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Hispanic y Latino News :: November 13th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Juliet V. Garcia, the president of University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, has been named one of TIME Magazine’s Ten Best College Presidents of 2009

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 27th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

“BROWNSVILLE BRED…Growing Up Elaine” – A New York Latina’s Memoir and Coming of Age Story set in the 1980’s Brownsville Brooklyn Projects

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 5th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Husband and Wife Team Keep Native Traditions Alive – Beatriz Ortega Ruiz y Mario Augustin Gaspar Rodriguez create using a pre-Hispanic technique called pasta de caña de maiz & maque, an indigenous form of lacquer ware that already had a long tradition when the Spaniards arrived 500 years ago.

StoryCorps Launches Historias – A Groundbreaking Initiative To Create One of the Largest Collections of Latino Stories Ever Recorded in the United States

HispanicTips » » Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 22nd, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

UTB-TSC has received nearly $500,000 in federal dollars to extend postbaccalaureate educational opportunities for Hispanic students, U.S. Rep. Solomon P. Ortiz, D-Corpus Christi announced Monday.

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 21st, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Ganas Clothing is ready for the world – The T-shirts, tank tops and hooded sweaters with these colorful images are the creations of state Rep. Eddie Lucio III, D-San Benito, and his business partners, Ruben Gallegos and Edward Rodriguez – Texas

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 17th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Kenny Lopez makes a 67 market jump from KVEO-23 in Brownsville to KTXL-40 in Sacramento as a general assignment reporter.

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: June 24th, 2009

About 40.9 percent of Hispanic children between 10 and 17 years old are obese in the United States, according to the BHC. But in Texas this number is even higher, at 46.8 percent.

The U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission has announced that obesity and diabetes are its top priorities for 2009-2010. – Approximately 1.5 million adults in the border region are overweight or obese and another 1.2 million have been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes

Hispanic y Latino News : June 18th, 2009

Elaine Del Valle’s one-woman show, “Brownsville Bred,” is playing at Teatro La Tea. – NYC

Hispanic National Bar Association Issues List of Hispanic American Jurists and Statement Concerning a Hispanic Appointment to the United States Supreme Court

Mary Alvarez – USDA employee with the most years of full time federal service still employed is a Hispanic woman from south Texas

News Summary for December 23rd – 28th, 2008

Mexican comedian Eugenio Derbez has been named as Mr. Amigo for Brownsville’s 2009 Charro Days

Texas Institutions Along Border Lead State, Nation In Latino Enrollment and Degree Completion – Thirty Percent of Degrees and Certificates Earned by Latinos in Texas Awarded by Community Colleges and Universities on U.S./Mexico Border

News Summary for November 7th – 11th, 2008

Red to Blue: Growing number of Hispanic voters in Texas promises to redefine politics

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

After 29 years of service, retired Texas State Trooper Minerva Peña is seeking election to Place 6 on the Brownsville Independent School District Board of Trustees.

Blogante News Summary for October 15th, 2008

One of the nation’s poorest school districts, already tousled by a hurricane and nervously awaiting division by a fence being built along the U.S.-Mexican border, won a coveted $1 million prize Tuesday for making academic advances. – The Brownsville Independent School District serves nearly 50,000 students — 98 percent Hispanic and 43 percent learning English.

All eyes on Hispanics with DTV six months away

Border fence would cut through Texas university

Careful word play targets Hispanics – Marketers increasingly using commingling of languages for ad messages – Texas

Obama needs to secure Hispanic vote before general election

Immigrants face hurricane dilemma – (more on the Border Patrol and hurricane evacuation)

Can fence be built without immigrants? – Can the U.S. border fence be built on deadline without the help of foreign laborers? – (doubt it)

To Omar Minaya, racial divide on Mets sounds altogether wrong

Alliance/Merck Ciencia (Science) Hispanic Scholars Program Announced

Hurricanes, Citizenship, and the Makings of an Unnatural Disaster

Univision Crowns Second Winner of ”Nuestra Belleza Latina” – Melissa Marty from Caguas, Puerto Wins the Coveted Title in Grand Finale

Blogante News for Wednesday – May 7th, 2008

Border fence is a “racist thing,” says Brownsville mayor

FSN Houston Teams with Astros to Produce Spanish-Language Telecasts

Dozens of new federal prosecutors headed to Texas – (and other border states)

Univision Announces 12 Finalists in `Nuestra Belleza Latina’ Competition

Did You Know? researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health conclude that the McAllen metropolitan area is one of the five worst regions of the country in its proportion of Latino children who live in “low-opportunity” neighborhoods compared to white children.

