Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony Look For Latino Talent

Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony Look For Latino Talent

Mary Mata June 3, 2011

[Editor’s Note: To read in English, translate this page with Google Chrome.] Las oportunidades no se pierden nunca, otros las toman cuando las dejamos marchar. Que no se te vaya esta […]

Interview With Mexico’s Vampire Woman

Mary Mata

By Enrique Limón, of El Zonkey Show and on Twitter Mexicans fall short on internet meme hierarchy. Perhaps it’s because we hardly keep inside cats; maybe it’s because we need to save up memory […]

Mexican Immigrants Make Dreams Come Through With Ice Cream

Mary Mata

Carlos Flores went from being a doctoral student in Mexico to pushing an ice cream cart to selling shaved ice out of a truck to being the successful owner of […]

Latinos: More Than Half U.S. Population Growth

Mary Mata June 2, 2011

The Hispanic population in the U.S. accounted for more than half of the total population growth in the country outpacing other demographic groups, according to a U.S. Census Bureau brief […]

News Taco To Go: Kool-Aid, Wine, Haiti & Twitter

Mary Mata

¿Tuiteas? 19% Of Latinos Online Use Twitter The Trouble With Haiti’s Refugee Camps, Over A Year Later Latinos Key To Growth For Kool-Aid, Wine Industry

The Trouble With Haiti’s Refugee Camps, Over A Year Later

Mary Mata June 1, 2011

Port-au-Prince, Haiti — On a hot and dry Sunday morning, fifty people gathered inside a weathered tarp to pray. A priest led them to stand, and they sung religious chants […]

31.7 Million Mexicans, Millions More Latinos In The U.S.

Mary Mata May 31, 2011

The Pew Hispanic Center released an interesting report last year, finding based on 2009 and 2010 Census data that there are 31. 7 million Latinos of Mexican origin in the […]

Why The Immigration Issue Matters To All Latinos

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Conventional thought seems to hold that not all Latinos care about immigration; that Latinos who are not themselves immigrants or who are generations removed from the immigrant experience are not interested. The immigration issue […]

Refreshing Rosa De Jamaica

Mary Mata May 27, 2011

By Melissa Pitts Rosa de Jamaica, or Agua de Jamaica as it’s known in some parts, is like the sweet tea of Latin America. It can be prepared hot of […]

Summer Vacations, Carne Asadas And Los Tigres Del Norte

Mary Mata May 25, 2011

Some things never change — especially in the rewarding field of education. The children I work with now can smell summer right around the corner. They talk about summer blockbusters […]