in the voting process.

The neighborhood, which is in the northern tip of Manhattan, began as a farming community in the 1600s. 

As the new school year ramps up across the country, data from the only two states offering Common Core testing is beginning to come in and the results indicate that Latinos still aren’t scoring highly.