Ready To See More Latinos On TV?
Ready To See More Latinos On TV?
Television networks and cable channels are seeing green and there’s only one thing they can do — get more Latinos on TV. As Latinos continue to grow as a population, […]
Making Race A Part Of News Reporting For No Reason
Recently a few sensationalistic stories came to light: women were found to be hiding things in their privates. Some of these women happened to be Latina. And, perhaps most amazingly, […]
Birthers To Obama: Show Us Your Papers
This has been bothering me since President Barack Obama released his long-form birth certificate. Depending on who you talk to the release was either a brilliant political move or a raw capitulation. Trump and […]
Video Game Changes Immigrants For Snuggly Animals
Remember Smuggle Truck? It’s the video game we reported about where the object is to cross a truckload of undocumented people into, presumably, the US. The score was based on how many […]
Free Jolito!
Ten minutes is all it’ll take to watch this. It was posted in William Nericcio’s blog: The Tex[t]*Mex Galleryblog. Jolito is undoubtedly so Mexican, that he’s a bean: literally. Like […]
Bien Hecho: Washington’s Blanca Gonzalez Torres Honored By Legislature
Blanca Gonzalez Torres was an advocate for the Latino community in Washington state who died unexpectedly from a brain aneurysm last August. Last week she was honored by the state senate […]
Country Music Star Boycotts Arizona
It’s very common for Latinos in Texas to listen to country music. I’ve been at my share of quinceañeras where the dance floor crowds with raza line-dancing to Boot-Scootin’ Boogie. […]
The New Market Definition for “Hispanic”
What kind of Latino/a are you? If you’re like me your answer should be: What are the choices? Or better yet: Who’s asking? Within the community we’ve always known there were different […]
HGTV: Diversity On TV Means Money
NPR ran a great report today about how HGTV — that’ Home and Garden Television — was able to boost viewership by featuring Latinos, African Americans and Asians in roles […]
News Taco Moving Forward
Good evening everyone, by now you would have noticed our new website design. News Taco is growing and changing and it’s all because of you, our loyal readers, so thank […]