By Ala Amoachi The New Year brings great news, primarily for spouses of U.S. citizens who are residing here in the U.S. Today, Secretary of Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano announced the posting of a final rule for…
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Guest Voz: Latinas with Associates Degrees: 4 steps to a higher salary career
Dec 20, 2012, 12:00 AM 1
By Laura Pereyra NerdWallet New study shows high return on investment for associate degree earners going into healthcare industry With the new year right around the corner and with doubts floating about whether higher education is a worthy pursuit…
By Candace Gibson National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health As we saw in the elections, political pundits were somehow shocked that Latino voters came out to support Democratic candidates. Many think that the Latino community is by nature conservative,…
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Guest Voz: Schools remain active accomplices in treating children of color as criminals rather than students
Dec 12, 2012, 5:10 PM 0
LatinaLista — Today, the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights, Senate Committee on the Judiciary, headed by Sen. Durbin, held a hearing on ending the School-to-Prison Pipeline. The School-to-Prison Pipeline is a concept where zero tolerance…
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Guest Voz: A Troubling Shortage Of Latino Lawyers not Foreseen to Get Any Better
Dec 10, 2012, 10:28 AM 0
By Elaine McArdle LatinaLista People often complain there are too many lawyers in the world, and you may think they have a point. After all, an astonishing 40,000 students graduate from American law schools each year, and there are…
By Jesse Trevino HispanicLatino Are we fitted into the times we are born into? So asks Abraham Lincoln in the new film that should be required viewing for all – more so for modern-day Republicans than anyone else. The…
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Guest Voz: When it comes to the environment, Latinos not the ‘sleeping giants’ Corporate America believes
Nov 28, 2012, 3:46 PM 0
By Nayelli Gonzalez LatinaLista (Editor’s note: The following is a condensed version of the full report published by Saatchi & Saatchi The Myth of the Sleeping Giant: Why Latinos are the fastest growing segment the sustainability industry has (n)ever…
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Guest Voz: Independent reports validate AZ’s Mexican American Studies program but who’s reading them?
Nov 15, 2012, 2:29 PM 1
By Rodolfo F. Acuña LatinaLista I have been an activist for over fifty years so I can safely say that I have participated in my share of controversies. I remember some that were particularly acrimonious. When I first joined…
By Bryan Johnson LatinaLista Barack Obama won re-election. His actions on immigration in his first four years were indefensible and extremely anti-immigrant. Nonetheless, he did do one thing that concretely benefited immigrants: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)….
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Guest Voces: Some voters confronted host of poll challenges on Election Day
Nov 7, 2012, 1:47 PM 0
LatinaLista — Civil Rights advocates knew that some voters would experience problems at the polls when GOP-dominated state legislatures began drafting and passing Voter ID laws. One advocacy group, Election Protection,the nation’s largest nonpartisan voter protection coalition, banded legal…
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Guest Voz: Latinas Hold the Power and Potential of This Nation’s Future
Nov 6, 2012, 10:58 AM 0
By Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (Editor’s note: The following column was originally published on RH Reality Check.) I recently celebrated my first anniversary as the executive director of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health…
By Nancy Landa MundoCitizen Over the past few months, I have been on a personal vendetta against President Obama for his broken promise on immigration reform and on the record-setting deportations under his administration. There has been very little…
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Guest Voz: Former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico shares his thoughts on the election and U.S.-Mexico relations
Nov 2, 2012, 3:39 PM 0
LatinaLista — Antonio Garza was the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico under President George W. Bush from 2002-2009. A native Texan and grandson of Mexican immigrants, Ambassador Garza, at the time of his appointment and service was the United States’…
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Texas Democratic Party Chairman calls on Republicans to denounce racist acts targeting Obama supporters
Oct 30, 2012, 2:16 PM 0
LatinaLista — It’s not easy being a Democrat in Texas. The Lone Star State, known as much for being a Red State as home to father-son presidential duo the Bushes, has always had a strong political rivalry. Yet, this…
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Guest Voz: Associated Press Issues Misleading Defense of Term “Illegal Immigrant”
Oct 25, 2012, 12:42 PM 0
By Ben Winograd American Immigration Council Unlike lawyers and policymakers, journalists have an obligation to use language that ordinary people understand. Although the practice is generally helpful, it can sometimes result in oversimplification, or sacrificing accuracy for the sake…
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It’s time to reconnect with Nature — before we face an environmental cliff
Oct 23, 2012, 3:56 PM 0
By Lucian Spataro Latina Lista You don’t often get a chance in life to “do good” by doing what you love. But in 1989, I did get that chance as I had the opportunity to combine my passion for…
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Dallas County educators rebuff efforts to let students know about film competition on importance of sexual education
Oct 18, 2012, 2:06 PM 0
LatinaLista — Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics released the welcome news that the national teen birth rate for girls ages 15-19 declined 8 percent in 2011, and for all…
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Guest Voz: Which way Florida Latinos swing in November depends on which candidate is the most economically fair
Oct 17, 2012, 11:41 AM 0
By Tom Perriello and Vanessa Cardenas LatinaLista The 2012 presidential race is less a contest between two men than it is a choice between two very different versions of the American Dream. President Barack Obama emphasizes a strong middle…
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Guest Voz: Latina Moms Leading their Families to the Voting Booth
Oct 16, 2012, 11:59 AM 0
By Mary Olivella MomsRising Teresa Rey is one of the millions of mothers across the nation who carefully watched the first presidential debate of 2012. In a snap shot, it is fair to say that Teresa felt frustrated with…
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Guest Voz: A new direction for the Dominican Republic — a country already in critical distress
Oct 15, 2012, 11:51 AM 0
By Ivan G. Marte LatinaLista I want my first words to be this: We’ll accomplish, without fear and without taking a moment to rest, what we dreamed not too long ago! We’ll overcome whatever challenges and difficulties will come…
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Guest Voz: Understanding demise of Tucson’s Mexican Americans Studies means knowing history differs from education
Oct 11, 2012, 2:17 PM 0
By Rodolfo F. Acuña LatinaLista When anything titled a “white paper” comes across my email, I usually ignore it. Why is truth always called “white”? Why not brown, yellow or black? Is it because black is considered negative, i.e.,…
By Lamont Lilly LatinaLista In its original format, Alabama’s Beason-Hammon Act granted school resource officers the right to badger 5th graders on the basis of their immigration status. The state of Alabama, which passed the Beason-Hammon Act (or HB…
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Guest Voz: No más costly phone calls — Standing up to predatory rates charged to families of Latino inmates
Oct 3, 2012, 4:06 PM 2
By Amalia Deloney The Center for Media Justice Yesterday, Alex Nogales, President & CEO of the National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC), delivered the keynote address at the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) annual Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration (sic) in Washington,…
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Guest Voz: What’s happening in Chicana/o Studies is a microcosm of what’s happening in society
Sep 28, 2012, 9:11 AM 0
By Rodolfo F. Acuña LatinaLista Writing books and writing blogs are similar.They should be truth. If they were not, the author loses credibility and his/her ability to convince suffers. This is how it should be. But Arizona is testing…
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Guest Voz: The problem with debate over the ‘i’ word is that it needs more perspective(s)
Sep 27, 2012, 9:52 AM 1
Marisa Treviño LatinaLista The debate over the usage of “illegal immigrant” versus “undocumented or unauthorized immigrant” is heating up all over again thanks to one of the most prominent undocumented immigrants in the country — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose…
