Jazz de México

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco This is not just a regular Friday at NewsTaco. Tonight our friends at Jazz de México are celebrating their first, inaugural, concert! If you’re in San […]

By Tom Stephens, LIN@R Just this past week, I happened to be chatting with an old friend, of Colombian birth, about life, her daughters, her husband, and of course, up pops […]

By Stephen Dinan, The Washington Times A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Thursday proposed adding an American Latino Museum to the National Mall, saying it’s time to recognize the growing public […]

By Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times In the world of narcocorridos — Mexican folk songs that recount the exploits of drug traffickers and criminals — few are better known that “Contrabando y traicion,“ one of […]

By Meghan Holden, Minnesota Daily For Lila Downs, being a Latina at the University of Minnesota wasn’t easy. The recent Grammy winner and 1992 University alumna said her experience during […]

By Jayme Fraser, Houston Chronicle Anna Licona hadn’t heard the music of Julión Álvarez or Los Invasores de Nuevo León before she bought tickets for the Houston Rodeo and Livestock Show, but […]

By Delaney Hall, Laitno USA Meet the Garza sisters. Playing Tex-Mex Conjunto music publicly used to be the sole domain of men…till sisters Lala and Marcella took up the accordion […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco ¡Y saz! Just like that it’s Friday. Congrats, high-fives, abrazos all around. We made it! And you know what that means…at NewsTaco. It’s Jazz de México […]

By Nadine Natour, NBCLatino This is the second installment of Latinas empowering other Latinas to succeed in honor of Women’s History Month.  For ten high school girls enrolled in the photography […]

By Julito, Latino Rebels Yes, familia, even opinion writers in blue state Massachusetts show their cultural ignorance once in a while. Take the case of The Boston Globe’s Jeff Jacoby, a […]