Category: Multimedia
TV Novela Series Teaches Importance of Safe Medication Use
SaludToday! The ¡Nunca Más! Novela Health Series seeks to educate Latinas and their families about the importance of safe medication use. The series, launched in October 2011 by the Office of Women’s Health at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, provides consumers and community leaders with access to four video novelas and free health materials [...]
A few words about Love Thy Neighbor, Mexico: Getting American drug users to connect their usage with violence in Mexico
By Slyvia Longmire Mexico’s Drug War A little over a year ago (maybe more, maybe less…my memory is like a sieve), I was asked to serve on the Board of Advisers for an organization out of Stanford University called Love Thy Neighbor, Mexico. In a nutshell, their goal is to educate people between the ages [...]
Latino seventh grader creates winning paper airplane design — first to soar over Tucson desert
LatinaLista — If anyone out walking in the Tucson desert last week thought they saw a white object gliding silently across the Arizona sky, they can be forgiven for thinking it was a UFO. It wasn’t but it was something never before seen, maybe anywhere, in the U.S. It was a 800-pound paper airplane. The [...]
Guatemala: How many people can you fit inside a bus? First Guinness World Record for Guatemala
By Rudy Girón REVUE: Guatemala’s English-language Magazine GUATEMALA — In Poland they were able to get 209 people inside a bus. That was the Guinness World Record until yesterday (February 12) when in Jocotenango they were able to get 221 people and one chicken inside the chicken bus. This will be the first Guinness World [...]
Venezuela: Latina Venezuelan presidential candidate challenges Hugo Chavez during 8-hour speech
By Jennifer Barreto-Leyva LatinaLista CARACAS — The day has arrived when I couldn’t be any more proud to be a woman in Venezuela. It’s all because of Venezuelan Presidential Candidate, Maria Corina Machado. Machado challenged President Hugo Chavez in such a way that so far no man has ever dared to do before. It was [...]
Mental Health Workforce Shortage More Critical in Minority Communities
SaludToday Texas’ severe shortage of mental health professionals is compounded by a disparity in diagnosing and treating the state’s rapidly growing Latino and other minority communities, the Texas Tribune reports. The report indicates that 64% of all psychiatrists were white, 3.5% were black, and 12.4% were Hispanic in 2009. Watch this captivating video to see [...]
Teaching teens that digital dating abuse is “not cool”
LatinaLista — A teenager’s life has always been tough. There have always been bullies, “mean girls,” that one special guy or girl that gave you butterflies in your stomach, and for some teen girls that one guy who professed his love like Romeo but acted more like Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler. But what has [...]
New site spreads message “Muslims are our fellow Americans”
LatinaLista — When it comes to being feared, insulted or ignored based on who you physically are as a person, a lot of Latinos know what that feels like. Another group who knows equally well how it feels is Muslim Americans. Take what happened last month: On May 6, five days after the killing of [...]
New social media campaign covers all the bases in reaching Latino youth
LatinaLista — There are two indisputable truths about young people: They are the future and they are the YouTube generation. To young people, filming and posting their own videos — that they shoot with their smart phones — is second nature. They don’t even think about it twice but a new social media campaign wants [...]
Special Mother’s Day video makes mom star of her own movie
LatinaLista — The countdown to Mother’s Day is underway — it’s this Sunday, May 8 — and the number one question most children are asking themselves is: What am I going to give mom? For those on a tight budget but want a gift that is extra special in showing mom she’s one-of-a-kind, the folks [...]
