LatinaLista – A delegation of women leaders from over two dozen national human rights organizations traveled to Georgia to spend today and tomorrow speaking out against the recent anti-immigrant laws passed in that state. The women, part of the We Belong Together delegation, plan not only on speaking out against the inhumane bill but listening too. [...]
New study reaffirms Mexican-American immigrant students do better when Spanish and culture are appreciated at school
LatinaLista — The debate over whether or not a child is better off learning in a bilingual environment has raged before the time when American educators forced thousands of Native American school children into English-speaking boarding schools or punished Mexican-American children for speaking Spanish in school. However, the general consensus these days is that it’s [...]
Spotlight Nonprofit: Keeping needy children warm with a new coat
LatinaLista — For every coat we buy, a child will be warm this winter. For every coat we don’t buy, a child will be cold. It was in 2006 that a group of friends in Chicago, who decided that it would be more meaningful to buy Christmas gifts for a family in need rather than [...]
Spotlight Nonprofit: Moving the conversation of childhood cancer outside cancer community
LatinaLista — Cancer kills children more than cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy, asthma and AIDS combined. Cancer is the most common cause of death by disease for children and adolescents in the United States. It’s a reality that the Cruse family of North Texas knows only too well. In 2009, eight-year-old Connor Cruse died of Neuroblastoma, [...]
Education is the new brown currency
by Kathleen O. Vale La Voz de Austin COMMENTARY — I am a proud sixth-generation female member of a Mexican- American family whose roots begin in San Antonio, Texas, meander back to Rio Grande City, Texas (in Starr County, on the Mexican border), continue the trans-national stretch across the Gulf of Mexico to Tampico, Mexico, [...]
The human cost of anti-immigrant policies: The starving of Latino immigrant children
LatinaLista — One has to wonder if state legislators, who are doing their darndest to make life hellish for undocumented immigrants by passing punitive laws, really know what their actions are doing to undocumented immigrants and their families. A new study makes one impact very clear. Bread for the World Institute releases today a disturbing [...]
