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Video: 8-minute Spanish-language film delivers range of emotions highlighting green card lottery system

Nov 12, 2014, 11:32 AM 0

LatinaLista — Earlier this year, Latina Lista highlighted the trailer of a short film titled “La Loteria” by filmmaker Shahir Daud. The Spanish-language short film, La Loteria, epitomizes life’s unpredictability both in front of and behind the camera. Written…

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New Jersey’s Hinchliffe Stadium Reveals Baseball’s Hidden Latino History

Apr 22, 2014, 3:24 PM 0

By Adrian Burgos, Jr., Professor, U.S. History, University of Illinois Preservation Nation Years before Jackie Robinson stepped across the white lines and onto Ebbets Field to make history as major league baseball’s integration pioneer, decades before Roberto Clemente displayed…

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Viernes Video: Dominican and Jewish teens work together recreating little-known chapter of Holocaust history

Dec 20, 2013, 3:07 PM 0

LatinaLista — The Holocaust was a horrific chapter in global history but it wasn’t a time without its heroes or heroic moments. Most of those moments have remained hidden from history but every once in a while, those stories…

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Guest Voz: The Dominican Republic faces biggest human rights issue in struggle to recognize Haitian-descent citizens

Dec 2, 2013, 1:15 PM 0

By Ivan Marte LatinaLista A September ruling by the Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Court stripping Dominican citizenship of children born in the Dominican Republic (DR) to undocumented parents takes the human rights issue to a whole new level, especially since…

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Dominican Republic works to stop femicide

Jul 25, 2013, 4:06 PM 0

By Ezra Fieser Infosurhoy.com No killings of women have been reported in more than a month, a major accomplishment for a country that had one of the world’s highest rates of femicide in 2012. SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic –…

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Lawrence, MA’s Dominican community remembers and celebrates its roots

Mar 6, 2013, 12:44 PM 0

By José Ayala Rumbo News Casa Dominican, Inc. continued to celebrate the Patrimony Month to mark the 169th anniversary of Dominican independence and the bicentennial of the birth of Juan Pablo Duarte, and it did this past Saturday at…

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Video: Filmmaker set to trace the Afro-Latina experience from before the slave trade to present-day

Jan 8, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — With the rising national awareness of Latinos, courtesy of the 2012 presidential election, the stereotypical perceptions of who are Latinas and Latinos are beginning to be shattered. However, one segment of the Latino community who find themselves…

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Dominicans march against new taxes

Jan 2, 2013, 2:38 PM 0

Rumbo News LAWRENCE, MA — On Saturday, December 15, a large gathering of Dominicans participated in a walk in the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts. They were demonstrating against what they called ‘El Paquetazo’ or a tax hike, the fiscal…

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Guest Voz: A new direction for the Dominican Republic — a country already in critical distress

Oct 15, 2012, 11:51 AM 0

By Ivan G. Marte LatinaLista I want my first words to be this: We’ll accomplish, without fear and without taking a moment to rest, what we dreamed not too long ago! We’ll overcome whatever challenges and difficulties will come…

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Dominican Republic: A new President promises hope and change while holding on to the past

Oct 2, 2012, 12:00 AM 0

By Ivan G. Marte LatinaLista The Dominican Republic (DR) has a new president, Danilo Medina. Medina is very much interested in projecting a new image for the country. He wants the DR to be seen as a place of…

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Intrn’l Video: For poor Dominican boys, baseball career is either a home run out of poverty or strike-out

Jul 25, 2012, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — Thirty-four percent of the Dominican Republic lives in poverty. For many young Dominican men, there is only one way out of their poverty — become professional baseball players or peloteros. Every year, on July 2, 16-year-old Dominican…

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Intrn’l Video: Unlikely Dominican Republic apparel factory becomes symbol of global anti-sweatshop movement

Jul 4, 2012, 12:00 AM 1

LatinaLista — Whether they’re called sweat shops or maquiladoras, the premise that products for the United States are made in other countries to take advantage of lower wages and worse working conditions, either physically or emotionally, or both, has…