Latino arts, history and culture
In LA, there IS crying in baseball How ‘bout those Dodgers? It’s been a few days since the LA team clinched their second World’s Series win in a row and we’re still talking about that here … [Read more...]
California seems to do something pretty frequently to annoy the White House. This week’s West Coast affront is the Street Vendor Protection Act, authored by Senator Maria Elena Durazo and … [Read more...]
Olga García-Echeverría is a narrative writer and poet who was born and raised in East Los Angeles. Her book, "Falling Angels," is split in half between stories and poems, and features a bilingual … [Read more...]
The federal government shutdown over the national budget happened this last week as promised and will probably continue to dominate every news cycle news for at least a week, different aspects of it … [Read more...]
José Montoya is a renowned poet, artist and political activist. Here he reads from his celebrated bilingual poem, "El Louie," a reading that took place at Occidental College in Los Angeles, … [Read more...]
If you look at immigration policy these days—and who can’t, what with the attendant virus of raids and racism—you must take a painful look at the present architect, one Mr. Stephen Miller. He … [Read more...]
When Jo Emma and I watch the ten o'clock nightly news in Spanish on Telemundo, I have noticed that the news reporters when they refer to the United States, they say, "Estados Unidos," and on the … [Read more...]
Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo's latest collection of poems is title Incantation: Love Poems fro battle Sites. The poems cover a range of themes. Here she reads to poems from the collection, Battlefields and … [Read more...]
Report from the Bench Trenches It was a win for the rule of law when Federal agents (we’re looking at you, ICE) got legally blocked yet again from picking up raza (and/or others) in … [Read more...]
The Judicial Bench Strikes Back It’s not news that ICE troops have been very busy chasing down and sweeping up brown-skinned people at Home Depot, restaurants and carwashes. Pause for a minute … [Read more...]
While growing up in my beloved Barrio El Azteca in Laredo, Texas, during the 1940s and 1950s, I would often hear my paternal grandparents mention the term, "La Canícula," during the hot summer … [Read more...]
Christine Granados is a Texas author whose first book, Brides and Sinners in El Chuco won widespread recognition. In her latest book, Fight Like A Man and other Stories We Tell Our Children, she … [Read more...]
In the 1950s, growing up in Laredo’s Barrio del Azteca, I lived for baseball. My grandfather, a former umpire in the Mexican League, took me to see the Laredo Apaches play at Washington Park. The … [Read more...]
Alligator Alcatraz: A Monument to Cruelty in the Heart of the Everglades by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. It's time to resurrect the term necropolitics, meaning the politics of death wielded by … [Read more...]
Are You Out of Your Mind? Big doings in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles this past week--Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) showed up with military trucks and … [Read more...]
It’s hard to keep up—but it’s been another busy week for terrorizing tactics against immigrants and anybody that vaguely resembles one. Around California masked operatives—it’s still not clear if … [Read more...]
The ABCs of ICE Pasadena is a city just a few miles from Los Angeles and around the corner from Altadena. That’s where a massive fire pretty much leveled the town of 45,000 in an unincorporated … [Read more...]
Latinopia Word Anaya on Life's Journey from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. After the passing of his beloved wife, Patricia, in 2010, acclaimed Chicano author Rudy Anaya has produced an enormous output of … [Read more...]
The following letter was written by Jorge H. Rodríguez to the Los Angeles Times and is reposted on Latinopia with the permission of Mr. Rodríguez. Dear Editors. I have been a long time LA Times … [Read more...]
You’ve certainly heard this--on June 12 California Senator Alex Padilla was, as AP puts it, “forcefully removed” from a press conference by Homeland Security Secretary (and dog shooter Kristi … [Read more...]
There are clouds over Los Angeles this morning. Those great clouds could mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I interpret them as clouds of injustice, clouds of fear, of intimidation, clouds that … [Read more...]
