Category: Media
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 [...]
Video: Latino poet/writer explores family stories to discover the origin of humanity
John Phillip Santos was the first Latino Rhodes Scholar, a 2009 National Book Award finalist, and recipient of the Academy of American Poets Prize at Notre Dame and the Oxford Prize for fiction. In speaking before a TEDx audience in Austin in 2010, Santos weaves together a reflection on the nature of our identity using [...]
Video: Latina mother has “honest conversation” about having gay children
Like all parents, Latino parents are no different in the dreams and hopes they have for their children. Yet, those dreams are compounded by the deeply rooted roles gender and gender expectations play in Latino culture. For one family, the Moreno’s, balancing gender expectations, parental dreams and culture with the reality that two of their [...]
Viernes Videos: Series mixes humor and reality recounting “awkward” challenges facing undocumented youth
Undocumented young people, because of their limbo citizenship status, have to endure not only difficult situations when it comes to school and work but also “awkward” situations when it comes to trying just to fit in with their friends. It’s these awkward instances that are the premise for a web series titled “Undocumented and Awkward.” [...]
Dance in Video: High School Latin Dance Team preserves rich dance culture and wins awards doing it
The Latin Dance Team of Dominion High School in Sterling, VA danced away with first place in the Group Competition of the 7th Annual Dominion Latin Dance Competition held on March 17. No Irish dancing on this St. Patty’s Day in the contest that featured nine Latin Dance teams from across the DC metro area. [...]
Video: Latino cartoonist “draws” on issues impacting Latino communities to create loud voice
Cartoonists are said to the visual commentators of our time and that statement is especially true in the case of nationally syndicated Latino cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz. Speaking before a TEDx audience, Alcaraz is a one-of-a-kind cartoonist, satirist and writer who captures the essence of the country’s changing cultural and political landscape. The radical views permeating [...]
Video: Using a food stamp budget to create healthy organic meals
The biggest complaint about healthy eating is that it costs too much, especially for people who are on limited budgets. Yet, there are those who say eating an organic diet can be done — even on food stamps. To prove the point, Jennifer Grayson of The Huffington Post and The Red, White and Green shows [...]
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“Is it possible to have a normal life after cancer?” The question is the premise for the new web series, Happy Cancer Chick, based on a blog written by Dominican American actress/writer Jenny Saldaña. In the premier episode, viewers are introduced to breast cancer survivor, Lola Manola, and follow her as she navigates a life [...]
VidLit: Latino author taps into Youtube to share readings of his works with wider audience
Book readings are a great way for readers to meet and hear their favorite authors and for authors to gauge readers’ reactions to their works. Unfortunately, in these economic times, it’s not as often as it used to be that authors can travel around to bookstores or libraries and indulge their readers with a personal [...]
Intrn’l Video: Capturing the beauty and the challenges of saving the Galápagos Islands
International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP) spearheads the Galápagos Alliance. ILCP Fellow Ralph Lee Hopkins set out to tell the story of the Galápagos Islands, a UNESCO World Heritage Site protected for all humanity. He wanted to make photographic images that capture this fragile eco-region, its rich biodiversity, the people who live on the islands, [...]
