By Tony Cantú La Prensa de San Antonio.- Since taking the helm as CEO of Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas in 2009, Anna Maria Chávez has overseen a period of substantial growth for the local council, now serving more than 21,000 girls in a 21-county region. As top executive, she oversees a budget of $5.5 [...]
Latina director of equal rights organization speaks out on Supreme Court’s Wal-Mart decision
LatinaLista — The day of reckoning arrived today for the 1.5 million women who were included in a class action lawsuit suing Wal-Mart over sex discrimination charges regarding equal pay and job promotions. The Supreme Court rendered a decision that determined national class claims against Wal-Mart could not go forward but individual claims of sex [...]
Spotlight Nonprofit: Replacing bruises with a “ROSE”
LatinaLista — One of the worst times in a woman or young girl’s life is when she feels “beaten” down, physically and emotionally, by the man in her life to whom she’s professed her most personal gift — her love. Unfortunately, this feeling goes beyond breaking up with someone, it’s all about the violence used [...]
Grad student studies relevancy of quinceañeras for today’s Latino families
By Gloria Quevas Bibby La Costa Latina When I turned 15, my parents took me to a local jewelry store where they selected a lovely garnet ring as my gift. My father explained to me, that they could not afford the cost of a quinceañera and that the ring symbolized my becoming a young woman. [...]
The sad, mysterious and predictable murder of Evelia Valencia
LatinaLista — Evelia Villa Valencia was a 29-year-old mother of three when her eldest, an 11-year-old, made the gruesome discovery after school, on May 23, 2011, of his mother’s lifeless body. She had been strangled in the bedroom of the family’s apartment in Arlington, Texas — she was still holding on to her three-month-old baby. [...]
Too many Latinas with dark skin falsely assume they don’t need sunscreen
LatinaLista — The official start of summer may still be a few weeks off but Mother Nature didn’t get the memo with a lot of the country experiencing high temps this Memorial Day weekend. What that means is that Latinas will be among the crowds soaking up the sun, and it doesn’t even have to [...]