Finding Meaning In My Childhood Chanclazos

Most of my friends were always amazed by the way I acted around my mother. I never drank around her and nor did she ever see me drunk.  I never […]

Current presidential frontrunner Newt Gingrich seems to think that Spanish and bilingual education are the characteristics of people living in “the ghetto,” at least he did, who knows how he […]

Yesterday I wrote a story about the Spanglish word “troca” and how I love it and how I don’t care if it’s not proper Spanish, I will never let it […]

Today is the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, or election day as the U.S. Congress calls it. There is voting going on across the country — from gubernatorial […]

So the truth is, most of the Latinos I know who grew up in the U.S. speak English as their dominant language, either because their parents or grandparents spoke Spanish, […]

This video just plain made my day. You have to watch it all the way through. While we’ve written before about reasons people prefer not to pronounce things in Spanish, […]

How many Latino-phobic incidents can you pile on one political statement? Let’s give it a try. According to a story in the Orlando Sentinel, Florida state senator Alan Hays, R-Umatilla, […]

A great story from The Los Angeles Times this week breaks down the complexity of the Mexican immigrant-powered accent particular to people who grew up near or in the East […]

By Jennice Fuentes Courtesy of www.OurTiempo.com As it turns out, you can always go home. The latest work by the insanely talented Spanish Director Pedro Almodovar, “The Skin I Live In” (La […]

By Izzy Sanabria, for the National Institute for Latino Policy History has taught us that conquerors plundered, raped, killed and destroyed cultures. As conquerors go, the Spaniards were one of the […]