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Crowdfunder: Preserving the legacy of Hispanic Link – a trailblazer in breaking through mainstream media

Nov 2, 2015, 3:28 PM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: The Hispanic Link Legacy Project Mainstream media's proverbial arms weren't always open to covering issues of importance to the Latino community. If the local or national news media gatekeepers deemed the story "unnewsworthy," the nation would…

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The Latino Photographer Who “Humanized” Frank Lloyd Wright

Oct 29, 2015, 3:12 PM 0

By Meghan Drueding Preservation Nation Frank Lloyd Wright isn’t necessarily thought of as warm and fuzzy. But he got along famously with photographer Pedro Guerrero, who started documenting Wright’s work at the tender age of 22 and continued to…

Community Stories, Washington DC, zNew Headline

Young Delaware Latino professionals band together “Unleashing Dreams”

Oct 29, 2015, 2:35 PM 0

By Maria Luna-Medina El Tiempo Hispano In the early spring of 2015 a group of young Latino Professionals decided to form a group with a mission to motivate, inspire, and educate the Hispanic youth in their community to…

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TicketKarma, Q&A with Latino founded ticket resale startup

Oct 21, 2015, 1:22 PM 0

By Sara Inés Calderón Más Wired Joel Rojo is a Texas native, serial entrepreneur and currently the CODE2040 Entrepreneur in Residence at Capital Factory in Austin. His current venture, TicketKarma, is a ticket resale marketplace, changing the way music lovers…

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Crowdfunder: Mixing pachuco and social justice to create change in Latino-dominant community

Oct 7, 2015, 10:46 AM 0

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…

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Why obesity continues to plague Latino population (and what you can do about It)

Sep 23, 2015, 2:43 PM 0

SaludToday U.S. adult obesity rates remained mostly steady―but high―this past year, although Latino adults and children continue to suffer higher rates than whites, according to a new report by the Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood…

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Crowdfunder: Helping Latino actors break Hollywood’s status quo

Sep 22, 2015, 11:06 AM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: Spanglish the Webseries Spanglish is an interactive web series about Mariola, the anti-typical Hispanic woman, living in New York City. With Latinos becoming a larger and larger demographic in America, the creators of this web series think…

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Guest Voz: My dream school rejected me. Here’s what I learned.

Sep 14, 2015, 1:00 PM 0

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….

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Video: Film about young Latino trying to prove innocence may “strike” too close to home for some

Aug 27, 2015, 3:37 PM 0

LatinaLista — The one stereotype about Latinos that is true to the core is how family members care for one another. There’s no greater example of that truth than in the film Strike One. According to the film’s website,…

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Guest Voz: Tech industry’s problem of not including Latinas & others of color goes beyond failing at diversity

Aug 5, 2015, 3:37 PM 0

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…

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Five Latinos shaping the city of Houston

Aug 4, 2015, 9:34 AM 0

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,…

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Affordable housing proves hard to come by in one Texas town

Jul 29, 2015, 2:27 PM 0

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…

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Oklahoma Graduation Rates Drop in All Student Groups

Jul 29, 2015, 11:58 AM 0

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…

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Latinos Not Meeting National Recommendation for Consumption of Fruits & Vegetables

Jul 16, 2015, 2:49 PM 0

SaludToday The U.S. population does not consume enough fruits and vegetables a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) concluded, NBC Health reports. Latinos in the U.S. consume even less…

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Crowdfunder: Lifting the shame of mental illness among people of color through photos

Jul 13, 2015, 10:09 AM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: People of Color and Mental Illness Photo Project For the past 10 months, Dior Vargas has been collecting self-portraits from people of color dealing with mental illness around the country on her website; so far, she…

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Report analyzing “Health of State Democracies” finds majority of Latinos live in high-ranking states

Jul 8, 2015, 5:33 PM 0

LatinaLista — Today’s official declaration that Latinos now outnumber whites in California hardly made news. Most people across the nation thought that threshold had already been crossed and even the U.S. Census data, which was released in late June,…

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Tacos and lucha libre: How one Dallas festival put Latino culture in the spotlight

Jul 2, 2015, 12:26 PM 0

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…

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Crowdfunder: Changing the Latino Image — One Story at a Time

Jun 23, 2015, 11:42 AM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: Help Change the Latino Image — One Story at a Time Latinos are too often highlighted in the mainstream media as ‘illegal’ OR are typecast as cliche’ stereotypes like gardeners, maids, and gangsters. So, several screenwriters…

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Astros Urban Youth graduate Pablo Salazar lands college baseball scholarship

Apr 20, 2015, 2:39 PM 0

By Ruth Muñoz The Venture Almost every young boy dreams of one day becoming a professional athlete, but only a select few ever realize that dream. In Houston, a young man named Pablo Salazar is working hard to turn…

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New study finds historic high of Latino students achieved bachelor’s degrees in engineering and the physical sciences in 2012

Dec 4, 2014, 3:52 PM 0

LatinaLista — For all the talk about the lack of diversity in Silicon Valley, there’s some encouraging news on the horizon. The American Institute of Physics (AIP) Statistical Research Center conducted a study and found that more Latinos, than…

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Tackling Growing Substance Abuse Among Hispanics

Dec 4, 2014, 1:29 PM 0

Bill Sarno CTLatinoNews.com As it enters its 45th year of treating substance abuse, Hartford-based Youth Challenge of Connecticut, a faith-based nonprofit treatment facility has a critical ongoing mission, which is embedded in the demographics of substance abuse in Connecticut….

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Latino designer makes blue-collar workwear chic

Nov 20, 2014, 9:09 AM 0

By Ruth Munoz The Venture Growing up on a ranch in South Texas inspired designer Shayne Salinas to draw on the durable and functional workwear of his childhood to create kooTH, his latest clothing line. “I package every order…

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Analysis of Midterm election wins show that Democrats and Republicans need to do more to advance women and Latino politicians

Nov 6, 2014, 5:26 PM 0

LatinaLista — It’s an understatement to say that the GOP sweep of Tuesday’s midterm election has hogged the headlines of the past two days. Lost amid all the same-old, same-old political rhetoric are two congressional milestones that aren’t getting…

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For Latinos good health starts at home

Nov 3, 2014, 1:50 PM 0

By Lea Thompson La Prensa SAN ANTONIO — Latino health is affected by factors like food, genetics and lifestyle. Unfortunately, the combination of traditional cultural dishes found at home and increasingly sedentary lifestyle in America make Hispanic populations more…

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“Children of color are the most at-risk victims of pollution”

Oct 31, 2014, 1:02 PM 0

By Marcia G. Yerman Mom’s Clean Air Force Ana Baptista is on a mission to drive change. With a Masters from Brown University in Environmental Studies, a PhD in Urban Planning and Public Policy, and a teaching post at…

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