By Jaclyn Lopez LatinaLista Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed designating 739 miles of beach, spanning Virginia to Mississippi, as critical habitat for the loggerhead sea turtle. If finalized, this designation would be the first time the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will have protected imperiled sea turtles’ habitat in mainland United [...]
Latina Cubicle Confidential™- Citizenship and Your Career
By Dr. Maria G. Hernandez Latina Cubicle Confidential™ According to the Pew Hispanic Research Center two-thirds of legal Mexican immigrants have not become citizens. It means that 5.4 million immigrants who could enjoy the benefits of citizenship have not completed the process. The rate of naturalization for legal Mexican immigrants is 36%–one of the lowest [...]
San Diego native, Dominican pride
By Pablo J. Sáinz La Prensa San Diego Growing up in San Diego, most of the time Felix Sanchez was the only person of Dominican origin in the room. Even more, people would assume he wasn’t even Latino, because of his black skin. “I would speak Spanish, and people would be like, ‘You speak Spanish? [...]
Video: Founder of the “Drop the I-Word” campaign discusses her reaction to Associated Press’s reversal on usage of term
LatinaLista — Last week’s news that the Associated Press dropped the term “illegal immigrant” from its revered Stylebook caught many in the journalism industry off-guard but not the publishers of Colorlines. The multi-ethnic news site, Colorlines.com, along with, the Applied Research Center, founded by Rinku Sen, launched the “Drop the I-Word” campaign in 2010. It [...]
Texas Latino theater director travels to Cuba and discovers how local artists ‘speak’ from the stage
By Alain Castillo LatinaLista Despite equipment challenges and political oppression, Cuban theatre artists are producing great work and showing their solid commitment to the craft by staging productions using the most basic of equipment and shining an even brighter spotlight on themselves and their plays by criticizing their own society, says David Lozano, theatre director [...]
Latino academics deliver first in-depth history accounts of “American Latinos and the Making of the United States
LatinaLista — It’s become cliché to say that “American history is Latino history,” but for anyone who really doesn’t know the extent Latinos have played in building the United States then a new study released by the National Parks Service, American Latinos and the Making of the United States: A Theme Study will be an [...]
