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National HerWorld® Month celebrates the future potential of high school girls choosing STEM careers

LatinaLista — March, otherwise known as Women’s History Month, is celebrated by remembering how far women have come and where we’ve arrived today. Yet, not enough attention is paid to where we hope our daughters will be tomorrow. For many who are evaluating the job prospects of the future, job stability — which some argue…

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

• Intrn’l Video: Poignant short, Elefante, creates a lasting lesson

• Young Latinas with eating disorders keeping pace with peers

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

LatinaLista — In 2010, a little over 5 percent of school-aged children were identified as having special needs, usually referring to mental or physical disabilities. Yet, in reality, special needs children can embody any child that requires more than the average amount of parenting. Whether that child has Downs Syndrome or is a drug addict,…

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

• Viernes Video: Filmmaker creates mini-film about the plight of migrant farmworker children

• Families asked to sign pledge in debut of National Brush Day campaign

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…

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

LatinaLista — According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 15 state legislatures have passed in-state tuition for undocumented students. What that means is that students who grew up believing they were just like their elementary and high school classmates can actually be just like their college classmates and pay the same rate of in-state…

• 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: New documentary highlighting good in public schools screens during American Education Week

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

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

By Nicole Hernández Hammer LatinaLista As a child, I remember how happy my mother was when our cousin Panchito, a pest-control worker, would stop by our house and spray the house and yard for free. He’d come often and we’d walk with him and chat as he targeted all the usual bug-hiding places, and then…

• 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

• Intern’l Video: The páramos of Colombia highlight the fragile future of the planet’s supply of fresh water

Video: The three Rs of throwing away trash

LatinaLista — Ever wonder what happens to our trash after we throw it away? Our dependable Climate Change Superhero, the Green Ninja, shows viewers of all ages that trash doesn’t disappear just because it’s thrown away — it has a nasty habit of growing. The United Nations released a report recently revealing that for waste…

• Latina bloggers explore the Latino connection with national parks

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

• Video: International team of cave explorers ‘dive’ into the world’s longest explored underwater cave system in Mexico

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

New site strives to be one-stop resource for fighting Latino childhood obesity

LatinaLista — No longer can parents delude themselves into thinking that the huggable baby fat encasing their adorable kindergartner with the plump, dimpled cheeks will just disappear with age. A recent study released by Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health found, unfortunately, that likely won’t happen. Researchers discovered that overweight kindergarteners were four times as…

• Obesity, poor lifestyle and food choices can put Latinos on path to cancer diagnosis

• Bi-national/bilingual campaign asks everyone to be a hero in effort to raise $1 million by World Aids Day

• Purple ribbons deserve equal ‘pinning’ in the month of October

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

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

LatinaLista — Latinos have a love-hate history with banks. A prior story on Latina Lista revealed that nearly half of all Latino households operate outside the traditional banking system, and roughly 15 percent have never even possessed a bank account. After a report released today, it’s a wonder there aren’t more Latinos, and non-Latinos, who…

• No more excuses for bank-leery Latinos

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

• Exploring Mutual Funds could be a first step in achieving financial peace

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: Bike racing goes to whole new extreme with urban track in Valparaiso, Chile

LatinaLista — When most people think of bicycle tours of a city, first thoughts travel to leisurely pedaling and taking in the sights. That’s not the case for what happened in Valparaiso, Chile last spring. In March 2013, mountain bike athletes from more than 13 countries arrived in the coastal town with their bikes in…

New organization launches to help more Latinas realize their political dreams

LatinaLista — Latinas stand at 25 million strong in the nation. By 2050, it’s estimated that Latinas will comprise 15 percent of the total population — a sizable portion who, unless things change at the ballot box, will remain as one of the largest groups underrepresented among elected leaders. Currently, Latinas have made very small…

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

• The current state of Latinas point to a mixed future

• Guest Voz: Pregnancy Discrimination — Far From a Thing of the Past

Video: A town on the edge of nothingness has something powerful to give one troubled Latino youth

LatinaLista — Trona, California sits on the edge of nothingness. Located at the western edge of a dry lake bed in Searles Valley, just southwest of Death Valley, the small unincorporated town is overshadowed by the smokestacks of the local borax plant. The town gets its name from the mineral trona which is described as…

• Viernes Video: Dominican and Jewish teens work together recreating little-known chapter of Holocaust history

• Study: New Generation Latinos continue to be high users of technology

• Viernes Video: BABYGIRL — When mijas have to grow up too fast

Global Views

Reviving Mayan culture through youth music and dance

By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista GUATEMALA — Juan Jose Ortiz may not look like a drummer, but for the past year the young Guatemalan has played the tortoise shells in a Mayan cultural group in the small indigenous municipality of Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán. It’s almost an hour’s drive off the main road, along a beaten path…

• Brazilian Northeast celebrates Carnival the old-fashioned way

• Social media spikes human trafficking in Peru over 50 percent

• U.S.-based think tank urges U.S. to respect Venezuela’s sovereignty