Bien Hecho: First Latina General In Calif. National Guard

The California National Guard made history this week, when it promoted Col. Sylvia Crockett to the rank of brigadier general. Gen. Crockett is the first Latina to obtain this rank in the state’s National […]

Before seeing them at South By Southwest, I’d heard a lot about the Bay Area duo Los Rakas, but never had a chance to give them a listen.  After witnessing […]

What would a dramatic reading of Justin Bieber’s hit “Boyfriend” sound like if it were to be done as it merits: over the top. Our friends at Being Latino took […]

By Melissa Pitts For some reason chocoflan seems very retro to me. Maybe it’s the Bundt mold and the giggly flan resting on top covered in cajeta. Whatever it is, […]

I had dinner last night at a sea food place that, being Holy Thursday, was less crowded than I expected. Still, there was a low-level din – we were sitting outside, near […]

by Paul Adams For the first time as his tenure as a pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI passed through Mexico last weekend during his Latin American trip. Though many of its […]

So what is it? Latino, Hispanic, Mexican, Chicano, what? I avoid this topic like I avoid heavy traffic – sometimes it’s impossible. Sometimes, like when the Pew Hispanic Center does a study on it and releases […]

Let’s see if we can help the lawmakers in the state of Nebraska figure this one out. A person is undocumented if they came to this country with no legal […]

I imagine that most minorities who are self-aware have the occasional, or perhaps even perpetual, underlying fear of fulfilling racial stereotypes. It’s an anxiety that I’m still trying to unpack. […]

By Raisa Camargo The revelation  that immigration officials deported an estimated 46,000 parents of U.S. children during the first part of 2011 is “completely unacceptable,” several members of the Congressional Hispanic […]