Latinos With Tattoos Seek To Represent Their Culture
Latinos With Tattoos Seek To Represent Their Culture
David Tomás Martinez remembers getting his first tattoo when he was 18 years old; it said San Diego in old English script. Over the years he kept adding more scripts, […]
Registering Young Latinos Key To Electoral Change In 2012
By Paul M. Saldaña El Niño is a warm current of water creating change in the climate of the Pacific Ocean, while at the same time, hefty thunderstorms occur on the […]
Counting The Signs That I Am Turning Into My Father
My friend Richard and I have known each other since middle school, and we have been friends since he was MEChA royalty and I was part of the Ecology Club. […]
Teenage Mothers And Unwanted Pregnancies
Life with kids, even with a partner that helps in their upbringing, can be difficult. But facing the same reality as a single, teenage mother who never thought that it […]
Latinopia Word: “A Caribbean Journey from A to Y”
By Tia Tenopia Mario Picayo is the editor and publisher of the Editorial Campana literary publishing company based in New York. He is also the author of children’s books published […]
The Ruminations Of A One-Time Anchor Baby
When I was only five years old, the railroad company my father was working for laid him off. His unemployment check was enough for him to survive, but it did […]
CA Apology To Deported Mexican Americans 80 Years Too Late
There are many parallels between what’s happening today with regard to immigration in America, and what happened 80 years ago during the Great Depression. The obvious comparisons are the economic […]
I’ve Learned To Love Babies, Now I’m Waiting Until I’m Ready
Sometimes it amazes me how much we’re ruled by biology. When I was younger, I would blatantly ignore any babies that I saw. It wasn’t that I was trying to […]
Texas Teacher To Latino Student: “Go Back To Mexico”
Shirley Bunn said something several months ago that has slowly been gaining notoriety, a notoriety that seems to be growing with time. She’s a math teacher at a junior high school in […]
A School Sex Scandal Affects Both Children And Parents
To the mothers of children in elementary school: At the moment, mothers with school-aged children are alarmed by the painful events in the school Miramonte Elementary School in Los Angeles. The first thing you need to do is think coolly about what your involvement will be […]