Obed Manuel Latina Lista Managing editor Obed Manuel gives a brief rundown of the week’s news. Recording and editing by Obed Manuel
By Obed Manuel Latina Lista 5. Not enough of us maintain a healthy diet According to the latest findings by the State of Obesity, 77 percent of adult Latinos in the U.S. are obese or overweight. The report…
By Diane Maceachern Moms Clean Air Force Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” may be releasing endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) that could harm human development and reproduction. That’s the conclusion of a study conducted by researchers at the University of…
By Nidhi Thakar & Mark Magaña LatinaLista What do our national parks mean to us? As we approach the National Park Service's centennial, this question becomes especially relevant. For American Latinos, having the National Park System be a storyteller…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Day of the Dead DAY OF THE DEAD – A human celebration of life – is a contemporary artistic experience which will allow viewers to go deep inside of a never told story about this annual…
By Alex V. Hernandez EXTRA! For the past few weeks EXTRA has been asking its readers to nominate people who they think should be recognized and profiled as a Latino our readers should know about. This week EXTRA is…
By Alexis White-Mobley Cultural Survival Native American and Alaska native women are 2.5 times more likely to be raped or sexually assaulted than other women in the US; 86% of reported cases are perpetrated by non-Natives. A 2014 study…
By Marcela Figueroa LatinaLista Yes, Donald Trump is probably the most irritating character in American politics in at least two decades. Yes, he has been at the top of the Republican polls for the last couple of months. Yes,…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Tuition Mission Disabled2Counselor Beatriz Macia has a dream. This Cuban-born Latina, known as Bett to her amigas, is on a mission to raise tuition so she can go from being disabled with Late Stage Lyme Disease to becoming a counselor…
By Bill Sarno CTLatinoNews.com East Hartford’s Latinos make up over nearly one-third of the town’s population of 52,000 residents. This, many might expect, would lead to producing easily identifiable Latino leadership and institutions along with more commensurate political influence. …
By Hillary Ojeda Living in Peru Last week, a group of natives in Boca Manu in the Peruvian Amazon took hostage about 40 tourists. They were demanding that the construction of a local road be finished. After two…
LatinaLista — Scholars’ Latino Initiative (SLI) seeks to inspire and empower Latina/o students by creating pathways to educational, professional, and civic engagement opportunities. By providing each student with a support system that includes individual, community, and institutional level support, SLI creates the access and…
SaludToday The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has unveiled new strict rules that protect farm workers from hazardous pesticides, Fox Health reports. The new rules will benefit an estimated 2 million workers, mostly Latinos who work at or near…
Rio Grande Guardian REYNOSA, Tamaulipas – Partners for Responsible Trade, Inc., distributed grants to the children of factory workers in Reynosa and Rio Bravo, Tamaulipas, on Saturday. The group, which is based in Worthington, Ohio, makes regular visits to the border…
By Cecile Richards LatinaLista Today is National Pink Out Day, when millions of people will stand up to support Planned Parenthood and fight back against baseless attacks on reproductive health care. Some people will attend one of the…
LatinaLista — A team of researchers at Uruguay’s University of the Republic (Udelar) studying the medical benefits of using marijuana plan to include their field of study in next year’s medical school curriculum. The team looks to test the…
Hispanic News Online The 12th episode of Hispanic News Online's 30-4-30 Latino Leaders Podcast series features Andrew Arana. Andrew Arana is an American-born Honduran native who relocated to Mississippi courtesy of Hurricane Katrina back in 2005. Arana is a Mississippi…
By Kevin A. Wright The Conversation Pope Francis is going to prison. After visiting with incarcerated individuals in a correctional facility in Philadelphia, he might offer us a simple suggestion: treat prisoners better. But this advice hides an inconvenient…
LatinaLista – Campaign: Launch the Westwood Food Co-op to Feed Food Deserts Six years ago in a crowded room in an overlooked predominantly Latino Denver neighborhood called Westwood, people were talking heatedly about problems in the neighborhood: bad…
Cronkite News Online The Mexican Consulate in Phoenix offers free flu shots and a growing number of health services to immigrants and others in need. “When we are talking about health there are no borders,” said Rodrigo Navarro García,…
By Obed Manuel Latina Lista Los Otros Dreamers is a 2014 publication that tells the stories of several DREAMers who were either deported or chose to go back to their home countries. We caught up with co-author Dr. Jill…
LatinaLista — In this year’s annual report on the state of the U.S. multicultural economy from the University of Georgia’s Selig Center for Economic Growth, researchers found two groups blazing growth in the economy — Asians and Latinos. According…
By Yasmin Anwar Futurity Immigration is shaping up to be among the top wedge issues in the 2016 presidential race. GOP front-runner Donald Trump is stoking the debate with threats to build a wall between the United States…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Legal Efforts Against Trafficking of Native Youth Six hundred miles east of the well-traveled majesty of Glacier National Park, the mountains give way to a generous spread of badlands and plains, and empty into a…
Frontera NorteSur Despite recurrent pronouncements of death by some U.S. and Mexican officials, high-profile organized crime groups continue operating and shedding blood south of the border. Tijuana, where control of both the local and export drug business is…
