LatinaLista — The national observance of the 50-year anniversary of the March on Washington got into full swing on Saturday, Aug. 24, when ‘tens of thousands’ of people showed up on the Washington Mall to hear a variety of…
LatinaLista — No other city in Mexico is as synonymous with the brutality of cartel drug violence as Juarez, Mexico. Once declared the most dangerous city in the world, reports are surfacing that the city is slowly recovering —…
LatinaLista — Ever since the Obama administration eased travel restrictions to Cuba, travelers from the United States have been flocking to the Communist-governed island. A recent study on Cuba-bound US flights revealed that, in the course of 30 days…
LatinaLista — South America may be better known for its illustrious ancient history — the Incas, Aztecs, Mayans, the Nazca Plain and pyramids — but the region has been steadily gaining recognition for being the home of more than…
LatinaLista — When speaking of innovation, the first people who usually come to mind are the Jeff Bezos (Amazon); Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Bill Gates (Microsoft) and the Steve Jobs (Apple) of the world. Nobody ever thinks of those criminals…
LatinaLista — It’s not remembered often enough that the rise in popularity and power of social media has less to do with platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. and rests more with the people who use them. What is…
LatinaLista — This September 11 will mark the 12-year anniversary of 9-11. Though there was unimaginable destruction with the collapse of the Twin Towers, there have been signs, in the years since the attack, of a rebuilding and a…
LatinaLista — Playwright Tanya Saracho has been called the ‘Chicana Chekhov’ by the New York Times. The only trouble is she’s not Chicana. She’s Mexican but she is recognized as one of the most successful Latina playwrights in the…
LatinaLista — It may be more than two months away, but Dia de los Muertos has become one of those Latino observances that has gone mainstream. When that happens, it means that anyone can honor/celebrate/exploit the observance because everyone…
LatinaLista — South African entrepreneur Phiwayinkosi Mbuyazi made a simple but profound discovery about how to bridge the wealth gap. According to Mbuyazi, all it takes is language. Mbuyazi spoke at TEDxSoweto 2012 explaining that it’s the indigenous languages…
LatinaLista — In 2012, the U.S. Census reported that about 57 million people in the country have a disability. Disabilities range from severe to mild, cognitive to physical, but what hurts more than the disability is to hear how…
LatinaLista — Who doesn’t love salsa? And who doesn’t love a good romantic comedy — with an accent? Sex, Love & Salsa, a film making the film festival circuit, has all those elements and more. Written, directed and starring…
LatinaLista — Demetria Martinez bills herself as an author, poet, activist, journalist and creativity coach — areas in which this Princeton-educated, former religion freelancer excels. From her latest title in 2013, her first novella, The Block Captain’s Daughter to…
LatinaLista — Since 2010, the year the film WASTE LAND was released, it’s been piling up awards faster than the garbage that used to pile up at the world’s largest garbage dump outside Rio de Janiero — the focus…
LatinaLista — For many Americans, the term ‘national service’ means only one thing — serving in the military. While many brave men and women have voluntarily enlisted to serve our country either here or abroad, the truth of the…
LatinaLista — As the nation celebrates National Farmers Market week, it’s hard to appreciate the fact that there are 50 million people living in the United States who can’t afford to even buy produce and food at farmers markets…
LatinaLista — Dance is an art form that is without borders and needs no translation. For those who pursue it professionally, dance is much more than the body moving to music — it’s another form of speech, just without…
LatinaLista — According to Wikipedia: The marine pelagic environment is the largest aquatic habitat on earth, occupying 1,370 million cubic kilometres (330 million cubic miles), and is the habitat for 11 percent of known fish species. Marine pelagic fish…
LatinaLista — Imagination is a strong force and for children’s book author and illustrator Jarrett J. Krosoczka it was what saved him from a difficult childhood and set him on course to a successful career. The author, well known…
LatinaLista — Fifty years ago on August 28, 1963, Washington played host to one of the most iconic moments in history — the March on Washington. It was an event forever stamped into the annals of American history due…
LatinaLista — Mia Rosales St. John is one Latina nobody should want to mess with. A mom and former model and Playmate, St. John is also a medaled boxing champion – she spent four years opening for all of…
LatinaLista — Mario Alberto Zambrano didn’t grow up having dreams of being a successful author. Rather, his dream was to appear on stage — as a ballerina. It was a dream this Houston, Texas native more than accomplished receiving…
LatinaLista — Graduate film student Julio Ramos came all the way from his native Lima, Peru to Los Angeles, California to get his Master’s of Fine Arts degree at UCLA. Yet, when it comes to where he draws his…
LatinaLista — Every summer, in a different city across the nation, the National Council of La Raza, or NCLR, hosts their annual national conference. Town Hall and workshop discussions on a variety of topics of interest to Latinos and…
LatinaLista — For over 30 years, Nancy Ghertner saw the migrant farm workers in her rural western New York town pick the apples in the surrounding apple orchards. Yet, as she describes, these workers were mainly invisible to her…
