LatinaLista — Last week’s news that the Associated Press dropped the term “illegal immigrant” from its revered Stylebook caught many in the journalism industry off-guard but not the publishers of Colorlines. The multi-ethnic news site, Colorlines.com, along with, the Applied Research Center, founded by Rinku Sen, launched the “Drop the I-Word” campaign in 2010. It [...]
Texas Latino theater director travels to Cuba and discovers how local artists ‘speak’ from the stage
By Alain Castillo LatinaLista Despite equipment challenges and political oppression, Cuban theatre artists are producing great work and showing their solid commitment to the craft by staging productions using the most basic of equipment and shining an even brighter spotlight on themselves and their plays by criticizing their own society, says David Lozano, theatre director [...]
Distinguished English Linguist: Time to understand words DO affect our perceptions of the world and one another
By Laurel Airica Laurel Airica “Speak a new language so the world will be a new world.” Rumi A concept that has gone in and out of fashion among linguists for decades is that words affect perceptions. This would seem obvious to most of us. But now cognitive science has proven beyond doubt that this [...]
Video: New campaign launched reopening national dialogue to reform U.S. juvenile justice system
LatinaLista — There’s a saying that says “You do the crime, you do the time.” For thousands of teens and young adults who make one stupid mistake in their lives, or even a series of petty, irresponsible mistakes, they are finding themselves locked away in county jails and juvenile detention centers doing their time. In [...]
Spotlight Nonprofit: Giving homeless children more than a place to call home
LatinaLista — In the late 1980s, two teachers from Plano, Texas noticed that some of their students were carrying large trash bags with them to school every day. The students would stuff the bags in their lockers and collect them at the end of the day. When the teachers asked the students what was so [...]
Viernes Video: New comedy web series explores the ratio of men’s feminine side in a macho world
LatinaLista — It’s said that all men have a feminine side. The question is what’s the ratio for a man to have only a feminine side without being totally gay. The creators of a new comedy web series believe that ratio may be 80/20. 80/20, the brainchild of Christopher Oscar Peña and Vayu O’Donnell, follows [...]
