In an entertainment world dominated by light-skinned Latinas, actress Zoe Saldana makes her mark in Hollywood playing diverse roles and showing off her fabulous sense of style. Saldana is Dominican and Puerto Rican and considers herself “una mujer negra”. The 34-year-old Queens native has been busy promoting her new movie Star Trek Into Darkness where […]
William Levy proves that he has skills in a new Pepsi Next ad campaign. Pepsi is capitalizing on the Latino heartthrob’s sex appeal to drive awareness of its product. With this latest campaign, it seems that Latinos are taking over Pepsi. The company has been building its efforts to court the Hispanic market and it’s […]
After a two-year hiatus from the music scene, triple threat Selena Gomez returned to the spotlight last week, in a big way. She went from an appearance on The Ellen Show to a controversial performance at the MTV Movie Awards to kissing Justin Bieber in Norway. Gomez, who is usually in the headlines for her […]
“Sofia Vergara is doing me right now,” says Latina legend Charo. The cuchi-cuchi-ing entertainer spoke at The Adelante Movement: The Wisdom of Latina Legends session at the Hispanicize social media conference in Miami last week. Really? Vergara has been criticized for taking the Latina stereotype too far in her role as the loud and animated […]
Eva Longoria has proved she can put Latina power in politics. Actress, activist and philanthropist, Longoria was doing her thing at the Newsweek and The Daily Beast’s 2013 Women in the World Summit in New York City. On the heels of a fantastic year for the Mexican-American powerhouse—as one of President Barack Obama’s re-election co-chairs […]