By Nikoleta Morales Extra News The Puerto Rican Day Parade was created and started 47 years ago. The parade was traditionally celebrated in downtown Chicago. This year the tradition was broken – there will be no Puerto Rican Parade…
By Brian Extra News CHICAGO — On May 8, 5000 teachers, students, administrators, and parents gathered in downtown Chicago to represent the 53,000 students in Chicago Public Schools (CPS), demanding that CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett and Chicago aldermen provide…
Extra Newspaper On Sunday, April 7, in the Civic Opera House of Chicago, the Lyric Opera of Chicago presented the premier of “Cruzar la Cara de la Luna” , the first ever mariachi opera in the…
Extra News Chicago has become the unfortunate center of youth violence in America. Recent studies show that homicide is the second leading cause of death among young Latinos, and the first leading cause of death among young African-Americans. Dr….
By Alejandra Herrera Extra News On the anniversary of the historic mass marches in Chicago, March 10, hundreds of people gathered together at Union Park to march against deportations at the first Senate Hearing regarding the new Legislation for…
By Nikoleta Morales Extra News CHICAGO — Hundreds of charter school students and families gathered on the Southwest Side at 5050 S. St. Louis Ave. to mark the placement of the last beam of steel in the innovative 27…
By Deysy Cuevas Extra News On Saturday, January 5, the Calles y Sueños Gallery at 1900 S. Carpenter Rd. held an opening reception for Diane Kahlo’s exhibit, “Wall of Memories: the Disappeared Women of Juárez.” Kahlo’s exhibit consists of…
Extra News CHICAGO — Demonstrating the increasing demand for school choice, Latino families were among the thousands of Chicago families who explored more than 130 of the city’s public schools, including charter schools, at the 6th Annual New Schools…
By Sandra Treviño Extra News November is National Diabetes Awareness month. According to the latest estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 26 million Americans have diabetes. If current trends continue, as many as 1 in…
By Sandra Treviño Extra News Despite the violence that continues to plague Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood, there abounds a sense of hope thanks to the efforts of one of its long-time advocates, Marina Alonso. Her charismatic demeanor,…
By Sylvia Longmire Mexico’s Drug War “At least seven people…have been killed and 24 others wounded in a string of shootings in the US city of Chicago in the past two days.” This was one very stark headline the…
By Christina Elizabeth Rodriguez Extra News EXTRA had the opportunity to talk to Jesse Ruiz, vice president of the Chicago Board of Education about issues that have been in Chicago’s limelight recently. Via a phone conversation, Ruiz discussed longer…
By Ada Alvarez LatinaLista CHICAGO — “We need to talk about women’s health,” declared Dr. Janine Clayton, deputy director from the Office of Research on Women’s Health, as part of the three-speaker panel discussing “Women’s health research agenda: The…
LatinaLista — It’s kind of embarrassing that even with the star power of the First Family and Oprah Chicago lost its bid for the Olympics. But if we had to lose, Rio was the best alternative. Chicagoans react in…
By Kate Shellnutt News21 Traditional greetings–“buenos dias” and smacking kisses, one on each cheek–sound out over the organ music 22-year-old missionary Charisse Horn plays at a Sunday morning service in Logan Square. A year ago, she’d never spoken a…
LatinaList — We have to hand it to our blogera, Esther Cepeda, over at 600words.com for doing something that is long overdue — and will probably be the first (we hope) of many more to come — a Latino…
