LatinaLista — Campaign: FED UP: Food Education For Every Classroom Four years ago, Katie Couric reached out to Laurie David with an email: “Hey Laurie, I’ve been covering the issues of food and diet for 30 years and I am…
By Annika Darling CTLatinoNews.com The origin of the Springfield Puerto Rican Parade is somewhat of a legend, passed down through parade organizers. As the story goes, when Hurricane Hugo struck Puerto Rico in 1989, nearly 28,000 people were left…
LatinaLista — September is known as Mes de la Patria in Mexico. On the night of September 15, Mexicans, the world over, wait for the 11 p.m. Grito de Independencia delivered by the country’s president in Mexico City’s zócalo. The…
By Patricia Campos-Medina LatinaLista I have spent most of my professional life in the leadership ranks of labor and politics and for most of that time I felt I was the only woman in the room. I never…
By Becca Smouse Cronkite News PHOENIX – As part of the recruitment team for the Phoenix Police Department, Lt. Anthony Lopez says diversity pays dividends beyond reflecting the community served. “It’s absolutely essential to have diversity for an effective…
LatinaLista — Campaign: “The A to Z Guide to Jobs for Girls” ABC Board Book The A to Z Guide to Jobs For Girls is an illustrated ABC Board Book for children featuring young women in different career roles…
By Obed Manuel Latina Lista Protestors from around Dallas and different Texas cities marched through the streets of downtown Dallas waving U.S. flags and chanting “Dump the Trump!” Monday afternoon. The wave of red, white and blue noisily moved…
LatinaLista — Forget drones, Peru is looking to a higher source in helping officials monitor illegal activity among the 176 national, regional and private nature areas of the country. The National Service of Protected Natural Areas by the State (Sernanp) signed…
By Erik De La Cruz LatinaLista I blankly stared at my computer with San Diego State University’s homepage open. I hesitated to click into the admission status. I breathed deeply. My education’s fate awaited me after the click. Denied….
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat Fewer options for preschool, inexperienced teachers and low-performing schools are just some of the disadvantages children of immigrants face early in their education, a new Migration Policy Institute report points out. The…
LatinaLista — Campaign: 8 West – Ending Youth Homelessness In San Diego, California, there are more than 3,000 homeless youth living and sleeping on the streets. Many arrive from all over the United States. 8 West, a transitional employment…
Frontera NorteSur For the first time in 15 years, dollars sent home by Mexicans working in the United States have surpassed the value of Mexico’s oil exports. According to the central Bank of Mexico, the flow of migrant…
LatinaLista — September 26 marks the one-year anniversary when more than 100 young students, from the Escuela Normal Rural of Ayotzinapa, were attacked by local police, resulting in the deaths of 3 students, more then 20 injured, and the…
LatinaLista — There's a Spanish word that neatly sums up a person's drive to achieve their wants, desires and goals — ganas. Ganas is what everyone needs to overcome those challenges to achieving their dreams. A recent Latina Lista…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Bring my Dad Home Claudia Amaro is one of the Dream9, the first group of undocumented youth who presented themselves at the U.S.-Mexico border in July of 2013, asking to come home. Two months later, her…
By Lizette Escobedo Moms Clean Air Force In his groundbreaking encyclical on climate change, “Laudato Si,” Pope Francis calls on our nation’s leaders to take action. He sends a clear message that without the courage to address the…
By John Newton La Voz Latina Historically, Latino students in the U.S. have lagged behind other ethnic groups in post-secondary academic achievement. Reasons for this disparity range from a lack of financial support to inadequate college preparation during…
LatinaLista — Most of the world is familiar with the lush, green hillsides of Colombia courtesy of the countless commercials over the years promoting one of the country's main exports, coffee. Yet, not many know that Colombia ranks among…
Latina Lista founder Marisa Treviño and Latina Lista managing editor Obed Manuel sit down to introduce readers to the ListaPodcast and to discuss everyone’s favorite haircut (Donald Trump), the surprising face-off brewing between presidential campaign veteran Hillary Clinton and…
By Steve Koppes Futurity A new study of more than 500 black and Latino college students confirms that many encounter obstacles after enrolling in college without adequate financial resources. “This project focuses on black and Latino students because…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Ancestors or Enemies? Using Strontium Isotopes to Identify Trophy Skulls from Peru Trophy skulls of beheaded individuals are not uncommon at cemeteries dating to the turbulent Wari era in the Andes. In Arequipa, Peru, it…
By Luisa Muniz Borderzine JUAREZ — The photograph is a self-portrait. But it shows two women — two manifestations of the same woman, a woman who calls herself a hybrid, a dislocated immigrant who still feels at home in…
By Hillary Ojeda Peru This Week The new quinoa burger at McDonald’s in Germany might have been the most exciting quinoa news of the year, until a scientific development hit the public. Peruvian specialists are developing maybe 10 new…
By John Rennie Short The Conversation The mass media are filled with images of desperate refugees struggling to escape civil unrest. But it is not only the poor and the displaced who are on the move. The rich,…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Charged – The Eduardo Garcia Documentary Charged is a feature-length documentary film in the making. In 2011, Chef Eduardo Garcia was shocked with 2400 volts of electricity in a freak incident deep in Montana’s backcountry. Near…
