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Overcoming obstacles in a foreign country while still excelling in a challenging career field can seem impossible to some, but many immigrants and their families navigate these types of challenges daily. Those who come to this country and help build it up through selfless service are assets to the melting pot which helps make America a diverse eclectic.

Out of 5. In North Brooklyn thousands of Puerto Rican migrants moved into communities and homes left behind by white Americans who left Brooklyn for the suburbs.

Simultaneously, the U. When his father was 14, his mother left him behind in the U. He could not speak English and was several years behind the American school system which was very challenging. We lived in poverty, with my dad working multiple jobs to try to provide for the family. Luckily, Acevedo never experienced this type of racism and bullying. Part of that is having the ability to make such an important impact here in the Nashville District. Navarro, who went to university and graduate school to be a minister, left the ministry about 12 years ago and started a second career in natural resource management.

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Wednesday, September 16, Gomez, Solano write Latino for new mayor and others. L-R Marcela Gomez, Javier Solano Starting with the tips, "We don't speak in one voice," and then continuing, "but sometimes we do," Marcela Gomez and Javier Solano appear on the Tennessean web site today with 13 tips about local Latinos for the incoming mayor of Nashville, Megan Barry.

Tip 9, about "Hispanic" vs. Mexican, Colombian, Cuban, American — any of these will work. That confuses us. Not a big deal. Ah, the two chambers. The fact that there have been two Hispanic chambers in Nashville almost from the moment there was even one, and the frequently asked questions in town about "the" Hispanic chamber, were the subject of HispanicNashville.

As for Latinos speaking in one voice, that's a reference to both the defeat of "English Only" in , and the more recent cause of tuition equality.