Nashville – Latina Lista: News from the Latinx perspective

Business, Children, Economy, General, Palabra Final, Youth

Nashville Hispanic Chamber plays Santa to children turned away by local charities

Dec 22, 2009, 4:00 PM 1

LatinaLista — Headlines are always filled with bad news. In fact, conventional thinking in the news industry is the worse the headline, the bigger the attraction. Unfortunately, it works. Yet, there should always be a time where we can…

Children, General, Immigration, Palabra Final, Social Justice

Nashville authorities have a lot of explaining to do to immigrant mother

Dec 16, 2009, 1:57 PM 7

LatinaLista — My old friend, Tim Chavez, who died from leukemia in May, and blogged about immigration issues in Tennessee at Political Salsa, used to tell me that he had a lot of work to do in his adopted…

Government, Human Rights, Immigration, Palabra Final

Special Sunday Post: Nashville-area police department’s abuse of ICE’s 287(g) program calls for federal review

Jul 13, 2008, 2:46 PM 90

LatinaLista — Juana Villegas DeLaPaz, a Nashville, Tennessee resident, should be happily tired these days since the recent birth of her fourth child. And Villegas DeLaPaz is tired but it’s one derived of an emotional ordeal that has drained…