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The Latino Shoemaker Behind the Pope’s Red Shoes

Mary Mata February 28, 2013

By NBCLatino/Associated Press The red shoes are being retired. Pope Benedict XVI wearing red shoes for an official event. (Photo by Sergio Dionisio/Getty Images) The Pope is giving up the […]

Latino Inauguration Poet Discusses Impact of Inaugural Reading

Mary Mata February 27, 2013

Hispanic Coalition Objects to Oscars ‘In Memoriam’ Omission

Mary Mata

‘Inocente,’ Short Documentary of Immigrant Wins Oscar

Mary Mata February 26, 2013

By Tony Castro, Voxxi There were no political speeches pressing for immigration reform at Sunday’s 85th Academy Awards, but a documentary short about an undocumented immigrant was one of the […]

U.S. Catholic Latino population shrinking

Mary Mata

By Christian Today The number of US Hispanics identifying themselves as Catholic has declined in the last five years. According to a Gallup poll, 11 per cent of US Hispanics […]

HOME MAID SPANISH: Artifact Found in La Jolla, CA, ca. 1960s

Mary Mata

From the textmex obsessed imagination of William A. Nericcio Now YOU TOO Can Talk to Your Spanish Dominant Service Worker! My amazing readers find all kinds of things, but this is […]

Smithsonian Latino Center Announces 2013 Young Ambassadors Program

Mary Mata February 25, 2013

PRESS RELEASE The Smithsonian Latino Center is now accepting applications for the 2013 Young Ambassadors Program, June 23 through Aug. 2. The application deadline is April 12, before 5 p.m. […]