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Viernes Video: Pelo!Pelo! ‘teases out the roots’ of Dominican beauty shop business owners and their paths to success

Sep 13, 2013, 3:27 PM 0

LatinaLista — There has been amazing growth of Latina-owned businesses over the last sixteen years. According to American Express OPEN’s 2013 State of Women-Owned Businesses Report: A Summary of Important Trends, 1997-2013, firms owned by Latinas have tripled and…

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First-time Latino author reveals the rough side of growing up Latino on the Texas border

Sep 12, 2013, 3:43 PM 0

LatinaLista — Domingo Martinez is Brownsville-born and bred but it’s not a place that he calls home anymore. For the last 20 years, he’s called the Pacific Northwest home, specifically Seattle — about as far away from the tip…

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Video: Innovators share ideas on transforming the future of learning — so everyone learns

Sep 10, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — What will the future of learning look like? Will it be done in schools? Will it be done virtually? Will there be teachers or holographic images? Will there be textbooks? The questions, along with, the possibilities, are…

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Video: Three college students examine the issue of rising student debt in documentary “Scholarslip”

Sep 9, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — The findings from the latest GALLUP poll reveals that most employed Americans (57%) say the work they do doesn’t require a college degree. It’s a question that haunts many college students sinking deeper into student debt these…

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Viernes Video: National release of first movie completely filmed and produced in San Antonio in ten years by Latino filmmaker

Sep 6, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — Bobby Ramirez, Julian Medina, Jason Martinez and Derek Hernandez were childhood friends until ambition tore them apart — landing them on either side of the law. Now, it’s time for a reunion unlike any reunion before. That’s…

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Video: Reading Out Loud — books banned by Arizona educators

Sep 5, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — It’s another school year and another opportunity for those who want to ‘whitewash’ students’ curriculum to go at it. The most offensive form of school whitewashing is banning books by ethnic authors. Because the books reflect an…

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Viernes Video: Tracing the nation’s historical path to racial equality

Aug 30, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — In February 2013, the DISCOVERY channel released the documentary ID Films: March to Justice. The film, with its black-and-white grainy footage of the beginnings of the Black community’s movement demanding racial equality — from Rosa Parks to…

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Video: Latina artist activist gives ‘wing’ to her pursuit of social justice

Aug 29, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — Art and activism have gone hand-in-hand for centuries. Since art is perhaps the boldest form of expression and activism is considered the most radical form of raising awareness of (usually) injustices, the two perfectly compliment one another…

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Intrn’l Video: Mexico’s indigenous suffer a racism hard to ignore — and change

Aug 28, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — On this day, the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, when we remember the personal risks taken by people who stood up for racial equality, we’re reminded in this film selection that racism exists all over…

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Video: Fifty years after the March on Washington, some question if racism still exists in the U.S.A.

Aug 27, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — Every year on March 21, the world celebrates the International Day of the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Yet, as the anniversary observance of the March on Washington illustrates there is a need to battle racial discrimination more…

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Video: Congressman John Lewis: The last living speaker from the March on Washington rally shares his memories and hopes

Aug 26, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

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…

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Viernes Video: New suspense film highlights dangerous life of a narcoblogger

Aug 23, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

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 —…

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Video: New play evokes painful memory of Cuba’s prison camps but underscores strength of human will

Aug 22, 2013, 2:04 PM 0

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…

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Intrn’l Video: Uncovering the ancient bones of world’s biggest dinosaurs in South America

Aug 21, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

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…

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Video: Author finds terrorists, hackers and other ‘bad guy’ businessmen innovative entrepreneurs in a “Misfit Economy”

Aug 20, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

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…

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Video: Cable television companies marginalizing people’s voices, a.k.a. public access channels

Aug 19, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

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…

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Viernes Video: The border town that 9-11 turned into ‘The Lost City’

Aug 16, 2013, 2:01 PM 0

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…

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Video: Latina playwright Tanya Saracho explains why she’s not the ‘Chicana Chekhov’

Aug 15, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

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…

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Intrn’l Video: Senior thesis project results in stunningly beautiful Dia de los Muertos animation

Aug 14, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

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…

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Video: The connection between language and wealth

Aug 13, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

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…

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Video: Reminding people words do matter when talking about the disabled

Aug 12, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

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…

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Viernes Video: Latino writer taps his culture to create a film that dances to a salsa beat

Aug 9, 2013, 12:27 PM 0

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…

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Video: Author, poet and activist Demetria Martinez shares how life experiences impact the creative process

Aug 8, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

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…

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Intrn’l Video: Award-winning film showcases depth of human spirit among Brazilian trash sifters

Aug 7, 2013, 11:24 AM 0

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…

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