LatinaLista — The news first started appearing on my Facebook feeds page — Sheriff Arpaio is forced off stage by a bunch of singing protesters. At an Arizona State University (ASU) forum to discuss First Amendment rights, Sheriff Arpaio…
LatinaLista — The cable channel USA Network is known for its character-driven shows and it’s “Characters Welcome” tagline. So, it makes perfect sense that as part of their community outreach they would play on their character theme and create…
LatinaLista — During yesterday’s coverage of Honduras’ elections, reports were being filed from cities such as Miami, Houston, NYC and Los Angeles citing the number of Hondurans who reside in those cities but were doing their civic duty in…
LatinaLista — Can it be possible that people are still contracting HIV/AIDS? Unfortunately, yes. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), over 455,000 people in the United States were living with AIDS in 2007. It’s a statistic that…
LatinaLista — Can it be possible that as the world prepares to observe World AIDS Day tomorrow, people are still contracting HIV/AIDS? Unfortunately, yes. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), over 455,000 people in the United States…
LatinaLista — From the beginning when news broke that Honduran President Zelaya had been forced from his presidential palace at gunpoint, there has been much controversy in the blogosphere and around the world as to whether or not this…
LatinaLista — The day after the one day in the year we think all can be forgiven diet-wise, a new study is released projecting how many people will be affected by diabetes in 25 years. The numbers are not…
By Cristina Blackwell SAN ANTONIO — For three decades, the nation’s largest Thanksgiving event of its kind has brought together over 20,000 seniors, families and homeless in San Antonio to provide a free, home-cooked traditional Thanksgiving meal. The Raul…
By CHRISTINE ROGEL PHOENIX – A little girl laughs in an exam room and then, feeling the prick of a needle, buries her face in her mother’s shoulder and cries as she’s vaccinated against the H1N1 flu strain. She…
LatinaLista — While this is a day that tradition calls for to give thanks, there are many people in the nation for whom giving thanks — have lost their homes, their jobs, need healthcare, depend on food pantries, have…
LatinaLista — When Lou Dobbs abruptly resigned from CNN on November 11, 2009, no one expected him to go quietly away. Lou Dobbs appears on the Today show in the first of many appearances to repair his reputation among…
LatinaLista — We all know that the Obama Administration is one of the most diverse in the nation. Making up a portion of that diversity is a number of Latinas and Latinos. In fact, the Obama Administration has broken…
LatinaLista — In a recent Pew Research Center report, “Where the Public Stands on Immigration Reform,” data was included that showed Latinos themselves did not rank immigration reform as a priority issue. The economy, education, health care, national security…
LatinaLista — When advertisers and media companies talk on how to reach the Latina audience, talk invariably centers around one thing — that the message must only be in Spanish. Well, for those of us who are second-generation and…
LatinaLista — Anyone who expects a bipartisan compromise to be reached on the healthcare bill lives in La La Land. The point was explicitly brought home in a morning interview on the Today show between Sen. Dick Schumer and…
LatinaLista — Cleaning house is hard work. Cleaning a hotel room is even harder work. A study that will appear in the January issue of The American Journal of Industrial Medicine found that while studying workers at 50 hotels…
LatinaLista — One longstanding tradition among Mexican-American families at Christmastime is making tamales. Usually a day-long event, each member of the family, from the youngest to the oldest, is assigned a special job to help make the process go…
LatinaLista — A new report by the Alliance for Excellent Education shows that nearly 600,000 students living in the country’s 50 largest cities never walked across the stage in 2008 to receive a high school diploma because they dropped…
By Stephen N. Zack LatinaLista — With a last name like “Zack,” most people don’t realize that the president-elect of the American Bar Association (ABA) is Latino, Cuban-American to be exact. Mr. Zack will be the first president in…
LatinaLista — A new report by the Hispanic Institute has uncovered an alarming practice by credit card and debit companies and banks that result in basically stealing money from the poor to reward the wealthy. Trickle-Up Wealth Transfer: Cross-subsidization…
LatinaLista — Though a lot of fuss has been made this week about the new mammogram guidelines, it doesn’t diminish the fact that when breast cancer is found and treatment begun it’s a grueling and emotional process. For most…
LatinaLista — In a nation of over 307 million people, 2.3 million doesn’t sound like a very significant number. As a number by itself, it isn’t. Only when it’s realized that 2.3 million refers to the number of Hispanic…
LatinaLista — It seems there is a flipside to driving undocumented immigrants out of your state. In the past two years, there has been an irrational vengeance by some state legislators to drive undocumented immigrants out of their states….
(Editor’s note: The Families Freedom and Faith Call teleconferences will be held tonight, rather than held yesterday as mistakenly reported. In light of the mistake, I am re-publishing the post. I apologize for the confusion.) LatinaLista — What…
By Cecilia Mansilla ARGENTINA: Milan has La Scala. New York City has the New York Metropolitan and then there’s the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, the Munich National Theater and the Paris Opera. In Buenos Aires, we have the Colon…
