Category: Youth
The Legacy of Dr. King is Being Lost Among too Many Young People of Color
LatinaLista — Today, Dr. Martin Luther King Junior would have been 78 years old. Had he lived, what would he have thought about what’s going on today? Though he would have been somewhat pleased about the strides people of color have made within mainstream society, he most probably would have been disgusted that instead of [...]
Expert Says Institutional Change is Needed to Combat Girl Violence
LatinaLista — Maribel Santiago and Alma Rivera got “into it” after school on Monday of this past week at Woonsocket Middle School in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Punches were thrown and Maribel ended up punching the school’s vice-principal in the face. By the time it was all over, Maribel and Alma had some explaining to do. [...]
Is Higher Education so Elitist that Undocumented Students Don’t Deserve a Chance?
LatinaLista — This past Christmas season was tight for anyone in college or who is footing the bill for college tuition. With books and fees, today’s tuition hits the majority of families hard. So, it’s to be expected that those families who feel the pinch are going to resent anyone they feel is getting a [...]
Latina All-Girl School Rivals Oprah’s Leadership Academy
LatinaLista — The most positive news that has greeted us in these first two days of 2007 was how Oprah Winfrey has finally realized her dream of opening up an all-girl school in South Africa. Oprah and the first class of girls for the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy (Source: oprah.com) Christened the Oprah Winfrey Leadership [...]
Will the Next State of the Union Address Continue to “Guilt-Trip” Support for the War?
LatinaLista — Every year, The Dallas Morning News chooses one Texan they label “Texan of the Year.” This year’s recipient is a man by the name of Roy Velez. What’s so special about this West Texan, Mexican-American is that his two sons, his only sons, Jose Alfredo (Freddy) and Andrew, lost their lives in Fallujah [...]
Harvard Research Shows Teachers as Segregated as Students
LatinaLista — Every red-blooded American school student, while enjoying their school break, are inevitably performing a time-honored-holiday tradition as well — counting down the days till school starts again. Too many students will return to schools where self-segregation is the norm, no matter how diverse the student body. Unfortunately, no amount of adults pushing kids [...]
High School Student Touched by Swift ICE Raid Asks “What Rights do I Have?”
LatinaLista — News of yesterday’s raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, at six plants owned by the meat processing company Swift & Company, greeted most of us early this morning. (Source: ICE.gov) With frontpage headlines or lead stories broadcasting the surprise round-up of what is now calculated to be 1,282 arrests from Cactus, [...]
Study Shows Latino College-Bound Students the Tech Savviest Among Peers but Missing Parental Help
LatinaLista — If a random survey was to be conducted on Anywhere Street, USA, and people were asked to say the first word that pops into their minds when they hear the word “hispanic,” chances are they would say things like: illegal immigration, gangs, protest marches, big families, beans, school dropouts, tequila, etc. It’s a [...]
Latino Cultural Traditions Endure Beyond Holiday Season
LatinaLista — For a lot of families, Thanksgiving and Christmas are the two times a year when “family traditions” are observed. Whether it be the same menu that is repeated every Thanksgiving Day and Christmas or how and when Christmas gifts are opened or even the yearly ritual of eating Thanskgiving dessert clustered around the [...]
USA TODAY Column: Part II: Young Voters Increased by 2 Million
LatinaLista — In today’s opinion section of USA TODAY, there appears a column of mine. In the column, I basically explain that while the turnout numbers weren’t great for Latinos in this election it didn’t mean that we don’t have potential. As with every group, our potential to be a strong political force lies with [...]
