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Lakers Key To NBA’s Latino Marketing Strategy

Mary Mata February 17, 2011

Latinos across the country — and even outside of it — love the Los Angeles Lakers. So much so, in fact, that the NBA’s Latino marketing strategy is centered around […]

Book Explores History Of Black Latinos In The U.S.

Mary Mata

Not Skinny Skinny — But Latina Skinny

Mary Mata

Ecuadorian Dwarfs Immune To Cancer, Diabetes

Mary Mata

People in parts of Ecuador with a genetic mutation preventing them from growing more than four feet tall are immune to cancer and diabetes — thanks to their genes, according […]

Latinos Set To Grow In The Census — But Who Cares?

Mary Mata

Latinos are going to be big in the Census, as we’ve reported, but one writer says this is irrelevant. Miguel Perez writes that, every time the Census comes out the […]

The Hardest Thing About Living In East Los Angeles

Mary Mata February 16, 2011

[Editor’s Note: Author Oscar Barajas works in Los Angeles and will be writing dispatches for us from East LA.] The hardest thing about living in East Los Angeles is not […]

Awaiting The Truth About Slain Latino Journalist Rubén Salazar

Mary Mata

Rubén Salazar was a Latino journalist in Los Angeles who was a loud critic of institutions that mistreated Latinos in that area and, mysteriously, in 1970 he was hit in […]