LatinaLista — A day hasn’t gone by lately when Juarez, Mexico isn’t in the news. The latest sad tale to come from Mexico’s most violent city, and the most violent city in the world outside a war zone, is the senseless ambush of U.S. Consulate employees who were in separate cars with their children, and [...]
Illinois bill assumes all Latinos and blacks are gang members
LatinaLista — When it comes to guns, I’m not a fan. Yeah, I’ve heard all the “Constitutional arguments” for them and even saw that the Texas State Board of Education felt the need to emphasize the right to carry firearms in citizenship lessons in their tentative new curriculum standards for the state’s school textbooks, but [...]
San Antonio goes solar with state-funded project
By Johnny Hernandez La Prensa “This is the spark that the city needs to embrace solar energy,” said San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, as he announced Thursday that the State Energy Conservation Office has invested more than $3 million for a distributed energy generation system at the Mission Verde Center @ Cooper, UTSA and St. [...]
Unique Bridal March hits Miami Beach to raise awareness of domestic violence
LatinaLista — On St. Patrick’s Day, visitors to Miami Beach for Spring Break, are bound to do a double-take. Instead of seeing bikini-clad women, with maybe a hint of something green, they’ll be seeing a parade of women dressed in white from head-to-toe, wearing wedding veils and carrying signs as part of an unique event [...]
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 [...]
Spotlight Non-profit: Casa de los Niños keeps children safe from child abuse
LatinaLista — Child abuse seems to be in the headlines more and more every day. Whether it’s due to parents under stress from a bad economy or the fact that some people have no business being parents, the bottom line is that there are children, from infants to teens, who find themselves helplessly at the [...]
