By Brianna McGurran Nerd Scholar Volunteering in high school and college is fun, fulfilling and an easy way to make new friends with similar interests. Plus, there can be a major bonus to giving back to your community: scholarship…
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Cameras let kids show life with diabetes revealing how the low-income and affluent see their quality of life
Jun 3, 2015, 12:09 PM 0
By Elizabeth Hillaker Downs Futurity What does diabetes look like to the thousands of children affected by it each year? To find out, researchers gave adolescents disposable cameras and asked to take pictures of what the disease means to…
Latinas Represent Regina Monge is an elected official, and she’s still in college. In the interview above, listen to LatinasRepresent Intern Nicole Castillo interview Monge about her decision to run for the Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) in DC. Regina…
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Guest Voz: An anti-poverty movement doesn’t look like what you think
May 28, 2015, 2:44 PM 0
By Linda Tirado LatinaLista There’s no point beating around this bush. An anti-poverty movement led by the middle and upper classes is doomed to failure. Equally, a partisan movement will never manage to get much done. That said, it’s…
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Voice and Power in the Music of Native American Hip Hop
May 27, 2015, 3:15 PM 0
By Shaina Semiatin Cultural Survival One hundred miles southeast of Badlands National Park in South Dakota, on a plot of roughly 1,400 square miles, lays the Rosebud Indian Reservation. Home to 20,000 Sicangu (“Burnt Thigh”) Lakota people, the plot…
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Guest Voz: Congress’ Bed Quota Traps LGBT Immigrants in Detention
May 27, 2015, 2:27 PM 0
By Sharita Gruberg LatinaLista The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, has taken commendable steps to improve the immigration detention system, including an automated tool to improve transparency and uniformity in detention-custody decisions and recent guidance on prosecutorial…
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Yondster — a platform by Latinos, for Latino youth job opportunities
May 26, 2015, 2:21 PM 0
By Sara Inés Calderón Más Wired We had a chance to catch up with the CFO of Yondster, Joe S. Garcia recently and asked him a few questions. Yondster is: an employment tech website with a splash of social…
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Guest Voz: Sexual assault hits Latina survivors hard without culturally relevant support
May 26, 2015, 12:45 PM 0
By Cecilia Knadler LatinaLista I came to the United States from Peru when I was 17 years old. I was undocumented and didn’t speak a word of English. Talking about sex is very taboo where I come from, and…
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Guest Voz: Former criminal judge — Rehabilitation is the key to turning lives around
May 22, 2015, 9:33 AM 0
By Hon. Lena Levario LatinaLista I couldn’t believe what I was reading. It was one of the most horrific crimes perpetrated on a child I had ever encountered. The child I was reading about was now an adult, who…
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Storytelling Foundation turns LA fifth graders into scriptwriters while boosting literary confidence
May 21, 2015, 12:39 PM 0
Language Magazine Pilar Alvarez, education director at the Young Storytellers Foundation, explains how the organization boosts literary confidence. Language Magazine: What is the history and overall goal of the Young Storytellers Foundation? Pilar Alvarez: The Young Storytellers Foundation was…
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Suspended Mexican-Studies Program More Than a Major to Colorado Protesters
May 19, 2015, 3:28 PM 0
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat Protesters at the University of Northern Colorado argue it shouldn’t matter whether the temporarily suspended Mexican-American studies program only had two students in it. The university stopped accepting applications for the program in…
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Guest Voz: How do I go on DREAMing when Mexican gov’t says my U.S. college education is worthless
May 18, 2015, 3:53 PM 0
I thought the hardest part would be surviving one of the worst types of rejection one can experience – the expulsion from the country that I lived most of my life. Even more painful was to arrive to a…
By Jann Ingmire Futurity Young children who hear more than one language spoken at home become better communicators, a new study finds. Effective communication requires the ability to take others’ perspectives. Researchers discovered that children from multilingual environments are…
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“This Place Matters” Campaign Brings Historic Preservation to Twitter, Instagram
May 13, 2015, 2:00 PM 0
Preservation Nation Successful tactical urbanism projects around the U.S. — from parklets to pop-up shops — show that sometimes all it takes to bring a community together is a simple, accessible project. That’s why this month, the National Trust…
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Podcast: DREAMers No More – What is Happening to Young, Undocumented Immigrant Activists?
May 11, 2015, 2:38 PM 0
Feet In Two Worlds The DREAMer movement is in flux. Once monolithic, political activism by young, undocumented immigrants has become fragmented, with some activists abandoning the fight for comprehensive immigration reform, and others focused on local efforts to support…
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Guest Voz: Colombia’s rampant racism deserves a national spotlight and international awareness
May 11, 2015, 9:36 AM 0
By Dr. Ana Arjona LatinaLista At least seven Afro-Colombians have been shot in Colombia’s capital Bogota this year. According to community members, these are homicides incited by racism. The assassins of the last two victims — dancers dedicated to…
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Infographic: 11% of Latino kids face traumatic childhood events
May 5, 2015, 2:40 PM 0
SaludToday Did you know 11% of U.S. Latino kids face adverse childhood experiences? These traumatic events include sexual or physical abuse, domestic violence, poverty and the sudden loss of a parent. A new infographic by the Robert Wood Johnson…
By Jose Alejandro LatinaLista Our children spend the majority of their days and years learning. The vast majority are spending nine months a year sitting in classrooms with their classmates as teachers expose them to the fundamentals of math,…
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Children’s Book Council partners with unPrison Project to build prison-nursery libraries for jailed mothers and their babies
May 1, 2015, 2:26 PM 0
CBC Diversity In honor of Mother’s Day on Sunday, May 10, the last day of Children’s Book Week 2015, the Children’s Book Council (CBC) is partnering with The unPrison Project — a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to empowering and mentoring…
By Sara Inés Calderón Más Wired Operation Code is a Portland, Oregon-based organization working to enable more veterans to learn to code and work in the tech industry. The organization is the brainchild of veteran David Molina, who is…
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How to tell if the article about climate you are reading is B.S., in four easy steps
Apr 21, 2015, 4:21 PM 0
By Moms Clean Air Force This was written by Joe Romm for ClimateProgress: This may turn out to be one of the most important years in world history. The leading nations of the world are finally making serious pledges…
By Bess Connolly Martell Futurity Researchers are working to document sentences like “Here’s you a piece of pizza.” Though it sounds totally normal to some English speakers in the United States, it strikes others as totally bizarre. The Yale…
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Guest Voz: It’s Up to You — Does Cristela Go or Not!
Apr 20, 2015, 3:11 PM 0
By Jose David Cantu Hispanic News Online Normally I don’t get involved in issues concerning Hollywood personalities. So when I received a letter written by Cristela Alonzo which was posted in the Atlantic Journal about the possibility of her…
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Discussing Race Helps Black, Latino Boys, Study Says
Apr 16, 2015, 8:10 AM 0
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat “I don’t see color” isn’t always a good approach to addressing race — at least according to a report released this week by the Center for Collaborative Education and the Annenberg Institute that…
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Guest Voz: Women of Color and the Gender Wage Gap (Video)
Apr 14, 2015, 1:06 PM 0
By Milia Fisher Center for American Progress Video: The Gender Pay Gap Explained Women of all races and ethnicities working full time, year round in the United States earned an average of only 78 percent of what men earned…
