New multimedia game exposes the realities of immigrant lives in U.S. detention |
There's a lot of truth in the saying that you don't know how someone else's life is until you walk a mile in their shoes.It is certainly true of the 300,000 immigrants who are being detained across th...
Posted by Latina Lista on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:37:00 PST |
Congress declares September National Tortilla Month |
Since the early 90s, salsa has been reported as the 1 condiment in the USA. So it's only fitting that another Latino food item, that goes hand-in-hand with salsa is now being recognized as gaining the...
Posted by Latina Lista on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:42:00 PST |
John McCain doesnt know who is the Prime Minister of Spain |
One of the many criticisms levied by the McCain campaign against Barack Obama has been his lack of foreign policy experience. To make that point, Sen. McCain went on a whirlwind trip this past summer ...
Posted by Latina Lista on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:49:00 PST |
New campaign makes U.S. Constitution center of national conversation |
Today is the 221st anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution. It's that "piece of paper" that the "Framers" of this nation inscribed with all their hopes that regardless of the transitions t...
Posted by Latina Lista on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:35:00 PST |
McCains preference for Sarah Palin triggers questions, questions, and more questions |
The Republican nominee for vice president, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, brings to the ticket many of the shared values of the Republican Party but can those same values compensate for the lack of poli...
Posted by Latina Lista on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:34:00 PST |
New Mexico grants historical recognition to curanderas’ role in state history |
If you've ever had your feverish body massaged by a raw egg in its shell chances are it was done by a curandera, or your abuelita who learned it from a curandera.Curanderas, or the faith healers, of M...
Posted by Latina Lista on Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:16:00 PST |
ICE gambles that Democrats and progressive bloggers are too distracted to call them out on late |
It is 1,367 miles from Denver, Colorado, the site of the Democratic National Convention, and Laurel, Mississippi, the site of the latest "biggest" immigration raid in the country.Families start to gat...
Posted by Latina Lista on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:36:00 PST |
5 moms band together to campaign against teenage cough medicine abuse |
One is an author, another is a deputy sheriff, another is a pediatric nurse practitioner, the other is an accountant and the last one is an educator and parent support specialist, but what they all ha...
Posted by Latina Lista on Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:12:00 PST |
New webseries stars talented Latina actress |
Her name is spelled Ylse and she says to think of it as a combination of "illegal" and "sexy," and no she's not an undocumented immigrant. She's a Latina entertainment journalist who aspires to do som...
Posted by Latina Lista on Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:20:00 PST |
New art exhibit celebrates a "Declaration of Immigration" |
This Friday, in honor of the Declaration of Independence a new declaration will be drafted at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago.It will be called the Declaration of Immigration and it's a ...
Posted by Latina Lista on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:33:00 PST |
