By Ben Winograd Immigration Impact Almost two years to the day after Arizona enacted the notorious immigration law known as SB 1070, the Supreme Court heard arguments in what could be the first of many cases over the validity…
By Carlyn Montes De Oca Modern Alchemy My love affair with sugar When I was young, I loved playing sports. Once during my 8th grade softball season, our coach made us a proposition that was too good to be…
By Andres Ramirez Latino Y Urbano Today I was thinking about the differences in cultures between Latin American countries and the US. I was born in Colombia and lived there until the age of 9 when we then moved…
By Edward Fox InSight: Organized Crime in the Americas While Mexican drug gangs, particularly the Zetas, are known to have expanded into human trafficking in Mexico, there is little substantive evidence to back recent claims that they are becoming…
By Patricia Smith Melton Peace X Peace Thousands of women gathering to make the world a better place ― you got a problem with that? You might think some people do if you look at the timeline for the…
By Katherine Leal Unmuth Latino Ed Beat A new report by the UCLA Civil Rights Project on the high suspension rates of students in California is generating buzz among legislators and educators alike. The study estimated that more than…
By Rodolfo F. Acuña LatinaLista Curators defend their institutional efforts toward historical accuracy – and some do make an effort. Yet this reform has been countered by the resurgence of what I call a “Daughters of the American Revolution”…
By Juan Miret A Hispanic Matter In a hectic society, where everything is running 24 hours a day and the minutes contain fewer and fewer seconds, cigars are the perfect excuse to scream out to the world: Stop! I…
By Ana Serafin Traveling Latina Tax Season is officially over and by now most of you have already filed your taxes and are either waiting for your return or holding onto your return to figure out how to spend…
By Cristina Avila-Zesatti Global Press Institute Once barred from mines by an ancient myth, women here make up an increasing percentage of the mining industry’s labor force as they try to support their families and fill in for men…
By Gretchen Alfonso Moms Clean Air Force Have you seen these ads on TV? I did and I thought they were powerful. I had no idea how powerful that message was until last week when I watched my own…
By Vanessa Cárdenas LatinaLista As we observe Equal Pay Day, I cannot help but ponder the discouraging statistics on how much less women make compared to men, especially Latinas. In particular, I look at how the gender wage gap…
By Lisa Mendoza* LatinaLista (Editor’s note: Lisa Mendoza is a pseudonym for the writer’s real name who wishes not to be identified.) “We know what unions have done for other people. We have seen it and we have studied…
By David Berreby This View of Life For some time now, cognitive scientists have been sure that the mind is not made for logical reasoning. That ability is just a lucky side effect of the work brains actually evolved…
By Carlo Garcia Living Philanthropic (Editor’s note: Through his blog, a BlogBeat partner of Latina Lista, Carlo Garcia has dedicated his writings to highlighting the rewards of volunteerism by spotlighting worthy causes and non-profits. He now has the…
By Rodolfo F. Acuña LatinaLista Aside from the injustices in Arizona, i.e., the scraping of a highly successful education program, the evident war against Mexicans, and the nullification of the U.S Constitution, I was seduced to the struggle…
Vino Latino Ceja has become synonymous with Latino wineries. Matriarch Amelia is the ultimate marketer for Latino wineries. Anytime Vino Latino talks about what we do people always say, “I know Latino wineries…I know Ceja.”
Salud Today Barriers remain in Latinos’ ability to purchase healthier dairy and meat options in tiendas — Latino-focused grocery stores — according to a new study. The study, published recently in Public Health Nutrition, compared the availability, quality and…
By Carlyn Montes De Oca Modern Alchemy My friend, Liza Pascal, an acupuncturist in Boulder, Colorado, used to work with Dr.Yeshi Dhonden, the personal physician to the Dalai Lama. I’m certain that Dr. Dhonden has many secrets of longevity…
By Elena Shore New America Media Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio on Wednesday dismissed speculation that he could be the vice presidential nominee, but he is preparing to make another political play
By Tom Rees This View of Life There’s quite a lot of research showing that subtly reminding people of death can make them more religious. But what’s not clear is why that should be
by Mary Liepold Peace X Peace As my dear friend the artist Huong would say, I’m a lucky ducky. I get to write about poetry for peace. Yippee! Only . . . where to begin? So many cultures, so…
By Dr. Jacqueline Zaleski Mackenzie LatinaLista GUANAJUATO, MEXICO — On Friday, March 23rd at 4:30pm the local church bell began to chime loudly as I was packing up my laptop to head home from my new office space in…
By Andres Ramirez Latino Y Urbano Many families come to the United States with big hopes and dreams for their children. They understand that they are making a big investment in the future of their families and are willing…
LatinaLista — His full name was Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo. Yet the world knew this prolific Argentine poet and writer simply as Jorge Luis Borges. Born in Buenos Aires on August 24, 1899 and died in Geneva,…
