What Is It About Lotería That We All Love?

Recently I asked William “Memo” Nericcio, Director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences program at San Diego State University and a Professor in English and Comparative Literature […]

Man, Ritchie Valens was a hard core rock star! C’mon, you know him, even if you never heard his music, because who hasn’t been forced to watch “La Bamba” at […]

HBO is set to offer Latino documentary filmmakers a chance to make their films with a new grant created in part with the National Association of Latino Producers. The $10,000 grant […]

If the death of Cesar Chavez in 1993 ushered my rebirth as a Chicano,  then the Zapatista uprising of 1994 only cemented it. Before that moment, I considered myself to […]

She appeared mysteriously in April when men in hardhats seemed to be hard at some sort of official-looking work, installing a 10 or 12-foot glass mosaic of La Virgen de […]

You know you’ve heard the story before. A grandmother in a faraway place has found La Virgen on her tortilla or her window or her ceiling or wherever it is […]

Facebook is the largest news organization to have ever existed, this according to a story in the Harvard Business Review. We’ve written consistently that Latinos are big on Facebook (2.7 […]

By Alejandra Garza de Gutrierrez Growing up, I never understood my mother. She was old school and old world. I would cringe whenever people told me I look just like […]

I first heard Ana Tijoux when my brother called me over to his computer and said, “Hey, Sari, check this out.” My jaw dropped, but since I was on deadline, […]

Dora The Explorer has done wonders to introduce throngs of young ones to Spanish and the idea that people unlike themselves have valuable things to share. But now, thanks to […]