News (Noticias) for Latinas
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November 7, 2009
MARISA TREVIÑO: She’s one blogging Latina lista to be reckoned with!
Rep. Loretta Sanchez reiterates that she is not running for Governor
Report on Women’s Human Rights Violations Shows Systematic Attack on Women Under Honduran Coup
November 6, 2009
Lizette Olmos, LULAC and MillerCoors Lideres Campaign – she needs your help to win
Carmen Ortiz has been confirmed as the U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, becoming the first Hispanic and the first woman to hold the state’s top federal prosecutor’s job.
The National Latina Business Women’s Association Gather in Force and Unity to Help Shape the Future for Latina Business Owners
November 5, 2009
Hispanic women snap up brands that boost their behinds- Colombian jeans celebrate women’s curves
A ‘Precious’ opportunity for young nuyorican actress – Stephanie Andujar
Alexandra Limón is heading to Fresno to become nightside general assignment reporter for KGPE-47, the CBS affiliate. – leaves Telemundo in Tucson
Dominican-born judge wins bench in N.Y. State Supreme Court – Diccia Pineda-Kirwan
The American Heart Association Launches Go Red Por Tu Corazon at the Latin Grammy’s to Educate Latinas About Their Heart Health
November 4, 2009
Statement of US Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis on this week’s immigration enforcement and workers’ rights report
Hispanic Women Run for Nevada Office – Several candidates hope to alter the composition of the Nevada State Legislature. There are currently no Hispanic women serving in the legislature, but four have already announced they will run next year
Viewpoint: Being Latino in America – commentary by MARIA ELENA SALINAS
Miriam Flores is a 42-year-old Mexican immigrant who has taken the cause of English as a second language to the nation’s highest courts.
California Congresswoman Loretta Sánchez Leads Congress’s Charge Against Domestic Abuse
Latina Leadership Lessons: When We Wear Masks
November 2, 2009
Tales of weeping woman passed down in Hispanic culture – La Llorona
P&G Adapts Its Web Fashion Show for Hispanic Women – Branded Program ‘De Moda’ Retooled With Latin Topics, Celebs
Daisy Expósito-Ulla receives Women of Virtue Award from LatinBiz
Araceli de León Promoted to Regional Vice President and General Manager of KBLR-40 in Las Vegas and KDEN-25 in Denver
Few people have done more to advance the cause of Hispanics in the region than Rosa Correa, the former chairwoman of the Bridgeport Housing Authority.
The Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce board of directors has named Lea Marquez Peterson, its president and CEO.
SFist Interviews Artist Gabriela Lena Frank
October 30, 2009
Casa de Esperanza Launches Hope Campaign to Challenge Communities Across the Country to Take Action
Mexican Political Prisoner Gloria Arenas Released
Sanchez sisters eyed by House ethics panel for alleged collusion – Linda and Loretta CA Democrats
October 29, 2009
ImpreMedia Appoints Olga Casabona VP of Audience and Market Insights
Consorte Media Launches Tiene Sites to Provide Advice to Savvy Latinas
As an artist and a yoga guru in Kansas City, Maria Calderon, 25, is in touch with herself and her surroundings.
October 28, 2009
The Other Latina on CNN – half Puerto Rican Jane Velez-Mitchell and her book
Health Reform for Latinas Should Include Not Being Shackled While Birthing
Nationally Recognized Latina Lista Blog Re-Launches as Multimedia News Site
Sanctuary journey ends – 1st Elvira Arellano left y now Flor Crisostomo has left the church in Chicago
Mexico’s pink taxis cater to fed-up females – In colonial city of Pueblo, these cabs don’t stop for men
October 27, 2009
Domestic Violence and Latina Immigrants: Seven Reasons Why Some Are Reluctant to Seek Help
Q&A With Monica C. Roldan, MSW Manager of Community Outreach and Supervising Supervisor Sanctuary for Families
October 26, 2009
Utah Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Patricia Quijano Dark is moving to the Deseret News, where she will serve as a senior editor over minority and Hispanic issues.
