Category: Community Stories
TechComunidad Kicks Off New Plan with Dell to ‘Wire’ Impoverished Latinos in Dove Springs
By Alfredo Santos La Voz Newspaper AUSTIN — Dove Springs, a very large and mostly Spanish-speaking community in southeast Austin, is about to get a technology makeover. Spurred on by a new initiative, TechComunidad, a multifaceted plan launches this month at River City Youth Foundation and promises to change the lives of thousands of parents [...]
The question of how to protect the children of undocumented mothers
By Gabriel Pilonieta-Blanco El Tiempo Hispano Learning about Carlitos’ case, son of Guatemalan Encarnación Bail Romero in Missouri, who was adopted by a couple while she was in jail, made us seriously think about the issue. Encarnación was put in jail after a raid was carried out by the ICE in a chicken processing plant [...]
San Antonio approves grant program for local filmmakers
By Angela Covo La Prensa The City Council unanimously approved the San Antonio Local Filmmakers Grant (LFG), a $25,000 grant funded by the City of San Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs (OCA) for local filmmakers ready to make feature-length motion pictures in San Antonio. SAN ANTONIO — A result of collaboration with the San Antonio [...]
The Tejano Monument (From Rejection to Renaissance)
By José Antonio López Rio Grande Guardian SAN ANTONIO – The soon-to-be unveiled Tejano Monument on the south lawn of the State Capitol in Austin continues to add to the discussion of the founding of this great place we call Texas. For one, Spanish Mexican-descent Tejanos clearly believe that the memorial is long overdue. After [...]
It seems harder today to make a college degree pay off
By Erika Lopez Borderzine EL PASO – Josie Jimarez Howard imagined herself surrounded by artifacts from fascinating distant epochs as she pursued her passion for history tending to treasures in a museum after earning a degree in history from Reed College. But instead, she found herself selling modern cosmetics at Macy’s. She soon realized that [...]
United Farm Workers Starts Negotiations in San Joaquin County
BILINGUAL WEEKLY San Joaquin County — “We are slaves in the U.S.” said Jose Garcia, a resident of Stockton, during a general meeting with United Farm Workers Union (UFW) at the Comisión Honorifica Mexicana (Honorific Mexican Commission) on Wednesday, March 7th. “UFW continues to find ways for better working conditions,” said Armando Elenes, UFW San [...]
Soul De Cuba Restaurant — A growing business from Honolulu to Cuba
By José Villa, Senior Editor Hawaii Hispanic News HONOLULU, Hawaii — Well-known Hispanic community leader Jesús Puerto owns Soul De Cuba (SDC) Honolulu as well as the Soul De Cuba New Haven in Connecticut. The Honolulu restaurant opened in July 2006 and Puerto has been an integral – and valued – member of the downtown/Chinatown [...]
Book donations to benefit students of cultural studies in Arizona
Amigos805.com VENTURA COUNTY — Local Latino journalist/photojournalist Jess Gutierrez this weekend announced that he is seeking donations of books to benefit students of cultural studies program in Arizona. “Friends, I need your help,” Gutierrez stated in a media release. “As a writer, photojournalist, and publisher, I cannot sit quietly while Arizona attacks our First Amendment [...]
Lawrence Sisters on the Road to Success
By Jennifer Boes Rumbo News FRYEBURG, Maine – Good grades and good citizenship enabled two Lawrence sisters to earn significant four-year financial awards to Fryeburg Academy, a town academy in Fryeburg, Maine that educates students from around the world. Now they would like to share the experience, and their keys to success, with other local [...]
Hispanic Artists – Wladimir Zabaleta: Splashing Caribbean colors on universal art
By Juan Miret Hispano de Tulsa TULSA — To have extracted “Las Meninas” by Diego Velazquez from the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, is undoubtedly the most precious gifts that the Venezuelan artist Wladimir Zabaleta, 67, has given the world and especially Latin America. Velázquez’s eternally famous work, considered one of the symbols of Western [...]
