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Guest Voz: CDC Blunders in Excluding Communities of Color Among High Risk Groups for Covid-19

Jul 30, 2020, 12:32 PM 0

By Edward T. Rincón LatinaLista (Editor’s Note: Crossposted from The Culture of Research blog) It really makes little sense. Despite the fact that Blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans are being hospitalized and dying at considerably higher rates than…

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Visa denial tied to healthcare is another win for Trump’s Nationalist team

Oct 7, 2019, 1:40 PM 0

Marisa Treviño LatinaLista To say the Trump administration isn’t a fan of immigration, legal or otherwise, is an understatement. In their latest effort to solidify their “America First” doctrine, the White House issued a damning proclamation — only those…

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New Pew poll shows only one federal agency in which most Americans have lost confidence

Oct 1, 2019, 2:40 PM 0

Marisa Treviño LatinaLista The Trump administration has been doing its darnedest to shake public confidence in federal institutions since Trump took office. For example, just today when the lowest manufacturing numbers since 2009 were released, Trump again blamed and…

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Jailed at 15 for a murder he knows he didn’t commit. Serving a life sentence now for over 30 years. Many ask: Isn’t it time Efrén Paredes was released from jail?

Sep 30, 2019, 1:00 PM 0

Marisa Treviño LatinaLista Editor’s note: It wasn’t long after I created Latina Lista in 2004 that I was contacted by Efrén Paredes. Efrén had been tried and jailed at the age of 15 for a murder he claims he…

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New Spanish site helps Latinx former felons know their voting rights

Sep 25, 2019, 9:53 AM 0

LatinaLista One of the biggest justice reforms that still needs to happen with released felons is the restoration of their voting rights. Millions of the formerly incarcerated are eligible to vote but who can blame them for thinking —…

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#ClimateStrike brings out millions around the world demanding action on climate policies

Sep 20, 2019, 2:05 PM 0

LatinaLista What do Ben & Jerry’s, Lush Cosmetics, Kickstarter and SodaStream have in common? Aside from being successful businesses, they are a few of the more than 700 companies that are observing today’s Global Climate Strike. As of this…

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Study reveals what happens to Latinx drivers once police pull them over

Sep 19, 2019, 2:48 PM 0

Marisa Treviño LatinaLista Over the decade, it’s been known that the odds of being pulled over by police while driving was greater if you were a driver of color. Several studies have shown that to be true. The latest…

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A bold new plan to keep child migrants from being victimized under federal watch

Jul 10, 2019, 1:46 PM 0

Marisa Treviño LatinaLista The calls by activists to shut down migrant detention centers have been steady, but little noticed. Yet, after this morning’s New York Times report, those calls no doubt will be amplified by several octaves and taken…

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Border policy, practices and migrant mistreatment brings one blogger out of retirement

Jul 9, 2019, 1:38 PM 0

LatinaLista By Marisa Treviño Was it last week or last month when the world was simultaneously repulsed and heartbroken at seeing the image of the young El Salvador migrant father, Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez, face-down along the weedy shore…

Environment, Social Justice, zNew Headline

Nearly 50 years of Earth Day and at the doorstep of the climate decade: A vision for engagement with U.S. Latinos around climate change

Apr 22, 2019, 6:03 AM 0

By Juan Declet Barreto LatinaLista This year will mark nearly a half-century of the celebration of Earth Day. Enacted in 1970 by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-WI) and Congressman Pete McCloskey – a California Republican, the first Earth Day…

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Young Latina ‘speaks out’ on the importance of including diversity

Apr 4, 2019, 1:20 PM 0

LatinaLista — Many politicians like to invoke the facts that “we are a nation of immigrants” or that our nation was built on the back of immigrants. Either phrase implies that people from all over the world have had…

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New climate initiative ‘heats up’ in Latino communities across the country

Jan 28, 2019, 11:28 AM 0

By Mark Magaña and Dominique Browning LatinaLista It is a myth that Latinos don’t have the time nor interest to care about climate change. The truth is quite the opposite: Latinos have long been leading the fight against dangerous…

Economy, Social Justice, zNew Headline

Latinx workers may have a great work ethic but it doesn’t always translate into comfortable living

Dec 5, 2018, 3:50 PM 0

By Danyelle Solomon and Christian E. Weller LatinaLista (Editor’s Note: The following is the summary for an in-depth report by the Center for American Progress on the wealth disparity between whites and Latinx families. Read the full report here.)…

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Heartbreaking video of reunited mother trying to hug her toddler. Look what happens.

