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US Senate confirms first Latina to conservative-majority 5th Circuit
By Nate Raymond | Reuters | DEC. 4, 2023 | Photo By Cheriss May The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed the first Latina judge to serve on the 5th U.S. ... -
Despite Real-Life Population Growth, Latinos Remain Silent or Invisible in Film
Movies with Latino leads also routinely receive lower production and marketing budgets, despite making just as much at the box office and earning higher Metacritic scores than their non-Latino-led counterparts. ... -
A Mexican American professor who struggled with impostor phenomenon helps others overcome it
By Soudi Jimenez | Los Angeles Times | NOV. 20, 2023 | Photo By Raul Roa The walls of office No. 311 at Loyola Marymount University‘s College of Business Administration are ... -
Tony Winner Sergio Trujillo Tapped to Direct Musical Adaptation of 'Real Women Have Curves'
Award-winning film about life in the barrio might soon be breaking barriers on Broadway. by Marc Hershberg | Forbes Barry and Fran Weissler, the producers of Chicago and Waitress, are now developing a ... -
New Poll Says Politicians Shouldn’t Use 'Latinx'
From "Latino Rebels" by Hector Luis Alamo Democrats trying to connect with Latinos in the party’s voter base have increasingly adopted the word Latinx, a gender-neutral term popular among academics ... -
Poll finds few Latinos use gender-neutral Latinx
By Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times – AUG. 11, 2020 The term “Latinx” has been embraced by 3% of Latinos in the United States, according to the first major poll ... -
The Potential and Promise of Latino Students
By Patricia Gándara, American Federation of Teachers – Spring 2017 By now, it is pretty much common knowledge that Latinos comprise the nation’s largest minority group, both as a percentage ... -
On the Chicana/o Moratorium of 1970: A Legal Historical Inquiry into the Events of the ...
By Dr. Juan Gómez-Quiñones, HuffingtonPost ~ Aug. 19, 2017 Some while ago, the upcoming 50th Anniversary of the Chicana/o Moratorium (August 29, 1970) did loom in people’s minds—memories have quickened ... -
Award Has Norma Chinchilla Looking To Future
By Angela Yim, Inside CSULB ~ February 6, 2017 Winning awards is nothing new for Norma Chinchilla, a Sociology and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies professor at CSULB. However, the ... -
El Corrido de La Jenny Oropeza
Jenny Oropeza was an incredible leader in our Long Beach Community and for all of California. Oropeza served on the LBUSD board of education from 1988-1994 - the first Latina ...