Maria Ramirez Uribe

Filing for asylum is a lengthy and often tedious process, especially if English isn’t your first language. That’s why the Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy hosted its first free asylum clinic to help these immigrants meet the strict filing deadline.

North Carolina ranks 11th among all states in the country for the highest rate of new HIV diagnoses, according to the CDC. In 2020, women accounted for 17% of those new diagnoses — and Black and Latina women had the highest rates.

There’s around 20,000 Ukrainians across the state, according to the Ukrainian Association of North Carolina. Some of them could now benefit from the country being designated under the Temporary Protected Status program, also called TPS.

Mecklenburg County’s Latino population has grown by nearly 60,000 people in the past 10 years, according to the 2020 census. A large part of that growth has come from U.S.-born Latinos. This population growth presents both an array of new opportunities as well as shifting needs as more Latinos are born in the United States.

North Carolina's Latino population has gone through exponential growth in the last four decades. There are now more than 1 million Latino residents and 1 in 4 of them live in Mecklenburg or Wake counties. Economic opportunities in Mecklenburg County and North Carolina drive the growth.

One of the big challenges for Latino students and families across North Carolina is the language barrier. Burke County has hired four Spanish-speaking parent educators as a way of helping close this communication gap.

The success of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools rests heavily on how its Latino students fare. They’re the fastest growing segment of the student body, and saw some of the biggest setbacks during the pandemic.

Racial and ethnic disparities are starting to show again in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations across North Carolina.

Nouveau Sud's "La Bestia" is a new circus performance detailing the journey migrants take from Central America to the U.S. It premieres at Booth Playhouse in the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center on Jan. 20.

A community health center in Charlotte is collecting survey responses with the goal of publishing a comprehensive report on North Carolina’s Latino population.