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How I Helped To Gentrify East LA

Mary Mata February 22, 2012

In the fall of 2005, I started working weekend nights as a doorman at a neighborhood bar called The Boulevard. In many ways, The Boulevard was ahead of its time […]

Race Does Exist — In The Way We Treat Each Other

Mary Mata February 21, 2012

The Next Online Explosion: Original Latino Web Series

Mary Mata February 20, 2012

NewsTaco Roundup: February 13 – 19, 2012

Mary Mata February 19, 2012

We had a great mix of stories this week. There were a pair of Latino professors who were awarded the National Humanities Medal, tips for Latina teens, chicken tortilla soup, […]

Happy Friday From M.E.D.

Mary Mata February 17, 2012

M.E.D. (aka Medaphoar) is an MC from Oxnard, California who’s worked with the renowned L.A. record label Stone’s Throw for over a decade. Sticking with today’s theme of interracial relationships, his […]

Latinos, Asians Have Highest Rates Of Intermarriage

Mary Mata

According to a recent study published by the Pew Research Center, intermarriage is on the rise. In 2010, 15% of all marriages in the U.S. were by people who married […]

Rene Pérez: Along These Highways

Mary Mata February 16, 2012

By Tia Tenopia, Latinopia Rene Pérez is a Texas author whose first collection of short stories, “Along These Highways,” was published by Bilingual Review Press in 2012. A keen observer […]