LatinaLista — When it comes to fake news, there’s no bigger perpetrator, unfortunately, than our own president Donald Trump. His latest egregious spread of fake news is his retweeting, and subsequent doubling down, on the accuracy of several videos…
GritoBlast! Cyberspace is celebrating #GivingTuesday but Latinos are creating our own fiesta-in-giving with #LatinosGive. To help support those nonprofits keeping our most vulnerable communities afloat, Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP) is providing $10,000 in matching funds to double the impact…
LatinaLista — In California’s Central Valley, farming has deep roots. A third of all the produce — more than 230 different crops — grown in the United States are planted, nurtured and harvested in this region that receives nearly…
GritoBlast! — In April 2015, a volunteer artist cooperative known as Arte Intercultural Vilcabamba (AIV), was launched in Vilcabamba, Loja, Ecuador, South America. In two short years, the artist cooperative transformed themselves into a service organization with a single…
LatinaLista — When Argentinian business partners and friends Ricardo Petroni, Pablo Martinez and Sergio Neuspiller got together to form the production company Full Dimensional, they had high hopes of creating a horror blockbuster. They were going to craft a…
LatinaLista — Hollywood and “the media” have long been blamed for fostering a promotion of negative stereotypes. In turn, viewers who accept these versions of marginalized segments of the population may develop a bias against these groups, either consciously…
LatinaLista — “Palenque Cultural Tambillo” is a cultural center dedicated to the continuing artistic traditions of the Afroecuadorean town of Tambillo and its nationally renowned travelling marimba music and dance troupe Incrustados en el Manglar. This group provides an intergenerational link…
LatinaLista — As the nation continues to grieve for the five slain Dallas police officers on July 7, 2016, their families are having to juggle their grief with the sad practicalities of burying their loved ones. As with most…
LatinaLista — 2016 is already the most multilingual presidential election season in US history. From jokes about Trump’s taco bowls to tweets about Sanders’ use of Arabic, some of the most compelling online conversations about US Election 2016 are happening…
LatinaLista — In 1970, there was a school-wide walkout in Uvalde, Texas because the school board refused to extend the employment contract of a popular elementary teacher, Mr. Josue George Garza. Within a week the number of students participating…
LatinaLista — For the past three and a half years, Alexandra Henry has been documenting female graffiti and street artists to capture their collective voice and experiences within the global street art movement — a place where women have…
LatinaLista — If at first you don’t succeed, you — relaunch! That’s the premise behind this featured-before crowdfunding campaign titled West Los Documentary – a documentary that looks at lowrider culture as the unifying tie among four Chicano barrios…
LatinaLista — In Third World countries, consistent access to electricity can be tricky, if not impossible for those remote villages and their residents. One non-profit in Bolivia has created a reliable source of electricity for people and it takes…
LatinaLista — The Tahltan Language Conservation Initiative Project (Hereon TLCIP) is a grassroots conservation effort that will focus on the preservation of the severely endangered Tahltan Language. There are only 16 fluent native Tahltan speakers alive today and all…
LatinaLista — Boston natives Eli and Debbie Thompson moved to the rural, Pacific Coast of Costa Rica in July 2014, to see the world through a different lens. Their perspective of life has changed in the short time they’ve…
LatinaLista — Mentoring is heralded as a way to give everyone, from young people to entrepreneurs, a leg up when pursuing their dreams. There are non-profits specifically built around the concept of mentoring at-risk kids but for how long…
LatinaLista — Poetry is one of the most beautiful genres of literature but it can also be among the hardest to understand. It takes appreciation to understand a poet’s ‘layer’ of words and that comes with practice and guidance….
LatinaLista — The world may have moved on to other news events — Trump sweeping the latest primaries; the death of Prince, etc. — but for the people in Ecuador affected by the recent earthquake, it will take a…
LatinaLista — In an era where income inequality is growing faster than the passage of living wages, more and more people are finding themselves living paycheck to paycheck. A sudden illness, accident or layoff can hurl hard-working people into…
LatinaLista — It’s no secret that the injection of money into the United States political system is impacting the concept of democracy. Now, a group of researchers from the University of California at San Diego want to know by…
LatinaLista — On Saturday April 16th, 2016 the coastal region of Ecuador was struck by a massive 7.8 earthquake. There are many families affected and devastation all around. The most affected areas are in the provinces of Manabí and…
LatinaLista — In 2013, the Nicaraguan National Assembly gave the green light to Chinese billionaire Wang Jing to begin construction on the Nicaragua Canal, a 172.7 mile concrete ditch that would be four times longer than the Panama Canal….
LatinaLista — Campaign: Life After Death: The Whales of Golfo de Penas, Patagonia In 2015, while on expedition in Golfo de Penas, Chilean Patagonia, a team of biologists discovered what would become known as the largest mass mortality of…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Institute of Activism / Instituto de Artivismo Hannah Arendt The Institute of Artivism in Cuba is a physical space and an online platform which hosts international artists and activists to foster civic literacy and policy change….
LatinaLista — Campaign: Wise Medicine: A Documentary Our world is in crisis. Terrorism, racism, political extremism, destruction of the environment, contaminated food, the list goes on. As we look to “new” healing paradigms in our modern society – many…
