Spanish Media Is On The Rise In The U.S., For Now

Spanish Media Is On The Rise In The U.S., For Now

NewsTaco August 30, 2011

This has been a good year for Hispanic media – and by that I mean Spanish language media in general, which industry and academia insists on calling “Hispanic.” Univisión, the leader of […]

Should I Choose Love, Or Becoming A Mother?

Mary Mata August 25, 2011

Dear Martha, I’m so scared. I love my partner but my partner confessed that he has a disease that is degenerative and eventually can not bear children. I love him […]

Mother Punishes Son With Chile, Could Go To Jail

Mary Mata August 24, 2011

An Alaska woman was convicted of misdemeanor child abuse after she poured hot sauce in the mouth of her adopted Russian son after he lied to her. Not only that, […]

How East LA’s Bodie Street Lost Its Name

Mary Mata

I grew up in a street filled with kids with little or no inhibitions. There were about six or seven of us, which by today’s standards would be a gang, but […]

Learning To Clean The Beans: A Latino Rite Of Passage

Mary Mata

I remember being a little girl on my tip toes peeking over to see what my mom was doing, making very methodical sounds, looking very concentrated, staring over a pile […]

America Has A New Hero, And He’s Undocumented

NewsTaco August 23, 2011

This is a major disruption. Just when you thought you had the immigration issue sorted, boxed, wrapped and tidy, an undocumented worker does something heroic. Now we have to re-sort everything. It happened […]

Alcoholism: The Sleeping Dragon In The Living Room

Mary Mata August 22, 2011

In most families it is customary that if there is a serious problem within the family, or anyone has any emotional dysfunction, it must remain hidden from everyone else. The […]

When Women Hate Women: An Abuelita Story

Mary Mata August 18, 2011

My maternal grandmother was very cruel to me when I was growing up. To this day, I’m not sure why, but I can only speculate that most of it was […]

My Sister’s Death Is Tearing My Family Apart

Mary Mata

Dear Martha, A week ago my sister and her boyfriend got into a car accident and the two of them died. My family is destroyed, everyone is angry and blames […]

Alabama Immigration Law Isn’t Working – No One Knows Why

NewsTaco August 17, 2011

What’s happening in Alabama that has experts and educators scratching their heads about Latinos and what was expected of them? Pretty much everyone who thought they knew what would happen […]