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Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum offers full slate of programs, exhibits and galleries — only a click away

Jan 10, 2011, 7:07 PM 0

LatinaLista.net — While debate is still raging on the feasibility of creating the National Museum of the American Latino in Washington, D.C., which would focus on American Latino art, history and culture, there is already a Latino museum open…

Books, General, Online

University librarians dust off Mexican cookbook collection to make and share dishes celebrating Latino cuisine

Jan 4, 2011, 7:46 PM 0

LatinaLista.net — When it comes to family recipes, most cooks can pull out a recipe handed down from their grandmothers. But it’s not often that someone can claim a recipe made by great or great-great grandmothers. Unfortunately, most of…

Art, General

Campaign underway to heighten awareness of only 2 Latino recipients in 32 years by Kennedy Center Honors

Jan 3, 2011, 7:49 PM 0

LatinaLista.net — According to the website for the Kennedy Center Honors: Kennedy Center Honors has redefined America’s perception of its artistic legacy and reinvented the way this nation rewards its artists. The Honors have been compared to a knighthood…

Art, General

Five Latin music legends awarded their own stamps in 2011

Dec 29, 2010, 12:25 PM 0

LatinaLista — When it comes to the musical quilt of the United States, the Latino community has always been a part of it. Some musical artists experience fame only within the Latino community while others “break out” and cross…

Art, Education, General, Immigration, Palabra Final, Politics, Social Justice

In this case, a picture is worth over 40 million feelings

Dec 23, 2010, 10:16 AM 0

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General, Music, Southwest

San Antonio holds world’s best musicians and vocalists

Dec 3, 2010, 4:03 PM 0

By Cristina Blackwell La Prensa de San Antonio SAN ANTONIO — Texas’ largest and longest running mariachi music event of its kind is preparing for its 2010 festival in San Antonio starting this week until December 5. The 16th…

Books, Health

Going vegan — Latina-style

Dec 2, 2010, 12:15 PM 0

LatinaLista It wasn’t that long ago that any Latina who announced to family and friends that she was a vegan — people who don’t eat meat, eggs or dairy products — would immediately receive one of three things:…

Books, Children, Education

Aztec Calendar coloring book brings dead language back to life

Nov 29, 2010, 5:03 PM 0

LatinaLista — For most Latino families, one way to keep a connection to the family culture is to speak Spanish in the home. Research shows that generationally-speaking, it gets harder and harder to do. Usually, people end up taking…

Books, Children, Review'nReceive

Flamenco comes alive through vivid photos and simple storytelling

Nov 26, 2010, 3:25 PM 0

By Lisa Lopez LatinaLista The world of flamenco performance is beautifully depicted in this illustrative photo essay entitled Â¡OLÃ‰! Flamenco by George Ancona and published by Lee & Low Books. Ancona manages to convey a true love of…

History, Multimedia, Online

New museum dedicated to Mexican-American experience in S. CA opens first with online portal

Nov 22, 2010, 2:17 PM 0

LatinaLista — While Washington still debates, surveys and sets up exploratory committees on the viability of establishing a national Latino museum, Los Angeles has wasted no time in creating a museum that honors the first Latinos to make a…

Books, Children, Review'nReceive

Troubled lives teach teens lessons for life

Nov 17, 2010, 8:26 PM 0

By Alma Ramos-McDermott LatinaLista What will Beto do now that he has walked away from the only home he’s ever known? It’s a question that will keep readers engaged as they follow Beto’s journey in the young adult novel…

Books, Education, Review'nReceive

Julian Samora: The man who brought Latino Studies to campus curricula

Nov 17, 2010, 8:13 PM 0

By Sarah Dahlen LatinaLista The Mexican-American experience is widely considered to be a worthwhile field of academic inquiry, to the extent that today’s college student may not be aware of the struggles involved in arriving at such widespread recognition….

General, History

Understanding who are today’s veterans

Nov 11, 2010, 4:27 PM 0

LatinaLista — For some people, the first realization that today was Veteran’s Day may have been when they went to the post office and found it closed, or tried to cash a check and discovered it was dark at…

General, Guest Voz, History, Palabra Final

Guest Voz: Fallen comrades must not be forgotten on Veteran’s Day

Nov 11, 2010, 2:52 PM 0

By Luis Cantu LatinaLista On this Veteran’s Day across the nation, while parades marched down the Main Streets of cities and small towns and parties were thrown honoring today’s enlisted military personnelI, there were other observances happening as well…

General, History, Social Justice

A funeral home’s refusal to bury a Latino soldier is revisited in PBS documentary “The Longoria Affair”

Nov 8, 2010, 4:23 PM 0

LatinaLista — One of the most shameful chapters in modern American history occurred in a small Texas town by the name of Three Rivers. It was in that town, sixty years ago, where the only funeral home refused to…

Art, General, History

E. TX town’s Latino population growth responsible for local museum receiving one of the nation’s largest Mexican folk art collections

Nov 2, 2010, 3:31 PM 0

LatinaLista — In the laid-back East Texas town of Tyler, total population less than 100,000, there was a strange sign of how even small towns in one of the reddest states in the Union aren’t immune to demographic changes….

Books, Children, Review'nReceive

A bilingual approach to hearing sounds

Nov 2, 2010, 12:57 PM 0

By Aracelli Astorga LatinaLista In the Spanish-language book, Con mis oidos, by Mariana I. Pellegrino, with illustrations by Mariana Nemitz, children are introduced to the many wonderful things people can hear by using our ears — school bells ringing,…

Books, Children, Review'nReceive

A child’s excuses create one “monster” after another

Nov 2, 2010, 12:49 PM 0

By Martha Rico LatinaLista “But a monster might take me away forever!” is the line Roberto uses each time his mother asks him to do a specific chore in the bilingual tale titled No Time for Monsters/No Hay Tiempo…

History, Southwest

A haunting we will go

Oct 29, 2010, 12:10 PM 0

By Alicia Conde La Prensa de San Antonio SAN ANTONIO — Hauntings in San Antonio are not limited to the boundaries of the historical Alamo where many defenders and Mexican soldiers died, and they travel far beyond the notorious…

History, Politics, Social Justice, Southwest

For many on the Navajo Nation, it’s been a long wait for power

Oct 25, 2010, 1:27 PM 0

By COLTON SHONE Cronkite Borderlands Initiative LUKACHUKAI – For more than 80 years of his life, William Yazzie didn’t know what it was like to flick a switch in his own home and have light flood the room. While…

Books, Global Views, History, Online

Border professor publishes book to show true picture of impact from Juarez violence

Oct 21, 2010, 2:14 PM 0

LatinaLista: “I was born in Ciudad Juarez. I have lived here for many years. It is not a city of thugs; it is a city of hospitable people, hardworking men and women able to leave sweat and breathe every…

Culture, Faith, General

Forest Lawn cemetery wants to be the top destination for Latinos on Dia de los Muertos

Oct 13, 2010, 1:20 PM 0

LatinaLista — The name “Forest Lawn” is world renown as the final resting place for Hollywood’s greatest names in show business. Yet, Forest Lawn isn’t a typical cemetery. With nine separate cemeteries throughout Southern California, Forest Lawn also is…

History, Palabra Final

History’s tunnel vision is most apparent on Columbus Day

Oct 11, 2010, 5:54 PM 0

LatinaLista — Winston Churchill got it right when he famously said, “History is written by the victors.” That statement has never been more true than on Columbus Day. Far from the idyllic school poem describing Columbus’ journey, there has…

Media, Music, Online

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