Isabel Allende Named to Council of Cervantes Institute
Pregnant Latina Says She Was Forced to Give Birth in Shackles After One of Arpaio’s Deputies Racially Profiled Her
Latinos lag in skills as toddlers, studies show – Poor, immigrant Latinas have healthy babies but by age 2 or 3, their toddlers begin to lag behind white middle-class children in vocabulary, listening and problem-solving skills, according to two new studies.
Fidel Castro’s younger sister, Juanita, now living in Miami, reveals in a Univisión-Noticias 23 report on her new book that she worked with the CIA while living in Cuba.
Latina Leadership Lessons from La Bruja: A Different View of the Supernatural/ Spiritual Connection
Angelique Espinoza’s departure from Boulder City Council leaves cultural gap
October 17, 2009
Más mujeres en estructuras de poder de Cuba
Interview with Vickie Jimenez
Cuidad Juárez killings: Women victims are new aspect of ongoing violence across border
Miami-Beach Florida’s Mayor Matti Herrera Bower’s 19 Day Countdown to Mayoral Re-Election – city’s first female and Cuban-American Mayor
October 15, 2009
Mensaje de Yoani Sánchez a ceremonia de premios “María Moors Cabot” en la Universidad de Columbia.
October 14, 2009
Diana Delgado, was appointed as the new Vice President of Corporate Sales for Lazer Broadcasting a Spanish language radio station company based out of Oxnard, California.
MEXICO: Rural Poverty Has a Woman’s Face
Former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), a 2008 Republican presidential candidate and fierce opponent of illegal immigration, is criticizing the nomination of Stephanie Villafuerte for District of Colorado U.S. Attorney.
Afro-Latinos in Literature: Q&A with Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa – While many Latinos have African roots, our literature doesn’t always reflect this
Yazbeth Navarrete was honored on September 24 by the Sonoma Valley Chamber of Commerce with the “Latino Business Roundtable Community Leadership Award.”
A Cuban blogger who has become an international sensation for offering frank criticism of her country’s communist system said she was denied government permission Monday to travel to New York to receive a top journalism prize. – Yoani Sanchez
Former Chicagoan brings us a taste of El Salvador
A new coffee: Finca de Angeles Coffee – Stephanie Andersen-Samayoa
Tera Vazquez credits TN Minority Supplier Development Council in Nashville Post interview
Tuesday night’s Fiesta Latina concert at the White House wasn’t just a chance to showcase Latin music. The White House brought in guest chef Maricel Presilla to help tell the pan-Latin story through finger food. – chef and co-owner of Zafra and Cucharamama, two restaurants in Hoboken, N.J.
Decapitated body among 100 girls, women killed in Cuidad Juárez in ‘09 – “first time a woman has been decapitated and her body displayed in this manner” – (NOT GOOD but nothing seems to change) + The death toll in Juárez has surpassed the 1,900 mark for the year over the weekend, according to a tally kept by the El Paso Times.
University of Nevada, Reno professor Emma Sepulveda Pulvirenti was appointed to the commission this week by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. – National Museum of the American Latino Commission.
