LatinaLista — If visiting Peru’s National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History (MNHAAP) has been on your bucket list, you may be able to check that off sooner than you thought. The MNHAAP opened its virtual doors to cyber-museum…
By Loida Casares LatinaLista A couple of years ago when my dad came to live with me, I found out he had written a new will that he didn’t tell me about. For whatever reason, my dad had decided…
Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council Broadband & Social Justice (MMTCBBSJ) The Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council (MMTC) announced the adoption of the Santana Resolution, in honor of Feidin Santana, encouraging MMTC members to become proficient in using…
By Natalia Bobadilla La Prensa SAN ANTONIO — More than 150 local students between the ages of 10 and 18 spent two days out of their summer delving into the realm of technology at San Antonio’s very own Geek…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Mattresses at Philadelphia’s Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission 180 men call Philadelphia’s Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission home each night. It is for these men that the mission needs 100 new mattresses in their emergency shelter. Hundreds of…
LatinaLista — Jaime Antonio Molina Martínez will probably think a long hard time before littering the streets again of San Nicolás de los Garza, a suburb of Monterrey, Mexico. And if he doesn’t, chances are there will be plenty…
By Veronica Vargas Stidvent LatinaLista Employers know that the challenges businesses face finding workers who are skilled, educated and ready to succeed in some of the high-demand fields such as health care, high tech and STEM fields tempers the…
SaludToday Compared to the general women population in the U.S. the rate of breast cancer and cervical cancer screenings are low among Latinas. In a new study published in the Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives, researchers attribute the…
By Mimi Pollack La Prensa San Diego Dancing flamenco and giving back to others have been part of Sonya Burton’s life since she was a child. These two passions will come together for one evening at The Abbey…
LatinaLista — Campaign: 11th Annual Out in the City Youth Prom Over the last 10 years, thousands of LGBTQ youth and their friends have attended an amazing Summer Prom in St. Louis hosted by Growing American Youth and held…
LatinaLista — Femicide, the killing of women, has dominated headlines in Mexico ever since now-deceased Juarez activist Esther Chavez first brought the gruesome activity to international attention in the 1990s. According to the National Citizen Femicide Observatory, a coalition…
By Ross Griffith and Victoria Robinson VoiceBox Media San Marcos is a rapidly expanding city with a severe lack of housing options for the nearly 40 percent of residents who live below the poverty level. The majority of residents…
by Emily Starbuck Crone NerdWallet As college costs rise, more students are taking out loans to help pay for school. Of those who graduated from college in 2013, 69% had student loans, with an average debt amount of $28,400…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Juegue con Mala Fama Ultimate México MalaFama is a Mexican women’s ultimate frisbee team. In August, they will celebrate their 5th anniversary and currently hold the national championship title. They are working towards the development of…
By Nate Robson Oklahoma Watch Oklahoma’s high school graduation rate has dropped, with low-income students seeing the largest decline, according to the latest data available from the state Department of Education. The state’s overall graduation rate was 82.7 percent…
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 Yvette Donado LatinaLista (Editor’s Note: Yvette Donado, SVP and Chief Administrative Officer of Educational Testing Services, delivered the following address at the annual conference of the National Association of Elementary School Principals on July 1. It has been…
By Sarah Zahedi Juvenile Justice Information Exchange Through times of trauma and distress, often all a child needs is to be showered with love. It may sound corny, but for the estimated 100,000 children who are sexually exploited per…
By Laura Waxmann Mission Local The artist whose mural on LGBT love that has been vandalized at least four times said on Saturday at a community forum that he failed to foresee the impact and called the vandalism an…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Funding Diverse Startup Founders The average tech workforce is only 2% black, 1% Hispanic, and 25% women. The data for minority entrepreneurs are just as bad, with less than 2% black and Hispanic entrepreneurs receiving venture…
LatinaLista — The emotional distress of a child having a parent incarcerated has been documented enough in film and books to understand that there is trauma felt by members of the family, but what about when a sibling or…
LatinaLista — In a growing number of countries around the world, governments are looking at cable cars as the latest mode of public transportation. While this “subway in the sky” is mostly associated with ski resorts, cable cars are…
By Kristal Bivona, Sandra Ruiz, and Daniel Ward Language Magazine Kristal Bivona, Sandra Ruiz, and Daniel Ward discuss the movements and histories that made Spanish such an important language for activism El pueblo unido jamás será vencido… U.S.-based activists,…
By Aubrey Rumore Cronkite News WASHINGTON – The governor of the Gila River Indian Community told a House panel Wednesday that Indian Country is the nation’s “least served” area for broadband access, despite the “astounding” opportunity that it presents….
LatinaLista — Campaign: Prodigal Daughter – A Personal Documentary on Reconciliation A Peruvian-American artist conquers immigration hardship, trauma, and family isolation in this epic story of healing and reconciliation Prodigal Daughter tells the story of a filmmaker’s reconciliation with…
