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Dismantling Columbus’s Legacy Requires More Than Changing a Holiday’s Name
To fight Columbus’s violent legacy, we need to engage in radical climate action and reject greenwashing technologies. By Amrah Salomon | TruthOut | OCT. 9, 2023 | Photo by Taylor Rees On September 28, 2023, a little over a week before Indigenous Peoples’ Day, an Akimel O’odham and Hopi climate ... -
“RAZÓN DE SER: Luis C. Garza” Documentary Premieres at DTLA Film Festival
By Melissa Richardson Banks | CauseConnect | OCT. 9, 2023 October 9 is the day when the mural América Tropical was unveiled in 1932 at its location on Olvera Street in Los Angeles. This large-scale artwork was created by one of Mexico’s Los Tres Grandes, David Alfaro Siqueiros, one of the best known ... -
Latinos’ Views of and Experiences With the Spanish Language
About half of U.S. Latinos who do not speak Spanish have been shamed by other Latinos for it. By Lauren Mora & Mark Hugo Lopez | Pew Research Center | SEP. 20, 2023 | Photo by Ira L. Black Most U.S. Latinos speak Spanish: 75% say they are able to ... -
Pew: Most U.S. Latinos speak Spanish, and those who don’t are shamed by their own
By Alejandra Molina | Los Angeles Times | SEP. 20, 2023 | Photo by Celina Pereira Soon after law school, Wendy Ramirez found herself teaching Spanish part-time to mostly white professionals while based in Washington, D.C. As someone who felt “the shame” for not speaking “professional Spanish,” Ramirez gained more ... -
How Anthropologist José Cuéllar Became Dr. Loco, the Last Pachuco
By Andrew Gilbert | KQED | SEP. 18, 2023 | Photo by Beth LeBerge When José Cuéllar made his fateful trip to the crossroads it wasn’t to barter his soul. Rather, without much forethought he exchanged his life savings for a saxophone. While the post-World War II economy of San ... -
50 years later, a pioneering Chicano college in Oregon continues to inspire the fight for ...
By Sami Edge | The Oregonian | SEP. 15, 2023 | Photo from The Oregonian Archives Azael Avila grabbed a box of crayons and set to coloring a line-drawing of Mexican-American civil rights hero César Chávez. Red for the barn behind the farmworker icon. Green and blue plaid for his ... -
Mexico's Independence Day is almost here. No, it's not on Cinco de Mayo.
Here's what you need to know about how the fight for independence in Mexico began, and how that celebration has transcended borders more than 200 years later. By Nicole Macias Garibay & Camille Fine | USA Today | SEP. 14, 2023 | Photo by Alfredo Estrella PHOENIX — Mexico's Independence Day, celebrated ... -
The Braids and Bravery of Blue Beetle's Nana
By Mariana Martinez Barba | Women's Media Center | SEP. 6, 2023 | Photo courtesy of IMDB When Nana Reyes (Adriana Barraza) in the film Blue Beetle unpins her hair to drop two long braids, she symbolically salutes Latina guerreras. The DC movie follows the transformation of a young Latino man —Jaime ... -
Gen Z LatinXers are reinventing regional Mexican music. But your abuelo still might dig it
By Reed Johnson | Los Angeles Times | AUG. 4, 2023 | Photo by Raul Roa DannyLux’s first guitar was a castaway that his father plucked from the trash while driving garbage trucks in Palm Springs. Growing up, the young musician vibed to an unruly mezcla of Maná, “a lot of Pink ... -
‘Blue Beetle’: How Grassroots Backers Are Trying to Boost the Latino-Led Superhero Movie
With its stars sidelined due to the strike, a coalition of advocacy groups are finding ways to promote the DC film. By Aaron Couch, Rebecca Sun & Borys Kit | The Hollywood Reporter | AUG. 16, 2023 | Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Two years ago, Xolo Maridueña made a surprise ...
