Watch: We’re about to get a decade named after Hispanics … again!

I knew it was going to happen. After all, it has happened every decade since 1970, that I know. Last month, the Economist discovered Latino voters. This month, it was […]

So I’m a twentysomething, educated Latina, and obviously my Mexican relatives are all too eager for me to get married and start pumping out babies.  It’s just their way.  Imagine […]

Like Latinos were turning out in humongous numbers and elevated percentages before, right? We’ll see. The opposite might be true, so says The New York Times.

Nielsen, the company that measures audiences on TV and elsewhere, has announced that 40% of TV homes in the upcoming 2010-2011 season will be Hispanic. This is an increase of […]

A study came out recently showing that less Americans are getting married, and more are just shacking up.  I’m sure this is driving mothers and grandmothers everywhere crazy.  The Population […]

As a student of the social sciences I am currently working on several research projects, one of which involves Latino gay men. Unhappily for me, trying to find resources about this demographic that doesn’t revolve around HIV/AIDS, drugs and risky sexual behaviors has proven to be just short of impossible.

The 40th anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium has come and gone, with little fanfare anywhere except California. It’s unfortunate, when you think about it, because it means in a way that we haven’t really learned our lesson, even in the face of laws like SB 1070. I emailed NPR a story about the Moratorium to please reconsider their usual policy of ignoring Latino issues and make an exception for this. I got an auto response thanking me for my feedback.

You may or may not have seen this video before, but regardless, it’s always good for a laugh — especially if you’ve ever eaten menudo!

I was scrounging around the web for something else when I came upon an…interesting? Let’s go with interesting take on the classic Lotería sirena, or mermaid, circa 2005. Apparently, someone […]

Univisión was the most watched TV station for viewers between the ages of 18 and 49 this past week, according to Nielsen, the company that makes its living by measuring […]