By Angela Covo La Prensa de San Antonio SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio is a military city – and we have a lot of military kids. Military children understand the impact of war and the sacrifice it requires. While…
LatinaLista — Mariachi music is synonymous with Mexico. The music and its singers are iconic figures of Mexican culture, and in turn, to all people of Mexican descent wherever they live. That is true especially for the Mexican American…
LatinaLista — For all their outreach to Latinos, the GOP must think that compromising on immigration reform — and to this point, no one knows exactly what their definition of compromise entails — is all that is needed to…
LatinaLista — For a nation of immigrants like the United States, it’s not surprising that each ethnic group has its own set of concerns that they see impact their families and themselves. Yet, because of language or immigration status,…
By Katia Savchuk polis Photographer and filmmaker Eve Morgenstern has been travelling throughout the United States documenting abandoned homes — monuments to the human impacts of financial crisis. Her “Facades of Crises” photographic series recently appeared at the Bildmuseet…
LatinaLista — What do 9-year-olds care about immigration reform? Most, unless their loved ones are under threat of deportation, don’t care about this adult issue or even know about it. They are more concerned with sports, hanging out with…
LatinaLista — Human smuggling has long been a way for people from south of the border to enter the United States without the proper paperwork. Most of those who are smuggled into the U.S. usually pay a coyote, an…
LatinaLista — The first time a teenage girl gets pregnant it can truthfully be called an accident but a second, third or fourth time? A new analysis by the Centers for Disease Control reveals that while everyone can celebrate…
LatinaLista — Hand-in-hand with the fight to get Congress to address immigration reform has been the battle with the media to stop referring to undocumented immigrants as “illegal.” While some major newspapers like the Miami Herald agreed that the…
By Jody Paterson Honduras Weekly It’s crazy-hot in the little casita where Garifuna women cook. It’s even hotter over by the wood cooking stove, where they grill ground yucca into the giant wafer-like tortas that are a mainstay of…
Condor Musings Over the last several years Condor has been honored to have the premiere news site for English-speaking Latin@s, Latina Lista as one of our steadfast supporters. Whether reviewing for us when we are promoting Latin@ authors and…
By Alain Castillo LatinaLista This summer, a local Dallas, Texas theatre company will step into the national immigration debate with a hard look at an immigrants’ experience south of the US border. The production, “The Dreamers: Part One” created…
LatinaLista — In featuring Mexican American civil rights figure Cesar Chavez in a special GOOGLE doodle, the global search engine probably thought it would be a great hit, especially with Latinos. It would have been had it not been…
By Chase Cook Oklahoma Watch Among thousands of Oklahoma students who could be held back in third grade for failing a state reading test next year, a disproportionate share will likely be low-income children, an Oklahoma Watch analysis of…
By SaludToday Cervical cancer is the most preventable of all female cancers. However, Hispanic women have the highest rates of cervical cancer in the United States. Of every 100,000 U.S. women, about 11 Hispanic women are diagnosed with cervical…
LatinaLista — A new study that was released by the University of Arizona’s Center for Latin American Studies examining the reasons why undocumented immigrants come and keep on coming back to the U.S., even after being deported, illustrate that…
By Rodolfo F. Acuña LatinaLista Prior to 1986, a clear Left voice could be heard on immigration reform. Among its priorities was that there would be no guest worker program, there would be no employer sanctions, there would be…
By Laurel Airica Laurel Airica “… Political language – and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists – is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance…
By Wayne Jebian CTLatinoNews.com Carmen Espinosa is now the first Hispanic Connecticut Supreme Court Justice. She is one of only eight Latino state supreme court justices in the United States and the first Puerto Rican. She was sworn in…
LatinaLista — A lot has been written about the Mexican drug war but documentary photographer Louie Palu decided to let his photographs and multimedia pieces convey the true horror and angst that the drug-related violence is having on both…
LatinaLista — Sometimes it’s the most heart-wrenching sight that inspires great ideas to not only be born but put into action. That was what happened to Mary K. Hoodhood in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2003. She saw several children…
LatinaLista — One of the deadliest occupations in Mexico is that of a journalist. Journalists and media outlets have been under constant mortal attack by drug cartels and corrupt public officials who don’t like the truth exposed. The country…
By Tiffany Bain Broadband & Social Justice When it comes to furthering one’s education beyond high school, online courses can be a convenient alternative to traditional face-to-face class meetings. However, a recent working paper that analyzed how 40,000 Washington…
LatinaLista — As if it wasn’t enough that anti-immigrant advocates and their rhetoric have controlled for too long the debate on immigration reform, a new study finds that immigration is only one of the issues where negative talk of…
By James Harrington LatinaLista We Americans seem to have the idea that our great leaders have descended from heaven to be among us and guide us. It’s a comforting thought, and one that relieves us of personal responsibility. And…
