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.

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.

The super food quinoa, which the US imported 70 million pounds of last year, is in a complicated tug of war between interests outside of quinoa producing regions and those of indigenous farmers.

Despite an aggressive push by the U.S. government to increase the number of Americans studying abroad in Latin America, Mexico has fallen out of student favor because of crime and drug violence.

Providence Talks in Rhode Island is trying to close the 30 million word gap that researchers say may contribute to the academic achievement gap between kids from low-income families and high-income ones.

The Torres family is one of the main acts in the Ringling Brother and Barnum and Bailey Circus, where they have been delighting and raising the hairs of fans for 10 years.