Chicano poet dies at 81

LATINOPIA WORD JOSE MONTOYA ON THE RCAF

José Montoya is the revered godfather of Chicano poetry and art who passed away on September 25, 2013. A longtime activist and educator, José has influenced generations of Latinos with his insightful … [Read more...]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO 11.09.24 LA ELECCIÓN DESDE ALLÁ Y ACÁ

November 9, 2024 By wpengine

Burundanga de Zocotroco José M. Umpierre Por Allá ¿Que decir después los resultados electorales? Pues hay un saco de emociones y de razones en busca de conciliación. La primera reacción es de alivio al fin de la incertidumbre, más dista de ser la única. La victoria de Donald Trump ha sido un golpe fuerte a […]

FIERCE POLITICS with ALVARO HUERTA 11.01.24 – IT’S IMMORAL TO VOTE FOR TRUMP

November 1, 2024 By wpengine

It’s immoral to vote for Trump/Vance in 2024. While morality is neither universal nor absolute, my Mexican immigrant parents (from the same group of people that Trump and Vance deride) taught me, as a kid, the basic difference between “right” and “wrong.” While attending Murchison Street Elementary in East Los Angeles’ Ramona Gardens public housing […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 11.01.24 LATINO ART GALLERY AT HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE CAMPUS

November 1, 2024 By wpengine

A Latino Art Gallery Opens at San Antonio HBCU Campus On October 23, 2024, St. Philip’s College in San Antonio opened the Romo Gallery in the new Cybersecurity building on campus. St. Philip’s President Adena Loston, a visionary leader at the Historically Black College, conceived the idea to present Latino art at her Eastside campus […]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO 11.01.2024

November 1, 2024 By wpengine

Burundanga de Zocotroco José M. Umpierre No puedo evitar añadir la voz al coro de indignacion. La Isla Flotante de Basura que aludió el comediante Tony Hincheclife en el evento del Partido Republicano recientemente en Madison Square Garden de Nueva York ha tenido una resonancia descomunal. La frase ha levantado un clamor de figuras públicas […]

LATINOPIA WORD JOSÉ MONTOYA “PACHUCO PORTFOLIO”

By Tia Tenopia on June 12, 2011

José Montoya is a renowned poet, artist and activist who has been in the forefront of the Chicano art movement. One of his most celebrated poems is titled “Pachuco Portfolio” which pays homage to the iconic and enduring character of El Pachuco, the 1940s Mexican American youth who dressed in the stylish Zoot Suit.

Category: LATINOPIA WORD, Literature

LATINOPIA WORD XOCHITL JULISA BERMEJO “OUR LADY OF THE WATER GALLONS”

By Tia Tenopia on May 26, 2013

Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo is a poet and teacher from Asuza, California. She volunteered with No More Deaths, a humanitarian organization providing water bottles in the Arizona desert where immigrants crossing from Mexico often die of exposure. She read her poem, “Our Lady of the Water Gallons” at a Mental Cocido (Mental Stew) gathering of Latino authors […]

Category: LATINOPIA WORD, Literature

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