News Taco To Go: Sanchez In Senate, DREAM Act, Race Labels

Ricardo Sanchez To Run For Senate In Texas San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro: Immigration Initiative Soon Mexican & Mexican-American Are Not The Same Thing Analysis: Senate Democrats Re-Introduce The DREAM […]

You know what really gets my goat? When I either hear or read or receive comments equating Latinos with Mexico. Or when something I write about my experience as a […]

I remember the first time I read Oscar Zeta Acosta’s super-Chicano novel, “The Revolt Of The Cockroach People.” I was in eighth grade, during silent sustained reading, and happened to […]

I’m as Hispanic as the Latino next door – so whether I’m one or the other is a matter of definition. That said, it’s hard to  pinpoint one meaning that […]

An interesting movement in Los Angeles is trying to neutralize the derogatory word for homosexuals in Spanish by promoting the idea of jot@, or as writer Adolfo Guzman-Lopez puts it: […]

I love La Virgen de Guadalupe. Now, don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t call myself an exceptional Catholic by any means, but the image of that lovely lady has been […]

What looks to be an amazing interactive exhibit will begin on April 16 at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes in Los Angeles, California. The exhibit is called “LA Starts […]

After more than 15 years of asking to see the records pertaining to the killing of Rubén Salazar, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca has agreed to let reporters see […]

Just because you weren’t there when El Chicano came onto the music scene, doesn’t mean you can’t appreciate their awesome music. The band came from Los Angeles and combined all […]

[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 […]