By Cliff Despres SaludToday Metro areas are more dangerous for pedestrians, especially Latinos and other minorities, than in previous years, according to a new study. The study, Dangerous By Design 2016 by Smart Growth America, found that pedestrians of color,…
By Edward T. Rincón, Ph.D. LatinaLista (Editor’s Note: The following is an in-depth analysis of an important issue that the author rightfully asks “where’s the public outrage?” As a result, the Guest Voz piece runs longer than most…
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat A Q&A With Outgoing Executive Director Alejandra Ceja Alejandra Ceja has been the executive director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics since 2013 — a position she’ll give up at…
By Joseph M. de Leon Hispanic News Online (Editor’s Note: Due to the steady interest in urban farming, Treviño TodaMedia (TTM) is resurrecting the popular column Urban Farmist. We are not only keeping the column in the TTM family…
By Shervin Assari The Conversation The racial health gap in the United States is well-documented. The gap starts with the infant mortality rate (11.1 blacks vs. 5.1 whites per 1,000) and extends to almost any health domain. Compared to whites, blacks…
By Matt Smith Juvenile Justice Information Exchange The private prison industry may end up being one of the winners under the incoming Trump administration, though it’s not clear how or when the new administration will act. Stocks of…
By Eric Moreno SaludToday Do you live in one of the countries healthiest cities? More and more cities are recognizing the importance building a culture of health for their citizens. Many have added built environment features, such as…
By Stephenie Livingston Futurity Discrimination interacts with certain genetic variants to change blood pressure, report researchers. In addition, discrimination experienced by close friends and family had a more significant impact on study participants than did firsthand experiences, according…
By Edward Gunts and James Russiello Saving Places The novelist Kurt Vonnegut Jr. came from a family of architects, including grandfather Bernard Vonnegut I, a partner of Vonnegut & Bohn, and father Kurt Vonnegut Sr., who later joined…
By Rubén G. Mendoza The Conversation On Wednesday, Dec. 21, nations in the Northern Hemisphere will mark the winter solstice – the shortest day and longest night of the year. For thousands of years people have marked this event…
By Cliff Despres SaludToday Did you know Mexican-American kids drink less plain water than white kids? They also are more likely to perceive tap water as unsafe? In fact, negative perceptions of school water fountains were associated with sugary…
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat News stories often state that black and Latino males have lower test scores and graduation rates than their white and Asian peers, that they’re more likely to be disciplined in school and be incarcerated. UCLA professor Tyrone Howarddecided…
By Sarah Barr Juvenile Justice Information Exchange WASHINGTON — Many policymakers and advocates know they want to close youth prisons, where they say young offenders are often isolated, unsafe and go without the services they need to thrive when they return…
By William D. Lopez The Conversation When immigration officers forcibly remove individuals from their homes, it impacts the psychological, emotional and economic well-being of their families and communities. President-elect Donald Trump stated throughout his campaign that he wanted to…
By Rachel Harrison Futurity New research links income inequality with greater civic engagement among young people—particularly among young people of color and those of lower socioeconomic status. The findings, published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, contradict past research…
By Jordan Bazak and Alejandra Castillo Council on Hemispheric Affairs If you are anything like Santiago Siri, the act of voting may leave you feeling a bit unsatisfied. In the age of the Internet, you might wonder why we…
By Deborah Charnes LatinaLista NICARAGUA — I’m in a shared taxi in Nicaragua. Next to me is a matronly lady. Up front, sit our middle-aged driver and another man in his 60s. I broach the subject of same-sex marriages….
By Cliff Despres SaludToday Sugary drinks are a rising threat to the health of Latino preschoolers. Being Latino and drinking sugary beverages at least once in the past week were associated with 2.3 times the odds of severe obesity…
By Thomas P. Mackey & Trudi Jacobson The Conversation The circulation of fake news through social media in the 2016 presidential election has raised several concerns about online information. Of course, there is nothing new about fake news as such – the satirical site “The Onion”…
By Thania Benios Futurity Since the 1980s, air pollution has increased worldwide, but it has increased at a much faster pace in regions close to the equator. Research now reveals that this changing global emissions map is creating…
By Sarah Barr Juvenile Justice Information & Exchange In the wake of Supreme Court decisions that have limited extreme sentences for juveniles, states are relying on parole boards to put those rulings into effect. But those boards operate with little…
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat Children of undocumented immigrants represent a growing share of U.S. students in kindergarten through 12th grade, a Pew Research Center analysis of American Community Survey data shows. More than 7 percent of students in 2014 had at…
By Jeffrey H. Cohen & Bernardo Ramirez Rios The Conversation Mexican migration to the U.S. is in decline. The Pew Hispanic Research Center has found that since 2009, more than one million native-born Mexicans living in the U.S. returned to Mexico. But…
By Deborah Charnes LatinaLista Jesus was listening. I say this as a non-Christian. I’m non-religious, but spiritual. I respect others’ choices, as long as they are respectful. I believe in the power of prayer, or positive energy. I’m a…
By Lance Wallace Futurity Since social scientists and economists began measuring poverty, its definition has never strayed far from a discussion of income. Now, new research shows there are multiple components of poverty that more accurately describe a household’s…
