LatinaLista — If an organization has been able to last for 42 years then it’s obvious they’re doing something right. There’s no truer example of that than with the D.C.-based Latin American Youth Center (LAYC). Founded in 1968 and incorporated as a non-profit in 1974, the simple initial purpose of the LAYC was to serve [...]
Immigrant advocates wonder will Democrats fight as hard for immigration reform as they’ve done for healthcare?
LatinaLista– The unexpected statement from the President arrived late this afternoon. It was short and to the point: Statement by the President Praising the Bipartisan Immigration Reform Framework In June, I met with members of both parties, and assigned Secretary Napolitano to work with them and key constituencies around the country to craft a comprehensive [...]
New report finds colleges bear half of the blame for low Latino graduation rates
LatinaLista — A new report released today by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research titled Rising to the Challenge: Hispanic College Graduation Rates as a National Priority documented the fact that Latino students who don’t graduate from college don’t bear all the blame. The authors of the report found that those colleges and [...]
Three Mexican guestworkers find doing things legally incurs a high cost
LatinaLista — When Marlen Guadalupe Landeros Covarrubias, Sandivel Villanueva Flores and Rita Dorali Curiel Sandoval decided to leave their native Mexico and come to the United States to work, they wanted to do it the right way. They decided to come as temporary migrant guestworkers to work for the North Carolina-based seafood company Captain Charlie’s [...]
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 [...]
New political movement Coffee Party USA could become Cafe Ole for Latinos
LatinaLista — Between coffee and tea, I really do like my coffee. So when I heard over the weekend about a new political movement called The Coffee Party, it caught my attention. When I heard the founder of the new movement, Annabelle Park, being interviewed on CNN, it piqued my interest further. And when I [...]
