Latinas + Essentials Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)
November 20, 2009
Ana Maria Perez Gonzalez, said to be the oldest woman in the world, died in Mexico this week. She was 119.
Part of a Cuban blogger’s essay that advocates lifting the ban on U.S. travel to Cuba was read aloud at a House Foreign Affairs committee hearing. – Yoani Sánchez
November 18, 2009
Video report of Latina forced to give birth while in chains in Maricopa County, AZ courtesy of Sheriff Joe Arpaio (en Español)
November 16, 2009
Sonia Sotomayor unwittingly adds celebrity touch to Supreme Court
November 12, 2009
Her Honor: A Portrait of Justice Sonia Sotomayor
For Battered Latina Immigrants: Dwindling Resources, But Also Hope – This is the second report in a special two-part series on domestic violence in immigrant communities by Feet in Two Worlds reporters.
November 11, 2009
A new study of workers at 50 hotels in the United States found that women were 50% more likely to be injured than men, and that Hispanic women had an injury rate two-thirds higher than their white female counterparts.
November 7, 2009
MARISA TREVIÑO: She’s one blogging Latina lista to be reckoned with!
November 6, 2009
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.
November 4, 2009
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.
October 30, 2009
Sanchez sisters eyed by House ethics panel for alleged collusion – Linda and Loretta CA Democrats
October 28, 2009
Sanctuary journey ends – 1st Elvira Arellano left y now Flor Crisostomo has left the church in Chicago
October 26, 2009
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.
October 14, 2009
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
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.
October 9, 2009
LATINA VOTER INTERNET AND NEW MEDIA USAGE: Groundbreaking Poll Shows Internet & New Media Usage Vital for Engaging Latinas
Associate Editor Sandra Guzmán was let go from the New York Post last week sparking controversy
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.
October 5, 2009
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
October 4, 2009
Award-Winning Singer Mercedes Sosa Dies at 74
October 2, 2009
Singer Mercedes Sosa Hospitalized in Argentina
24th Annual Hispanic Women’s Conference – Phoenix (audio story)
October 1, 2009
Sotomayor’s impact on trial as high court returns to work
September 30, 2009
Latinos must use political capital towards demanding passage of the REAL Act – (very good read)
NASHVILLE: Amber alert issued for abducted 4-day-old baby – Yair Anthony Carillo – Police believe a woman posing as an immigration worker went to Carrillo’s home and demanded his mother Maria Gurrolla, give her the baby. When refused, the woman stabbed her.
September 29, 2009
Angela de Hoyos, grande dame of Chicano poetry, dies in San Antonio
September 24, 2009
Salvadorans Seek a Voice To Match Their Numbers – Summit Aims to Raise Political Visibility – First Salvadoran American Leadership Summit
September 22, 2009
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who grew up in the Bronx and is a longtime New York Yankees fan, will throw out the first pitch Saturday before their game against the Boston Red Sox.
September 17, 2009
Chilean-American author Isabel Allende explores the topic of slavery in her new novel, a subject she says is as important as ever because “there have never been more slaves in the world as there are now.”
September 10, 2009
Joe Wilson’s lie is Carmen Velasquez’s truth
September 8, 2009
Justice Sonia Sotomayor has taken her seat at the Supreme Court in front of a packed courtroom that included President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
Hispanic women make legal history in New Mexico
September 2, 2009
Health Care Woes for Latinos – talk with Pilar Marrero, Political Editor for La Opinion and Fabiola Pomareda, reporter for La Raza (audio)
August 27, 2009
Can the U.S. government take a woman’s baby from her because she doesn’t speak English? That’s the latest question to arise in the hothouse debate over illegal immigration, as an undocumented woman from impoverished rural Mexico — who speaks only an obscure indigenous language — fights in a Mississippi court to regain custody of her infant daughter.
