LatinaLista — Hate crimes are on the rise. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has documented a steady increase in hate crimes across the United States since the election of Trump. According to the SPLC, there are now 917…
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Latin America Continues Climate Action Despite Trump
Jun 5, 2017, 2:54 PM 0
By Amanda Maxwell LatinaLista Although President Trump has announced his plan to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement, Latin American countries are taking no heed. Trump’s reckless decision may hold America back, but Latin America…
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Military veterans fight immigrant haters in new social media initiative
May 3, 2017, 1:54 PM 0
LatinaLista — All eyes may be on North Korea wondering if Trump will drag the nation into our most dangerous conflict abroad yet but a group of veterans are engaged in a conflict on U.S. soil that has the…
Environment, Environment, zNew Headline
Latinos, on either side of border, battle “not so innocent” America over environment
Feb 7, 2017, 3:04 PM 0
LatinaLista — When Donald Trump pushed back against Fox News Bill O’Reilly’s characterization of Vladimir Putin “as a killer,” by saying that our country “is not so innocent,” he ignited a barrage of criticism from both sides of the…
Health, Women, zNew Headline
Junt@s Vamos provides last hope for many women with cancer in Juarez. How to help.
Dec 22, 2016, 8:58 AM 0
By Dr. Christine Eber & Dr. Mary Alice Scott LatinaLista (Editor’s Note: The final installment in a series examining a preventable death sentence facing women in Juarez, Mexico. Read: Women in Juarez find themselves stalked by another kind of killer; The…
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Women in Juarez battle cancer “in the company of others”
Dec 21, 2016, 10:55 AM 0
By Dr. Christine Eber & Dr. Mary Alice Scott LatinaLista (Editor’s Note: The third of four installments examining a preventable death sentence facing women in Juarez, Mexico. Read first installment, second installment.) In Cuidad Juárez alone several groups have formed…
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The cancer-stricken poor of Juarez condemned to a “slow form of violence”
Dec 20, 2016, 8:46 AM 0
By Dr. Christine Eber & Dr. Mary Alice Scott LatinaLista (Editor’s Note: The second of four installments examining a preventable death sentence facing women in Juarez, Mexico. Read first installment.) The month following Cynthia’s death, the five founding…
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Women in Juarez find themselves stalked by another kind of killer
Dec 19, 2016, 2:22 PM 0
By Dr. Christine Eber & Dr. Mary Alice Scott LatinaLista (Editor’s Note: The first of four installments examining a preventable death sentence facing women in Juarez, Mexico) “We’re not surviving; we’re living.” …
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Federal gov’t has horrendous track record for recognizing minority media. Some in Congress want to change that.
Nov 30, 2016, 3:00 PM 0
Marisa Treviño LatinaLista When President-Elect Donald Trump summoned the top network executives and high-profile anchors to Trump Tower for an off-the-record meeting on November 21, it didn’t go unnoticed that executives or anchors from the two biggest Spanish-language networks…
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New school segregation study finds troubling trends exist for Latino student success
May 17, 2016, 5:32 PM 0
LatinaLista — While the country, as a whole, likes to believe that we’ve achieved the utopian vision of equality, the sad truth is that inequality persists in all sectors of society. The extent of that inequality is more than…
Economy, Sports, zNew Headline
Are professional sports games sidelining too many fans?
