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Top 10 Poetry Books for Kids

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Did you know that April is National Poetry Month? More than just a bunch of rhyming words, poetry does, in fact, have many benefits for children. For starters, it helps young children to learn new vocabulary and rhythm. For this reason,…
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Are Nachos Really Mexican?

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UPDATED August 1st, 2016 WHY ASK ME? Ok, I knew. I knew the moment I decided on “Nacho Mama” as my blogging moniker that it would come up a lot. I remember thinking, “I might be answering questions about nachos for a long, long…
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Cesar Chavez Legacy: The People's Man

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Most Americans today don’t think about where their food comes from—except that it better be cheap and convenient to buy. But the brilliance of the farmworker movement launched by Cesar Chavez more than 50 years ago is that he put a human…
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What Is Latina? An Interview with Marabina Jaimes

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Marabina Jaimes is the Emmy Award Winning-Host of PBS’ Storytime! and the voice of Mary Alice Young, the narrator of Desperate Housewives, in the Spanish version of ABC’s hit primetime series. With hundreds of commercials in both Spanish…
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Librotraficante Founder Shares Most Memorable Moments Along Caravan Route

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EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the final piece by author and Librotraficante founder Tony Diaz for Mamiverse, a sponsor of the Librotraficante Caravan. Some day, scholars will major in Librotraficante Studies, analyzing the movement that started…

I Don’t Need No Stinking Papers!

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Some University of Southern Mississippi band members chanted “Where’s your green card?” at Kansas State University point guard Angel Rodriguez during Thursday’s first round of the NCAA’s Men’s Basketball Championship. The school…
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Is Techno Bigotry Real?

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Nothing is more discouraging than the state of diversity in Sillicon Valley. As a portion of the country speeds up with the latest iPad and gets richer off of Facebook going public, the majority of minorities in America find themselves left…
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For Mama: Our Time Is Now; A Librotraficante Post

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EDITOR’S NOTE: The Librotraficante Caravan got underway today in Houston, bound for Tucson. The Arizona city has been the focus of media attention due to a ban on Mexican-American studies by the Tuscon Unified School District. This is…

Jessica Sanchez, American Idol Sweetheart

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Jessica Sanchez’s constant singing may have annoyed her friends in middle school, but American Idol judges Jennifer Lopez, Randy Jackson and Steven Tyler can’t get enough. After the San Diego native’s performance of Whitney Houston’s…