By Loida Casares LatinaLista When my dad came to live with me, almost three years ago, my first instinct was to give him my bedroom. I thought it was just a temporary solution and that I’d prepare a room for…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Institute of Activism / Instituto de Artivismo Hannah Arendt The Institute of Artivism in Cuba is a physical space and an online platform which hosts international artists and activists to foster civic literacy and policy change….
By Marco Springmann The Conversation Eating more fruit and vegetables and cutting back on red and processed meat will make you healthier. That’s obvious enough. But as chickens and cows themselves eat food and burn off their own energy,…
By Lindsay Robinson Cronkite News SCOTTSDALE – In 2010, the U.N. General Assembly recognized access to clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right. Six years later, on March 22, a Scottsdale-based nonprofit is helping rural communities in…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Wise Medicine: A Documentary Our world is in crisis. Terrorism, racism, political extremism, destruction of the environment, contaminated food, the list goes on. As we look to “new” healing paradigms in our modern society – many…
SaludToday The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of Minority Health (CMS OMH) recently released an interactive map that helps in the understanding of disparities in chronic diseases geographically for Medicare beneficiaries. The Mapping Medicare Disparities (MMD) Tool can…
By Luis Montoya Rio Grande Guardian HIDALGO, RGV – South Texas GOP congressional candidate Tim Westley and the Texas Border Coalition have dismissed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposal to close down the border in the wake of the…
LatinaLista — Long before Donald Trump started sweeping up primary wins, I noticed a disturbing trend on network and cable news shows — Trump was their go-to candidate interviewee. Like on the debate stage where the spotlight perpetually shines…
LatinaLista — Campaign: CUBAN FOOD STORIES – A Feature Documentary Cuba is changing. After more than 50 years of isolation due to the embargo, the forbidden island is finally opening up to the United States. Celebrities, brands, religious leaders,…
By Filip Mazurczak Preservation Nation The term “sacred” holds a variety of meanings for many Americans. For some, sacred places are literally that: places where they go to establish contact with the transcendent world. For others, sacredness implies…
By R. Hans Miller VoiceBox Media The state of Texas is home to 11 detention facilities for immigrants who have entered the United States. Many of these immigrants are women with small children, running from situations in their Central…
By Steve Taylor Rio Grande Guardian REYNOSA, Tamaulipas – INDEX Reynosa, the trade association for maquila plants in Reynosa, has launched a new website aimed at disseminating positive news to the general public and the media, in addition to…
By Julio Valeriano LatinaLista While there have been some advances in addressing gender inequality in Latin America, women and girls continue to be one of the most marginalized groups in the continent. The benefits of working toward a more equal society for…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Help Us Save Our Champion Marcos Marcos Alejandro Castellans is 10 years old and lives in Chimaltenango, Guatemala with parents and an older brother. After several months of feeling severe exhaustion and weakness, as well as,…
By Miguel Otárola Cronkite News PHOENIX – It will take more than a Hispanic name like “Cruz” or “Rubio” to win over the country’s largest minority group, advocates say. While Republican hopefuls Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and…
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat The nation’s first and only freestanding College of Ethnic Studiesis struggling to pay its debts. The administration of San Francisco State University announced recently that the institution has been footing a $200,000 annual deficit for the college…
LatinaLista — Netflix may be striving for world domination but when it comes to Latin America they are now facing some formidable competition. Launched on March 4, 2016, Retina Latina is a new platform that streams high-quality Latin American…
By John Newton La Voz Latina When Pastor Samuel Rodriguez and his family moved to Savannah in 1995, his goal was to establish a protestant church for the region’s growing Hispanic population. Now, 20 years later, there are at…
LatinaLista — Longtime Peru-based LatinaLista contributor Isabel Guerra wrote us saying that she and her husband, professional photographer, Jose Enrique, had decided to do their part to help save one of the world’s most important environmental treasures that literally…
By Carmen Marriott LatinaLista I am the daughter of a woman who emigrated from Nicaragua in the late 1940s, and I feel that I know quite a bit about Nicaraguan history, based on both formal study and family stories….
By Steve Taylor Rio Grande Guardian PHARR, RGV – Laredo Mayor Pete Saenz, who is also chairman of the binational Good Neighbor Commission and chairman-elect of the Texas Border Coalition, says he cannot rule out voting for Donald…
LatinaLista — Last October, the World Health Organization (WHO) had bacon lovers “squealing” when they declared that bacon, hot dogs and other processed meats caused cancer. Now, a new study has been released saying there’s evidence that bacon, sausage…
LatinaLista — Campaign: How can we improve racial and ethnic integration reform in U.S. schools for youth of color? Youth of color are at the front lines of racial and ethnic integration reform, as they’re traditionally bused into predominantly White…
By Victoria Simons & Anna Helhoski NerdWallet Employers nationwide are beginning to offer a new perk to their increasingly indebted millennial workforce: assistance in paying down student loans. A new study by NerdWallet found undergraduate student debt holders…
By Bill Sarno CTLatinoNews.com They offer salsa classes to foster awareness of their culture and hold forums on immigration to help their members, but Latino student organizations at many of the state’s college and universities have also have embraced…
