By MOMS CLEAN AIR FORCE This is an excerpt from the American Lung Association’s “State of the Air 2016” report. The American Lung Association’s 2016 “State of the Air” report found continued improvement in air quality, but more than half…
By R. Hans Miller VoiceBox Media The state of Texas is home to 11 detention facilities for immigrants who have entered the United States. Many of these immigrants are women with small children, running from situations in their Central…
LatinaLista — Campaign: MYCincinnati – Strength & Community Through Music MYCincinnati (Music for Youth in Cincinnati) is a free, daily youth orchestra program for children in Price Hill. 80 students attend the program every weekday for two hours,…
By Sophia Campos VoiceBox Media Perhaps since Laredo sits on the southern border, tucked away from major Texas cities, it’s easy for people to be unaware of Laredo’s role with the Central American refugees who escape drug violence…
By Alexa D'Angelo Cronkite News PHOENIX – Immigrant youth who arrive at the border alone and have no family to take care of them in the U.S. often struggle to build a life. Jose Montoya set off from…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Pine Ridge Holiday Toy Drive The poverty on Pine Ridge Reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota can be described in no other terms than third world. It is common to find homes overcrowded, as those with…
By Eduardo Rueda La Prensa San Diego The San Ysidro School District on Thursday voted unanimously to declare a local state of emergency to deal with issues related to homelessness among over 1,550 of their students. The Board…
LatinaLista — As more information is revealed about the perpetrators of the Paris attack, some U.S. governors have declared their states are closing its "borders" to Syrian refugees because one of the attackers arrived in Western Europe in the…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Justice for all children The Colorado Juvenile Defender Center (CJDC) advocates for the decriminalization of children and second chances for kids because they believe in youth! CJDC is a recognized nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring excellence in juvenile…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Mis Amigos Del Mar Tess Krasne is an environmental biology major at Washington University in St. Louis with minors in anthropology and applied microeconomics. She spent this past summer on the small island of Isla Mujeres,…
By Sophia Campos VoiceBox Media On the Westside of San Antonio, Texas, along El Paso Street where men on bicycles sell paletas and among the early 20th century “shotgun” houses, sits the quaint church, Our Lady of Guadalupe. The church’s…
LatinaLista — Latin America has long been considered one of the last remaining strongholds in the world for obedience to Catholic teachings. Yet, a recent article on Global Post identified Buenos Aires, Argentina as becoming a "mecca for gay marriage…
LatinaLista — Campaign: MyFamilyBuilders: A Wooden Toy That Celebrates Diversity! Why are toy store shelves filled with rows and rows of doll sets that all look the same: one mom, one dad, a boy, and a girl from the…
By Natalia Bobadilla La Prensa SAN ANTONIO — More than 150 local students between the ages of 10 and 18 spent two days out of their summer delving into the realm of technology at San Antonio’s very own Geek…
By Yvette Donado LatinaLista (Editor’s Note: Yvette Donado, SVP and Chief Administrative Officer of Educational Testing Services, delivered the following address at the annual conference of the National Association of Elementary School Principals on July 1. It has been…
LatinaLista — Andres Arreola, an eighth-grader from Sunland Park, New Mexico had two goals on his mind when he took the podium at last week’s National Spanish Spelling Bee at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico…
By Ross Griffith and Victoria Robinson Voice Box Media Stability can be hard to come by for the one in four San Marcos youth living in poverty and the more than 100 children a year housed in an emergency…
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat Spanish professor Luis Fernando Restrepo wanted his children to be bilingual. But living in Arkansas — where Spanish classes aren’t offered until junior high — there wasn’t much institutional support for this endeavor….
LatinaLista — Campaign: Computer Education for Nicaraguan Students in Need The students of Colegio Cristiano Presbiteriano (CCP) in Managua, Nicaragua need computer skills to have any hope of lifting themselves out of poverty. Funds are needed for a computer…
SaludToday Mexican American children and Dominican American are found to be at a higher risk of experiencing depression and somatization due to authoritarian parenting, according to a new research from The University of Texas at Austin’s School of Social…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Teach Film To Kids In Africa, Asia & Latin America Think of it as PeaceCorps for filmmakers. The nonprofit Filmmakers Without Borders (FWB) sends filmmakers and media educators overseas to teach filmmaking and media literacy to…
SaludToday Children with Medicaid and minorities were more likely to ride a bike without a helmet than children with private insurance or white, according to a new study, Reuters reports. Researchers looked at over 7,000 bike accidents involving kids…
By Magdalena Loredo LatinaLista Representative Maria Bernabe Romero Vazquez, Secretary of Human Rights, Equality and Gender of the State Congress Committee has proposed a reform to the Family Code Law that would ease the adoption process. Romero Vazquez…
A report brief by OECD, SEP and INEE revealed that intimidation or verbal abuse (bullying) among students is more prevalent in Mexico than among the 34 countries assessed.
By Jann Ingmire Futurity Young children who hear more than one language spoken at home become better communicators, a new study finds. Effective communication requires the ability to take others’ perspectives. Researchers discovered that children from multilingual environments are…
