LatinaLista — They’re bad. They’re Brown. And they call themselves the Latino Comedy Project. The latest irreverent look at immigration is offered by this Austin, Texas-based comedy troupe who pokes fun at all those who are screaming that there…
Businesswoman Carrie Ferguson Weir proves it’s never too young to express Latino pride with her line of baby t-shirts. LatinaLista — Carrie Ferguson Weir spent all of her professional life asking the hard questions. As a daily newspaper journalist,…
LatinaLista — Pedro Guzman is a 29-year-old native Californian — but that didn’t matter. Like a pathetic scene from an old Cheech and Chong movie, he was deported to Mexico back in May. Today, he is finally being reunited…
Empowerment coach, Nancy Marmolejo, sells clients on recognizing and valuing their own strengths to achieve their greatest potential. Nancy Marmolejo LatinaLista — Entrepreneurialism is in Nancy Marmolejo’s blood. Having a father who loved being his own boss, and who…
LatinaLista — Editor Francisco Aragon has successfully woven together a collection rich in tone, style, and depth of topics, ranging from the more immediate and observational to political and symbolic in The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry published by…
Lupe Ruiz-Flores is a children’s book author who discovered it’s never too late to tell a good story. LatinaLista — Being a published writer was Lupe’s life-long dream. Growing up with little money, especially to buy such luxury…
LatinaLista — A landmark study released by the American Journal of Public Health just days before the close of 2006 revealed an alarming trend: Latino pre-schoolers are twice as likely as white or black children to be overweight or…
LatinaLista — The nationwide campaign targeting undocumented immigrants is having the expected impact — emptying out factories, creating fear, increasing racial profiling AND one unexpected consequence that is music to no one’s ears — a sharp drop in Latin…
LatinaLista — The war is over! Not that war but the one waged against documentarian Ken Burns by those of us frustrated that he left out any mention of the Latino contribution in his next marathon film for PBS…
LatinaLista — The story of Eli Gutierrez, a North Texan Mexican-American artist who spent his Fourth of July holiday finishing up a 17-hour walk over 50 miles leaving notes in the mailboxes of city council members and mayors to…
LatinaLista — Earlier this month, Univision sent a letter to all of the presidential candidates inviting them to come on down to the land of sandy beaches and palm trees and while soaking up the sun, soak up some…
LatinaLista — Their names are Jenn Alva, Phanie and Nina Diaz. They’re from San Antonio and they form the rock band Girl in a Coma. Jenn and Phanie met while in junior high and were soon dreaming of rock…
LatinaLista — This week in San Jose, California, hundreds of Hispanic journalists are gathered to celebrate the 25-year anniversary of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Hispanic media is as complex as the Hispanic community — in other words,…
LatinaLista — The more it looks like the Senate is making headway in crafting an immigration reform bill, the more small towns across America want to put their own individual stamp of authority on immigration reform — by trying…
LatinaLista — There are some topics worth talking about over…and over…and over… and, well, you get the idea. Aside from politics where issues are put to a vote by an assembly of people, I’m talking about the kind of…
LatinaLista — The last time I wrote about Bill Richardson when he was just thinking of running for President, it was to wonder why more young voters hadn’t heard of him or why more Latinos didn’t realize he was…
LatinaLista — It is said that the only thing more Mexican than tequila is mariachi. The rise of all-female mariachi groups is becoming more popular. (Source: utb.edu) Yet, regardless of where our Latina cultural roots lay, one aspect of…
LatinaLista — In cities across the country this weekend, there will be Cinco de Mayo celebrations. Always a chance to see Mexican folklorico dancing, eat tacos, drink flavored aguas and let the children play games, the annual observance has…
LatinaLista — Among all the crisis that plague the well-being of Latinos, diet, or lack of it, is at the top. A new nutritional guide scheduled for a national roll-out this month, titled Camino Magico, released this week by…
LatinaLista — One thing mainstream America is good at doing is “commercializing” any special holiday or event on a t-shirt! What better recuerdo (memory) than to have the event screen printed on a t-shirt. We know that event has…
LatinaLista — A recent article in the New York Times titled For Some Hispanics, Coming to America Also Means Abandoning Religion sparked a lot of interest. In the days after the article was published, newspapers across the country syndicated…
LatinaLista — Some disheartening news appeared in The Dallas Morning News last week. On the frontpage of the Metro section was an article titled “Foes of FB ban clash on tactics.” The article was about how a group of…
LatinaLista — The aftershocks of the statements made by Don Imus that got him banished from radio and television airwaves are dying down — and that’s a shame. Not that I want the repentent Imus to have to relive…
The most popular television show of the past year in Mexico was a show called La Fea Mas Bella. Mexican actors Angelica Vale and Jaime Camil star in La Fea Mas Bella. (Source: esmas.com) Though it’s already ended in…
LatinaLista — This years marks the 30th anniversary of probably the most popular and impactful television mini-series that ever aired — Roots. Then-unknown Levar Burton played the lead character Kunta Kinte http://www2.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif For the first time, the sad history…
