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The Mystique of Cholo Fatalism

Mary Mata March 30, 2011

I was riding on the bus today, on my way to work, when I was accosted by the weirdest solicitor of all time. He was a young man, about 17 […]

Checa LA Movie: The Secret of Luis Guzmán, Now In “Arthur”

Mary Mata

Brisenia Flores Killer, Jason Bush Found Guilty

Mary Mata

Latina Says She Invented The Word “Hispanic” And Is Proud

Mary Mata March 29, 2011

Grace Flores-Hughes is a federal employee who says she created the word “Hispanic” for official government use. She’s from South Texas and seems to be  Republican. There’s a long interview […]

Top Latino Racial Slurs

Mary Mata

On our weekly News Taco list segment this week we thought it’d be interesting to look at some of the top slurs, read: racial insults, against Latinos. Of course over […]

Ray High School’s Mariachi Custodian

Mary Mata

The Corpus Christi Caller Times (Texas) did an amazing video documenting local high school custodian Mario Tovar, who has become a fixture at Ray High School for singing mariachi music […]

Latino Religious Beliefs Hinder Organ Donation

NewsTaco

Here’s a statistic that makes cultural sense: “Hispanics, especially first- and second-generation Mexican-Americans, are less likely to donate organs than Americans as a whole, according to organ donation experts.” The […]