By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat This summer, native Spanish-speaking immigrant students in Los Angeles participated in a five-week pilot program testing a new algebra curriculum aligned with the Common Core. Sarah Tully of EdSource reported last week that…
PreservationNation Located in the heart of downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Palace of the Governors is one of the oldest, in-use public building in the United States. Once the seat of power, the Palace now showcases the diverse…
LatinasRepresent Watch footage from a recent event in Miami and hear from Latinas across the political spectrum on why your voice matters. Share your #LatinasRepresent story with us on Twitter and Facebook
Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council Broadband & Social Justice (MMTCBBSJ) The Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council (MMTC) announced the adoption of the Santana Resolution, in honor of Feidin Santana, encouraging MMTC members to become proficient in using…
SaludToday Compared to the general women population in the U.S. the rate of breast cancer and cervical cancer screenings are low among Latinas. In a new study published in the Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives, researchers attribute the…
by Emily Starbuck Crone NerdWallet As college costs rise, more students are taking out loans to help pay for school. Of those who graduated from college in 2013, 69% had student loans, with an average debt amount of $28,400…
By Sarah Zahedi Juvenile Justice Information Exchange Through times of trauma and distress, often all a child needs is to be showered with love. It may sound corny, but for the estimated 100,000 children who are sexually exploited per…
By Kristal Bivona, Sandra Ruiz, and Daniel Ward Language Magazine Kristal Bivona, Sandra Ruiz, and Daniel Ward discuss the movements and histories that made Spanish such an important language for activism El pueblo unido jamás será vencido… U.S.-based activists,…
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat Ray Salazar calls himself a “white rhino.” He’s Latino and a high school English teacher, a description and perspective that’s perhaps as rare as the critically endangered northern rhinoceros, he says on his…
By Nicole Castillo BeVisible When Joyce Santeliz started #HispanicGirlsUnited, she never imagined that it would spread as quickly as it did. The story of her hashtag has been written about widely from the Huffington Post and BuzzFeed to MIC.com…
David S. Pedulla, University of Texas at Austin and Devah Pager, Harvard University The Conversation Discrimination in the hiring process has limited the opportunities available to both racial minorities – such as African Americans – and women, with important…
By Rachel Harrison Futurity A new study offers yet more evidence that higher levels of education are linked to living longer. Researchers looked at data on more than a million people from 1986 to 2006 to estimate the number…
SaludToday The U.S. population does not consume enough fruits and vegetables a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) concluded, NBC Health reports. Latinos in the U.S. consume even less…
By Barbara Marquand NerdWallet A growing number of states now issue driver’s licenses regardless of immigration status, making it easier for millions of undocumented immigrants to get car insurance. Car insurance protects you financially if you cause an…
By James Phillips Cultural Survival The Tolupanes of Yoro in central Honduras have become major actors in the massive protests and demonstrations that have been filling the streets of Honduran cities for weeks. Revelations that Honduran government functionaries and…
By Matt Smith Juvenile Justice Information Exchange One of the leading voices in juvenile justice has turned on juvenile hall. The Annie E. Casey Foundation is throwing its weight into a campaign to close juvenile detention centers nationwide, calling…
Cultural Survival Cultural Survival’s newest program, Indigenous Rights Radio, has produced over 350 radio programs and counting on Indigenous Peoples’ rights. We highlight stories with Indigenous leaders who share the victories and strategies for defending their lands, languages, and…
By Ramona Ortega Mi Dinero Mi Futuro In case you haven’t heard chica, Latinos are the new hot market! According to the leading consumer research group Nielsen, “Hispanic women are a key growth engine of the U.S. female population…
By Heather O’Connell The Conversation None of us alive today had any direct involvement in slavery in America, but we continue to be affected by its legacy and could even be perpetuating it in subtle, everyday ways. One of…
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat Spanish professor Luis Fernando Restrepo wanted his children to be bilingual. But living in Arkansas — where Spanish classes aren’t offered until junior high — there wasn’t much institutional support for this endeavor….
By Matthew Swayne Futurity In Mississippi in the 1960s, Head Start became a way to upset the political and racial status quo. The federal preschool program did more than improve educational opportunities for poor children. It also gave a…
SaludToday Mexican American children and Dominican American are found to be at a higher risk of experiencing depression and somatization due to authoritarian parenting, according to a new research from The University of Texas at Austin’s School of Social…
PreservationNation Blog The National Trust for Historic Preservation issued our 28th annual list of the America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. This year’s list helps underscore the ongoing effort we have at the National Trust to tell the story…
LatinasRepresent It comes as no surprise that Maria del Rosario “Rosie” Castro’s twin sons have followed in her footsteps. The mother of Julián Castro (Secretary of Housing and Urban Development) and Joaquín Castro (Texas Congressman), Rosie Castro first began…
By Jamaal Abdul-Alim Juvenile Justice Information Exchange The first time 18-year-old Isaac came across a question on a college application that asked if he had ever faced disciplinary action in high school, he decided to be honest and checked…
