LatinaLista — Today, throughout South America and the United States is a very special day. It’s El Dia de los Niños or Children’s Day. South of the border this day is taken very seriously if the local newspapers are…
LatinaLista — Time magazine dubbed Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, author of the groundbreaking book Dirty Girls Social Club, — as the “Godmother” of chica lit — that genre of literature featuring modern stories with sassy, professional and educated women who just happen…
LatinaLista — The “Coming of Age” of young Latina girls has always been a big deal in Latino families. Now, it’s also big business. Known as a Quinceañera, the celebration marking the transition of a young girl into womanhood…
LatinaLista — According to the U.S. Census, Texas is home to the second largest Hispanic population in the country. Not surprising since Texas roots can be traced back to when the state was part of Mexico. Texas has historically…
LatinaLista — It used to be ABC books were just for pre-schoolers learning the letters of the alphabet and growing their vocabulary with very simple words. A for apple. B for bus. C for cat — you get the…
LatinaLista — It is said that the first printing press in the United States was a Spanish-language press that arrived almost 80 years before the first recorded arrival of the English-language press. Yet, because the press was in Spanish,…
LatinaLista — Why do Mexican migrants spend thousands of dollars, and almost always, risk their lives just to illegally enter the United States? The full answer is complicated but in the book Antonio’s Gun and Delfino’s Dream: True Tales…
LatinaLista Who was Pancho Villa? Savior or outlaw? Saint or sinner? One thing is certain. Francisco (Pancho) Villa is synonymous with the Mexican Revolution and a leader whose notoriety crossed borders. Whether he was working the fields as a…
LatinaLista — When Guadalupe “Lupe” Valdez won the election for sheriff of Dallas County, Texas in 2004, it was a milestone on several fronts. It wasn’t enough that Lupe was a Latina (a daughter of migrant farmworkers from Mexico),…
LatinaLista — These days, associating corporate America with Christian values sounds more like an oxymoron than a plan for Latinas to achieve professional success. Yet, Cubana-Latina and corporate executive veteran, Ana Mollinedo Mims, lays the blueprint for Latinas to…
LatinaLista — Editor Francisco Aragon has successfully woven together a collection rich in tone, style, and depth of topics, ranging from the more immediate and observational to political and symbolic in The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry published by…
Lupe Ruiz-Flores is a children’s book author who discovered it’s never too late to tell a good story. LatinaLista — Being a published writer was Lupe’s life-long dream. Growing up with little money, especially to buy such luxury…
LatinaLista — A landmark study released by the American Journal of Public Health just days before the close of 2006 revealed an alarming trend: Latino pre-schoolers are twice as likely as white or black children to be overweight or…
