Do Latinos Navel-Gaze? Is the Pope Latino?
Do Latinos Navel-Gaze? Is the Pope Latino?
Is the Pope Latino? Remember the good ol’ days of Karol Wojtya, when the Pope was Polish and no one questioned it? When it was such a given that it became […]
Como Que Peter Hernández Won’t Make You Sound Famous
From the textmex obsessed imagination of Daphne Strassmann H.N.P.D. (Hispanic Name Projection Disease) In the April issue of GQ magazine, Bruno Mars a.k.a. Peter Hernández, explains juicy bits, like a tweet to […]
Hablan Español? Do your kids speak Spanish?
By Claudia Sermeno, Being Latino That is a question that we as Latino Americans are used to asking of representatives of educational, community, political, service and other societal entities. But […]
1st Latino to Win PEN/Faulkner Award: Homeboy From US-Mexico Border
From Latina Lista In a prestigious literary competition where more than 350 novels and short-story collections by American authors published in the U.S. in 2012 were evaluated by a three-judge […]
Are We Latinos Too Thin-Skinned?
[blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/Schulte_Sean/status/310915024841474049″] By Al Dia Editorial Staff As a Latino, how you answer that question may depend on your age A long batch of tweets excoriating ESPN for broadcasting the […]
Not a Lack of Latino Lit for Kids, But a Lack of Awareness
By Shelley Diaz, School Library Journal Librarians who serve children in predominantly Latino communities were shocked this past December to read a New York Times article claiming that there is a dearth of Latino […]
Pope Francis Effect: Latinos May Return, Lead Catholicism
By Adrian Carrasquillo, NBCLatino Pope Francis, the first Latin American Pope, has put a spotlight on U.S. Latino Catholics, a demographic that saw lower representation in the Church between 2008 and 2012, falling from 58 […]
Why Mexicans Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day
By Jim Estrada AUSTIN, TX — St. Patrick’s Day has special significance in Mexico and among generations of families who can trace their history to the old Southwest, particularly among […]
A Latino Look at Pope Francis
By Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo, Washington Post Latin America is the demographic center of world-wide Catholicism and so it is fitting that the part of the world with the most Catholics – over […]
Dispatches from Spain: What’s in a Name – Caesar Augustus to Zaragoza
Plaza de España, Zaragoza, Spain By Ito Romo, NewsTaco At the end of January, our first month in Spain, we took a weekend trip to Zaragoza, about four hours by […]
