As heartbreaking as Columbine was, as appalling as Virginia Tech was, and as distressing as the Colorado theater shooting was, the mass school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut brought home something more terrifying to parents. Not even elementary school kids are safe. While details are still emerging on the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary on […]
If Congress fails to act on the “fiscal cliff,” come January 1 a series of tax cuts will expire and obligatory budget cuts will come into play that will likely drag our economy back into a recession. What’s more, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that unemployment will likely rise to over 9 percent. Everyone should […]
Celebrities took to Twitter to publicly mourn the tragic death of Jenni Rivera after the norteño singer and and four others died in a plane crash in Mexico Sunday night. Mexican songstress and actress Lucero wrote on her Twitter account: “What terrible news! Rest in peace … My deepest condolences for her family and friends.” […]
Jenny Dolores Rivera Saavedra, or Jenni Rivera, was known as “La Diva de la Banda,” for her work in banda and norteña music. Rivera, who was presumably killed early Sunday in a plane crash in Mexico, was at the peak of her career as perhaps the most successful female singer in grupero, a male-dominated regional […]
Back in February, when Time Magazine graced its cover with a group of Latinos and correctly predicted that the Latino voter would define this election, I was hopeful that something in mainstream media might be changing. That starting then, stories featuring Hispanics would be seamlessly integrated into all other stories. How naïve of me. Unfortunately, […]
Meeting the young and handsome attorney Rafael Castellanos, I find myself easily impressed. He grew up being bullied because he was one of a handful of Mexicans in his hometown of Winnemucha, Nevada—population 7,000. He escaped for college to Arizona State University, and ended up graduating summa cum laude. He then went on to study […]
Gone are the words “Air Jordan” on the tongue of the sneaker. Instead, it is replaced with “POLLITO.” With his name being accompanied alongside Michael Jordan and the Air Jordan Retro 9 sneakers, 11-year-old Oswaldo Jiménez is the new designer of his very own Nike shoes that go on sale Friday. They are called “POLLITOS,” […]
Latinos could be among the biggest beneficiaries of a provision of a Republican bill that allows spouses and minor children of legal immigrants to live in the United States while waiting for their green card application to be processed. Latinos, specifically Mexicans, account for the largest group of legal permanent residents in the United States—numbering […]
For many, the holidays are a time to spend with family—for better or for worse. We dine together, we gift together, we shop together, and it’s likely we “drama” together. I spoke with Francesca Escoto, author, life coach,speaker, and radio host about how Latino families can learn to re-write their scripts, stop living out old […]