Study: McAllen area Hispanic children have fewer opportunities – Texas

SXSW panel: Latino cinema knows no boundaries

Protesters to march against Texas-Mexico border fence – (organized in part by teachers)

Border Fence Could Leave Family on Mexican Side of Fence

Mexican Military returns guns to border police – (Tamaulipas border)

Perry says fencing the entire Texas-Mexico border “not the answer”

Blogante News for Wednesday – February 6th, 2008

FSI Advertisers Love Home-delivered Publications

U.S. threatens to sue over access to UT Brownsville campus for border fence – Regents to discuss issue today after campus president refused to allow surveys.

Congressman Ortiz secures federal funds to support Hispanic health research at UT School of Public Health Brownsville Regional Campus

Blogante News for Tuesday – January 29th, 2008

Brownsville Mayor Declares Federal Government is Doing Irreparable Damage to Texas Border Region with Proposed Fence (Latina Lista)

The National Hispanic Press Foundation Announces College Access Initiative

Blogante News for Wednesday – January 16th, 2008

“To appease people in middle America, they are going to kill our communities along the border,” said Pat Ahumada, the mayor of Brownsville. “The rest of America has no idea how we live our lives here. We are linked by the Rio Grande, not divided by it. Our history, our families, our neighbors are tied together on both sides of that river.”

Border homesteading – colonias in Texas – (interesting)

H&H Foods owes more than $9 million to Valley businesses – Texas

Did You Know? Hispanics are the most likely to learn of their HIV status late in their disease progression, the least likely to gain access to quality HIV/AIDS-related health care, and the most likely to die within 18 months of an AIDS diagnosis

RICHARD F. CORTEZ (the mayor of McAllen, Texas): We should be building bridges with Mexico instead of barriers

Investigarán autoridades de EU homicidio de Zayda

Few leads in killings of Mexican singers

Blogante News for Wednesday – December 5th, 2007

Brownsville deputies join investigation into singer’s death – Mexican police suspect love triangle in Peña’s hospital room slaying

Mexican singer slain in hospital while recovering from gunshot wounds

Blogante Headlines for Wednesday – November 14th, 2007

“Not once is any Latino mentioned by name,” said Julio Noboa, an assistant professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmonst College who has written a book on the subject. “Not Latino, not Hispanic, not Mexican, not Mexican-American or any other term referring to Hispanics.” regarding Texas TEKS that Texas students study in fourth and 11th grades

Hispanics absent from history lessons – Texas (if true in Texas imagine the rest of the country)

Angélica Vale Named Mr. Amigo 2007

Politiqueras warn candidates can’t win without them – South Texas

Legendary peformer Flor Silvestre continues after husband’s death

Albert Armendariz Sr., LULAC’s 22nd President, Known For Being a Passionate Advocate of Civil Rights Dies

Castañeda: Valley ‘best proof’ of life on the border done right – Distinguished lector speaks against border fence, for improved relations between U.S.-Mexico

Chicano activist to bring message to Valley – Jose Angel Gutierrez – Texas

Latino activist and judge dies at 88 – Albert Armendariz, Sr – Texas

Mayors along the Texas-Mexico border have begun a quiet protest of the federal government’s plans to build a fence along the border: They are refusing to give access to their land. – (awesome)

Grupo Salinas; Azteca America :: Azteca America Presents ‘Issues: Caras y Voces’ Political Forum with News Veteran Armando Guzman Direct from Washington

Latinas learn about college opportunities at HESTEC

Specs for Texas-Mexico Border Fence Finalized (Latina Lista)

Local: Hispanic businesses boom in (Rio Grande) Valley, nation

Mexican consul hosting independence day celebrations in Harlingen – Texas

“Hispanic Newspapers Partner with National Hispanic Press Foundation/Continental Airlines to Promote Culture & College Access’

Few answer TV casting call – “Friday Night Lights’ wants Hispanic extras for Mexico episode – Brownsville, Texas

Fewer immigrants being apprehended at border

Clinton Campaign Announces National Hispanic Leadership Council

Azteca America Broadcast in Sherman, TX, 58th Market for Growing Network

Discovery en Español to Premiere Ground-Breaking Documentary – Viviendo En Las Sombras

Azteca America Scores Big With Live Mexican Soccer Final

Azteca America Signal Is Carried on Cox Cable in Tulsa

For Del Castillo, El Paso feels like coming home

Azteca America Reports FCC Denies NBC’s Objections Against Azteca America and Its License Renewal of Its Affiliate Station in L.A.

Azteca America Analyzes Station Options in Houston and San Francisco

Feliciano opens Performing Arts Season – Brownsville

Honduras teachers forge new friendships in Los Fresnos – Texas

2nd Migrant March will get personal – Migrant March II – San Diego to Brownsville and back

MIGRANT MARCH II (February 2-17, 2006) San Diego to Brownsville to San Diego

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