Aug 28, 2018, 10:11 AM 0

Marisa Treviño LatinaLista Regular readers of Latina Lista have kindly noticed that I’ve been taking a little break. After 14 years of chronicling social injustices, I felt drained, even more so since Trump took office. Like many of you,…

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Study reveals new national pastime — activism!

Apr 26, 2018, 4:42 PM 0

LatinaLista — Activism used to be a lonely club. Not to mention, a dirty word. Though among conservative circles, it’s still as distasteful a word as “liberal.” But unless you were a hardcore activist who regularly took to the…

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Guest Voz: I’m an Undocumented Taxpayer. Here’s How My Taxes Are Used Against My Values.

Apr 17, 2018, 11:57 AM 0

By Layidua Salazar Rewire.News Tax Day is here and with it comes the reminder of my status in the United States as an undocumented taxpayer—meaning someone who doesn’t have a legal pathway to citizenship, despite having temporary protection from…

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Cincinnati cartoonist tackles immigration issue of mixed-status families with powerful series

Apr 16, 2018, 12:59 PM 0

LatinaLista — Undocumented immigrants have always lived “in the shadows” of society. Yet, it depends on who is in the Oval Office as to how far their retreat into those shadows. As a result, there are many citizens who…

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New study reveals female & minority college students have to fight for online instructors’ attention

Mar 13, 2018, 2:49 PM 0

LatinaLista — Biasness is so systemic within our society that it not only rears its ugly head in face-to-face interactions but online between bots and people — and it seems between educators and their students in online classrooms too….

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Latina FL student leads charge against political inaction on gun violence

Feb 19, 2018, 8:30 AM 0

LatinaLista — If you haven’t yet heard of Emma Gonzalez, you probably have already fallen back into your old habit of going on with life, as if the deaths of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in…

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Colombian police on active patrol for — lying politicians!

Feb 12, 2018, 2:18 PM 0

LatinaLista — Over the last several decades, Colombia has weathered a spate of bad publicity. Whether it was their infamous drug cartel (Pablo Escobar) history or its decades-long civil war, or the rampant corruption that, unfortunately, exists in most Latin…

Racial Justice, Social Justice, zNew Headline

Researchers find direct correlation between residential segregation and police shootings of unarmed Black victims

Feb 5, 2018, 2:36 PM 0

LatinaLista — Go to most towns and cities in the country and you’ll most probably find one section where whites live, another for Blacks and still another for Latinos or other residents of color. Some small towns were even…

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Data shows Latino youth in detention centers drops 50 percent

Jan 25, 2018, 11:25 AM 0

LatinaLista — Sometimes there’s a good reason to send a kid to juvenile detention and sometimes there isn’t. A 16-year-old who decides to bring a gun to school and show everyone who’s boss is someone who deserves to be…

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First-ever poll on Latinos’ attitudes towards criminal justice system highlights data disparity

Jan 18, 2018, 4:58 PM 0

LatinaLista — Too often when national surveys or research focuses on ‘minority’ perspectives/experiences with the criminal justice system, Latinos are left off the list. Four Reasons Black Incarceration Rates Are Going Down, While White Rates Are Going Up Criminal…

Racial Justice, Social Justice, zNew Headline

Latino motorists profiled by Sheriff Joe Arpaio finally get due justice

Dec 7, 2017, 3:16 PM 0

LatinaLista — Sheriff Joe Arpaio may have been pardoned but his legacy of unlawfully detaining people perceived to be undocumented Latino immigrants is unforgivable in the court of public opinion and, apparently, in U.S. federal court. As a result of…

Crowdfunding, Social Justice, zNew Headline

Latina teen creates app to change how we treat farmworkers

Nov 16, 2017, 2:27 PM 0

LatinaLista — In California’s Central Valley, farming has deep roots. A third of all the produce — more than 230 different crops — grown in the United States are planted, nurtured and harvested in this region that receives nearly…

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