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Latina rocker Linda Ronstadt named Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominee

Mary Mata October 18, 2013

By Nina Terrero, NBCLatino Rocker Linda Ronstadt has been nominated for inclusion into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, making her the sole Latin musician among those nominated for one […]

Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art

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Compton Latino gang members and race

Mary Mata October 17, 2013

Being a Latino student in the Heart of Dixie

Mary Mata October 14, 2013

By Vvictor Cuicahua, The Crimson White When I was 6 years old, I came to Alabama, a state that has struggled to ac-cept its identity and the setting in which […]

Legacy South project to study, archive a ‘Tejano genesis’

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By Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News The Hispanic Heritage Center of Texas, in collaboration with Palo Alto College, Texas A&M University-San Antonio and city preservation officials, has launched a new history project […]

Oscar Hijuelos, Who Won Pulitzer for Tale of Cuban-American Life, Dies at 62

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By Bruce Webber, The New York Times Oscar Hijuelos, a Cuban-American novelist who wrote about the lives of immigrants adapting to a new culture and became the first Latino to […]

You Are What You Create: 7 Brand New Latin Musical Inventions

Mary Mata October 11, 2013

By Jasmine Garsd, NPR/Alt.Latino In an essay about Mexican-Americans in the ’50s titled “The Pachuco and Other Extremes,” Mexican writer and Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz writes that we “distinguish […]