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Guest Voz — AT&T’s President & CEO of Mobile & Business Solutions, Ralph de la Vega: Obstacles Are Opportunities in Disguise

Apr 13, 2015, 4:02 PM 0

By Ralph de la Vega LatinaLista I’m a firm believer that opportunities are often disguised as obstacles. What may look like an obstacle or a challenge often contains hidden opportunities. That’s particularly true during turbulent times. I learned that…

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Report: Access to Health Care is Improving for Hispanics, but More Work Remains

Apr 13, 2015, 10:45 AM 0

SaludToday Access to health care after the Affordable Care Act is improving among all racial/ethnic groups, especially Hispanics, but more work remains, according to a new report. According to the report, the 2014 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report,…

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New report finds child incarceration of non-violent offenses still widespread

Apr 10, 2015, 1:49 PM 0

By Gary Gately Juvenile Justice Information Exchange WASHINGTON – More than half of U.S. states allow children to be detained for repeated nonviolent “status offenses” such as skipping school, running away from home or possession of alcohol, a new…

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Guest Voz: Cancer hits Blacks and Latinos harder

Apr 10, 2015, 1:22 PM 0

By TX State Rep. Ruth McClendon Jones LatinaLista Fifteen years ago, Congress officially acknowledged a very troubling fact: this country has a problem with race and health. At that time, a study by the National Academy of Science’s Institute…

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Watch movies in your language with myLINGO

Apr 8, 2015, 11:08 AM 0

By Sara Inés Calderón Más Wired Olenka and Adam Polak grew up in a Polish-speaking household in Greenwich, Connecticut didn’t set out to be entrepreneurs. But an unpleasant moviegoing experience with their Polish cousins led them to create myLINGO,…

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Guest Voz: It’s possible to unlearn racism

Apr 8, 2015, 9:16 AM 0

By Dolores Sosa Green LatinaLista I was a racist. I was taught all the racial stereotypes I heard from my Mexican-American parents and others where I grew up in Dallas. I was told that mixing races wasn’t good, especially…

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Even ‘green’ products may pollute indoor air

Apr 6, 2015, 3:59 PM 0

By Annie Rahilly-Melbourne Futurity Common products, including the ones labeled “green,” “all-natural,” “non-toxic,” and “organic,” emit a range of compounds that could harm human health and air quality, according to a new study. But most of these ingredients are…

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Anglo bilingual rapper unites his passions for music and bilingualism in Bilingual Nation U.S.A.

Mar 24, 2015, 12:08 PM 0

By Kristal Bivona Language Magazine GueroLoco wears many hats: he’s an award-winning hip-hop en español artist, an activist for immigrant rights and language rights, and an inspirational speaker for students and teachers. He united his passions for music and…

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Peru’s beautiful and ancient Vilavilani cave paintings left unprotected

Mar 23, 2015, 3:31 PM 0

By Hillary Ojeda Peru This Week A cave containing some of southern Peru’s most beautiful, ancient paintings is unprotected and hardly known by the public. The Vilavilani cave, located in the Palca district of the region of Tacna in…

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Georgetown Considers Opening New ‘Casa Latina’

Mar 23, 2015, 12:56 PM 0

By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat Hispanic Hoyas may soon have a place on campus to call their own. Georgetown University is considering opening a new “Casa Latina” in time for the 2015 fall semester. The proposed home for…

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Tucson Indigenous Adobe Initiative: Teaching the past to build homes for the future

Mar 20, 2015, 8:54 AM 0

By Asia Alsgaard Cultural Survival On an average day out of adobe bricks, the Tucson Indigenous Adobe Initiative is building school ovens and sculptures of gila monsters, a lizard native to the southwestern United States with meaning in many…

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Want to find your ‘happy place’? Gallup poll says look in Latin America

Mar 19, 2015, 1:10 PM 0

LatinaLista — If the economy, Congress or national news headlines have you feeling blue, you might want to jet south of the border to Central or South America. Not so much for the sand and sun, though that would…

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Guest Voz: An open letter to Starbucks and USA Today

