Welcome to Sin Palabras – Thanksgiving edition! Yessenia Gutierrez, in Philadelphia, shares a glimpse of her new neighborhood.
Six degrees of separation? More like 4.74 says Facebook
11/23/2011 By Leave a Comment
via The New York Times The world is even smaller than you thought.
More Hispanic teachers needed
11/23/2011 By Leave a Comment
Last week, the Center for American Progress published a report on teacher diversity, finding that every state has a teacher diversity gap. In other words, there is a large difference between the race/ethnicity of the American teacher workforce and that of the students they serve. While students of color (students who are not non-Hispanic white)… [Continue Reading]
Chorizo and corn bread stuffing
11/23/2011 By Leave a Comment
BL Cooks – via The Huffington Post Award winning chef, author, Food Networks television star and restauranteur Aaron Sanchez shares his Mexican-inspired Thanksgiving corn bread stuffing recipe.
Latinos do not need a national leader
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Latinos do not need a national leader. Latino communities, loosely connected through shared history and heritage, are not, by design, a community that stands behind or needs one person to represent them. Even though the Latino population continues to eclipse projected growth according to the U.S. Census, this growth does not push a leader to… [Continue Reading]
Anti-Thanksgiving? Complaining can be a good thing
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- via MSNBC If Thanksgiving weekend is a time for gratitude, let’s make the weekend before the holiday a time for whining. Actually, two studies out this week explore the upside of negative thinking. Sometimes, believing that everything’s the worst can ultimately be for the best, the research suggests.
The superstitious and the nonstitious
11/23/2011 By 3 Comments
Like most Latinos, I grew up in the Catholic Church; and like most Latinos who grew up in the Catholic Church, I stopped attending mass as soon as my family made not attending a tolerable alternative. But, unlike most Latino Catholics, the more I learned about the world around me, the more I began to… [Continue Reading]