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…
LatinaLista — It’s rare that I will post a crowdfunding campaign for a Viernes Video that, at the least, doesn’t have a trailer. But looking at Houston filmmaker Carlos Tovar’s web series project, More Than Human, something tells me…
LatinaLista — Author Roma Calatayud-Stocks loves history, music and writing. It’s a combination that yielded an award-winning, and unusual, debut novel in 2012 for the Minneapolis native — a historical story with its own musical score, composed by Calatayud-Stocks….
LatinaLista — It is estimated that by 2050 there will be 9.6 billion people on the planet. A recent study found that at this rate of global growth it will take only 40 years for some species of mammals…
LatinaLista — Roko Belic is an actor, film producer, director and documentarian. It was through one of his last films Belic discovered something that changed his life — for the better. While filming the documentary HAPPY, and traveling the…
LatinaLista — The foster care system is supposed to save children from abusive or neglectful parents. The children are separated from their parents for their own well-being but too many children suffer from being in the foster care system….
LatinaLista — The film Lessons in Life #3 runs only six minutes but in that short space of time the director is able to convey both a simple and deep message about what it takes in life to get…
LatinaLista — Jose Manuel Merello is a self-taught contemporary artist based in Madrid. He has an eye for order in a scene that appears chaotic. “Spanish painting has, throughout the centuries, maintained a serene and melancholic regard: tragic but…
LatinaLista — The sea has a long history with Hollywood. Sometimes used as merely a backdrop, other times as the nemesis or a confidante, the sea is a character unto itself that can mirror the highs and lows of…
LatinaLista — While pundits are tolling the death knell for immigration reform as it faces debate in the House of Representatives, it is an issue that many people feel is not only alive but has a future. At the…
LatinaLista — The debate over whether to try children as adults is intensifying as more children are committing deadly and heinous crimes. In the United States today, more than 2,500 individuals are serving life-without-parole sentences for crimes they committed…
LatinaLista — The 4th of July is a special celebration for Americans. It’s the one day in the year when Americans celebrate being Americans — our freedom, our history, our patriotism, our foods and the past battles that shaped…
LatinaLista — Several words can be used to describe Spanish filmmaker Victor Carrey — prolific, imaginative, innovative and award-winning. A diverse filmmaker whose portfolio includes music videos, commercials and films, Carrey has attracted a lot of attention and awards…
LatinaLista — Revolutions, large and small, peaceful and violent, offline and online, are underway in every part of the world today. The people organizing, executing and demanding to be heard by their governments are young people — millennials. At…
LatinaLista — Juan Carlos Zaldivar has dived camera-first into the immigration debate producing a series of videos with a three-fold mission — put a human face to the issue, highlight the role of hunger in pushing immigrants to make…
