LatinaLista — The furor over the signing of Arizona SB 1070 that allows for the citizenship status of all Latinos to be questioned by the state’s police has overshadowed an equally disturbing bill that Arizona Gov. Brewer may be on the verge of signing — HB 2281. HB 2281 cuts off funding for schools K-12 [...]
New campaign asks GOOGLE to doodle Cinco de Mayo
LatinaLista — Who doesn’t like it when the “GOOGLE’s CHIEF DOODLER” gets inventive and incorporates the site’s logo with a historical person’s birthday, event or cultural tradition? In the past ten years since the site first began doodling its logo, GOOGLE has doodled in honor of such notable people/events as Martin Luther King, Jr., the [...]
Peru: Holy Week in Peru — a time for religion and recreation
By Isabel Guerra LatinaLista Peru, a country that has been through 300 years of Spanish Viceroyalty, is still, despite the advances of other religions and cults, a Catholic country. Spanish conquistadores set foot on current Peru’s territories in 1532, and imposed Catholicism by force on the native Peruvians, who adopted the Catholic rituals and even [...]
Guest Voz: Sec. of Labor Solis recognizes Cesar Chavez as a Latino Green Movement pioneer
LatinaLista — In remembering the birthday of Cesar Chavez, one of the most famous Latino civil rights activists of the 20th Century, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis reveals in her blog post the role Chavez played as an environmentalist — the forerunner to the Green Movement. As Secretary Solis points out, Chavez’s vision of the [...]
Interactive site makes Cesar Chavez come alive for a new generation
LatinaLista — March 31 is Cesar Chavez’s birthday. He would have been 83 years old. If there is one organization that has come to personify Cesar Chavez, it is the one that he helped found, lead and which still carries his legacy — United Farm Workers (UFW). Understanding social media better and knowing that the [...]
Latinos and blacks should be offended and angry over TX State Board of Education’s decision to dismiss minority contributions from school textbooks
LatinaLista — Democracy is a dying U.S. ideal — thanks to the Texas State Board of Education (TSBE). In a vote of 10-5, the board, dominated by social conservatives, preliminarily adopted a new Social Studies and history curriculum that includes replacing the word “democratic” in referring to the form of U.S. government and opting instead [...]