October 13, 2009
Parents of victims furious to learn that DWI mom Carmen Huertas mocked her own daughter’s pleas to be careful – NYC
October 12, 2009
Yoani Sánchez: ‘‘Mi vida está en otra Cuba, no en otra parte”
Scenes from Ana Castillo at UC Berkeley
A leader in Northern Nevada’s Latino community has been invited to a White House gathering next week for Hispanic Heritage Month. – Xiomara Rodriguez
Interview with Sueños chef Sue Torres in NYC
October 9, 2009
Latinas Feeling Uncertain About Healthcare Debate
LATINA Style Magazine to announce LATINA Executive of the Year for 2009
LATINA VOTER INTERNET AND NEW MEDIA USAGE: Groundbreaking Poll Shows Internet & New Media Usage Vital for Engaging Latinas
NCLR President and CEO Janet Murguía Named one of “Washingtonian’s 100 Most Powerful Women”
Associate Editor Sandra Guzmán was let go from the New York Post last week sparking controversy
Latina Author: Alexandra Roman de Hernandez
Pew Hispanic Center study reveals blocks in Latinos’ road to college – Two Latinas say they would have gone to universities if they’d had the chance – Salinas, CA perspective
California American Water Appoints Community Leader Blanca Zarazua to Board of Directors
Justice Eva Guzman – A judge whose Mexican immigrant mother earned only a third grade education and worked as a cleaning woman was named to the Texas Supreme Court on Thursday, becoming the first Latina to serve on the state’s highest court.
From Hollywood To The Great White Way: April Lee Hernandez-Castillo Continues To Raise Awareness About Violence Within Latino Communities
October 7, 2009
Siempre Mujer’s 2009 Siempre Inspiran Honorees Revealed in October/November Issue
MillerCoors Selects LULAC’s Lizette Jenness Olmos For Its 2009 Líderes Campaign
Hispanic Education Coalition Applauds Choice of New Director of Head Start Early Childhood Education Program
Migdalia Figueroa has been promoted to VP of Content for the Telemundo Station Group
Zorro Unmasked: a review of Zorro, by Isabel Allende
Miss Tennessee Latina Pageant skips 2009
Love child turned critic, a daughter of Fidel Castro told a Widener University audience Monday that lifting 50-year embargoes imposed by the United States would do little to help suffering people in Cuba. – Alina Fernandez
Hispanic Job Counselor Mary Gonzalez-Koenig Blazed Trail For Latinos in Chicago
A Losing Proposition — How Immigration Enforcement Hurts Women and Communities
First steps: Horse helps 8-year-old Rhiannon Hernandez to reach dream – (touching)
CNN’s Soledad O’Brien on growing up Latina in a white L.I. town
ESMERALDA SANTIAGO, ELVIRA LINDO, ANNECY BAEZ AT THE NEW YORK TIMES – OCTOBER 13 (6 – 8 P.M.) – panel discussion “Women’s Voices in a Latino New York”
October 6, 2009
Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho to receive the University of Michigan Wallenberg Medal
October 5, 2009
Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s first Supreme Court term begins with argument over lawyer request
Book Review: “How To Leave Hialeah” by Jennine Capó Crucet (***1/2)
Christina Mendez Continues Taking the World by Storm
Designer Angelina Mata will celebrate San Antonio fashion week with show
Sandra Cisneros’ ofrenda to her parents on exhibit in Chicago
Police: Maria Gurrolla’s immigration status was “not relevant” to solving assault and abduction of Gurrolla’s days-old son – If someone posing as the IRS attacked you at work, would the press interview your accountant? – The case of Yair Anthony Carillo abduction
Maria Contreras-Sweet Promotes Los Angeles Development
El Teatro de Los Oprimidos – Olga García Echeverría
Latina heritage, gender embraced by young girls – Soy Unica! Soy Latina! seminar on Saturday at Colorado State University-Pueblo
Book review: “This is for the Mara Salvatrucha:” Teen in “America’s Most Violent Gang” finds there’s no exit – true story of Brenda Paz by Samuel Logan
¡VIDA! The Fourth Annual Mujer Latina Breast Cancer Conference, offering information on early cancer screening, risk factors, treatment and managing side effects, is scheduled for next Saturday, Oct. 10, at Old Pueblo Community Center. – Arizona
Latina Leadership Lessons on La Llorona: When We Are the Cause of Our Tears
Nobel Prize to Piedad Cordoba? – One of the most controversial figures in Colombia may be an odds-on favorite to win one of the world’s most prestigious awards.
