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Report reveals young adult voters losing interest showing up at the polls

LatinaLista — With the line blurring between politicians and celebrities, it’s no wonder that voting rates among young voters (18-29) has fallen off over the last few years. In Hollywood-speak, there isn’t a “box office” name at the polls that has captured the attention or generated the enthusiasm among young voters since Obama ran in…

• The international perks of T-Mobile

• New education report underscores the still existing void of Latino degree-holders

• Video: College entrepreneur has big idea on how to “close loop” in creating bigger landfills

New study finds low-income Latino parents encourage obesity behaviors in their children beginning in infancy

LatinaLista — One of the main reasons most often cited as to why school-age children huff and puff their way across the playground is because they’re not getting enough exercise. Experts and healthcare providers agree that this kind of behavior, if not corrected, can only lead to a fat adulthood. Yet, a new study by the…

• Video: Foster care reform includes looking at the facts and acting — not reacting

• Video: Understanding the special needs of siblings of special-needs children

• Book Review: Young girl learns the value of civic involvement — to a salsa beat

Viernes Video: One son’s tribute to his mother’s legacy of taking a stand against a “Stolen Education”

LatinaLista — The old saying — “history is written by the victors” — is never more true than when it comes to Latino U.S. history. Unless an egregious incident involving Latinos reached a U.S. court, chances are no one heard about it. Sometimes not even a victory in court was enough to warrant a historical…

• Viernes Video: Tracing the nation’s historical path to racial equality

Video: Fifty years after the March on Washington, some question if racism still exists in the U.S.A.

LatinaLista — Every year on March 21, the world celebrates the International Day of the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Yet, as the anniversary observance of the March on Washington illustrates there is a need to battle racial discrimination more than just one day. But like in the 1960s, challenges persist. The challenge lies in that…

New education report underscores the still existing void of Latino degree-holders

LatinaLista — The face of today’s public schools, in the majority of states, is a student of color. In the U.S., 22 percent of the K-12 population is Latino. Yet, it can’t be repeated often enough that too few Latinos ever make that transition from mandatory schooling to higher education. In fact: For the U.S.…

• Multi-million dollar scholarship movement launches granting “The Dream” to more DREAMers

• Video: Puerto Rican astrophysicist set to inspire next generation to reach for the stars with new science show

• Video: Education expert credits ‘racist logic’ in public schools acting as pipelines to prison for some students

Video: Futurist Juan Enriquez asks viewers to consider seeing social media as the new tattoo

LatinaLista — What does big data, tattoos and immortality have in common? They are the elements of an eye-opening TEDx talk delivered by Futurist Juan Enriquez. Enriquez is used to thinking about the broader picture and in this particular talk he challenges listeners to take a fresh look at today’s social media, its capabilities and…

• Video: Performance philosopher Jason Silva shares his ‘awe’ of the world in new web series

Deepening crisis in Monarch butterfly population has one researcher calling on states to help in special way

LatinaLista — The Monarch butterfly has long been a symbol of international migration that underscores how borders, a human invention, has no bearing on the natural order of life. Yet, what does have an impact is something that both man and nature have had a hand in creating — climate change, which is only intensifying…

• Keeping the familia safe while ridding cucarachas & weeds calls for better choices in household chemicals

• Video: Time-lapse filmmaker unlocks key to a beauty that inspires gratitude

• New environmental poll reveals Latinos care as intensely about the issue as immigration reform

Video: College entrepreneur has big idea on how to “close loop” in creating bigger landfills

LatinaLista — Holly Chan is a graduate of Purdue University and an up-and-coming entrepreneur. But if Chan has her way, other businesses that like her idea would steal it. To Chan, it wouldn’t be thievery but validation that she is creating change in a sector of industry that is contributing 152 billion pounds of containers…

• Video: The three Rs of throwing away trash

• Latina bloggers explore the Latino connection with national parks

• World Environment Day reminds people that wasting food adds to international food crisis

Intrn’l Video: Latino filmmaker exposes universal challenge — balancing love for family with need to provide

LatinaLista — The sea has a long history with Hollywood. Sometimes used as merely a backdrop, other times as the nemesis or a confidante, the sea is a character unto itself that can mirror the highs and lows of human characters. It’s the sea, once again, that figures in a short film titled Contra El…

Hitting the Ground Running: The story of Clemente Rodriguez

By Virginia Brooks LatinaLista It’s before dawn and Clemente Rodriguez hits the ground running. He pulls on his work clothes and heads out to meet his power line crew somewhere in East Texas to start a 10-hour day of demanding and sometimes dangerous work. Clemente is a lineman, and he spends much of his days…

