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NewsTaco November 30, 2012

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Double end this Friday. We end a week and a month on the same day. So…double reason to take a breather and not look back! 21 […]

‘La vida ingeniosa y creativa de Junot Díaz’

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Por Ana Gamboa , AL DÍA La pregunta nunca tuvo una respuesta clara ¿Qué más podría escribir sobre Junot Díaz que no haya aparecido ya en todos los medios? Cuando […]

What kind of Latino am I?

Mary Mata November 29, 2012

By Daniel Alarcón Last April I was invited to a literary fundraiser of sorts. It was a fancy affair, full of very wealthy people and well-dressed waiters carrying trays of […]

DREAMers Being Considered for Time’s ‘Person of the Year’

Mary Mata

By Griselda Nevarez, Voxxi The Dreamers’ movement is more powerful and stronger than ever before–and Time magazine thinks so too. This year, the magazine lists Dreamers as one of the 40 candidates […]

Bomba Estereo’s Beat Disneyland

Mary Mata November 27, 2012

By Maria Hinojosa, Latino USA Simon Mejia, bassist from the Colombian electro-cumbia band Bomba Estereo, talks about going independent, aligning traditional Colombian rhythms with hip hop, kuduro and other sounds, […]

Latina to Head National Catholic Organization

Mary Mata November 26, 2012

PRESS RELEASE SAN ANTONIO (November 26, 2012) –The Catholic Association of Latino Leaders (CALL) (www.call-usa.org) today announced that Diana Richardson Vela will assume the position of President and CEO effective January 1, […]

Black Friday, Cyber Monday… Now #Giving Tuesday?

Mary Mata

By Peter Malof, Public News Service AUSTIN, Texas – The idea was hatched just a few weeks ago around a simple observation: Americans have one day for giving thanks – Thanksgiving […]

Do American Indians Celebrate Thanksgiving?

Mary Mata November 22, 2012

By Dennis W. Zotigh, New America Media/Indian Country Today In thinking about my earliest memories of elementary school, I remember being asked to bring a brown paper sack to class […]

Thanksgiving, and Don Juan de Oñate

NewsTaco November 21, 2012

By Delfin Carbonell Basset, Voxxi Daniel Boone is an American legend. Don Juan de Oñate is an unknown native-born Explorador. Why the difference? Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) says in his Heroes, Hero Worship […]

Día de la Revolución: Pancho Villa and My Grandfather

NewsTaco November 20, 2012

By Tony Castro, Voxxi My grandfather, Jose Angel Castro, was 14 when he first met Pancho Villa who had fled to the northern state of Chihuahua after killing an officer […]