Category: Columns & Features
California Community Colleges Have Poor Transfer Rates for Latino, Black Students
By Katherine Leal Unmuth Latino Ed Beat Researchers at The Civil Rights Project at UCLA released a trio of studies this month showing that while community colleges are the gateway to higher education for most Latinos and blacks in California, few of those students end up transferring to four-year colleges and earning bachelor’s degrees. According [...]
Documentary uncovers Guatemala’s genocidal agenda targeting the Maya
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista GUATEMALA — “Ever since I filmed these Generals in 1982 I’ve wanted to see them pay for their crimes,” says filmmaker Pamela Yates. Accompanied by a fierce determination to unmask a hidden war, Yates originally went to Guatemala in the eighties to make a documentary about the fighting between the Guatemalan [...]
You are a Philanthropist!
By Carlo Lorenzo Garcia Living Philanthropic It doesn’t matter your age, your religion, the color of your skin, the place you grew up, none of that matters, what matters is that you have the power and the unique heritage to become an impressive leader of philanthropy in your community. Watch this video, courtesy of of [...]
Guests Voz: The benefits of contraceptive coverage for women of color outweigh political objections
LatinaLista — The recent attacks by conservatives, from talk show personality Rush Limbaugh to congressional politicians, against having insurance companies cover at no-cost contraceptive coverage has propelled the progress of women’s rights in this nation backwards to a time when women weren’t allowed to show their legs. Just as we see the absurdity of such [...]
Latino Gamer: Can Role-Playing Games Heal?
By Tim Urista Latino Gamer After reading The Function of Role-playing Games by Sarah Lynne Bowman (2011), I felt it was most appropriate to begin a longer discussion about the healing powers of video games rather than a single review of the issues she raises in her work. In the subsequent parts I will discuss [...]
Communities Celebrate Traditional Carnival in Northwestern Argentina
By Ivonne Jeannot Laens Global Press Institute QUEBRADA DE HUMAHUACA, ARGENTINA – Communities of the Quebrada de Humahuaca, a UNESCO National and Cultural Heritage of Humanity site, celebrated one of the most traditional and famous Carnivals in Argentina from Feb. 18 to 21. Andean community members forgot about the strains of daily life in order [...]
Mastering the basics leads to success
By Andres Ramirez LatinoYurbano I have noticed that the most successful immigrant families accomplish several vital things very well and they do this in different time frames. Some accomplish these sets of tasks very fast and others take several generations to get there. However, all these tasks are accomplished by the most successful without exception. [...]
Guatemalan Government Launches Femicide Unit
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista GUATEMALA — When you open a newspaper in Guatemala you are invariably greeted by a series of numbers: • How many people were killed the previous day, • How many people have been arrested in conjunction with the crime. The answers are typically: high and zero. During the past decade, the [...]
In the news: New books by Sáenz and Aira, plus Cisneros, García Márquez
By Jessia DeLeon The Hispanic Reader New releases: • Coming out this week (Feb. 19-24): the young adult novel Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, about the friendship between two teenage boys, and Varamo by César Aira, about the making of an epic poem by a Panamanian bureaucrat. Latino [...]
Using Evolution to Explain Racial Inequality
By Robert Kadar This View of Life It is Black History Month and the airwaves and the print media are filled with self congratulatory reports concerning progress in black civil rights. Overall, the blitz of news gives the impression of a slow and steady march of rights gained as a result of the hard work [...]
