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…
LatinaLista — What happens when state legislators targeting undocumented immigrants decide to penalize the kids as well by not allowing them to pay in-state tuition for college? A school counselor comes to the rescue.
LatinaLista — Last Saturday, July 14, Henry Cisneros, former mayor of San Antonio, Texas, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in the Clinton Administration and currently the CEO of a national housing investor group called CityView was…
LatinaLista — Over 1,000 delegates from 43 countries and 34 states in the U.S. have converged on Dallas, TX this week for the 3rd International Women’s Peace Conference. Yet, the peace conference has been anything but peaceful, underscoring the…
Have shock-jock radio DJs not learned anything from Imus’ example? Don Imus (Source: wikipedia.org) It would appear not since the latest contributor to the Hall of Fame of Beyond Bad Taste thinks it’s okay to wish death upon a…
LatinaLista — Tomorrow, the United States of America is 231 years old. What has become a cliche, courtesy of the immigration reform debate, that our nation is a nation of immigrants, has never been more true than tomorrow. According…
LatinaLista — Their names are Jenn Alva, Phanie and Nina Diaz. They’re from San Antonio and they form the rock band Girl in a Coma. Jenn and Phanie met while in junior high and were soon dreaming of rock…
LatinaLista — From all news accounts, the bill designed to fix our “broken immigration system” narrowly missed losing one of its key components of being an effective bill — addressing the humanitarian reality of the undocumented immigrants. The missile…
LatinaLista It took: 1 man 2 transatlantic flights 5 countries visited 80 people exposed to showcase how unequal security enforcement at the US-Canadian border is compared to the US-Mexican border.
LatinaLista — It’s been two days since Gilberta Estrada-Vega committed suicide and decided to take 3 of her 4 young daughters with her. Gilberta Estrada-Vega As always happens when news spreads of a mother committing suicide and taking her…
LatinaLista — Thanks for making the journey across the Blogger border to the new site for Latina Lista. After so many months of dreaming of a better site to not only house my pensamientos but support my fellow Latinas/os,…
Latina Lista has moved. The new location of this blog will be http://www.latinalista.net/palabrafinal The new Latina Lista site main page is at http://www.latinalista.net Please update your blogrolls, bookmarks, and feed subscriptions! See you there.
LatinaLista — From short films to a little longer docs or first-run music videos, this section of the new Latina Lista wants to help those creative talents that walk among la raza.
LatinaLista — Being a journalist first and a blogger second, I get impatient not being able to comment. With so many good stories that are crossing my desktop today, my impatience to write something is at an all-time high…
LatinaLista — The United States’ global reputation as being a World Power who sets the standard for other countries when it comes to championing the human rights of the less fortunate has officially been unmasked by a Mexican named…
LatinaLista — Sometimes the people in Washington say the darndest things. Education Secretary, Margaret Spellings, appearing before a special conference in Washington D.C. last week said that inner-city schools are nothing more than dropout factories — DUH! It’s taken…
LatinaLista — In light of what has happened this week in the state of Oklahoma and the town of Farmers Branch, Texas where legal grounds have been created to help drive undocumented immigrants out of town/state, it seems talk…
LatinaLista — It is said that the only thing more Mexican than tequila is mariachi. The rise of all-female mariachi groups is becoming more popular. (Source: utb.edu) Yet, regardless of where our Latina cultural roots lay, one aspect of…
LatinaLista — The violence is escalating — not in Iraq, but in our own backyard. This week there have been reports of the drug cartel violence that has long plagued Mexico moving north into towns along the border. In…
LatinaLista — It has always been too easy to depersonalize individuals when using group adjectives like: “immigrants” or “illegals.” When this is done, it is very easy to forget that they are human beings, like us all, with families…
LatinaLista — Among all the crisis that plague the well-being of Latinos, diet, or lack of it, is at the top. A new nutritional guide scheduled for a national roll-out this month, titled Camino Magico, released this week by…
LatinaLista — As everyone across the country waited today to see just how many marchers will try to duplicate last year’s stunning success of the immigration marches, an article that appeared in the media yesterday seemed to fan the…
LatinaLista — In an edited translation of an article published in Mexico City’s El Financiero last Thursday, it was stated that a Mexican organizaton released statistics that show that on average, 32 underage boys and girls try to cross…
LatinaLista — A recent article in the New York Times titled For Some Hispanics, Coming to America Also Means Abandoning Religion sparked a lot of interest. In the days after the article was published, newspapers across the country syndicated…
LatinaLista — The aftershocks of the statements made by Don Imus that got him banished from radio and television airwaves are dying down — and that’s a shame. Not that I want the repentent Imus to have to relive…
