LatinaLista — The days of taking drinking water for granted is quickly coming to an end. With extreme drought predicted to only worsen in the United States in 2013 and climate change playing havoc with water supplies, communities are…
LatinaLista — Outside the families of undocumented students, the people who know best the challenges, heartaches and fears that undocumented students endure are their teachers. Since the DREAMer movement started, countless teachers have joined the fight to get DREAMers recognized…
By Manuel “Manny” Davila LatinaLista When I told people I wanted to do an ultra-marathon relay from San Antonio to Laredo, most people thought I was crazy. “Why would you do that?”, most asked as if I was one…
By Eduardo Stanley LatinaLista FRESNO, California — Congressional representatives in charge of putting together an immigration reform bill are considering a so-called “path to citizenship,” the process by which undocumented immigrants living in the country may become legal residents…
By Carol A. Erickson American Libraries Report on Guatemala and Honduras libraries The homicide rate in Honduras is among the highest in the world. Decades of corruption have gnawed through government and police forces from top to bottom. Trafficking…
By Valorie Vasquez Borderzine EL PASO – Blue-eyed, brunette, and light-complexioned Michael Alden has called El Paso his home for nearly all his life. Alden, 24, was born and raised in El Paso, graduated from Franklin High in 2007…
LatinaLista — Who has a bowl haircut, a purple backpack and a monkey with red boots as her best friend? If you guessed Dora the Explorer, you’re right. On the air since 2000, one of the first bilingual animated…
LatinaLista — When it was announced that Benjamin Alire Sáenz had won the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his book “Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club,” more than a few people couldn’t understand why a club…
LatinaLista — Getting young Latinas interested in technology has been one of the missions of Austin, Texas-based Latinitas since the organization was first envisioned in 2002 by a group of students at the University of Texas Austin. Created to…
By Frederick B. Mills Council on Hemispheric Affairs On March 15, 2013, the Salvadoran Minister of Justice and Public Security, David Munguía Payés, held a conversatorio (conversation) with a group of Salvadoran community leaders at the Salvadoran embassy in…
LatinaLista — What does a self-storage company have in common with the degenerative disease Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), the leading genetic cause of death in infants? Possibly, a cure. Dr. Christian Lorson, PhD has been doing some groundbreaking research…
By Edith Manzanares The Venture Born in San Salvador, El Salvador, William Hernandez and his family moved to Houston, TX 23 years ago. Hernandez’s parents worked two jobs and helped him and his younger brother and older sister provide…
By Jennie Pasquarella, ACLU of Southern California and Axel Caballero, Cuéntame Where would you expect to find half-a-dozen patrol cars on New Year’s Eve? In Bakersfield, California, ranked in the highest ten percent of the most violent cities in…
SaludToday The 2013 County Health Rankings are now available. The rankings, now in their fourth year, show that how long and how well people live depends on multiple factors including rates of smoking, education, and access to healthy food….
LatinaLista — In a prestigious literary competition where more than 350 novels and short-story collections by American authors published in the U.S. in 2012 were evaluated by a three-judge panel, a 58-year-old former priest walked away with the $15,000…
LatinaLista — Though they may come from different generations, all women share in the same range of emotions triggered by experiences in love that are unique to them but all too familiar for those who have loved and lost….
LatinaLista — For the past six years, University of Arkansas sociologist William A. Schwab has taken an interest in Northwest Arkansas’ Latino community. Since 2011, he’s conducted research on the most vulnerable members of that community — the undocumented…
LatinaLista — An unique call-to-action campaign uses historical archival footage of famous human rights events and asks viewers “If you believe you would have been there then, Be Here Now.” The Be Here Now campaign, funded by a GOOGLE…
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista When a former coffee-picker stepped forward to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992, a light was momentarily cast upon the plight of indigenous people throughout the world. Guatemalan-born Rigoberta Menchú Tum, who was living…
By Robert Cyr CTLatinoNews.com A new ruling has been issued in an intriguing international human rights case involving a former Mexican president and unfolding in Hartford federal court that has jurisdiction because he is now a professor at Yale…
LatinaLista — Santiago Gonzalez is no ordinary 14-year-old. For starters, he became a full-time college student at the age of 12 at the Colorado School of Mines and is on track to receive his Bachelor’s when he’s 16. Yet,…
LatinaLista — When Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus first announced that his party would be devoting $10 million to outreach to minority, women and young voters as a result of the findings from their internal analysis GOP Growth…
LatinaLista — This year is the 20th anniversary of the passing of Cesar Chavez. Unfortunately, while many gains have been made for farmworkers, there still remain injustices that current farmworkers face every day. Like Chavez, who exemplified peaceful protests,…
By María Gabriela Córdova InfoSur Hoy About 150,000 children from throughout Panama have taken part in the Neighborhood World Cup soccer tournament since 2001. PANAMA CITY, Panama – Héctor Brands is using an unorthodox method to fight violence: soccer….
LatinaLista — A study that was published in December 2012 has been slow in getting the recognition it deserves for what its authors discovered — the majority of low-income students who excel in high school don’t even bother to…
