By Nicole L. Novak and Natalie Lira The Conversation In 1942, 18-year-old Iris Lopez, a Mexican-American woman, started working at the Calship Yards in Los Angeles. Working on the home front building Victory Ships not only added to the…
By Chuck Collins Inequality.org Estuardo Mazariegos understands the burden of paying for his education. He started college in 2006 and has attended on and off for financial reasons. Now in his last semester, he claims his annual tuition and fees…
By Eduardo Stanley LatinaLista Despite the government’s promises and laws, indigenous cultures in Mexico are marginalized. “Education is meaningful to keep people’s cultures alive, but there is nothing about Triqui culture in books and educational programs in Mexico,” said…
By María González Amarillo La Prensa San Diego On Thursday, November 12, Congresswoman and candidate to Senate Loretta Sanchez met local officials at Border Field State Park. Her goal was to learn about the environmental challenges that this area…
By Jose Lara La Prensa San Diego It’s official. Latinos now make up the largest ethnic group in California. They surpassed Whites for the first time since California was part of Mexico. However, the same is not true about…
By Andrea Estrada Amgios805 The Chicano movement of the late 1960s and 1970s was the largest and most widespread civil rights and empowerment movement by Mexican-Americans in U.S. history. But without strong and dedicated leadership, it might not have…
By Alexander Sebastián Corey El Nuevo Sol As a college student, graphic design was more than just a hobby for Víctor Zúñiga, 25. It was a way to express complex social issues not fully understood by himself or by…
By Frank X. Moraga Amigos805 Just suppose you were dropped into a country where you couldn’t speak the language, couldn’t read the local newspaper, read signs at local supermarket or even read the public bus transportation schedule. And just…
By Angela Ortiz Se Fija! After studying and working abroad from his native Mexico, Cruz returned to start the production company Canana in partnership with Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna. Now located in Los Angeles, he’s brought us…
By Kerry Trueman Mom’s Clean Air Force There’s no Oscar for Best Manmade ‘Natural’ Disaster, but if there were, Southern California would win in a mudslide. After all, Hollywood’s movie studios have spent decades perfecting the cinematic catastrophe: earthquakes,…
By Jazzmyne Bogard EL NUEVO SOL With the passing of prop 227 in 1998, which put a ban on bilingual education, many thought bilingual learning had come to an end. This ban on language learning was not because California…
LatinaLista Amid the weekend news trumpeting California Gov. Jerry Brown’s signing of 9 immigration-related bills, one bill had special meaning – the bill that allows Sergio Garcia to practice law. If you remember, Sergio was the young man who…
By Pablo J. Sáinz La Prensa San Diego A recently launched website that promotes disaster preparedness among Californians was introduced to ethnic media editors and reporters in San Diego this past week. At a recent media round-table organized in…
By Nicole Hernández Hammer LatinaLista As a sea level rise researcher I try to better understand the impacts of sea level rise on the U.S.– fiercer storms, polluted water, and loss of land. There is a lot of information…
Frontera NorteSur In Baja California, tens of thousands of houses stand abandoned as the casualties of recent crisis. Of the inventory of empty homes, between 19,000 and 20,000 of the units were financed by Infonavit, the Mexican federal agency…
By Frank X. Moraga Amigos805 As the crow/seagull flies, it’s almost 200 miles between Point Mugu and Paso Robles. That is almost as far (215 miles) as from New York City to Boston, or Mexico City to Acapulco (235…
By Joanna Rentería El Nuevo Sol “I’M AMERICAN – I’M JUST WAITING FOR MY COUNTRY TO RECOGNIZE IT.”- JOSÉ ANTONIO VARGAS Students and staff of California State University, Northridge, gathered Tuesday evening to hear the words of Award-winning multimedia…
LatinaLista — Talk of modernizing the voting process always crops up around major elections. Unfortunately, it’s more talk of what can be done than doing it but one area that has gotten a boost from today’s technology is voter…
LatinaLista — As the nation prepares to swear in Barack Obama as the 45th US President, he will have the distinction of being the 15th Democrat (of those presidents specifically identified as Democrats) to hold the highest office in…
LatinaLista — California may be known as the state where make-believe can turn into big bucks but there’s nothing make believe about California having one of the highest number of people who are going hungry. The University of California…
LatinaLista Something good is happening in California. For a state more accustomed to bad news — a broke state economy, a slashing of public services, an increase in health premiums by the state’s largest health insurer, rising college tuition…
LatinaLista — A sad and all too often ignored fact is that the people who are on the frontline of Corporate America’s environmental abuses are low-income and/or minority neighborhoods. In 2001, residents of the Commerce/East Los Angeles area were…
LatinaLista — The issue of tensions existing between blacks and Latinos, in this day and age, has always been quickly pooh-poohed. The consensual feeling is that both communities have reached the heights of education, political sophistication and cooperation that…
LatinaLista — The California Department of Education released a report detailing how the true(er) drop-out rate for California’s high school students stands at 24 percent. What was not so interesting was the breakdown by ethnicities: The new data revealed…
