In addition the report shows that guest panels on these cable news stations are overwhelmingly white male.  Latinos had the least representation on CNN at 2 percent which was lower than Middle-Eastern representation at 5 percent.  Fox News scored slightly better with 3 percent of its evening news staff being Latino.

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Colorado is currently considering a major piece of legislation to improve the state’s voting laws by implementing Election Day Registration, automatically sending mail ballots to every voter, and creating a real-time voter database to detect and prevent fraud. It passed the House last week and will now be taken up by the Democratic-controlled Senate.

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Daniel Martinez-Leffew, 12, lives in northern California with his dads Bryan and Jay and his younger sister.

Old enough to understand that his loving fathers are not legally able to marry in the state of California due to Prop 8, Daniel made the YouTube video to share how his family is no different than Justice Robert’s, who also has two adopted children.

Born with the genetic disorder known as Goldenhar Syndrome, Daniel says he was considered “unadoptable” by most, so it just goes to show how loving his fathers are and how important that they be recognized as a family like any other.

Bryan and Jay have their YouTube video and posted their son’s message there.

Here is what they had to say about Daniel’s video:

So our kids know that Prop 8 is coming to the Supreme Court soon and that could be a very big deal for our family. When they found out that one of the Justices hearing the case had two adopted children, they said, “Hey! They’re just like us!”...and so, in a moment that made his dads very proud, Daniel decided to write a letter to Justice Roberts in the hopes that he will see that our families are not so different.

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Two weeks ago the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico in a 5-4 decision ruled that the woman could not adopt the now 12-year-old girl conceived by artificial insemination and born to one of the members of this lesbian couple.  The girl has been raised by both of them and lives with them.  Neither the girl nor the lesbian couple have been identified.

The original decision caused a loud outcry by the Puerto Rican gay and lesbian community who took to the streets to protest.  The decision upheld a law banning gay couples from adoption children.

De la Rosa was flown in from the Dominican Republic by the Healing the Children organization, to be treated for a malformation that causes a swelling on one side of his face due to the retention of lymphatic fluid.

Healing the Children, which offers kids from all over the world access to medical treatment, found no hospital that could treat the 2-year-old’s condition until it came upon the Vascular Birthmark Institute at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York, directed by the Mexican Dr. Alejandro Berenstein.

“We have a system of defense in the body, which is the lymphatic system. For reasons we don’t understand, the child has a collection of lymphatic fluid on the left side of his face and below his chin which doesn’t drain in a normal way and forms cysts,” Berenstein told Efe.

Berenstein, a pioneer in the use of minimally invasive procedures to treat conditions related to the vascular system in the brain, head, face and spinal column, performed the procedure using a modern ultrasound and X-ray system as a guide.

The procedure applied Tuesday was the first of about four that the little boy will need before returning to his country six months from now, but the doctor warned that the problem could recur.

He also told Efe that he has trained personnel in the Dominican Republic who could take over treament of the boy, whose mother Ramona Rosado is waiting for his return.

Though advocates are meeting with Zucker, President of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, Hugo Balta, says the issue is not “unique to CNN.”

The meetings with Zucker follow the hiring of Chris Cuomo and Jake Tapper for a morning and afternoon show on CNN, both white men. Latina anchor Soledad O’Brien also recently announced she would no longer be hosting her morning show on the network. She will likely be replaced with Cuomo and primetime host Erin Burnett.

It should be noted however, that CNN is not an all white network, and criticism of CNN began before Zucker took over.  The Wrap pointed out CNN can boast the on-air talent of Sanjay Gupta, Fareed Zakaria and Ali Velshi, who are all of Indian decent. And there are also a number of black anchors, including Don Lemon, Lisa Sylvester, Isha Sesay, Victor Blackwell, and Fredricka Whitfield.

Zucker met with executives from the National Association of Black Journalists on Monday, and will meet with the National Association of Hispanic Journalists on March 8th.

The agreement resolves the department’s investigation into complaints that the district failed to enroll children based on their or their parents’ national origin or immigration status, and that its system of discipline discriminated against students based on national origin and limited English proficiency.

DOJ opened up an investigation in 2011 that the school district was discriminating against undocumented immigrant children.  DOJ also received complaints that the school district was disciplining children with poor English-language skills differently than everyone else. 

Under the agreement, the district will enroll all area students regardless of background and will provide translation and interpretation services throughout the registration process.  The district will also limit the use of disciplinary measures that remove students from the classroom and implement behavior management and discipline practices that support and protect students.