Mar 18, 2015, 11:18 AM 0

By Rinku Sen LatinaLista The conversation on race in our country is changing. Once a subject left to be discussed by civil rights leaders, organizers and a few non-profits, race is now a topic for many. Names like Renisha…

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Study: Latinos, Blacks More Likely to Pick Up Smoking Habit in Their 20s

Mar 17, 2015, 3:20 PM 0

SaludToday Latinos and blacks are more likely to pick up a cigarette-smoking habit during their 20s, according to a new study, Science Daily reports. The study, published in the journal Addictive Behaviors, looked at longitudinal data and found that,…

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Guest Voz: Employment for Latinos comes back to life

Mar 16, 2015, 2:33 PM 0

By Jackie Odum and Vanessa Cardenas LatinaLista Last Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released their Employment Report for the month of February. The monthly ritual brought good news for the labor market. Overall, an additional 295,000 jobs…

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Mexico launches nationwide whistleblower initiative with MéxicoLeaks

Mar 10, 2015, 3:00 PM 0

LatinaLista — Mexico, along with many countries in Latin America, is a country whose people routinely suffer from daily acts of impugnity exercised by local police, politicians, corporations, drug cartels, the wealthy, etc. Past attempts to hold some of…

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Santa Fe’s Unexpected Colonial History

Mar 10, 2015, 12:58 PM 0

By Tom Wall Preservation Nation Where do you think the oldest colonial-era building in the United States is located? At first glance, you might assume that the oldest ones in the continental United States would be found somewhere near…

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Climate change is making outdoor allergies go haywire

Mar 9, 2015, 12:48 PM 0

By Diane Maceachern Moms Clean Air Force If you or your kids already suffer from hay fever, be prepared: the more the climate changes, the worse those runny noses and itchy eyes are going to get. Why? Ragweed pollen…

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Guest Voz: Women’s History Month must honor Latinas

Mar 6, 2015, 3:44 PM 0

By Anna Ochoa O’Leary LatinaLista Curious about Women’s History Month, I browsed the pages of womenshistorymonth.gov. I learned that it originated in 1981 when Congress first passed Public Law 97-28 establishing “Women’s History Week.” Then in 1987, Congress passed…

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Will Nicaragua’s canal be an eco disaster?

Mar 5, 2015, 1:05 PM 0

By Mike Williams Futurity A controversial canal that would connect the Pacific and Atlantic oceans across Nicaragua has environmental scientists concerned about the impact the project will have on the region’s fragile ecosystem. The Nicaragua Interoceanic Grand Canal will…

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Peruvians want to throw trash TV off the airwaves

Mar 3, 2015, 4:02 PM 0

LatinaLista — Last month, the streets of Lima swelled with a new protest movement hoping to do away with trash TV in the country and encourage more cultural programming. Begun on Facebook, the “March Against Trash Television” (Marcha Contra…

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Recognizing Women Leaders at Community Radio Stations in Guatemala

Feb 26, 2015, 1:09 PM 0

Cultural Survival The legalization of community radio stations has been an on-going struggle for Indigenous communities in Guatemala for almost 20 years. Community radio stations operate in the fear of being raided by the Guatemalan Public Ministry because the…

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New threats challenge Mexico’s Teotihuacán’s chances of retaining splendor for next generation

Feb 25, 2015, 11:58 AM 0

LatinaLista — Mexico’s pyramid Teotihuacán is not just a popular tourist destination and iconic symbol of Mexico’s significance in the annals of ancient history but it’s also an archeological treasure living on borrowed time. Located 25 miles northeast of…

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EveryoneOn brings Internet to diverse communities

Feb 24, 2015, 12:22 PM 0

By Sara Inés Calderón Más Wired EveryoneOn is a non-profit organization that works to provide “high-speed, low-cost Internet service and computers, and free digital literacy courses accessible to all unconnected Americans.” We had the opportunity to chat with Regional…

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University of California’s Center a ‘Sanctuary’ for Undocumented Students

Feb 18, 2015, 12:49 PM 0

By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat The University of California, Davis opened a new center recently with a mission to aid undocumented immigrant students — a move unprecedented in the University of California and the country, a Diverse article…

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