Fierce Politics by Dr. Alvaro Huerta

FIERCE POLITICS with ALVARO HUERTA 8.14.16 “URBAN PLANNERS OF THE WORLD UNITE AGAINST TRUMP”

As an urban planning scholar and a son of Mexican immigrants, I implore all planning scholars, practitioners and students to stand up and take a position against Donald Trump—the Republican nominee … [Read more...]

FIERCE POLITICS with ALVARO HUERTA 5.15.16 “FROM SHAME TO PRIDE IN MY MEXICAN IMMIGRANT PARENTS”

When I first applied to UCLA, I wrote in my personal essay that I didn’t have any positive role models in my violent neighborhood. Having grown up in East Los Angeles’ Ramona Gardens housing … [Read more...]

POLITICAL SALSA Y MAS with SAL BALDENEGRO 8.19.18

August 18, 2018 By Tia Tenopia

Where is the love? And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. Saul of Tarsus, aka Paul the Apostle (First Letter to the Corinthians) “Charity,” which Paul posits as the greatest virtue, derives from the Latin “caritas,” which means love. “Caritas” is the Latin translation of the ancient […]

PENSAMIENTOS with ALFREDO SANTOS 8.18.19

August 18, 2018 By Tia Tenopia

Bienvenidos otra vez a La Voz Newspaper. As you can see and feel, this issue of La Voz topped out at 24 pages. We had a lot more news to share but will have hold up on until the next issue. In this issue we want to congratulate Mando Rayo for making the cover of […]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA del ZOCOTROCO 8.11.18 “LOS JUEGOS CENTROAMERICANOS Y DEL CARIBE”

August 11, 2018 By Tia Tenopia

Los Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe Una columna que atiende la cultura tiene por obligación que incluir el deporte, que constituye un aspecto esencial en su quehacer y sirve una función vital en la identidad colectiva. Por ser quiénes somos y cómo somos, el deporte tampoco está excento de la controversia pues mucho se discute […]

BRAVO ROAD with DON FELIPE 8.05.18 “DEMOGRAPHY AND DESTINY: AMERICAN HISPANICS IN THE 21ST CENTURY”

August 11, 2018 By Tia Tenopia

DEMOGRAPHY AND DESTINY: AMERICAN HISPANICS IN THE 21ST CENTURY–IMPLICATIONS OF MINORITY TO MAJORITY SHIFTS IN SELECT GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS As part of the process of keeping my college freshmen courses relevant and aligned with our Quality Enhancement Program (QEP), I recently added the following choice to the research topics my Freshmen students could select from. […]

LATINOPIA ART SONIA ROMERO 2

By Tia Tenopia on October 20, 2013

Sonia Romero is a graphic artist,muralist and print maker. In this second profile on Sonia and her work, Latinopia explores Sonia’s public murals, in particular the “Urban Oasis” mural at the MacArthur Park Metro Station in Los Angeles, California.

Category: Art, LATINOPIA ART

LATINOPIA TEATRO “ENRIQUE’S JOURNEY2”

By Tia Tenopia on December 8, 2014

“Enrique’s Journey” is a Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative by Sonia Nazario about the harrowing experiences of a seventeen-year-old Honduran boy who sets out alone to travel to the United States to find his mother whom he hasn’t seen in more than a dozen years. The riveting true story was adapted for the stage by Anthony J. […]

Category: LATINOPIA TEATRO, Theater

POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 5.27.18 “WORLD WAR TWO GENERATION”

By Breht Burri on April 20, 2014

WW II GENERATION GETS IT DONE! It is beyond ironic that teaching young people about the patriotism of the Mexican American community—e.g., that Mexican Americans/Latinos have earned more Congressional Medals of Honor in proportion to their numbers than any other ethnic group in the U.S. and that Mexican American women played a crucial role in […]

Category: Political Salsa y Más