Ten Latina Authored Books For Summer

By Kalyn Belsha, Voxxi Now that spring is officially behind us, you’re probably on the hunt for some beach reads that are not Fifty Shades of Grey. Luckily, Latino Literacy Now just named its […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Several weeks ago NewsTaco wrote about a campaign to get a portrait of Celia Cruz hung in The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The call […]

By Yago Cura On Saturday, May 25th, as part of the La Palabra reading series sponsored by Ave 50 Studios (131 North Ave 50 Los Angeles, CA 90042), the Taco […]

By Adriana Villavicencio, Being Latino Andrea Arroyo is a Mexican-born, award-winning visual artist and curator who has received dozens of accolades for her work, including Groundbreaking Latina in the Arts Award, […]

By Latino LA Don’t know what Rasquache means? Neither did I until I discoveredReel Rasquache Art & Film Festival, and realized how perfect the selection of Smuggled as the festival’s […]

From the textmex obsessed imagination of Memo Nericcio Thanks to ace UCSD Visual Studies profe Ricardo Dominguez for tipping me to this video via facebook. Here’s the video direct: This post […]

By Janice Fuentes, Our Tiempo While I enjoy a pleasant conversation with Kelby, one of the subjects in the much anticipated documentary “Bully”, the movie’s director, a very tired Lee […]

By Cindy Casares I attended the unveiling of the Tejano Monument at the Texas State Capitol on Thursday. Seated in front of a crowd of hundreds on the South Lawn […]

Latinas are so often filtered through the media’s racist and narrow lens. According to the TV, we are sexy, spicy, angry, submissive, and/or really skilled at cleaning. Sometimes we wear […]

By Wuicho Vargas Selena Quintanilla-Perez was, and will still be, our Queen of Tejas, our beautiful flower of Corpus Christi. It is March already, and along with the arrival of […]