By Obed Manuel LatinaLista GRAPEVINE, TX — The Grapevine City Council conference room filled with shouts of “No justice! No peace!” Tuesday night as more than 100 people showed up to protest the officer-involved killing of Ruben Garcia Villalpando. Martha Romero, Villalpando’s wife, sat quietly in the front row of the conference room with her…
College advisor pens song advocating educational rights for DREAMers
By Julie Diaz-Asper LATISM I met Steve Goodman because our kids are in school together. I knew he was an expert on college education and part of the top colleges team. I didn’t know that he was a songwriter who uses songs to advocate on educational issues. Here is the story behind “Let Julio Study”…
Looks like children’s book publishers need longer time-out to improve diversity in titles
LatinaLista — In 1994, the Cooperative Children’s Book Center of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison began to keep track of the diversity in children’s literature. The cooperative didn’t just want to know how many books were authored by American Indians, Asian/Pacifics and Asian/Pacific Americans, and Latinos but how many children’s books…
Are poor Latino kids the same as their poor white and black peers? Depends on the generation
LatinaLista — Studies have long shown that assimilation is bad for the average immigrant in terms of health outcomes. The longer they spend in the United States the more they and their offspring become susceptible to bad eating habits and diseases that are consequences of that behavior found in U.S. born Latinos. Now, a new…
New study reveals Latino boys affected most often by muscular dystrophy than white or African American boys
LatinaLista — A new study published in the journal Pediatrics found that muscular dystrophy, a genetic muscle-weakening disorder, affects 1 in 5,000 boys in the United States — the majority are Latino. The population-based study, featuring collaboration from the University of Iowa, University of Rochester, University of Arizona, University of Colorado-Aurora, the New York State…
Initiative strives to launch new awareness of injustices in the criminal justice system
LatinaLista — As some congressional representatives like to remind the rest of us — the United States is a nation of laws. While that’s a good thing because it helps keep order within our growing society, it’s also been proven to be a bad thing because it encourages an overcriminalization of people leading to crowded…