Latinas + Los Angeles Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)

November 23, 2009

Al Carlos sits down with Nancy De Los Santos, writer. Period.

October 5, 2009

Maria Contreras-Sweet Promotes Los Angeles Development

September 9, 2009

Los Angeles Teen Wins $45,000 Quinceanera Party from Verizon Wireless

August 25, 2009

State Sen. Jenny Oropeza, D-Long Beach, will serve as grand marshal in the city’s first Latin American Parade and Festival on Pine Avenue on Sept. 12 – Long Beach

August 21, 2009

Kim Baldonado promoted to weekday anchor – KNBC-4 in Los Angeles

Alycia Lane gets TV news gig at KNBC in Los Angeles

August 10, 2009

La Cholita – Larger than life! VivirLatino Exclusive

June 24, 2009

Marlene Forte puts on a new hat as the creative director of the famed theater group Company of Angels

June 19, 2009

Rodri Rodriguez Bringing the Romance and Spectacle Back Again with 20th Mariachi USA Festival

April 27, 2009

A Green Latino Movement in South Los Angeles – Mujeres de la Tierra

March 11, 2009

HOPE Presents ‘Latina History Day’ Conference in Los Angeles

Recently reelected to the post of councilor in Bell, a town in Los Angeles County, Mexican-American Teresa Jacobo is continuing in politics the struggle she began more than a decade ago as a community activist.

December 18, 2008

South El Monte mayor makes no promises on heeding curfew – Blanca Figueroa says she stays at work until the wee hours because the mayor’s work is never done. Colleagues contend she’s living at City Hall.

Beatriz Valdez dies at 69; L.A. County’s first female registrar-recorder

December 8, 2008

President of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education Mónica García’s attempt to oust LAUSD’s Brewer: gaffe or gutsy?

November 19, 2008

La activista latina Silvia Campoy ha dedicado su vida a la defensa de los derechos de los menos favorecidos, primero con niña de origen mexicano segregada, luego como madre de una estudiante y ahora como líder de su comunidad. – Los Angeles

November 3, 2008

Peruvian-born singer Yma Sumac dies in Los Angeles

October 23, 2008

Veteran activist shows support for immigrant rights protesters – Dolores Huerta tells group fasting in Olvera Plaza that they are fighting for the future of their children, immigrants, California and the nation.

September 27, 2008

Dr. Erlinda Martinez Honored Among Top 25 Latino Educators by National Latino Leaders Magazine

September 12, 2008

Rosalba Ruiz, a staff writer at the Orange County Register, helped produce the new film “Alondra Smiles,” about the celebrations two teen girls have for their 15th birthdays. It has been selected for the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival.

July 14, 2008

Yolanda Pérez now hosts ‘Mex 2 the Max’

June 16, 2008

LATINA ACTRESS EILEEN GALINDO MAKES THEATRE DIRECTORIAL DEBUT IN “TRAILERVILLE”

June 10, 2008

32nd Annual National Hispanic Women’s Conference Draws Sold Out Audience

June 9, 2008

Activist Matriarch Isabel Rodriguez Passes – LA

June 2, 2008

‘Conscientious Projector: Photographs by Maria Teresa Fernandez’ – The Armory Center for the Arts at Pasadena exhibition focuses on the U.S.-Mexico border fence.

May 27, 2008

Media Moves: Lucía Navarro taken off anchor chair at KVEA (Telemundo-52 in LA)

May 22, 2008

Maite Perroni, the Image of NYX Cosmetics, Will be Signing Autographs and Holding an Interview on June 14, 2008 in Los Angeles, CA. – The talented actress and singer from the Mexican group “REBELDE” will meet and greet fans to kick-off the next NYX advertising campaign for the Hispanic Market.

May 21, 2008

Lola Montes, 90; influential head of Spanish dance company – Los Angeles

May 13, 2008

La Bronca is Coming to Los Angeles – on SBS’s KLAX 97.9 FM La Raza

April 28, 2008

Diabetes Before Motherhood More Than Doubled In Six Years, Study Finds (52% of the participants were Latinas)

April 21, 2008

The 10th Annual Latina Conference will be held Friday, April 25 at the Riverside Convention Center in Riverside, California

April 14, 2008

Pasadena City College to Host 14th Annual Adelante Mujer Latina Conference

March 20, 2008

Gisela Colón: Kinetic Light Opening at LS Contemporary

LATINA Style Business Series Kicks Off the 10 Year Anniversary Tour in Anaheim, CA

March 11, 2008

Consorte Media CEO Alicia Morga to Speak at MultiCultural Media Expo

Tomás Rivera Conference Honors Painter, Poet – Alfredo Arreguín and author Lauro Flores

March 5, 2008

CHARO Community Development Corporation Hosts its 4th Annual Business Conference & Expo

February 25, 2008

Mayor’s former girlfriend returns to L.A. media as radio co-host

January 2, 2008

Laura Aguilar & Delilah Montoya, Natural Forces: Against Type

December 4, 2007

UC Riverside Professor Honored by the Modern Language Association – Alicia Arrizón

November 28, 2007

Linda Alvarez Became 1st Latina To Anchor English-Language L.A. Weekday Newscast – signing off

November 25, 2007

Rebel with many cause – After nearly four decades, Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin remains an artist for justice – Pasadena

October 14, 2007

Woman stood up for Hispanic rights – Margarita Solórzano-Amezcua – Santa Ana, California

October 3, 2007

Univision Announces Appointment of Maelia Macin General Manager of Los Angeles TV Stations

September 25, 2007

Latina Conductor Brings Music to the Masses – Sonia Marie de León de Vega

September 20, 2007

Memorial set for lesbian scholar Yolanda Retter Vargas

September 9, 2007

Latina Dance Project offers politically aware ‘Coyolxauhqui’ – Los Angeles

August 23, 2007

Gay Latina leader Yolanda Retter Vargas dies

June 25, 2007

Lauren Sanchez Joins Steve, Dorothy This Week on Good Day LA

June 3, 2007

The Bluebird Art House presents Crossing the Line”¦ Echoes at the Threshold of Abstraction: An Exhibition of Abstract and Figurative Paintings by Pola Lopez. – June 9th, 2007 : July 7th, 2007 – Whittier, California

May 8, 2007

UC Riverside Chancellor France A. Córdova Named Purdue University President

March 22, 2007

Dolores Huerta speaks to packed Marymount Center – Los Angeles

January 25, 2007

MARIA DE LOURDES SOBRINO, AUTHOR OF THE UPCOMING BOOK: THRIVING LATINA ENTREPRENEURS IN AMERICA, TO SPEAK AT SMALL BUSINESS FAIR FOR HISPANIC ENTREPRENEURS ON JANUARY 27 – Orange County, California

January 14, 2007

Latina activist dies at age 67 – Esther Renteria – Montebello, California

December 7, 2006

Fairy Godmother to Quinceañeras Honored by City of Los Angeles – Isabella Martinez Wall