Latinos in the News (For All the Wrong Reasons)

We’re all a little weary of Latinos popping up in news reports all around the country as perpetrators of petty crimes and tacky behavior, you know, the kind of low-rent antics that if… Read More →

Huffington Post Latino Voices Links to a Story About Me!

Hey wait a minute! Maybe that thumb is shifting a little bit, a few degrees north. Perhaps I’ve been unfair in the past. Perhaps this is a fine example of English-language journalism about… Read More →

Fort Apache: Blue Notes Let the Clave Ring

There were plenty of blue notes played at the now annual Fort Apache Band reunion last night, but Jerry Gonzalez wasn’t worried. Anchored by his brother Andy, who hovered over the bass as… Read More →

Trouble in Tuscon: The Battle Over Precious Knowledge

Like many dramatic films, Precious Knowledge, a documentary directed by Ari Luis Palos, sets up an inevitable conflict between two forces on a collision course. On one side is a group of students and… Read More →

El Dilema del Bilingüismo

¿Por qué cruzó el charco el caribeño? Obviamente para llegar al otro lado. Citando al cubano-americano Gustavo Pérez-Firmat citado por el dominican-jersey Junot Díaz: “El hecho que te estoy escribiendo en (español) ya… Read More →

Taíno revivalism: Going back to La Tierra del Eden

  Some artists and academics in the U.S. want to revive the culture of Táinos, a people indigenous to the Caribbean, but not without controversy. By ED MORALES Caridad de la Luz, better known… Read More →

Ex-Murdoch Tabloid and Phone-Hack Scandal Hack Axes Latin@s

SPECIAL TO THE DAILY NEWS: (NEW YORK) The minions of Colin Myler, a cold-blooded fiend posing as a Good Samaritan announced this Saturday that the Daily News’s weekly Spanish-language publication Hora Hispana will… Read More →

From North Philly to the Heights…A Pulitzer Prize Story

For Quiara Alegría Hudes, the recent news that she had won a Pulitzer Prize last month was shocking. “It was so far from my radar of anything that would possibly be happening in… Read More →

Kelly From the Block

Here’s a photo of New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly with Jennifer Lopez at the 32nd annual New York City Police Foundation gala, from this slideshow of the commish’s increasing social activities. This… Read More →

The Beauty of the Beasties

Somewhere on 6th Street in the mid-1980s a siren dressed in white played me a scratchy tape of “Cookie Puss”; she thought it was the funniest thing she’d ever heard and sensed that… Read More →