By Dr. Maria G. Hernandez Latina Cubicle Confidential™ If you have just started a new job or you have learned that your old boss is being replaced, you will have a small window of opportunity to get to know…
By Pablo Jaime Sáinz La Prensa San Diego In 1969, a group of immigrant women got together to try to bring quality health care service to the underserved community of San Ysidro. Their dream was to make health care…
LatinaLista — The world knows Peru as the guardian of the history, culture and archaeological sites of the great Inca civilization. Like the pyramids in Egypt and Mexico, the remnants of the Inca civilization — from the Nazca lines…
LatinaLista — As the 2012 Democratic National Convention gets started tonight, the American people have a pretty good idea just how polar opposite are these two parties. The best measure of these differences can be found in the party…
LatinaLista — The school year is just getting underway and two education groups are hoping that this school year will be different for those Latino, African American and disabled children for whom out-of-school suspension has become the norm rather…
By Bob Quasius Cafe con Leche Republicans Marshall, MN – America is at a crossroads. The national debt has skyrocketed. Americans continue to struggle as the economy slogs through a seemingly endless recession. Obama’s failed economic policies remind us…
By José Villa Hawaii Hispanic News ITHACA, New York – Dr. Yajaira Sierra-Sastre is a materials scientist and educator with ten years of research experience in academic, federal, and private institutions. She is participating in the HI-SEAS (Hawaii Space…
By Nancy Landa LatinaLista It is a typical weekday morning. As usual, I wake up 30 minutes after my alarm clock goes off and I am forced to hastily get out of bed, get quickly dressed and rush out…
LatinaLista — There’s no debate that in the 2008 presidential election Democrats owned cyberspace when it came to tapping into its full potential to harness support for then Sen. Barack Obama. Since then, as we saw last week with…
LatinaLista — No matter the critiques, the gaffes, the egos on display or the walks down numerous memory lanes, the Republican National Convention (RNC) was an event that proved to be, in part, a puzzlement to both those who…
LatinaLista — In the last ten years, more than a million customer service jobs have moved offshore. In our country where there are 25 million Americans unemployed or under-employed, it’s a cruel reality. What’s even more cruel is the…
By Gabriel Pilonieta-Blanco El Tiempo Hispano The initiative to launch a bilingual Charter School in the city of Wilmington, Delaware is booming. DELAWARE — For many years, to have a bilingual school has been the dream of María Matos,…
By Steve Steigleder Center for American Progress Action Fund The addition of Congressman Paul Ryan, (R-WI), to the Republican presidential ticket should be alarming to the growing number of Hispanic students enrolling in college. Rep. Ryan’s budget plan would…
LatinaLista — Actress Reagan Gomez knows how hard it is to break into Hollywood. This daughter of a Puerto Rican mother and African American father is a black Latina and with Latina acting roles relegated to stereotypical parts such…
LatinaLista — As is typical during political party conventions, minutes after key speeches are made in front of the jubilant party faithful wearing their political allegiance literally on their sleeves (head, face, feet, etc.), critiques of the speeches and…
LatinaLista — Author and journalist Erasmo Guerra has come a long way from his roots in South Texas’ Rio Grande Valley — both geographically and professionally. An award-winning writer, Guerra splits his time between covering issues in the Latino…
By Diana Bejarano Latina Still Standing A Latina Still Standing survivor who beat the odds! For six months, while going through chemotherapy and radiation treatments, she woke up every day, rallied up the strength to go to work as…
By Venessa Rivera Colon Habla News Rachel Matos is a 23 year old Latina artist residing in Miami, Florida. Born in San Diego, she moved to Puerto Rico at the age of 3. Rachel lived in Puerto Rico until…
By Diana Duarte MADRE We often hear the claim that the only way to improve healthcare, at home and around the world, is through free trade, privatization, and corporate deregulation. Yet Cuba demonstrates that high standards of health and…
By Dennise Rocha Bilingual Weekly MANTECA, CA- Dozens of farm workers and community supporters gathered across from ACE Tomato company’s headquarters in Manteca on Tuesday, August 21st, to demanding the company to implement a fair contract. “The process has…
LatinaLista — At a time when the Republican Party was supposed to distance itself from what they claim are false characterizations of the party’s feelings towards people of different races or ethnicities, one sad example after another has been…
LatinaLista — “Natural as velcro and synthetic as leather” is the description of the alternative Mexican music group Mexican Institute of Sound. The band has steadily been growing in popularity not just because of their skillful creations featuring electronic…
By Cristina Jimenez LatinaLista This past Saturday, August 25th, DREAMers at over 40 sites across America attended “Own the Dream” clinic and forum events. These clinics and forums helped undocumented Americans apply for “deferred action” and work permits under…
By Abraham Morales SE2 The Megaphone I recently shared with a fellow Hispanic marketing professional this NPR story about how Hispanic media outlets are adapting to serve a Latino audience that is increasingly bilingual and bi-cultural. She responded, “Well,…
LatinaLista — With the GOP Convention due to begin tonight just as Hurricane Isaac nears the storm-weary city of New Orleans, it’s going to be a toss-up for a lot of households as to what to watch on TV. At…