Apr 25, 2016, 2:35 PM 0
By Andres Trujillo LatinaLista Ask any sports fan what it’s like holding a ticket to a home game to their favorite sports team and they’ll tell you there’s no denying the escape that a live sporting event can…
Seniors, zNew Headline
New report highlights why Hispanics 50+ are a force still to be reckoned with
Oct 13, 2015, 2:28 PM 0
LatinaLista — Mainstream media has crowned the Latino Millennial as the most influential of the Latino market. Yet, a new Nielsen study shows that Mainstream America is discounting a very important segment of the Latino population and, in fact,…
Obed Manuel Latina Lista 5. Latinos care about the environment About 70 percent of Latinos say they believe global warming is a threat and is caused by human activity. By comparison, just 44 percent of whites and 56…
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Study discovers how big an impact Latino siblings have on one another
Oct 6, 2015, 4:15 PM 0
LatinaLista — Latino families are known to be large. A Pew report found that: Fully 20% of Hispanic moms have four or more children, as do 18% of black moms. In comparison, just 11% of white mothers have four…
Entrepreneurialism, Women, zNew Headline
Latinas lead the way in creating businesses
Sep 8, 2015, 5:25 PM 0
LatinaLista — The state of the U.S. economy may be uncertain but the same can't be said for business women of color. According to the U.S. Census, businesses begun by women of color are "soaring" and growing at a…
Education, Education, zNew Headline
Even with college acceptance in hand, too many low-income Latinos never make it to campus
Aug 17, 2015, 3:51 PM 0
LatinaLista — Summer break has long been known by educators and parents as a time when students lose some of what they learned during the school year. But who would have blamed summertime on losing the chance to go…
Human Rights, zNew Headline
Call to reform juvenile and criminal justice system rings louder
Jul 14, 2015, 4:03 PM 0
LatinaLista — Immigration isn’t the only issue on the list in need of reform. Over the last few years, a growing call to reform the criminal justice system has sounded through the nation as more instances of unarmed people…
Health, zNew Headline
New report reveals more girls of color in juvenile justice system victims of sexual abuse
Jul 9, 2015, 4:28 PM 0
LatinaLista — The number of girls in the juvenile justice system is increasing, particularly for Black, Native American and Latina girls. Not because they’re committing more robberies, murders or attacks but, according to a new study released today, it’s…
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National Parks offer 12 fun ways to beat summer heat & remind visitors to not forget those selfies
Jul 2, 2015, 1:24 PM 0
LatinaLista Summer finally arrived, bringing with it soaring temperatures and a stifling grip on the forecast. But it also means the kids are out of school, vacation requests are being put in, and the longer days can be filled…
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Real suffering happening because of climate change. Finally, more people speaking up, but más needed
Jun 17, 2015, 2:16 PM 0
LatinaLista — Wall Street investors — and financial commentators — just hate it when businesses or sectors of the economy blame the weather for low profits or numbers. On CNBC, whenever a new set of financials with dismal numbers…
Education, Immigration, zNew Headline
Texas Dreamers celebrate in-state tuition preservation
Jun 3, 2015, 9:22 AM 0
By Obed Manuel LatinaLista The end of the Texas legislative session was met by a sigh of relief from undocumented college and high school students around the state after the Republican-dominated state legislature failed to repeal HB1403, a 14-year-old…
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Organizations band together to set the record straight on eating disorders
May 19, 2015, 2:50 PM 0
LatinaLista — Summer is on the horizon, and with that, thoughts by many sun worshippers as to how they will look laid out by the pool or strolling along the shore. For about 20 million women and 10 million…
By Claire Marie O’Brien LatinaLista “At my school, the students created a gigantic number 43, each candle symbolizing a missing student, so that anybody from the sky — the UFOs, the airplanes, God, perhaps? — could see and understand…
Politics, Women, zNew Headline
Webinar series strives to show Latinas how to “step into their political power”
Apr 1, 2015, 11:18 AM 0
LatinaLista — There are 104 women serving in the 114th U.S. Congress – 32 percent are women of color. The Center for American Women and Politics reports that 11.5 percent of the 78 women serving in statewide elective executive…
Health, zNew Headline
Pediatrician helps Latino parents understand importance of vaccines
Mar 19, 2015, 3:13 PM 0
LatinaLista — A new study published in the March issue of JAMA Pediatrics on the December measles outbreak, traced to California’s Disneyland, confirms what was on everyone’s minds — not being vaccinated caused the illness to spread. Researchers from…
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