LatinaLista — When most people think of bicycle tours of a city, first thoughts travel to leisurely pedaling and taking in the sights. That’s not the case for what happened in Valparaiso, Chile last spring. In March 2013, mountain bike athletes from more than 13 countries arrived in the coastal town with their bikes in […]
Transcript: President Obama’s Eulogy of Nelson Mandela
LatinaLista — The following remarks were delivered by President Obama at the memorial service for former South African President Nelson Mandela at the First National Bank Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa. To Graça Machel and the Mandela family; to President Zuma and members of the government; to heads of states and government, past and present; […]
Video: Education expert credits ‘racist logic’ in public schools acting as pipelines to prison for some students
LatinaLista — Education expert Henry Giroux was named by the Toronto Star in 2012 as one of the top intellectuals changing the way the world thinks. The founder of Truthout’s Public Intellectual Project, Giroux has written over 50 books on the topics of education, youth, and democracy. They are topics he knows both academically and […]
Viernes Video: New film puts twist on assassinations by showing the dark side of ‘La Guapa’
LatinaLista — Stories about hit-”men” are all too common and do little to create any buzz for a new film banking on violence and trite storylines to bring in viewers. But add even just a small twist to a standard plot and it not only generates buzz but has the potential to go viral! Not […]
Video: For one academic, the search for Latino identity begins with literature
LatinaLista — University of Chicago professor Raúl Coronado delivered an interesting talk in 2011 as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival, that examined how “Latinos came into being.” Since he studies the history of Latino identity, Coronado has been particularly interested in how Latin Americans become Latinos. Part of that examination is comprised of looking […]
Intrn’l Video: New documentary exposes increasingly popular music subculture known as narcocorridos
LatinaLista — Mexico has long been known as the birthplace of a long list of notable cultural icons: the sombrero, tequila, the Aztecs, Frida Kahlo and now — the narcocorrido. According to Wikipedia: The narcocorrido or Drug Ballad is a type of Mexican music and song tradition which evolved out of the norteño folk corrido […]