August 24, 2009
Cuban blogger the voice of youth-oriented counterculture – Yoani Sánchez
Woman facing deportation remains at Simi church – 2 years later still there – California
August 21, 2009
Three women of Hispanic background were among those selected for Forbes magazine’s annual “100 Most Powerful Women” ranking. – Cristina Kirchner, Michelle Bachelet, Sonia Sotomayor
August 12, 2009
Chita Rivera Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
August 10, 2009
Video of Sonia Sotomayor ‘Taking the Oath’
August 8, 2009
Sonia Sotomayor was sworn in Saturday morning as the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court in a brief ceremony that completed a remarkable ascent for a Puerto Rican girl from the South Bronx .
August 7, 2009
For Puerto Ricans, Sotomayor’s Success Stirs Pride
August 6, 2009
Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who grew up speaking Spanish in a public housing project, is headed for a seat on the Supreme Court after an overwhelming Senate vote Thursday to make her the first Hispanic member of the court.
Sonia Sotomayor poised to make history – Senate set to vote about 3 p.m. ET today
August 4, 2009
She Made ‘Hispanic’ Official – A Conversation With Grace Flores-Hughes, Hispanic wordsmith
Recession leads to drop in birthrates in California – 3.2% decline in births to Hispanic mothers from 2007 to 2008 — the largest one-year decline in at least two decades – “That seems to be because a lot of working-age and childbearing-age Hispanics are moving out of state to take jobs elsewhere, coupled with the fact that the border crossings” into the U.S. from Mexico “have declined.”
The Top Five Rising Latina Stars Under 25
August 3, 2009
Kate del Castillo is a telenovela star reborn – The Mexican actress breaks out of her successful but limited career to take on a more powerful role in Showtime’s ‘Weeds,’ be a face of L’Oreal, and star in a Web-based drama.
July 31, 2009
Actress Ruth Livier, New Media Pioneer, A Latina Tina Fey – Season 2 of Ylse will launch late in August
July 29, 2009
Olga A. Méndez, First Puerto Rican Woman Elected To U.S. State Legislature, Dead At 83
July 28, 2009
Sonia Sotomayor Confirmed By Senate Judiciary Committee
July 16, 2009
Angels Vladimir Guerrero’s mom Altagracia Alvino serves up culinary delights for players
July 14, 2009
As Labor Secretary, Finding Influence in Her Past – Hilda Solis
Hispanic girls face many obstacles to playing sports
June 25, 2009
Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez not running for governor of California
June 24, 2009
Vikki Carr celebrates 50 years of music in San Jacinto
Brig. Gen. Angie Salinas credits hard work for achieving the honor of being the Marines’ first Latina general
June 23, 2009
Quartet of Latina professors at Cal State San Bernardino file grievance – Maria Balderrama, Nena Torrez, Barbara Flores & Lynne Diaz-Rico
Sotomayor Nomination Close To A Done Deal, 70 Votes Predicted
June 19, 2009
Rodri Rodriguez Bringing the Romance and Spectacle Back Again with 20th Mariachi USA Festival
June 15, 2009
The president of Texas A&M has resigned — the day before a meeting of school regents to discuss her job. Elsa Murano, the school’s first female and first Hispanic president, announced her resignation in a statement Sunday
June 5, 2009
New & first Hispanic president of Texas A&M University Elsa Murano not getting good grades/reviews
Shakira’s Children – She has built five schools in her country since 2004 – (feature in NYT’s Magazine)
June 2, 2009
Latina lawyer learned law at Harvard, gains wisdom in Compton – Attorney Luz Herrera hopes that Sonia Sotomayor, if confirmed to the Supreme Court, can get across the message that the Latino experience is already ‘a part of the fabric of U.S. society.’
May 31, 2009
Two sides to Sonia Sotomayor – The passion for minority rights that she showed from Princeton onward is scarcely reflected in a review of her judicial decisions. So which way would she lean on the Supreme Court?
May 29, 2009
U.S. Supreme Court Nominee Sotomayor is a Superstar Judge Who Just Happens to be Hispanic
A new report about Latina teen pregnancy doesn’t just examine the issue but, for the first time, breaks down the differences found among Latino families and how they contribute to Latina teens having the highest rates of teen pregnancies and births.
