LatinaLista — Campaign: Nuyorican Básquet: Documentary Film When the Puerto Rican basketball team played at the 1979 Pan American Games, an oddity was evident: the majority of its players did not speak Spanish, but rather Spanglish. The team…
By Adda Montalvo La Prensa SAN ANTONIO — Something is certain: In this lotería game, you're always going to touch the skeleton. And to see for yourself, you can visit the "Lotería de los Muertos" exhibit by Mexican painter…
By Marco Revuelta The Venture For Leticia Puebla, this December will be the first time she will set foot inside a museum. The Houston Museum of Natural Science will be showcasing a special exhibition this winter featuring the…
LatinaLista — Campaign: The Grind for Your Soul: Skating Por-Vida Project The Grind for Your Soul: Skating Por Vida event will use the fashion and popular culture around skate boarding as a way to engage and expose youth…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Day of the Dead DAY OF THE DEAD – A human celebration of life – is a contemporary artistic experience which will allow viewers to go deep inside of a never told story about this annual…
By Amelia Orozco Extra! “Don Chipotle” is a new play by award-winning writer and performer Juan Francisco Villa, and is directed by Jo Cattell. Presented by terraNova, The Playground Theater, and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and…
LatinaLista — It is said that over 200 times a second, half a billion times a month, somebody clicks on Wikipedia. Debuting 14 years ago, the online, crowd-contributed/corrected encyclopedia publishes 12,000 new pages every day, creating an archive boasting…
By Obed Manuel LatinaLista There was a special feeling at the end of the night as the first ever Taco Libre festival in Dallas came to a close. Even as the bright red stage lights flashed on the dancing…
By KeAnna Whisenhunt La Prensa de San Antonio San Antonio native and artist Moni Avila has designed a program that will educate the public on the importance of Mexican American culture and its history. Inspired by her own upbringing…
LatinaLista — Campaign: PUCKLLAS – An alive exposure of Scissors Dance Ana Huerta is photographer and student of anthropology, Ollantay Sanchez is a music student and sound engineer. They are both the founders of the Nuna Collective, and they…
LatinaLista — The newly released Pew report, English Proficiency on the Rise Among Latinos, highlights what is an inevitable outcome for any immigrant community whose current growth can be traced to more native births than foreign ones — English…
By Linda Castillo LatinaLista (Editor’s Note: The following story was originally published on May 9, 2015) Today is the last day of National Small Business Week, a time dedicated to recognize the special impact and achievements made by outstanding…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Librería Donceles There are millions of Spanish speakers in the US and yet a scarcity of books in Spanish. The situation has been made more critical by rapid transformations in publishing, with the rise of e-books…
By Niema Jordan LatinaLista (Editor’s Note: This story was produced and was originally published by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting.) Last year, reporters Trey Bundy and Daffodil Altan provided a window inside a space rarely seen by…
By Kellen McKillop LatinaLista Before the soft lavender of a San Francisco apartment, a woman dressed in a 1970s vintage, feminine dress holds a power stance with a strong fist in the air. Over her face, she wears a…
By Obed Manuel LatinaLista Nobody rises to lower expectations. That’s what Martha Casazza, an education consultant from Chicago, learned during the four years she spent interviewing Latinos in Chicago’s working-class Pilsen neighborhood. Casazza’s book “Dreaming Forward: Latino Voices Enhance…
By Sarah Dahlen LatinaLista “I am whom I have been waiting for/No one can complete me/Because I can complete myself.” These lines from Cinthya Martinez’ poem “The East” are a fitting beginning to a book on Latina spirituality. Fleshing…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Music and Dance In the Barrio The Floricanto Center for the Performing Arts was originally a furniture factory that has been reclaimed and converted into a community arts space. Nestled in the City Terrace neighborhood of…
LatinaLista — One sure sign of a country’s healthy economy is its growing housing sector. Unless of course new development “bulldozes” over one of the main industries responsible for that healthy economy. Peru is a country dependent on tourism….
By Enid Reyes Latina Lista This month, Pew Research released findings showing that more Puerto Ricans since the end of WWII are opting to leave the island and make their homes on the U.S. mainland. Plagued by corruption, rampant…
By James Smith LatinaLista Philadelphia – An extensive exhibition of the works of more than twenty emerging Latina artists was offered by Raices Culturales, Friday, at 1417 N. 2nd street, the spacious Crane Arts Building headquarters of Raices. A…
LatinaLista — It’s long been known that one of the reasons why the United States has 11 million undocumented migrants is because security at the border has been so strict over the last decade. Where it used to be…
By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista GUATEMALA — Juan Jose Ortiz may not look like a drummer, but for the past year the young Guatemalan has played the tortoise shells in a Mayan cultural group in the small indigenous municipality of…
LatinaLista — No matter the ethnicity, there exists in most cultures expectations from the elder generation of their youth. Among immigrant families in the United States, these expectations can give rise to rebellious behavior. It’s not uncommon to hear…
By John Rosales Hispanic Link News Service My tio Lalo was proud of the Jesus portrait tattooed across his chest. He also had the Virgen strategically scratched on his left arm, where her colored garments and rosary beads hid…
