First Latina, Openly Gay Woman On Colorado Supreme Court

Monica Marquez became the first Latina, and openly gay, member of the Colorado Supreme Court Saturday. She’s super smart, educated at Yale and Stanford, and her father, retired Colorado Supreme […]

I remember that when I lived in Brownsville — at the tip of Texas on the ocean and border — I had great skin. Part of this, I always supposed, […]

The National Hispanic Media Council has been doing this for years; grading the big television networks on Latino diversity. Here’s their report card for 2010: CBS,  B-plus ABC, B-minus NBC, […]

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 […]

Omg, if you’re at all like me, you have no money to spend this Christmas! Good news is, there’s really nothing that I want that’s really all that expensive. We […]

Yes, there’s a lipstick color called “Latino” brought to you by the United Kingdom cosmetic company Rimmel. Here, check it out (upper right-hand corner): I mean, I guess we know […]

Leave it to a Latina to show us the way. You’ll find few people these days who think that our immigration policies are good as they are. Almost everyone thinks […]

I had a teacher in middle school who called me a “friega quedito.” I think we all know what he really meant. But he was a decent man and would […]

¡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 […]

There’s more evidence that the community at large – marketers, politicians, scientists – are keeping a close watch on all things Latino. Not too long ago the talk was of […]