May 28, 2009
TOP Ten reasons Sonia Sotomayor will be the best Supreme Court judge ever By Al Carlos
Is Hispanic the Same Thing as Latina? Not quite. – (in terms of Sonia Sotomayor)
May 27, 2009
Latino differences muted in Sonya Sotomayor celebration
May 26, 2009
Sonia Sotomayor: 10 Things You Should Know
President Obama will nominate Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit as his first appointment to the court – could be the first Hispanic justice to serve on the Supreme Court
May 7, 2009
Zoe Saldaña, a rising ‘Star’ – latina playing Uhura in the Star Trek film
May 6, 2009
Appointing Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court might soothe frayed Hispanic nerves, writes New America Media contributor Gebe Martinez, but legal conservatives do not believe that President Obama should give importance to a diverse life experience in making his choice.
April 27, 2009
A Green Latino Movement in South Los Angeles – Mujeres de la Tierra
April 2, 2009
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Latest Victim? Yet Another Hispanic Mom in Estrella
March 16, 2009
Michigan Latina is Obama link to states, communities – Cecilia Muñoz, the daughter of Bolivian immigrants now White House director of intergovernmental affairs, the point person between state and local elected officials and the president.
Young Latinas on PBS model financial success – Almas
March 11, 2009
Rape trees prove Mexican violence has crossed the border and there are women who need justice
Though majority of immigrant women in ICE detention are pregnant by rape, abortion is no option
March 3, 2009
Jane Velez-Mitchell was until recently a glorified freelancer for Headline News, the sister channel of CNN. Now she is one of Headline News’s nightly hosts — and her 7 o’clock show is setting ratings records for the network.
February 28, 2009
Kathy Cano-Murillo, the Crafty Chica make the New York Times: “She has gradually expanded her audience for years, making objects with a glittery Latino aesthetic and offering instructions and tips to those who want to do the same. Her most recent venture is the creation of a line of branded craft supplies and packaged projects, and it is finding its way into mass retail.”
February 24, 2009
Hilda Solis Confirmed As Labor Secretary By Senate
February 4, 2009
Research shows Hispanic women get breast cancer treatment late
January 26, 2009
Some 300 women held at immigration detention centers in Arizona face dangerous delays in health care and widespread mistreatment, according to a new study by the University of Arizona, the latest report to criticize conditions at such centers throughout the United States.
January 20, 2009
Isabel Toledo, the Cuban-born designer of Michelle Obama’s inaugural outfit, did not know positively until Tuesday morning if the new first lady would wear the lemongrass-yellow coat and matching dress she specially designed for her.
December 19, 2008
Rep. Hilda L. Solis (D-El Monte), a Congressional Hispanic Caucus leader considered to be one of the most reliably pro-union voices in the House, is President-elect Barack Obama’s choice to head the Labor Department, a Democratic official said Thursday.
December 18, 2008
Field of Calzones – A shame and a travesty as female farmworkers suffer from sexual harassment – It is estimated that about 400.000 women are working in the U.S. fields and packing sheds. The average pays about $11,000 per year.
December 15, 2008
Interview: Carolina Guillen, ESPN Deportes
December 9, 2008
UC Santa Cruz senior Danielle Soto follows family footsteps in politics – The 22-year-old environmental studies major will be sworn into the Pomona City Council on Dec. 13, just two days after her last final. – granddaughter of the late Philip Soto one of the first two Latinos elected to the California Assembly in 1962
December 8, 2008
Maria Elena Salinas: The unusual path of hemisphere’s saint – Virgin of Guadalupe
December 5, 2008
On Wednesday, Republican congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen got a call from President-elect Barack Obama, didn’t believe it was him, and hung up on him. Twice.
December 2, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama continued rounding out his White House staff naming Cecilia Muñoz director of intergovernmental affairs.
