Archive for August 11th, 2008
How to *really* help young Latina girls.
5:38 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · children|youth · Comments Off
11 Aug 2008If getting the bling on for the Latina in your life isn’t quite what you imagined for her, here’s an alternative for you. The organization Circle de Luz provides university scholarships and educational mentorship to young Latinas.
There are several different ways to help out–a 90$ a year, six year commitment helps provide another scholarship for a Latina girl. Or you can buy some beautiful necklaces.
Let your heart be inspired:
María Celeste Arrarás : Helping Latino Girls Learn the Important Things, Like How to Get Bling’ed
3:00 pm By Maegan La Mala · Celebrities|children|Fashion|Marketing|Shopping|TV|Women · 1 Comment
11 Aug 2008
With my older daughter’s birthday approaching, the search for the perfect gift has begun and what would Latina girls like my daughter do without Al Rojo Vivo‘s María Celeste Arrarás who threw her celeb status as anchor of a news/bochinche show at Telemundo, behind Fisher Price’s Color Me Gemz (TM).
“We Latinas love to look our best all the time,” said Arrarás. “The Color Me Gemz line is great fun — and more. Girls can combine creativity, imagination and self-expression to make jewelry works of art to dress up all their outfits, just like mom!”
The Color Me Gemz collection is a brand new line that allows girls to create their very own fashion-forward jewelry with the touch of a pen. Creating dazzling Color Me Gemz pieces is quick, easy and fun. Girls simply use the included jewel-toned marker pens to color specially designed facets that create the appearance of an actual gemstone so they can sparkle and shine wherever they go.
Girls can choose from four adorable Color Me Gemz sets, including a Necklace Set, Bracelet Set, Belt Set or Decorator Set. They can even create and decorate their own fashion accessories including a purse or hat. Girls can store their Color Me Gemz masterpieces in the new Color Me Gemz Jewelry Box, which can also be gem-ified inside and out.
“Color Me Gemz is more than just a toy. It’s an ideal contemporary activity set, combining two things girls love – arts and crafts and the magic of jewelry,” said Chris Byrne, The Toy Guy(R)(R). “It’s easy and rewarding for kids to use, while inspiring focused creativity and giving girls something they can proudly display as their own creation.”
Lunes Libros : The Politics of Latino Faith
11 Aug 2008
Latinos and organized religion have had a long, complicated history. Starting from our native religions and how they clashed and struggled to survive in the face of European conquest to the current growth of Latinos moving from Catholicism to Protestant evangelism, a new book, The Politics of Latino Faith : Religion, Identity, and Urban Communities by Catherine E. Wilson, looks at three faith based organizations in major urban areas and how they meld religious belief with service within the community.
This book is especially timely given the high profile of the Latino community as a key voting bloc in the upcoming presidential election in the United States.
File under: believe it or not. Spanish language television news broadcasts are winning the ratings game against their English-language equivalents in top markets New York City and Los Angeles, taking the spot as the leader in number of viewers below the age of 49. Spain’s El Periódico reports:
In comments made to the Associated Press, Ray Rodríguez, President of Univisión said that this growth is “a clear indication of how the U.S. is changing and this is a trend that is much more important than just the ratings.” And this is because the Latino population of New York has grown from 2.7 million in 1990 to 4.3 million in 2008, according to data from the U.S. Census.
While this is true, I also believe that a huge contributing factor could be that non-Latinos have moved away from broadcast news — which you have to watch at a certain time of day — to consuming news content online, be that in text or on-demand video form. Spanish language media consumers still have a lot less to choose from (that’s an understatement) with regard to quality news content online.
Via / El Periódico
Dominicans in Nueva York Celebrate Their Day
11:00 am By Maegan La Mala · Culture|Dominicans|New York City · Comments Off
11 Aug 2008My ‘hood was jumping yesterday with Dominican flags waving off the backs of men and women and, flags hung outside car windows, people playing guiros and merengue from open windows and the doors of bodegas. More than just an ordinary domingo in the ‘hood they were celebrating Dominican pride and yesterday was the Dominican Day parade in New York City.
Via / Remolacha
Remembering Angie Zapata
9:00 am By Maegan La Mala · Colorado|crime|GLBT|Women · Comments Off
11 Aug 2008
While the papers run obits for Bernie Mac and Issac Hayes, much attention isn’t being paid to the violent killing of Angie Zapata.
Her community remembers her though, and by her community, I mean people who actually knew the woman, and people who were moved by her life and sadly the gruesome way her death was handled by the mainstream media.
“We never knew how dangerous this world is,” Zapata said, remembering her sister Angie Zapata, a transgender woman killed in Greeley in mid-July. “You are who you are and you should never be ashamed.”
Officials say Angie Zapata was the target of a hate crime after a man she was on a date with beat her to death with his fists and a fire extinguisher after learning she was biologically male, according to police. The man, Allen Ray Andrade, faces first-degree murder charges in connection with the death and charges of a bias-motivated crime — a felony.
Angie Zapata would have celebrated her 19th birthday last week.
“She always knew she was supposed to be a girl. And we knew it too,” Monica Zapata said. “Don’t remember her as transgendered but remember her as a beautiful, loving woman.”
Donna Rose of The Donna Blog was at a memorial service for Angie this past Saturday and posted moving photographs that everyone should see and reflect on.
Via / Pam’s House Blend, The Greely Tribune, The Donna Blog
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales gets to keep being president after a referendum today.
Unofficial results and exit polls on Sunday indicated Evo Morales had secured more than 60 per cent of support with 80 per cent of the ballots counted.
Morales called for the referendum after the governors of various states voiced opposition to wealth distribution measures and the declaration of an autonomous state by one.
Via / Al Jazeera
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