INTERVIEWS

LOUIE PÉREZ – IN HIS OWN WORDS

Louie Pérez is a founding member, drummer and song writer of the legendary rock group Los Lobos. The group is one of the longest lasting successful collaborations in music history. They are … [Read more...]

FLACO JIMÉNEZ – IN HIS OWN WORDS

Flaco Jiménez is one of the most renowned accordion musicians in the world. H has performed with everyone from Willie Nelson and Ry Cooder to The Rolling Stones and Los Lobos. Latinopia asked him … [Read more...]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 6.28.20 “LATINOS IN THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOMENT”

June 28, 2020 By Tia Tenopia

Latinos In The Black Lives Matter Moment In the aftermath of George Floyd’s horrible murder, Latinos are joining the thousands of protestors who have been marching daily since the death to lend their voice against police violence and racial injustice in America. Half a dozen high profile killings of Blacks by police in the past […]

FIERCE POLITICS with ALVARO HUERTA “AN OPEN LETTER TO GOVERNOR NEWSOM ON ETHNIC STUDIES”

June 28, 2020 By Tia Tenopia

June 24, 2020 An Open Letter to California Governor Gavin Newsom on Ethnic Studies Dear Governor Gavin Newsom: As one of the few tenured Latina/o faculty members at the California State University (CSU)—the largest public university system in the country—I’m requesting that you sign Assembly Bill 1460 or AB 1460 (ethnic studies bill), once it […]

TALES OF TORRES 6.20.20 “NOT JUST A FEW BAD APPLES”

June 20, 2020 By Tia Tenopia

This is not just a matter of “a few bad apples” in the police department The televised killing of George Floyd has slapped this country awake. It has forced this country, among other things, to begin a long overdue frank discussion of race relations in this country. We need to have that discussion in earnest. […]

POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 6.13.20 “TRUTH TELLING- MEXICAN AMERICAN STUDIES”

June 13, 2020 By Tia Tenopia

Truth-telling—Mexican American Studies… Mexican Americans have not lived in a vacuum; they have left footprints in terms of history, literature, and interactions with the legal and educational systems. Rodolfo F. Acuña Although, as detailed below, Mexican American-Chicano/a Studies (hereinafter MAS) has many unique features, it is not a novelty. It has existed for 50 years. […]

LATINOPIA EVENT 1966 UFW PEREGRINACIÓN (PILGRIMAGE) MARCH

By Tia Tenopia on March 19, 2013

The effort to organize farm workers under a union contract has been a long and difficult struggle. In 1965, César Chávez and Dolores Huerta created what would become the United Farm Workers Union. From the onset they faced many obstacles, not the least of which was how to get dozens of California grape growers to […]

Category: History, LATINOPIA EVENT

LATINOPIA FOOD “JALAPEÑO SODA BREAD” RECIPE

By Tia Tenopia on March 14, 2011

Jalapeño Irish Soda Bread The sweetness of traditional Irish soda bread ingredients—raisins, buttermilk, some sugar—are richly complimented by jalapeño heat. Here’s a soda bread recipe from Ireland brought to the USA from Galway by Mary Patricia Reilly Murray and later transformed with her blessing by her daughter, Bobbi Murray, who added jalapeño chile. A real […]

Category: Cooking, Food, LATINOPIA FOOD

LATINOPIA MUSIC QUETZAL “CANTO LISO”

By Tia Tenopia on October 27, 2013

Quetzal is an East Los Angeles band whose music mirrors the social, political and cultural struggles of Latinos in the United States and Latin America. On August 24, 2013 they performed their song “Canto Liso,” based on a poem by acclaimed Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén, at the Levitt Pavilion nin Pasadena, California.

Category: LATINOPIA MUSIC, Music