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My Fashion Database: Zoe Saldana's Fashionable New Venture

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She’s drop-dead gorgeous, insanely talented, and super stylish—as if there weren’t enough reasons to envy Zoë Saldana, we have one more: she’s a brilliant businesswoman too! Zoë and her fiancé, former model Keith Britton, have partnered…
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Not What, But Who I Am: One Latina's Evolution

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In the mid-1990s I was covering a political rally in California with a Latina colleague when a Brown Beret asked a version of the question we’d both heard for years: “We hear you guys in Texas call yourselves Hispanics. What’s up with…
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Reebok Easytone Shoes: And the Verdict Is...

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I remember seeing the advertisement nearly two years ago. I was on the couch with two of my best friends, Kim and Megan, watching TV and eating Chinese. We couldn’t find the remote to fast-forward through the commercials. And God forbid…
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Mentoring Seeds Sprout

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By the time you read this, I will be back from Kansas City, where I will have given the keynote address at MANA de Kansas City's 30th anniversary celebration. MANA is a national organization for Latinas, based in Washington, D.C., but with…
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María Dueñas, Debut Novelist of The Time in Between

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Spanish professor and author, María Dueñas, makes her American literary debut with The Time in Between, a book that is as textured and sumptuous as it is difficult to categorize. Just like the story’s protagonist, a talented seamstress…
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Lessons on Life via Red Lipstick

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When I was a child, I loved nothing more than watching Mami apply her makeup in the bathroom every morning before heading off to work—the most glamorous civil servant in Havana, Cuba—and then again every Friday and Saturday night to…

No Shame in Using Food Stamps

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I was at the supermarket checkout line when the cashier asked me if I wanted to make a donation for the needy. I would have liked to, but instead, I flashed my food stamps card and shook my head, saying: “I can’t. This time, I’m the…
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Sew '70s Project Runway Recap: Episode 10

At the Atlas, Anya and Kimberly are still recovering from the menswear challenge and their brush with elimination on the previous week of Project Runway. Josh M., back to his old sassy self, comments that at this point in the competition everyone…
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Take the Million Moms Challenge and Help Other Mothers

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At least one woman will die while pregnant or during childbirth in the time that it will take you to read this story. And many more children—one every 20 seconds—will die of a vaccine-preventable disease. Read Related: Our Online Family:…