LatinaLista — “Everybody knows what it feels like to go to school, but do you know what it feels like to go to a great school?” It’s a question that serves as the premise for A Year at Mission…
LatinaLista — To most people, February 2 is the day before the biggest football match of the season. Yet, for Mexican Americans, whether they know it or not, the day marks a historical milestone — it’s when Mexican American…
By Antonio Gonzalez CBC Diversity Elementary-school-teacher-turned-writer and California native, Malín Alegría (Estrella’s Quinceañera), answers a few questions about her new teen series Border Town (Scholastic/Point), her struggles with self-image, puffy Princess dresses, and growing-up bicultural. Can you describe your…
LatinaLista — If it’s February it means two things — Valentine’s Day is near and it’s time again to pay extra attention to keeping our hearts healthy. For Latinas, it’s doubly important. According to medical experts, Latinas are likely…
LatinaLista — Before there was Ricky Martin or Shakira, people who use their celebrity status to give back to the Latino community, there was Puerto Rican baseball player Roberto Clemente. Clemente was known as much for his humanitarian generosity…
By Dalia Diaz Rumbo News As February 11th is approaching, I have been preparing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of my arrival to this country; after all, escaping from Cuba in a boat and being rescued by a tanker…
LatinaLista — SXSW has evolved into one of the premier seen-and-be-seen events in the country. The only problem was Latinos, as an organized group, were barely seen at all. That changed last year when Austin-based Cultural Strategies launched The…
LatinaLista — The recent re-election of President Obama may not have drawn the same amount of public jubilation as back in 2008 but it reaffirmed the nation’s commitment to stand behind a Democrat who is a man of color….
Gabriel Pilonieta-Blanco El Tiempo Hispano The Christina School District is preparing to implement changes in teaching English as a second language. As we reported in our last issue, the Christina District administration will implement a series of measures to…
LatinaLista — Even though two different immigration reform plans have been laid out, there is still criticism that existing White House directives to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to not apprehend and place in deportation proceedings non-threatening undocumented…
Honduras Weekly Fredín Fúnez of the Association of Jurists for the State of Law warned on Friday that national heritage sites such as the Maya ruins of Copán could be at risk of passing over to the control of…
LatinaLista — When speaking before Latino audiences, politicians always like to invoke the premise that “we are a nation of immigrants.” It’s a statement that has never been truer. Pew Hispanic just released a new analysis on the nation’s…
By Wayne Jebian CTLatinoNews.com As Latinos pass the age-65 mark, they face many of the same concerns as the general population — broadly, the loss of independence and the possibility of dementia. However, the ways that Latinos and Caucasians…
By Laura Pereyra NerdScholar NerdScholar analyzes the best and worst women’s jobs for fair pay in light of the Lily Ledbetter Act Anniversary The anniversary of the Lily Ledbetter Act, legislation that changed the law to promote equal pay,…
LatinaLista — The most famous example of geoglyphs in South America is found in Peru on the Nazca plain. Yet, South America is rich with examples of other types of glyphs that can be seen on the faces of…
LatinaLista — After hearing President Obama’s plan for immigration reform and what the bipartisan committee of senators released yesterday, it’s natural that there would be parts Latinos like and don’t like from each proposal. For starters, it’s obvious that…
White House FACT SHEET: Fixing our Broken Immigration System so Everyone Plays by the Rules America’s immigration system is broken. Too many employers game the system by hiring undocumented workers and there are 11 million…
LatinaLista — Javier Espinoza, a first-generation Mexican American and one of five children, grew up witnessing what too many children see every day — daddy beating mommy. The domestic violence that drove Javier’s mom to make the courageous decision…
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista There is something undeniably cool about motorbikes, cobbled streets and rock and roll. Combine all three and you have one of the most exhilarating ways to explore Guatemala’s most popular tourist town: driving through the…
By Aguirre Gustavo Borderzine EL PASO – The Mexican Navy killed Heriberto Lazcano, “El Lazca,” leader of Los Zetas, one of Mexico’s most feared and violent drug cartels on October 7. He had been connected to some 30,000 murders….
By Vanessa Cárdenas LatinaLista One does not need to be a parent to feel grief, anger, and shame in the wake of the shooting that took the lives of so many at Sandy Hook Elementary. Unfortunately, for communities…
Senators Schumer, McCain, Durbin, Graham, Menendez, Rubio, Bennet, and Flake Introduction We recognize that our immigration system is broken. And while border security has improved significantly over the last two Administrations, we still don’t have a functioning…
LatinaLista — The announcement this morning that senators had reached an agreement on immigration reform, and the subsequent press conference held by Senators Marco Rubio, (R-FL); John McCain (R-AZ); Chuck Schumer (D-NY); Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Dick Durbin (D-IL),…
LatinaLista — For a community where 38.2% of its children ages 2-19 are overweight or obese, compared with 31.7% of all U.S. children those same ages and a segment of its male adults (Mexican Americans) come in second as…
By Bryan Johnson LatinaLista The Obama administration is ostensibly gearing up for comprehensive immigration reform while at the same time acting directly against the interests of immigrants. On January 18, 2013, USCIS updated its “FAQs” on DACA. The FAQs…
