By Candace Gibson National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health As we saw in the elections, political pundits were somehow shocked that Latino voters came out to support Democratic candidates. Many think that the Latino community is by nature conservative, but this is far from reality. Who can forget that 75% of Latinos swept President Obama [...]
UT law prof blames Latino and black students’ poor academics on being raised with poor single mothers
LatinaLista — By now, it’s been accepted in most circles that the United States still suffers from overt and systemic racism. A brief review of President Obama’s first term clearly underscores how some people still feel a person’s skin color gives license to be disrespectful (Rep. Joe Wilson screams “You lie” to Obama during address [...]
Guest Voz: A Troubling Shortage Of Latino Lawyers not Foreseen to Get Any Better
By Elaine McArdle LatinaLista People often complain there are too many lawyers in the world, and you may think they have a point. After all, an astonishing 40,000 students graduate from American law schools each year, and there are already well over a million lawyers in the U.S. But whether you believe there are too [...]
Viernes Video: Yiddish-speaking gang bangers torch cyberspace in new comedy web series
LatinaLista — Just in time for the start of this year’s Hanukkah (Dec. 8-16), a new web series debuts that is bound to offend, amuse and puzzle ‘in light’ that the two main characters are Yiddish-speaking gang bangers — named Jaquaan and Luis. Bubala Please has been slowly taking cyberspace by storm. Using raunchy gang [...]
Latino and Black male students at the mercy of a segregated and suspension-focused school system
LatinaLista — Though pundits, mainstream media and the political parties themselves have been obsessed over the push-and-pull direction of the Latino vote in this presidential election, one of the real issues that matters is being ignored — kinda. The issue is the future of the Latino community and the nation. Not as it relates to today’s [...]
Grassroots initiative launches campaign spotlighting out-of-school suspensions for Latino, African-American and disabled youth
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 than the exception. The Dignity in Schools Campaign (DSC) and the Opportunity to Learn Campaign have [...]
