Latino arts, history and culture
World Premiere of Play Based on Esteemed Memoir “Always Running” It got a standing ovation on opening night recently and it was well deserved. It just may keep pulling in satisfied audience by … [Read more...]
This month Mark Guerrero interviews singer Ersi Arvizu. She was part of the East L.A. vocal group, The Sisters, in the '60s and in 1970 she was vocalist for El Chicano (on their first album). She … [Read more...]
The three-day Labor Day holiday fills our beaches with folks, and portable barbeque grills. Most celebrants view Labor Day as the last day of summer or the day before children return to school. Few … [Read more...]
Si hubiese alguna duda de que los eventos recientes en Puerto Rico han trastocado el territorio, permítaseme un ejemplo. La Borinqueña que es el himno nacional que se canta cuando se levanta la … [Read more...]
Gabriel Carmona and Branden Selman are the founders of Nac Film Theory, an independent film company based in Nagotchoches, Texas. Both of these talented filmmakers produce, direct, film, edit and act … [Read more...]
Latinopia Art Poli Marichal from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Poli Marichal is a multi-talented artist and printmaker accomplished in diverse media. Poli tells latinopia that her work is informed by an … [Read more...]
Luís Ramón Quintero is a film writer and director whose recent film Guiltless explores the notion of a man who can rid people of their guilt. Luís spoke to Latinopia about his film, which stars Edward … [Read more...]
Otra vez bienvenido a La Voz Newspaper. As you can see, we have placed on our cover Julián Castro, candidate for President of the United States of America. I know many people believe he doesn’t have a … [Read more...]
El racismo ha adquirido renovada prominencia en la cultura norteamericana. Lo evidencian de forma contundente las matanzas que han sacudido el país, más aun cuando tan extremas conductas de desprecio … [Read more...]
Bienvenidos otra vez a La Voz Newspaper. En este ejemplar temenos de vuelta la sección en la página 2 de People in the News. Dejame explicar el por que de esta página. When I look our and around at … [Read more...]
Dr. Alvaro Huerta is a professor of Urban and Regional Planning at California State Polytechnic University at Pomona. In his recent book, Defending Latina/o Migrant Communities in the Xenophobic Era … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT PROFILE THE PORVENIR MASSACRE One of the most horrendous of extra-judicial killings took place on January 28, 1918 in the outskirts of the village of Porvenir, Texas, … [Read more...]
There's blood on their hands... The blood of the 22 El Paso massacre victims, the youngest of whom was 15, is on the hands not only of Donald Trump but also on those who support, protect, make … [Read more...]
During the first weekend of August, in a period of thirteen hours, two white men with assault rifles killed thirty-one people in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. The first one posted a "manifesto" on … [Read more...]
Trump’s Racist Words and Actions Fan Flames of Mass Shootings It sounds like a bad Quentin Tarantino movie: “Massacre in El Paso.” That’s what newspaper headlines screamed and cable news network … [Read more...]
Mexicans have officially become members of an endangered or hunted species in the U.S. (I’m not referring to our enormous demographics, as we’ll continue to multiply in el norte—where individuals of … [Read more...]
On the evening of January 28, 1918, a dozen Texas rangers, accompanied by eight U.S. Calvary soldiers and some Anglo American ranch hands descended on the village of Porvenir,Texas, just north of the … [Read more...]
Las armas de la identidad Durante el primer fin de semana de agosto, en un periodo de trece horas, dos hombres blancos con armas de asalto, mataron treinta y una personas, en El Paso, Texas y … [Read more...]
Alejandro Morales is an accomplished author of novels and short stories. In the title story of his collection, Little Nation and Other Stories, he imagines a band of scissor-wielding mothers forceably … [Read more...]
THE PUERTO RICAN DIASPORA FACTS AND ROOTS Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States of America, defined as property but not part of that nation. As such Puerto Ricans … [Read more...]
Latinopia Word José Murrati An Exile's Papers from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Jose Muratti Toro is a regular contributor to Latinopia with his blog Utopias Descifradas (Disciphered Utopias). Here he … [Read more...]
