By Edward T. Rincón, Ph.D. Polls and surveys continue to play an important role in monitoring public sentiments and guiding campaign strategy as we have witnessed in the current presidential election and the Census 2020. With changes in the growth…
By Dr. Edward T. Rincón LatinaLista It is indeed puzzling to witness Republicans scrambling to suppress the Latino vote for the November election. Governor Gregg Abbott’s recent order to limit the number of ballot drop-off locations for mail-in…
By Valerie Budayr Multicultural Children’s Book Day Not long ago, I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing publisher, Philip Lee. As one of the former founders of Lee & Low Books, Philip left the company in 2004 to create…
LatinaLista — Though Washington may be retreating further and further from the global community, no amount of alternative facts can deny that the history of the United States is built on the foundation of immigrant service and contributions. Four…
By Kate Evangelista CBC Diversity The word diverse can mean a lot of things to a lot people. That’s what’s fantastic about the word. Diverse literally means variety. As a budding writer, I have always been attracted to…
By Katherine Alanis Ramirez Borderzine EL PASO — For a while now, UTEP’s Speech and Debate team has faced a lack of literary diversity and its inaccessibility for use in competitive speeches and interpretive events. With a minimal…
CBC Diversity A little over a year ago, Kate Messner took up the #WeNeedDiverseBooks cause and spurred the handselling phenomenon that was The Great Greene Challenge. This holiday season, the We Need Diverse Books team hopes to catapult…
By Shelley Diaz CBC Diversity What is the overlap between challenged books and books by diverse authors? Inspired by the recent flurry of challenges to titles with diverse characters or by minorities or LGBTQ writers, young adult author and…
By Shelley Diaz CBC Diversity I decided I wanted to work in children’s publishing in sixth grade. I had devoured all of the Anne of Green Gables books by this time, and I was convinced that I could be…
LatinaLista — Last weekend, I received an email from a longtime reader whom I ‘virtually’ met several years ago when he was working on his book. His book, now published and award-winning, was being offered for free downloads on…
By Nina Lindsay CBC Diversity (Editor’s Note: The following is part of a CBC Diversity series of guest posts marketing and sales of children’s books.) I have little patience for: “brown people on covers don’t sell books.” My library’s…
LatinaLista — Everyone always notices the lack of diversity on television programs. After all, it’s shows we watch week in and week out but what about the movies? How often do we see films at the theater that have…
LatinaLista — Multiculturals — the new IT term instead of “minorities” are gaining in force and presence across the country. With the Commander-in-Chief, a multicultural himself, it makes sense that the multicultural community would want to explore ways to…
LatinaLista — The election of Barack Obama forces the country to look at people of color and ethnicity in a new light and to begin a new conversation about dropping old labels and adopting new ones. Barack Obama’s White…
