Why Every Day Is Father’s Day
Why Every Day Is Father’s Day
By Sandra Sanchez, Voxxi It’s the little things that remind me of my dad always – not just on Father’s Day. Like when I peel an orange and rather than reach […]
On Gender Disparities: Can Women Be Blamed For Machismo?
By Silvia Casablanca, Voxxi While teaching a family health course at the University of Cartagena many years ago, the stories students told about the different roles that members of their […]
Mathematician: Chicanos Have Only One Degree Of Separation
By Maria Puriaima, Pocho Ñews Service (PNS reporting from EAST LOS) All people have six degrees of separation? Hells, nah! A new study by an area mathematician begs to differ. “The truth […]
Hispanic Children Twice As Likely To Be At Risk Of Hunger
By Voxxi More than 48 million people in the United States live in food insecure households, and Hispanicsare twice as likely to live at risk of hunger, compared to non-Hispanic whites, […]
Book Review: “Barrio Boy” By Ernesto Galarza
Reviewed by Luis R. Torres, Latinopia A Second Look at a Classic of Chicano Literature Some weeks back Jesús Treviño, the captain of the Latinopia ship, and I agreed to […]
When A Beso Isn’t A Kiss: Integrating Our Cultures
By Maitri Pamo, Being Latino It was an awkward moment and we all felt it. My first official play date with a friend from school and Mami, upon meeting the girl’s mother, […]
The U.S. Latino Story Is Our Story, Let’s Tell It
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco First let’s list the things we know about being Latino in the U.S. These aren’t things that have been empirically proven, well promoted and marketed – […]
Finding Oscar: Massacre, Memory And Justice In Guatemala, Chapter 7
(Editor’s note: This is the seventh of an eight part series) By Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, and Ana Arana, Fundación MEPI Chapter 7: ‘Sorrows Can Swim’ Oscar waited about six weeks for the […]
Latino Immigrants Fear Evacuations More than Hurricanes
By Peter Malof, Texas News Service ALAMO, Texas – June marks the beginning of hurricane season – when many residents of Texas’ Rio Grande Valley find themselves weighing the dangers […]
America Ferrera Heads Campaign To Mobilize Latino Voters
By Griselda Nevárez, Voxxi In 1994, America Ferrera was 9 years old living in Los Angeles when California voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 187. The law, which was later ruled unconstitutional by a […]
