150 Years of Mexican, Mexican American History Now Online

By UA News A new digital collection at the University of Arizona Libraries makes accessible more than 150 years of news coverage documenting the voice of the Mexican and Mexican […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Little by little, positive change is coming. This time it was the venerable Associated Press that announced that it is dropping the “I” word from it’s […]

By Bryan Weakland, NBCLatino CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Cumbia rhythms blaring from loudspeakers, a young singer taking to the stage belting out familiar lyrics and the crowd dancing the “washing machine” […]

From the textmex obsessed imagination of Daphne Strassmann Another Tex(t)Mex cultural deposit into Easter celebratory traditions of America: Chocolate Cascarones! Ever heard of cascarones? It’s a tradition where folks fill empty […]

By Vivan Yee, New York Times One is German, another a New Yorker of Egyptian descent. Others are Cuban-American, Colombian, Dominican and Argentine. These are the unlikely members of Mariachi […]

By Ben Ratliff, The New York Times Bebo Valdés, a pianist, arranger and composer who was a musical lightning rod in Havana during the evolution of the mambo and, after […]

By Marisa Gerber, Los Angeles Times When Boyle Heights shop owner Arturo Macias hears fellow Latinos use the Spanish word for “wetback,” he doesn’t necessarily take offense. Macias, who crossed illegally […]

By Josh Dulaney, Hispanic Business An advertising executive says Spanish speakers with Venezuelan accents are best when selling to Latinos in the U.S. because their accents are the most neutral. A […]

By Cuéntame An Honest Conversation is a sober, honest, and often painful short documentary featuring story vignettes from LGBTQ Latino youth, their friends, families, and the community in general. This […]

By Al Dia Editorial Staff A deeply troubling piece of journalism and an equally troubling publishing decision by Philadelphia Magazine is garnering lots of attention. From all of us. The […]