LatinaLista — There are coming-of-age, teen angst stories and then there are stories like INOCENTE: Homeless. Creative. Unstoppable.. An unlikely story that combines youth, today’s politics, art and survival. At 15, Inocente refuses to let her dream of becoming…
LatinaLista — Illinois Rep. Luis Gutierrez quizzes his colleagues to figure out who is an immigrant among some famous faces he showcases during his morning remarks on the House floor on June 27, 2012. This week the U.S. Supreme…
LatinaLista — Technology doesn’t always equal progress or profit for all. There’s no better proof of that than in developing countries where rural, disadvantaged people find themselves taking on corporate giants. One such place where this is happening is…
LatinaLista — All around the world young people have taken to the streets to lead in the demand for democratic justice from their political and community leaders. Most of these events have been happening oceans away from the United…
June 25, 2012 I am pleased that the Supreme Court has struck down key provisions of Arizona’s immigration law. What this decision makes unmistakably clear is that Congress must act on comprehensive immigration reform. A patchwork of state laws…
LatinaLista — Marcelo Lucero, the Ecuadorian immigrant who was maliciously beaten to death by a group of Long Island teens “beaner hopping” in 2008, put the first face to hate crimes against Latino immigrants. The crime shocked the nation…
LatinaLista — Father-absent homes is a growing issue, especially in families of color. In 1960, only 11 percent of children lived in father-absent homes. Today it’s 33 percent of the children in America in father-absent homes. Among families of…
LatinaLista — A 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction and member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame, Luis Alberto Urrea encompasses today’s American Latino — bicultural, bilingual and biracial. Son of a Mexican father and Anglo mother, Urrea…
LatinaLista — Among the many victims of the cartel violence ravaging Mexico are journalists. The International Press Institute classifies Mexico as being the most dangerous country for journalists. Nearly 80 journalists have been murdered in Mexico since 2000 and newspaper…
LatinaLista — Victor Rios never thought he would be a speaker at a TEDx conference. He never dreamed he would be a college professor or an author of a book either but the associate professor of sociology at UC…
REMARKS BY PRESIDENT OBAMA AND PRESIDENT CALDERÓN AFTER BILATERAL MEETING American Grand Los Cabos Resort Los Cabos, Mexico PRESIDENT CALDERÓN: (As interpreted.) Good morning, Mr. President, President Barack Obama, President of the United States; distinguished members of the delegations, and…
LatinaLista — Deporting undocumented immigrants has been the one and only way the United States has chosen to deal with the issue of unauthorized immigration — until the President’s administration’s surprise announcement of temporarily deferring the deportation of undocumented…
June 15, 2012 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON IMMIGRATION Rose Garden 2:09 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. This morning, Secretary Napolitano announced new actions my administration will take to mend our nation’s immigration policy, to make it…
LatinaLista — Films that trace the journeys of underdog athletes in their rise to victory are standard Hollywood fare. Remember Rocky? Rudy? The odds that were always stacked against them could easily be overcome with sweat, dedication and good screenplay…
LatinaLista — Carlos Andrés Gómez is an award-winning international poetry slam champion, actor, playwright and author of the coming-of-age memoir “Man Up: Cracking the Code of Modern Manhood,” to be released in the fall of 2012. He is also…
Insight Tr3s Most advertiser sweet spots fall in between the adult 18 to 49 demographic … yet among Hispanics, specifically; this demo is less culturally monolithic than ever. Major differences exist between adult Hispanic Millennials (18- to 29-year-olds) and…
LatinaLista — From Europe to China and countries in between, the world is on the edge of a global financial cliff. In particularly, the economic health of Greece hangs in the balance with threats to its currency, people already…
LatinaLista — Critics have long argued about the downside of today’s cyber-technology. They say that because of it we isolate ourselves from one another and forget how to interact with each other. Yet, at César Chavez Prep Charter School…
LatinaLista — The growth of the Latino community is too often seen in simplistic terms — the growth in the population of men, women and children who self-identify as Latinos and Latinas. Yet, a big part of that growth…
LatinaLista — Film director Miguel Mas grew up in a large loving family in Argentina. So, it’s not too much of a stretch to see why the topic has a starring role in his acclaimed film Love Equation. With…
LatinaLista — Obie Award winner Diane Rodriguez has a list of credits — founder of the comedy group, Latins Anonymous; anthologized writer; book author, director, writer, actress and, of course, playwright. In her most recent play Living Large in…
LatinaLista — There is an unique place in Chile where the past, present and future silently co-exist. It is the Atacama Desert, the driest place on earth at 10,000 feet above sea level. In this unique area, seen from…
LatinaLista — Eugene Cordero, climate scientist and GOOGLE Science Communication Fellow, is an instructor at San Jose State University in California. He is passionate about “science that matters to society.” Another one of his passions is burritos, along with,…
SaludToday Check out these cool youth-oriented videos on diabetes. “The Corner,” a diabetes public service announcement performed by Jose Vadi: “Death Recipe,” performed by Erica McMath Sheppard:
LatinaLista — “Kids can do school but they can’t solve problems.” That is the premise of a new movement gaining momentum across the country dubbed Thinking at Every Desk where the focus is to teach children how to think…
