LatinaLista — Summer break is only a few weeks away for most school children in the U.S. and while it’s the time of year every kid looks forward to, summer always brings mixed feelings from adults. For example, though…
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista GUATEMALA CITY — When in July of 2010 the municipality of Guatemala City called for all red buses to be removed from certain parts of the capital, Hugo Cristal and his business partner Alexander Escobar…
By Katherine Leal Unmuth Latino Ed Beat The achievement gap between Latino and white eighth-graders in science is narrowing, according to National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data released on Thursday. Between 2009 and 2011, average science scores among…
By Stephanie Snyder Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – Opponents of Proposition 107 had a favorite warning in the debate leading up to the vote. Pass the ban on racial preferences, they said, and it would mean the end of…
LatinaLista — News that former presidential candidate, and current Minnesota congressional representative, Michelle Bachmann, had joined her family in becoming a Swiss citizen in March (her husband is of Swiss descent) was met with so much vitriolic rhetoric, like…
LatinaLista — Cancer sucks! For anyone diagnosed with it, it’s a horrific, painful, scary thing to go through. Watching someone go through the treatments, especially loved ones, is hard but watching a child endure the pain and fear of…
LatinaLista — The definition of family has not only evolved — as evident by President Obama’s recent declaration about same-sex marriage — but has expanded to include those not usually seen on Hallmark cards. Take for instance mothers. Everyone…
By Ray Ruiz The Venture HOUSTON — At a meeting in April, the Houston Independent School District (HISD) Board decided to merge the exemplary-rated Kaleidoscope Charter School with Jane Long Middle School by a vote of 6-3. Kaleidoscope has…
Vino Latino Fernando Candelario followed in the footsteps of his parents, Jose and Anita Candelario, who have been working in the vineyards of the Napa Valley since they arrived from Mexico in 1979 by coming here himself in 1984….
LatinaLista — It’s too bad that the Department of Justice is filing a lawsuit against the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, a.k.a. Sheriff Joe Arpaio, in a presidential election year. It’s too bad not because it shouldn’t be done, but…
LatinaLista — The U.S. Census tallied up the numbers and found that there was an 80 percent increase in the number of Latinos who had a bachelor’s or higher education degree over the ten-year period from 2001-2011. That’s great…
By Juan Miret A Hispanic Matter What happens when you mix pre-Hispanic sounds with electronic music played with the rhythm of cumbia? The birth of the tribal guarachero movement. According to Esteban Cárdenas, who authored an article and a…
By Jacob Balsam and Ashley Vasquez LatinaLista The video game industry is ever expanding and according to an article by The New York Times’ Nick Bolton, will reach $112 billion in consumer spending money by the year 2015. Blizzard’s…
By Gilbert Martinez La Voz de Austin In 1960, before the John F. Kennedy campaign, I along with Gus Garcia, Roy Velasquez and several other folks organized voter registration drives. We did it because there were very few Mexican…
LatinaLista — It’s not often that Republican politicians will willfully stray from the party platform and do what they know in their hearts is the right thing to do, though the rest of their party doesn’t see it that…
LatinaLista — The perception that there are a lot of Latino children running and skipping on playgrounds across the country is no mirage. According to the Pew Hispanic Center, the number of Latino students in the nation’s public schools…
by Dina Gonzalez Global Press Institute Although paco, a drug derived from cocaine, has a reputation of being a lower-class drug, it has extended to affect middle-class families as well. Families of people addicted to the popular street drug…
By Mary Liepold Peace X Peace When the scandal around President Obama’s Secret Service took over the headlines last month, it all but obscured the reason he went to Colombia: the 2012 Summit of the Americas. Pan-American relations were…
By Dennis M. Ayotte, Jr. La Prensa de San Antonio SAN ANTONIO – Mayor Julián Castro declared that May is Bike Month in San Antonio in celebration of the success of San Antonio’s bike-share program, San Antonio B-Cycle. B-Cycle…
LatinaLista — Not since Michael Steele was the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) perennial “foot-in-mouth” chairman have news web sites, bloggers and social media streams been ablaze, aflutter, aghast and amused at what someone from the RNC has said regarding…
LatinaLista — Nobody argues that parenting is hard work, and with all due respect to stay-at-home moms, those moms who find themselves having to return to work after giving birth to provide a decent quality of life for themselves…
By Juan Miret Hispano de Tulsa A Cuban painter who dreamed about and planned his departure for 15 years now uses the Midwest as his new canvas. He could have chosen the home of Caribbean exile in the sunny…
By Dominique Browning Moms Clean Air Force I still remember the first time I sprawled on my back across the grass and watched the clouds drift by. I was about four or five years old. I found animal shapes…
By Dr. Maria G. Hernandez Latina Cubicle Confidential™ In the next two years, the US Latino population will top 50 million and our purchasing power will exceed $1 Trillion. Just to put that in perspective, there are more Spanish-speaking…
LatinaLista — Most Latino voters have been feeling ignored, dismissed and pretty much invisible to the Romney camp up to this point. Though he is considered the presumptive GOP candidate, Romney has yet to soften his tone to show…
