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Activist Laura Tellado Continues Outreach with a National Collaborative Partnership Between Ten Latino Platforms in an Effort to Promote Spina Bifida Awareness FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Orlando, FL – October. 12, 2012 – The second annual Spina Bifida Awarness Month Collaborative Project is nearly here. Under the direction of Laura Tellado, blogger and creator of HoldinOutForAHero.org [...]
Walk-N-Roll Twitter Party for Spina Bifida! Laura Tellado, known as Laurita by her friends, was born with Spina Bifida in Puerto Rico in 1986 with myelomeningocele, the severest form of spina bifida. In 1990, her family moved to Orlando, Florida in order to give her the best possible care. Now, as an adult, Laura is a [...]
TODAY IS NATIONAL VOTER REGISTRATION DAY! Today is NATIONAL VOTER REGISTRATION DAY, Tuesday, September 25th! If you haven’t registered yet, please do so. ♥ Register online at http://www.gottaregister.com/ Find out more about NATIONAL VOTER REGISTRATION DAY: nationalvoterregistrationday.org
Child Passenger Safety Week: September 16-22, 2012 According to the US Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the majority of car seats are still not used correctly. Could your child’s be one of them? Since car crashes are the leading cause of death among children one through 13, parents should be more motivated than ever to take action and be certain their child is safe. [...]
La Semana de la Seguridad del Niño Pasajero: 16 al 22 de septiembre de 2012 De acuerdo con la Administración Nacional de la Seguridad del Tráfico en las Carreteras (NHTSA, por sus siglas en inglés) del Departamento de Transporte de los Estados Unidos, la mayoría de los asientos de seguridad para niños se no se [...]
Add Your Site to Our Multicultural Bloggers Directory! It’s been a while since we’ve talked about our multicultural bloggers directory, but we want to share it with you again, now that we’ve redesigned and styled it! The Multicultural Familia Directory is a catalog of multicultural blogs and businesses in the online community. There are mixed [...]
Where Are All The South Asian Mom Bloggers Today it was shared in our Facebook group that Masala Mommas is looking for South Asian mom bloggers to highlight on their website. In a post titled Where Are All the South Asian Mom Bloggers? that was also recently highlighted on BlogHer, Anjum quotes several South Asian mom bloggers who open up [...]
Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival 2012 Two-thousand twelve was another fun and inspirational Mixed Roots festival in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. Highlights from the movies and readings that I attended: Friday evening was the beautiful and inspirational movie The Loving Story. Saturday my daughter and niece attended the Apricot Brown reading and Workshop. Apricot [...]
Michelle Obama to Chat Live with Latina Moms Latina moms will meet with First Lady Michelle Obama today in Miami for a live chat about the issues facing Latino families in the U.S. Topics like immigration, education and health will be discussed. The group of six Latina moms, including at least three well-known Latina mom [...]
Web411: Father’s Day Edition We’re bringing back Web411! Stop by every Friday for a quick link round-up to some of our favorite articles, videos, links and more! Today we’re serving up the best of all things DAD from around the web! Check out these great links to posts from dads, gift ideas, crafts to do with [...]
Multicultural Familia Radio Show Wednesdays at 9pm EST/6pm PST, Multicultural Familia will be hosting biweekly shows on Blog Talk Radio about a variety of topics relating to multicultural families. The one hour show will include interviews with with parents and experts, guest appearances from popular multicultural bloggers and commentary about the latest ‘hot topics’ in [...]
LOVING PRIZE PRESENTATION HONOREES SCHOLAR G. REGINALD DANIEL, ACTORS/WRITERS KEVIN KNOTTS AND KIM WAYANS (Los Angeles, CA) The Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival will present the 5th Annual Loving Prizes to leading storytellers of the Mixed experience on June 16, 2012 at 6:30 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles (369 East First Street). The Loving Prizes are awarded each year [...]
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