Latinidad

A few tips and guidelines that will help you avoid getting labeled with the #NoMames hashtag this month

A conversation with Teri Gender Bender, the leader of a band making rebel music in Mexico

Don’t ask why Latinos don’t vote. Ask why should they.

In a Facebook video posted on Thursday, a Venezuelan-born woman describes what happened when she took her mother to the airport in Houston

Using one’s own memory along with a thorough study of history to reconstruct the past

We speak with the founder and COO of Lone Stars Entertainment about his upcoming film set on the Texas border

Members of Indianapolis’s Latino community worry they are being targeted after a string of hate crimes

Why is the Puerto Rican Senate passing “Spanish first” laws when the its political house is on fire?

A conversation with Alynda Segarra of Hurray For The Riff Raff about music, politics and being Puerto Rican

An interview with the ILBA and Academy of American Poet’s Prize-Winning author Chris Campanioni

What the Trump campaign really means when it says it wants to “Make America Great Again”

The Rebeldes get together to discuss the Latino media’s role in covering Donald Trump’s campaign

A review of one of the breakthrough albums of the year, Lance Canales & the Flood’s ‘The Blessing & the Curse,’ available today

An interview with award-winning author Dania Ramos

El 4 de febrero de 2014, una serie de protestas comenzaron en Venezuela contra el gobierno presidido por Nicolás Maduro, dejando un saldo de 42 fallecidos, más de 486 heridos y 1854 detenidos, entre ellos, Leopoldo López. En momentos como éste, son los estudiantes, los activistas, los mártires, y por supuesto, los artistas, que sacan la cara […]

One evening, while I was combing my daughter’s before bed, she started singing a song in Tagalog. I was like, “What!” First, I should explain that my daughter is half Puerto Rican courtesy of her dad (me) and half Filipino courtesy of my wife. Now my original thought was that her grandparents, my in-laws, sang this to her to obviously piss […]

Envisioning dialogues help us understand the fallacy of our thinking. We often believe that our morals or judgements are based in logic or reasoning. The U.S. media, whether it is Fox or MSNBC, only help reinforce these notions of the fallacies in our collective thinking. Preaching to the choir is their bread and butter. Ratings drive their […]

The word chicano has existed in the English lexicon since 1911. During the ’60s and ’70s, that term became a symbol of pride for the Mexican Americans who were confronting the struggles of prejudice and self-identification, an answer to the always confounding question: “Who am I?” In the decades that have passed, chicanismo has been used […]

This morning Ezra Klein, explainer-in-chief at the conspicuously lacking in diversity Vox, tweeted his site’s latest attempt to draw in Latino readers: The difference between "Latino" and "Hispanic," in one comic: http://t.co/qyoLh8UzaC — Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) August 19, 2015 One thing to note: Klein is of Brazilian descent (he also shouted the piece out on his […]

Puerto Rican neo-fiction seeks to address the social and psychological problems that afflict modern Puerto Rico, whether in regard to ‘self-racism,’ neo-colonialism, foreign influence, identity crisis and the effects of issues that have afflicted the island for the last two hundred years. The genre would not be bound by single traditional genres such as horror […]

If you’re a true New Yorker, you’ve heard the phrase: “Fulano-De-Tal is from THAT block.”  Furthermore, if you’re from South Bronx growing up in the 80’s, more than likely, legendary photographer Ricky Flores has the images to prove it. Now, what if I told you a handful of those images are being turned into large-scale […]