If you’re a fan of stoner comedy, you’ll remember the Chicano pot-head Cheech getting high with Chong in the film Up In Smoke. The comedy duo has a career spanning decades and over a dozen films. Aside from performing and writing, Richard “Cheech” Anthony Marín has also been…

Most of us know Frida Kahlo for her stunning self-portraits, but her deep relationship with social justice needs to be recognized as well. She believed political power should rest in the hands of the working class. This summer, ‘Frida Kahlo 2020’ will be the largest of her exhibitions…

In San Francisco, one of the country’s most expensive cities, Reina Tello and her family were evicted after living in their home for 18 years. This is not a new phenomenon. Poverty divided people when Martin Luther King Jr. was leading the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s,…

January 28 is José Martí’s birthday, the Cuban diplomat, poet, and journalist. He is celebrated across the United States in symposiums, books and journalism awards (like the National Association of Hispanic Publications) because of his important contributions throughout Latin America and the U.S. Best known as the “apostle…

In 2002 director Patricia Cardoso graced us with the coming of age film Real Women Have Curves. The movie was a game-changer for Hispanic media representation, with its majority Latino cast and a Latina screenwriter, and it was huge for Patricia’s directorial career. Patricia became the first Latina…

In 2002 director Patricia Cardoso graced us with the coming of age film Real Women Have Curves. The movie was a game-changer for Hispanic media representation, with its majority Latino cast and a Latina screenwriter, and it was huge for Patricia’s directorial career.  Patricia became the first Latina…

Students at San Diego State University now have the opportunity to explore the legacy of Tejano music icon Selena Quintanilla with a course titled “Selena and Latinx representation”. Selena superfan Nathian Shae Rodriguez is the instructor, and he credits the pop star with giving him license to own…

Each year on January 21st, thousands of devoted visitors make the trek to a church in Higüey, Dominican Republic to see a portrait of their patroness, Our Lady of Altagracia. They bring offerings and ask favors of La Virgen. Her portrait adorns many U.S. Dominican homes, depicting Mary…

In 2012, Jamaican immigrant and U.S. veteran Howard Bailey was deported because of a guilty plea he made in 1993 for marijuana possession. Cannabis is now legal in eleven states, but immigration advocates warn that, despite these new laws, there’s an enormous risk for those who are undocumented. …

We get it, not all Latinos love spicy foods. And although many of our dishes aren’t complete without peppers, there’s a wide “spice” level that could range from 0 to 2 million on the Scoville Scale. Those of us who enjoy the burn can actually live longer because…