Category: Media
Global campaign underway to fight human trafficking
LatinaLista.net — January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Yesterday, January 11, was Human Trafficking Awareness Day. It’s reported that 27 million people worldwide are enslaved today. Whether it’s prostituting children and women or forcing people to do domestic chores or provide cheap factory labor, enslaving people still lives on as an underworld [...]
Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum offers full slate of programs, exhibits and galleries — only a click away
LatinaLista.net — While debate is still raging on the feasibility of creating the National Museum of the American Latino in Washington, D.C., which would focus on American Latino art, history and culture, there is already a Latino museum open and accessible to everyone in the country — via computer. Launched in 2009 by the Smithsonian [...]
Fired CNN anchor Rick Sanchez creates his own online TV domain
LatinaLista.net — Whatever happend to former CNN anchor Rick Sanchez? After speaking his mind a little too freely on a radio program about Jon Stewart, along with what he thought about other Jews, the high profile Latino anchor was dismissed — quickly from his post. The fact that he was promoting a newly released book [...]
University librarians dust off Mexican cookbook collection to make and share dishes celebrating Latino cuisine
LatinaLista.net – When it comes to family recipes, most cooks can pull out a recipe handed down from their grandmothers. But it’s not often that someone can claim a recipe made by great or great-great grandmothers. Unfortunately, most of the recipes from bygone generations have been lost, unless they were written, bound and published in [...]
New site promotes global crowd funding for Mexican businesses that preserve cultural heritage
LatinaLista — Over the last ten years, microlending — ordinary people donating small amounts to struggling entrepreneurs in other countries — has taken off, especially because of the Internet. Microlending organizations like KIVA or the Chiapas Project have utilized the Internet to connect donors with the entrepreneurs. Traditionally, the microlending organizations have acted as the [...]
Planned Parenthood creates bilingual tool to help women know if they are pregnant
LatinaLista — According to the Guttmacher Institute, fifty-four percent of pregnancies among Latinas are unintended. What that means, in addition to the fact that these women are going to be mothers, is that most of them don’t know they are pregnant until they start having symptoms. They may have a nagging suspicion but nothing that [...]
Online campaign helps Juarez residents see the good that still exists in their town
LatinaLista — The death toll in Juarez, Mexico, as a result of the ongoing cartel feud, has topped 3,000 for 2010. Amid reports that residents are fleeing Juarez to either seek asylum or move to the United States or relocate to the interior of Mexico, Juarez is not yet a ghost town. Yes, it’s a [...]
Spotlight Non-profit: Site creates easy way for people to help loved ones in need
LatinaLista — One of the reasons that drove the Obama administration to push for health care reform was the fact that when serious illness confronts a working-class family, it isn’t long before that family finds themselves buried in debt. One of those families is the Baez family. On August 6, 2010, Jose “Pepe” Baez was [...]
Former undocumented immigrant creates site to help Latino immigrants achieve success
LatinaLista — One of the major concerns expressed about Latino immigrants is their “perceived” reluctance to assimilate into the mainstream. Just to be clear — assimilation has nothing to do with giving up one’s native language. But it does mean learning the new language of the adopted country and learning the rules, laws and how [...]
New site highlights increasing violence against women in Latin America
LatinaLista — Violence against women has increased throughout Latin America and Mexico. A recent report cites Argentina as emerging as a major center of human trafficking, with about 700 women from various countries forced into sexual servitude over the past year-and-a-half. Mexico and Guatemala are countries where the safety of women has been compromised to [...]
