LatinaLista — Undocumented students, otherwise known as DREAMers, have been signing petitions, staging hunger strikes, marches, rallies and risking arrest for several years now. They risk exposing their legal status in the United States for one common goal —…
By Hillary Ojeda Peru This Week Peru is a country with an abundance of archaeological sites, beautiful and ripe with cultural history. Unfortunately, the resources are lacking to protect all of them from threats such as environmental damage and…
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat This summer, native Spanish-speaking immigrant students in Los Angeles participated in a five-week pilot program testing a new algebra curriculum aligned with the Common Core. Sarah Tully of EdSource reported last week that…
Frontera NorteSur Near the intersection of Vicente Guerrero and Lopez Mateos in Ciudad Juarez, local artist Maclovio describes a hypnotizing mural that honors three female victims of disappearance and homicide-Esmeralda Castillo Rincon, Rosa Virginia Hernandez Cano and Adriana Sarmiento….
LatinaLista — Campaign: BEDTIME STORIES – CUENTOS by deported parents Sophia is an educator, artist and activist in San Diego, CA dedicated to using the arts for both social change and healing. For the past six months she has…
By Loida Casares LatinaLista A couple of weeks ago my dad said that a woman called him on his cell phone and went on and on about something having to do with income taxes. He said he didn’t really…
LatinaLista — The female prison population has increased 646% in the past three decades, primarily due to inmates receiving sentences for nonviolent, low-level offenses. The United States imprisons more women than any other country, all at the taxpayer’s expense….
By Nancy Landa LatinaLista (Editor’s note: The following post originally appeared on the author’s blog Mundo Citizen.) It has been a busy year and part of the reason for writing sporadically is because activism has become a priority in…
By Bill Sarno CTLatinoNews.com The Puerto Rico debt crisis, if not resolved soon, is expected to have an impact far beyond the troubled commonwealth, with Connecticut, as the home to more than 250,000 Puerto Ricans, many with deep ties…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Let’s Put Up An #ILookLikeAnEngineer Billboard After her company (OneLogin) put up an ad in San Francisco featuring an image of her, engineer Isis Wenger saw a lot of reactions. She wrote about these reactions in…
LatinaLista — Of all the countries in Latin America, Peru enjoys an extra fondness from the international community since its the steward of some of the most renown archeological treasures west of the Egyptian pyramids, namely Maachu Pichu and…
LatinaLista — In December 2014, the Nobel Women’s Initiative launched a three-part mini documentary series spotlighting the women of Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico who have committed their lives to fighting for human rights. Women Crossing the Line, provides the…
PreservationNation Located in the heart of downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Palace of the Governors is one of the oldest, in-use public building in the United States. Once the seat of power, the Palace now showcases the diverse…
By Steve Taylor Rio Grande Guardian McALLEN, RGV – On the eve of its annual summer conference, the Border Health Caucus has reaffirmed its support for the expansion of Medicaid. “There is no question about our support for Medicaid…
LatinaLista — Campaign: #GrowFruitGrowPower – Common Vision Formed in 2005, Common Vision is a non-profit that delivers inspirational environmental education. Over the past 10 years they’ve planted more than 6,000 fruit trees throughout California and built a reputation for…
LatinaLista — The murder of Mexican photojournalist Rubén Espinosa has galvanized the international journalism community to demand justice from the Mexican government. In a country rampant with crimes that go unpunished, coverage of the murder has been widespread —…
By Carolyn Muñoz LatinaLista The disparity in the workforce at technology companies is discouraging. While many technology giants work hard at inclusion, some just aren’t building teams who are the best they could be in the technology game. In…
By Yara Simón Remezcla Surviving the fourth grade, playing with friends, and being un poco travieso. The life of a 10-year-old in the United States shouldn’t be more complicated than that. But for Delmy Pineda’s son, nearly 10 months…
By Bill Sarno CTLatinoNews.com When Republicans in Waterbury asked Jose Morales, a former Democrat, to be their candidate for mayor, he quickly seized the opportunity and became the first Hispanic to seek this post in the city’s history. ”…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Project Taray Sonco Wasi, the non-profit parent organization to Project Taray, was founded in 2010 to support the children of Taray after a disastrous flood seriously damaged the village. They provide a wide variety of activities…
LatinaLista — Spanish-speaking countries are known as much for their laid-back, I’ll-get-there-when-I-get-there attitude as they are for their tradition of daytime siestas. But one governor in Bolivia has had it with employees arriving to work on “Bolivian Time.” Víctor…
LatinaLista — Donald Trump must be confusing himself with Pope Francis when it comes to poll numbers. A new nationwide poll of religious or faith affiliated likely 2016 voters, released by a coalition of labor unions and faith organizations,…
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By Lisette Garcia The Venture EGMN reporter Lizette Garcia sets out to find the top five Hispanic leaders everyone in the Space City should know. Whether they’re helping young students land their dream job or helping citizens better themselves,…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Keshia Thomas: Keshia’s H.E.A.R.T In 1996 Keshia Thomas was attending a protest against the Ku Klux Klan, a white male with an ‘SS tattoo’ and wearing a Confederate flag t-shirt found himself in the midst of…
