Category: Culture
Taking the lead to keep classical music alive among a new generation
Professional symphony music conductor Sonia Marie De León de Vega shares her love of classical music with families and Latino communities through programs and concerts that bring classical music “home.” LatinaLista — When most young girls dream of a career in music, it usually includes visions of strutting across a stage in a sexy outfit [...]
Univision creates telenovela experiment — a webnovela about U.S. Latinos
LatinaLista — Remember a few years ago when the mainstream television networks wanted to capitalize on the popularity of telenovelas? They created their own telenovelas and even developed a dedicated channel, MyNetworkTV, to telenovelas. What happened? They all flopped. It quickly became clear that telenovelas were best left to those who know how to create [...]
Guest Voz: Senate Majority Leader Reid says lack of Republican support can’t take away significance of Sotomayor confirmation
By Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) In reviewing the biography of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, it quickly becomes clear that she had to overcome many challenges to arrive where she is at today. The last challenge of her professional career was trying to convince Republican senators that she was qualified to be a Supreme Court [...]
Laredo, Texas mayor makes Sotomayor’s confirmation a “teachable moment” for the children of his city
LatinaLista — One Twitterer that I follow posted the understatement of the day: “Did anything happen today?” Confirmed Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor For millions of Latinos across the country, there was a swelling of collective pride over the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor as the first Latina and third woman to join the bench of [...]
Mixing history and 21st century technology creates a Twitter feed from another era
LatinaLista — Does the name John Quincy Adams sound familiar?
New short film follows Postville deportees home and their continuing struggle to survive
LatinaLista — One of the Guatemalan immigrants, Willian Toj, who was apprehended and deported in May 2008 from Postville, Iowa wasn’t just working illegally in the United States at the meatpacking plant to send money back home — he was working to literally save the life of his mother. Toj’s story is but one of [...]
Laredo, Texas spearheads city-wide book initiative to combat hunger and literacy
LatinaLista — The saying “food for thought” has two literal meanings in Laredo, Texas thanks to the efforts of three dynamic women educators. These three women, Beverly Herrera, Carmen Escamilla and Annie Treviño (no relation that I know of to Latina Lista) have created a city-wide annual festival called One City, One Book.
Director of “The Wall” offers campuses film to screen to create dialogue about federal immigration policy
LatinaLista — A lot has been written and filmed about the ongoing building of the border wall along the US-Mexico border.
New digital book puts a Human Face to Transnationalism
LatinaLista — What is transnationalism? The Merriam-Webster definition says it’s “extending or going beyond national boundaries.” Yet, for the purposes of a new digital, virtual coffee table-type book, transnationalism, as it pertains to the United States, has a much deeper meaning.
LL Original Report: Mexican resort town doesn’t let the issue of human rights abuses relax
By Mariana Llamas-Cendon Latinalista MANZANILLO, MEXICO: The city of Manzanillo, the main tourist destination of the Mexican state of Colima, houses a very unusual attraction. Something a visitor or a resident would never expect to see in a beach resort — The Museum of Perversity: A Historic Look at Human Rights. Manzanillo is one of [...]