Anita Alvarez sworn in as Illinois state’s attorney – She is 1st woman and 1st Hispanic to hold top Cook County prosecutor’s post
November 25, 2008
Congresswoman Expecting – Lakewood Democrat Linda Sanchez announces she is expecting a child with boyfriend
November 21, 2008
She has been anchoring at KMBC-9 for almost 25 years, but now Maria Antonia, considered Kansas City’s most recognizable Hispanic journalist, has been pulled off the anchor chair and is suing KMBC for gender and age discrimination
November 20, 2008
Congresswoman Nydia M. Velazquez (D-N.Y.) Chosen to Lead Hispanic Agenda in the 111th Congress – Unanimously elected Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus
November 18, 2008
La sindicalista Dolores Huerta, defensora de los derechos de los trabajadores hispanos durante más de cuarenta años, hizo hoy un llamamiento para que los más jóvenes no se conformen con lo que tienen y sigan luchando por sus derechos.
El Pasoan Maria Ruiz, who several times a week crosses the border into Juarez to take food, clothing and toys to hundreds of impoverished children and their families, is one of 10 finalists for CNN’s Hero of the Year.
Hugo Chavez faces toughest political test … against his ex-wife
November 7, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama has looked to South Texas where he selected University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College President Juliet V. Garcia to join his transition team
November 6, 2008
Hispanic women (aka Latinas) swell ranks of Obama support – Focus on education, health care, economy led to wide margin
November 3, 2008
El Salvador native, 86, had a long journey to U.S. voting booth – Maria Reyes, 86, is eager to cast her first ballot in the nation that gave her family a new start.
Latina Women Get out the Vote for Obama
October 21, 2008
An undocumented Mexican immigrant pleaded publicly Monday for a chance to stay in the country with her husband and six children, and sought to delay any action until after the next president takes office. – Chicago
October 15, 2008
Latina girls magazine Latinitas talks back to Sarah Palin about her abstinence-only policy
25% of teen girls vaccinated for cervical cancer. The CDC calls the rate ‘very good’ for a new vaccine such as Gardasil. Earlier data show, however, that only about 1% of Latina teens have received it.
Discovery en Espanol Presents ‘Silencio en Juarez’ – A Stunning Visual Expose that Sheds Light on the Vile Murders and Disappearances of Thousands of Innocent Women in Ciudad Juarez
September 29, 2008
Ford Selects Three Latina Breast Cancer Survivors for National Education Awareness Campaign
September 22, 2008
Hispanic law students help others up Offering practical advice and serving as role models, they urge high schoolers to aim for college – (Great photo) Corina Rocha, Siria Gutierrez and Leslie Nino Fidance who lead UNLV’s La Voz, an organization of Hispanic law students, recently named No. 1 in the country.
September 19, 2008
Esperanza “Hope” Andrade, a San Antonio native who was born into a family of cotton farmers and rose to become a successful businesswoman, was formally sworn in as Texas secretary of state Thursday, becoming the first Hispanic woman to fill the post.
September 15, 2008
Seeking to drive a wedge into Democrat Barack Obama’s strong support from Hispanic voters and peel off voters in a key demographic, Hispanic organizers for Republican John McCain are quietly mounting a major push on the abortion issue.
September 12, 2008
Jessica Alba, who appears in a in new bondage-inspired campaign for the voter group Declare Yourself, isn’t afraid to employ a little shock value for a cause she believes in.
September 10, 2008
U.S. teen: ‘I felt like there were no dreams for me’ – Julie Quiroz – (CNN picks up that: 3 million U.S. citizen children are believed to have one undocumented parent and tells this Latina’s story)
September 9, 2008
The death Friday of Officer Isabel Nazario was particularly painful among the Police Department’s Latinos and in the city’s Puerto Rican community, who remembered her as a doting mother and friend, as a tough professional, and as a pioneer. – Philadelphia
September 8, 2008
Famed Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos is the focus of this year’s NYSUT Hispanic Heritage Month poster – (pretty cool – I am printing one up – download link provided)
September 5, 2008
Guest Voz: Academic researchers discover the lack of comprehensive immigration reform increases disparities and limits future progress of Latinos nationwide – Dr. María del Carmen Salazar of the University of Denver
Under increasing criticism, the LPGA Tour on Friday backed off plans to suspend players who cannot speak English well enough to be understood at pro-ams, in interviews or in making acceptance speeches at tournaments.
