Vaccines Are Important To Everyone’s Health

You never outgrow your need to be vaccinated. No matter what your age, there are recommended vaccines to help keep you, your family, and your community safe. Each year, 50,000 […]

Six percent of the nation’s K-12 teachers are Latino, compared to 20% of the Latino student population in public schools – that’s according to reports by the National Center for […]

By a show of hands, how many of you have had “the talk” with your children or remember “the talk” with your parents? I thought so; it’s not something we Latinos do […]

It is summertime now, and one of my friends wanted to go to the lake in order to swim. She was surprised to hear that I do not know how […]

I believe in the power of neighborhoods and barrios. I believe public institutions devoted to our leisure, education, and civic engagement are sacred spaces. The people make the place, but […]

I was walking with my father down the long corridor that leads to his apartment (he insists on independent living) when he stopped and turned to look at me with a wry […]

I grew up watching movies. My dad is a hard core movie buff, and since he usually got to pick the movies, right from the time I was a kid […]

By Patti Lynn, otherwords.org McDonald’s should heed a call from some of the nation’s leading health professionals and stop marketing junk food to kids. It certainly has good reason to do […]

This just in: new arrivals in the U.S. are not generally welcomed with open arms.  Benjamin Franklin initially opposed German immigrants, because of fears that they would not assimilate.  (He used […]

None of us was surprised when Quique, arguably the most gullible of our little band of street urchins, jumped off the roof of his house with a towel tied around his neck, draping down […]