Latinidad

“My right to hearing sounds and noises was taken from me during a war that I will never understand.”

The answer is complicated and varies from one moviegoer to the next.

Greeting people when you enter a room is about acknowledging other people’s presence and showing them that you don’t consider yourself superior to them.

My memories are broken and fuzzy blurs.

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I understand we need to heal, that we need to recover from institutional exclusion, but how does a community heal when we lack resources that bring us together as a united coalition?

¡Enhorabuena to a fabulous team!

I’ve come to realize that maybe that’s why the pain visits us yearly, leaving us with the worse emotional hangover of the year.

I was an immigrant child, confused, unaware of why we had traveled so far from the world I knew.

Who doesn’t like pupusas, who doesn’t dance cumbias, who refused to have a quinceañera because I always disliked dresses and pink shit.

I have no childhood memories of Día de los Muertos. Neither my American born father nor my Mexican-born mother were very big on tradition.

Poet Melania-Luisa Marte started it, hoping to bring more visibility the term.

Every community practices El Día de los Muertos differently, but how we talk about those practices (and their histories) matters greatly.

I had been deprived from speaking Spanish because I was in an only-English mode.

Latino USA sits down with the author of the popular song “Pedro Navaja” to discuss highlights of his monumental career, his new record, and his take on current affairs.

Just because your parents are from a place it does not mean that you can also claim it fully as yours.

The small restaurant came onto the scene four years ago on the city’s southwest side, giving Detroiters their first taste of Venezuelan food.

In the eyes of my aunts, my dad had not selected the proper mate.

The magazine is a collection of writing, photos and essay from Dominican writers.

Mexican American Studies or MAS course supporters argued the name change takes away the right from Mexican Americans to self-identify.

“One of our greatest blessings is dreaming together, bringing those dreams to life and becoming the examples we needed to see when we were growing up,” Jaynice Del Rosario said.