August 18, 2008
Linda Chavez: Intermarriage facts shatter the census hysteria – The problem with all such predictions is that they don’t take into sufficient account intermarriage and assimilation.
Middle-aged Dara Torres adds 3 silver medals to collection
August 14, 2008
A federal judge has decided to let 10 women return to their homes in Guatemala or Mexico three months after they were swept up in an immigration raid in Postville.
Illinois siblings swim for Puerto Rico – Kristina and Doug Lennox-Silva – Being Olympians together a helpful boost for both
The first sisters in Congress, Loretta and Linda Sanchez of California, say they had to fend off propositions and patronizing from men to get there and to stay. Their joint memoir, “Dream in Color: How the Sanchez Sisters Are Making History in Congress,” being published Sept. 2, traces their paths to Washington, where they found themselves a minority of a minority — Latina women in an institution still dominated by white men.
August 11, 2008
Daughter of Mexican immigrants became a force in U.S. women’s water polo – Brenda Villa began her third Olympics on Monday by scoring a goal in the United States’ riveting 12-11 victory over China
August 6, 2008
Honduran Girl Electrifies AIDS Meeting – Keren Dunaway-Gonzalez, 12, opened the 17th International AIDS Conference in Mexico City.
The state Democratic Party has named Emilia Pablo, one of the most widely recognized local faces in Hispanic households across the Las Vegas Valley, as its new spokeswoman.
August 5, 2008
Mexican Enough My Life Between the Borderlines By Stephanie Elizondo Griest
August 4, 2008
Teen cadet dance crews as escorts are all the rage at Hispanic girls’ coming-of-age parties -quinceañeras
An undocumented pregnant woman faces the horror and neglect of the U.S. justice system … giving birth only to have her child stripped from her.
July 30, 2008
U.S. graphic novelist and artist Phoebe Gloeckner is a contributor to a book funded by human rights group Amnesty International about the largely unsolved murders and disappearances of hundreds of women near the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez.
Local New York Univision reporter Miriam Ayala filed a federal lawsuit against the local Univision station (channel 41) and the larger network, claiming that she was passed over for plum positions anchoring and on good stories because she wasn’t light skinned enough, young enough or pretty enough.
July 29, 2008
Aracely Arámbula’s show breaks ratings record – The first airing of ¡Viva la familia! de Todobebé, last friday, was the most highly rated U.S. primetime show on Friday night
July 24, 2008
Esperanza Andrade becomes Texas’ first Latina secretary of state
July 22, 2008
The next extinct species: the Latino journalist – Esther J. Cepeda
Video: Danica Patrick “chats” with Milka Duno
July 17, 2008
Ex-Clinton aide checked before joining Obama team – Patti Solis Doyle
July 14, 2008
Mexico’s drug war shows a virulent feminine side
Did You Know? 80% of the top five contestants for Miss Universe were Latinas – and 50% for the top ten
July 13, 2008
After 7-year cancer battle, teen gets her quinceañera
June 24, 2008
Professor to join Hispanic journalists’ hall of fame – Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez
June 21, 2008
Vive ‘Fuego en la sangre’ epidemia – 40 people are sick on the set including Sofía Vergara
June 17, 2008
Patti Solis Doyle Joins Obama Campaign
June 3, 2008
Latina Soccer Referee Bound for Beijing – Verónica Pérez
June 2, 2008
Girl Scouts trying to speak young Latinas’ language – Spanish Trails Council is offering bilingual camps this summer to attract new members and their parents. – California
May 28, 2008
Hispanic women face wage gap compared with others in the U.S. – Legal status, education level and language barrier can impact pay
May 20, 2008
Top Hillarylander mulls Obama job – Patti Solis Doyle
April 16, 2008
“Viva Hollywood” — Let the novela trial begin – Maria Conchita Alonso is host and judge of this new reality competition
