Category: Community Stories
School project brought to life the idea of an El Paso-Juarez trolley line
By Amanda Duran Borderzine EL PASO – In an effort to explain the longstanding and sometimes complicated ties between border city El Paso, Texas and its Mexican sister city Juarez to fellow classmates at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, Peter Svarzbein decided to create a fictional advertising campaign for the revival [...]
Young Immigrant Activists Who Can’t Vote Influence Those Who Can
By Devin Browne Fronteras News Desk PHOENIX — Last month, Time Magazine featured a 27-year-old undocumented immigrant activist from Phoenix in its list of the world’s 100 most influential people. The activist, Dulce Matuz, an advocate for undocumented migrant youth looking for a pathway to citizenship, was featured alongside Marco Rubio, the Middleton sisters, and [...]
Stockton Civic Auditorium locks out Latino youth group’s peace message effort
Bilingual Weekly STOCKTON, CA — In an effort to give free financial literacy courses and personal finance development programs to impoverished minorities in San Joaquin; Leandro Vicuña put on a Free Financial Literacy Workshop at the Stockton Civic Auditorium — a program offered by Sus Finanzas. “100 to 150 persons attended the workshop during its [...]
Hispanic Mother-Daughter Program still going strong under new Arizona law
By Stephanie Snyder Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – Opponents of Proposition 107 had a favorite warning in the debate leading up to the vote. Pass the ban on racial preferences, they said, and it would mean the end of programs like Arizona State University’s Hispanic Mother-Daughter Program, which aims to increase the odds for Hispanic [...]
Houston school board votes to close exemplary charter school for children from Latino immigrant families
By Ray Ruiz The Venture HOUSTON — At a meeting in April, the Houston Independent School District (HISD) Board decided to merge the exemplary-rated Kaleidoscope Charter School with Jane Long Middle School by a vote of 6-3. Kaleidoscope has just over 100 students, many of which come from Latino immigrant families. The decision was called [...]
Remembering When the Chicano Movement Started in Austin, Texas
By Gilbert Martinez La Voz de Austin In 1960, before the John F. Kennedy campaign, I along with Gus Garcia, Roy Velasquez and several other folks organized voter registration drives. We did it because there were very few Mexican Americans who were registered to vote, and during the election, very few of them even showed [...]
San Antonio Mayor Castro proclaims May ‘Bike Month’
By Dennis M. Ayotte, Jr. La Prensa de San Antonio SAN ANTONIO – Mayor Julián Castro declared that May is Bike Month in San Antonio in celebration of the success of San Antonio’s bike-share program, San Antonio B-Cycle. B-Cycle was launched in March 2011 and has amassed more than 1,200 members, 6,700 day-pass users and [...]
José Antonio Pantoja: Cuban artist turning brushes into oars of freedom
By Juan Miret Hispano de Tulsa A Cuban painter who dreamed about and planned his departure for 15 years now uses the Midwest as his new canvas. He could have chosen the home of Caribbean exile in the sunny city of Miami, Florida. But he did not like that little Havana of the first world, [...]
Bilingual report: Colleges fight to survive time of change
By Frank X. Moraga Amigos805 Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of stories on the state of affairs in the California community college system. This story addresses the problems facing Latino students. Next month’s story will focus on possible solutions. State budget cuts, capped enrollment make community college today a challenge ANALYSIS: [...]
‘Gente Del Futuro’ Visited Lowell
By Dalia Diaz Rumbo News LOWELL, MA — A group of 14 Colombian children, 8 boys and 6 girls visited Massachusetts recently, and on April 20, were invited by Lowell Mayor Patrick O. Murphy to visit his office. During their visit to City Hall, Mayor Murphy gave them a tour where they met several city [...]
