How To Survive In An Interracial Relationship

How To Survive In An Interracial Relationship

Mary Mata April 28, 2011

Interracial relationships come with their own unique set of challenges.  For starters, more often than not, it is those closest to you who are most critical of your relationship and […]

Immigrant Kids Not Receiving Legal Rights In U.S.

Mary Mata

By Melissa del Bosque Unaccompanied Mexican migrant children are not receiving the government protections from human trafficking, and exploitation that they should, according to a report released today by the nonprofit […]

Jot@, The Latino Version Of “Queer” To Promote Tolerance

Mary Mata April 27, 2011

An interesting movement in Los Angeles is trying to neutralize the derogatory word for homosexuals in Spanish by promoting the idea of jot@, or as writer Adolfo Guzman-Lopez puts it: […]

Mischief And Melancholy At The Happiest Place On Earth

Mary Mata

I was turning seven and my mother packed up my sister and some sandwiches so we could join her comadres and their respective clans at the supposed most magical place […]

Dispatch from the DF: Easter In Drug-War Torn Acapulco

NewsTaco April 25, 2011

We escaped Mexico City this week and spent Semana Santa in Acapulco. My husband, our toddler daughter, his two teen daughters and me. I told a friend of mine back […]

Pesticide Exposure Tied To Lower IQs

Mary Mata April 21, 2011

A University of California at Berkeley study found that prenatal exposure to pesticides leads to lower IQs in babies. The study found that the use of popular organophosphate pesticides leads to […]

How Diabetics Can Be Physically Active, Control Blood Sugar

Mary Mata

“We know from research that 30 minutes of physical activity a day, at least five days a week, can help in delaying or preventing the onset of Type 2 diabetes. […]

Cinematic Fantasy, Economic Reality Collide On Whitter Blvd.

Mary Mata April 20, 2011

One of the first places I used to go to upon declaring my conditional independence from my parents’ household was Commerce Theater out by Goodrich and Whittier Blvd. I still […]

Dispatch From the DF: What Mexicans think of the US

NewsTaco April 19, 2011

by Alejandra Garza de Gutierrez I hope most people who have a sibling will understand me on this one. There is a new study released by the Pew Research Center’s […]

The Trouble With Immigration’s “Legal Way”

Mary Mata April 18, 2011

If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times:  why can’t people without papers do it the “legal way”? Well a great story in Newsweek has the answer: […]