By Ben Winograd Immigration Impact Almost two years to the day after Arizona enacted the notorious immigration law known as SB 1070, the Supreme Court heard arguments in what could be the first of many cases over the validity…
LatinaLista — It’s not surprising that the global profile of today’s 1.2 billion adolescents (10-19-years-old) is an uneven one as outlined in the latest report issued by UNICEF titled “Progress for Children: A report card on adolescents.” Regardless of…
By Kristina Kenney LatinaLista Many times a child being bullied is like a duck floating along a pond as predators swim below. They struggle to appear calm and unruffled on the surface, but below where no one can see…
By Carlyn Montes De Oca Modern Alchemy My love affair with sugar When I was young, I loved playing sports. Once during my 8th grade softball season, our coach made us a proposition that was too good to be…
By Kristian Hernandez Borderzine EL PASO — A modern day champion for a free press, fighting to maintain and safeguard the lessons learned and taught by persons of color in the history of American journalism made his way south…
EJKEI may look like a strange word but it’s the phonetic pronunciation of the word “skate” used by Puerto Rican skateboarders. It also happens to be the title of the first documentary about the history of skateboarding in Puerto…
LatinaLista — For the 21st Century, an old-fashioned, western-style showdown doesn’t get anywhere close to the real thing than this. Tomorrow, the US Supreme Court will finally hear oral arguments in Arizona v. United States. The Court will focus…
By Andres Ramirez Latino Y Urbano Today I was thinking about the differences in cultures between Latin American countries and the US. I was born in Colombia and lived there until the age of 9 when we then moved…
The Venture HOUSTON — April celebrates spring, books and children. The University of Houston’s Arte Público Press (APP) and the Houston Public Library, celebrated the 16th anniversary of El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros (Children’s Day/Book…
In 1987, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) was looking for a program that would help migrant farm children keep up with their school work while they were away helping their parents earn money by picking crops across the nation….
By Dr. Maria G. Hernandez Latina Cubicle Confidential™ “Your job has been eliminated”. These words can hang in the air for a bit longer than anything else you planned to hear in a phone call from your boss or…
LatinaLista — It doesn’t get any clearer than this, or as definitive, but the real question arising from today’s Pew Hispanic report, Net Migration from Mexico Falls to Zero—-and Perhaps Less, is if conservatives and anti-immigrant zealots will believe…
By Edward Fox InSight: Organized Crime in the Americas While Mexican drug gangs, particularly the Zetas, are known to have expanded into human trafficking in Mexico, there is little substantive evidence to back recent claims that they are becoming…
LatinaLista — With the Latino market projected to have a buying power of $1.5 trillion in three years, marketers and advertisers are finally noticing that they know very little about what Latinos do and do not like and who…
By Andrés Gutierrez LatinaLista Imagine your child is sick, and the vaccine that would save his life costs $1,000.You have 30 days to come up with the money — but you can’t borrow it. Could you save $1,000 in…
Based in Austin, Texas, The Latino Comedy Project troupe learned long ago that the nation’s anti-immigrant hysteria was fertile fodder to poke fun at people who discriminated against Latinos and to highlight the absurdity of Washington’s policies in dealing…
By Bobby Sanchez The Curandero of Dallas Meditation is a way to open you up to life’s secrets and its benefits by enabling you to clear your mind. In the process, it empowers you to create the life you…
By Patricia Smith Melton Peace X Peace Thousands of women gathering to make the world a better place ― you got a problem with that? You might think some people do if you look at the timeline for the…
By Jeresia Noris La Voz Latina Editor’s Note: This update is provided by Richmond Hill resident Jeresia Noris on the immigration status of her husband, Jose Luis Noris, a Mexican-national who has faced the threat of deportation since September…
Editorial Hispano de Tulsa Perhaps in the eyes of the world, xenophobic city is the appropriate term for Tulsa. Far, far behind is the title of “oil capital of the world,” and in danger is the absurd banner…
LatinaLista — Living paycheck to paycheck is scary enough for the millions of people who live at or below the poverty line. Yet, as anyone knows, living such a hand-to-mouth existence doesn’t leave any wiggle room for life’s unexpected…
By Katherine Leal Unmuth Latino Ed Beat A new report by the UCLA Civil Rights Project on the high suspension rates of students in California is generating buzz among legislators and educators alike. The study estimated that more than…
Tito Jimenez is a widower, father of two girls, works two jobs and still can’t provide for his family. He’s on the verge of losing his faith but is presented with a second chance at love. It forces Jimenez…
By Rodolfo F. Acuña LatinaLista Curators defend their institutional efforts toward historical accuracy – and some do make an effort. Yet this reform has been countered by the resurgence of what I call a “Daughters of the American Revolution”…
LatinaLista — As the presidential campaign officially gets underway and debate dates lined up, one issue that Mitt Romney will inevitably chastise President Obama over is the issue of national security.