• Reflections of the first-ever San Antonio to Laredo ultra marathon

• Spotlight Nonprofit: Making kids “TOPS” of their game on and off the court

• Brazil: The 2011 Pan Am games show the world Brazil is more than soccer

Latino youth remain high-risk for HIV/AIDS infections

LatinaLista — A recent CDC report revealing that Latina teens have the highest birthrates before the age of 18 appears to underscore a troubling trend among sexually active Latino teens — lack of practicing safe sex. It’s a revelation further supported by the findings of Thursday’s National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day. The CDC…

• Video: Undergrad student shares his easy strategy to eating healthy

• New study finds low-income Latino parents encourage obesity behaviors in their children beginning in infancy

• With so many Latinas at-risk for diabetes, too many never find out until it’s too late

Intrn’l Video: Rural Colombian town fights Canadian gold mining company for survival

LatinaLista — Indigenous and rural people throughout the Americas have long been under constant threat of attack against their way of life since the days of the Spanish conquistadores. What used to be outright murder and enslavement has evolved into displacing them or endangering their health when seizing their lands for drilling, mining or deforestation.…

• Embroidery Collective Gives Voice to Mexico’s Victims of Gender-Based Killings

• Violence against women: Progress in some parts of the world, violations continue elsewhere

• New national Registry of Exonerations forces all to see an uncomfortable truth in the judicial system

Video: Dark money already casting a pall over mid-term elections

LatinaLista — In 2010, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Citizens United in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission which said “that the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting political independent expenditures by corporations, associations, or labor unions.” Since that ruling, more money to influence politicians and political election outcomes as been spent…

• New report highlights abusive practices of some banks in how they charge overdraft fees

• No more excuses for bank-leery Latinos

• Study finds states with largest number of full-time Latina workers suffer from punishing wage gaps

Latina inventor puts a new ‘edge’ to the traditional favorite empanada

By Juan Miret LatinaLista Who would have thought that the delicious Latin American – okay, and Spanish too! – turnovers, better known as empanadas, filled with meat, seafood, vegetables, cheeses and a never-ending list of ingredientes could be reinvented? And I am not talking about changing the frying or baking of this popular Latino street…

• Video: Author finds terrorists, hackers and other ‘bad guy’ businessmen innovative entrepreneurs in a “Misfit Economy”

• Young Latino embarks on a dream to create the next fashion trend

New report finds Latino retirees largest group without savings and facing bleakest future

LatinaLista — Headlines always seem to scream about the dire future of Latino children. Yet, thanks to a new study, we now know that the future of Latino retirees isn’t any better. Race and Retirement Insecurity in the United States paints a chilling picture of what awaits Latino Baby Boomers. According to the study, Latino retirees…

• Why Your Family Needs to Talk About Caregiving Today

• Guest Voz: Medicare Patients Must Defend What Is Left

• Nonprofit Spotlight: Giving hope, love and attention to end-of-life patients

Intrn’l Video: Colombian comedy underscores there’s more than one sueño in playing futbol

LatinaLista — For those futbol lovers in South America for whom playing in the World Cup is a sueño, it always begins with bolaetrapo (Rag Ball). Director Guillermo Iván’s Colombian comedy “Bolaetrapo” sets the stage for a story about one player named Nutria and his unfortunate accident during a final match of the bolaetrapo world…

• Intrn’l Video: Bike racing goes to whole new extreme with urban track in Valparaiso, Chile

Intrn’l Video: Mexican film highlights the inner strength of women

LatinaLista — As one viewer wrote on the YouTube page of the film Amazing Catfish: “Finally, a Mexican movie that is not about drug cartels or predictable and stupid jokes. I really wanna see this.” The Mexican-made film, with English subtitles, has been garnering awards since its release in Mexico. Premiering recently at the San…

• With so many Latinas at-risk for diabetes, too many never find out until it’s too late

• New organization launches to help more Latinas realize their political dreams

• Q&A with Molly Molloy: The Story of the Juarez Femicides is a ‘Myth’

Report reveals young adult voters losing interest showing up at the polls

LatinaLista — With the line blurring between politicians and celebrities, it’s no wonder that voting rates among young voters (18-29) has fallen off over the last few years. In Hollywood-speak, there isn’t a “box office” name at the polls that has captured the attention or generated the enthusiasm among young voters since Obama ran in…

• New CDC report shows Latinas lead way in teen pregnancies before age 18

• Video: First female Asian comic editor dispels myth of how being different sucks

• Video: Young New Jersey Latina ‘slams’ ecology and captures state Poetry Out Loud championship

Global Views

Mexican children to march for a childhood without violence

LatinaLista — On April 25, hundreds of children will take to the streets throughout Mexico. Not to play but to work — to demand that they have a childhood without violence. In a country where kidnappings exceed 100,000 a year, where violence against women has reached “pandemic” levels, and academic analysts estimate people murdered by…

• Mexico: The fight to end kidnapping

• Team of Spanish astronomers to deliver bilingual online coverage of lunar eclipse from ancient Inca site

• “BBoy for Life” documentary shows a different side to Guatemala´s ghettos