Latino Males are Healthy, but Die Young

We’ll call it the paradox within the paradox. Scientists and health professionals have been talking and scratching their heads about the Latino paradox for years: the fact that, despite unfavorable […]

While they’re just preliminary estimates, advances of the official numbers to come, the US Census pre-release releases are giving us an indication of what we should expect. The official population […]

I’ve never liked the term.  I’ve written about it many times through the years. In the simplest of terms, babies are not anchors, period.  The anti-immigration clique has taken to […]

They’re not, and that’s neither here nor there. What matters is why we ask the question. Salma Hayek admits, in an article published in the Tucson Sentinel, that at a […]

If you’re a Latina and your family is anything like mine, people have been expecting you to be married (to a man) for a really long time. And, since you […]

The DREAM Act is set for an important vote in the US Senate today. Majority leader Harry Ried plans to bring up the act for a cloture vote, but he […]

By José Luis Aguirre It’s common to see images of Our Lady of Guadalupe on T-shirts, watches, bracelets, key chains, paintings, murals and even tattoos. Devotion to the patron saint of […]

¡Santa vaca Batman! Marvel Comics is getting ready to unveil a new Latina Spiderchica. All of you Spiderman and comic superhero connoisseurs may recognize her, she’s made appearances as Araña […]

When I was a kid in the 1950s, we still spoke mostly Spanish at the homes of our extended family, and we called it “Día De Dar Gracias.” At the time, […]