LatinaLista — Campaign: Reconnecting Indigenous Collections to their Source Communities How do artworks wind up on museum walls? How are objects chosen for display and who makes such decisions? What individuals/groups are highlighted in these exhibitions? When Indigenous objects…
LatinaLista — Campaign: MYCincinnati – Strength & Community Through Music MYCincinnati (Music for Youth in Cincinnati) is a free, daily youth orchestra program for children in Price Hill. 80 students attend the program every weekday for two hours,…
LatinaLista — Campaign: LURUCHA: A CHILDREN'S BOOK FROM A SCHOOL IN PERU Kuska School is an alternative elementary school located on a sustainable farm on Inca terraces in Ollantaytambo, Peru, near Machu Picchu. In small multiage groups, through…
LatinaLista — Campaign: The New Cuba Libre! On September 19, 2015, Pope Francis lands at the José Martí International Airport in Havana, Cuba. He says: “In the words of José Martí, the process of normalizing…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Peace Bees Second Chances The Peace Bees name comes from the misunderstanding that honey bees are mean and want to sting; rather, honey bees are quite peaceful creatures. Honey bees only become aggressive to defend…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Salud Sin Papeles : Health Undocumented It all starts with Jason Odhner. Jason, a nurse and an activist, is a pioneer for his cause. He tears down walls that deny many in the undocumented community…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Activist Print Activist Print is a collaboration between The Andy Warhol Museum and a local screen printing collective, Artist Image Resource (AIR). It is inspired by the long history of artists using silkscreen and/or print based media…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Pine Ridge Holiday Toy Drive The poverty on Pine Ridge Reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota can be described in no other terms than third world. It is common to find homes overcrowded, as those with…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Down to Earth Climate Justice Storytelling Project In the 1980s, Andy Burt had the experience of bringing Central American people and their powerful stories of human rights abuses into mainstream Indiana communities, where, to his surprise, the…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Saving Belize's Marine Treasures Port Honduras Marine Reserve contains some of the most pristine habitat in the entire Mesoamerican Reef Complex. Its coral reefs, mangrove islands and expansive seagrass beds support a healthy population of endangered…
LatinaLista — Campaign: #LatinosGive on Giving Tuesday December 1 is #GivingTuesday, a global movement to celebrate and encourage generosity around the world. In an effort to “Latinize” #GivingTuesday, HIPGive and NBC Latino have joined forces to launch a…
LatinaLista — Campaign: La Perla Christmas Filmmaker Silent Lee thought he was only going to make a documentary about one of the most notorious slums in Puerto Rico. What happened next changed his life forever. In March of this…
LatinaLista — Campaign: DOÑA LUZ : Solar Mama Stories, Latin America 1.2 billion people on this planet live without electricity. In Latin America alone, the number reaches 24 million people. What is it like to live without electricity or light in…
LatinaLista — Campaign: #PlayLikeAGirl: Pop-Up Play Day Tour What started in 2004 as a few annual events hosted by sorority girls in Alabama has become the source of inspiration for several thousand girls and young women across the United…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Let's change the immigration debate for 2016 Immigrants will be at the center of the 2016 campaign—as scapegoats, as voters, and as a powerful movement. With public backing, reporter Julianne Hing will cover the collision…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Mission District Alley Mural by Jet Martinez Ames Alley is an underused alley in the Mission District of SF. In an effort to transform Ames Alley into a more vibrant public space, locals are working with the Green Alleys…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Nuestra Cuba Nuestra Cuba tells the inspiring stories of Cuba's first women and Afrocuban film directors. In the years following the Cuban Revolution, the island would become a leader in the Latin American film movements to…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Uncensored Political Speech for the 99 John Ellis is the creator of Engagement Broadcasting and founder of the Bernie2016tv volunteer group. He started Bernie2016tv to help end the media blackout and distortion of the truth…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Justice for all children The Colorado Juvenile Defender Center (CJDC) advocates for the decriminalization of children and second chances for kids because they believe in youth! CJDC is a recognized nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring excellence in juvenile…
LatinaLista — University of Georgia historian Claudio Saunt reveals in his 2014 book West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776, how the United States, between 1776 and the present, seized roughly one eighth of the habitable world by treaty and…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Friends of Mayantuaycu Friends of Mayantuyacu is a campaign to raise funds to support the future sustainability of Mayantuyacu so people from all over the world can continue to benefit from its healing power for…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Vietnam, Puerto Rico Vietnam, PR—a community or barrio located on the coast of Guaynabo and Cataño, is undergoing an illegal expropriation at the hands of Guaynabo City’s Mayor Hector O’Neill. Vietnam’s demise is a casualty…
By Aubrie Iverson Voice Box Media Every so often, in every community, an enigma rises to the surface. Living unassumingly in the quiet of a small town or the manicured lawns of suburbia, a mystery neighbor lurks suspiciously out…
LatinaLista — Campaign: The Lost Poems of Pablo Neruda Pablo Neruda is celebrated as “the greatest poet of the 20th century—in any language.” Throughout his colorful career as a writer and political figure, he produced love poems to…
LatinaLista — If anything positive has come out of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, it's the fact that he's "un-hooded" racism in this country. Unfortunately, it's his own racist views that he's revealing. The sad fact is that while many…
