By Susan Orosco 8 Ways to Say I Love My Life Everybody is entitled to realize their dreams. If you can dream it, you can achieve it. But don’t make the mistake of thinking the Law of Attraction is the easy way to accomplish your goals, because it is not. To succeed takes work, education [...]
San Antonio dropouts build house for low-income, first-time homebuyers
By Rudy Arispe La Prensa de San Antonio San Antonio.- Sixty former high-school dropouts, who are now AmeriCorps members of SA Youth’s YouthBuild program, spent the past 17 months hammering, drilling and sawing to construct one of their biggest outdoor projects – a 1,216-square-foot, 3-bedroom, 2-bath house complete with energy-efficient features at 227 Jemison St. [...]
Video: Boston school forging a new dialogue on the state of public education
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 Hill, 10-part video series on Boston’s Mission Hill school. Two filmmakers decided to focus their lenses [...]
The treaty that spawned the Mexican American citizen
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 history was born. February 2 is the 165th anniversary of the signing of the most significant [...]
Malín Alegría: A Road Map for Bicultural Youth
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 high school years? Are there echoes of Fabiola’s experiences in your past? In high school I [...]
American Heart Assoc. targets Latinas with one message about heart disease but two distinct sites
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 to develop heart disease 10 years earlier than other women. What makes the news deadlier than [...]
