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Most Friday afternoons, Manny Cepeda speeds east on the highway toward New York City in a white passenger van. Inside, he and seven other travelers chatter in rapid-fire Spanish while listening to upbeat Latin American dance tunes, including bachata music … 
As the national housing market founders, Hispanic homeownership in eastern Pennsylvania is on the rise. In fact, Hispanic homeownership in Allentown, and neighboring Reading, is the highest in the state.
In May, gymnast Jazmyn Estrella, 13, competed in the 2011 Junior Olympics National Championships in Long Beach, Calif. She was the only athlete representing Parkettes, a gymnastics training center in Allentown, Pa. One of four Latino gymnasts at Parkettes, Jazmyn stood on her head at 2, first competed at 5, and now participates at the highest level of her sport. Jazmyn wants to earn a gymnastics scholarship to attend college. Her sights are set on the University of Florida. Click through the gallery to see her routine.
On May 27, we asked 100 people from the Lehigh Valley attending Mayfair’s Latin Night whether they identified as “Hispanic” or “Latino.” Here’s what we found.
How do you meet the community you cover? We took portraits of 120 members of the Lehigh Valley’s Hispanic community.
As the Hispanic population grows in the Lehigh Valley, the African-American community finds itself in the minority, again.
Assimilation is twice as complicated for Lehigh Valley Hispanics who identify as LGBT .
Jeniffer Aguilar wants to be a typical American teenager. So why does she frighten so many lawmakers?
With its new FM signal, Hola Radio broadcasts Hispanic culture to the mainstream