Latino Democrats

THINKING LATINA WITH SARA INÉS CALDERÓN 8.11.13 “WENDY DAVIS”

3 WAYS WENDY DAVIS RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR OF TEXAS WOULD AFFECT LATINOS. Wendy Davis, according to my sources and the hints she’s been dropping, is going to make a run for Texas governor. The state … [Read more...]

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA 7.15. 18

July 15, 2018 By Tia Tenopia

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: SALOMON BALDENEGRO ON “IF YOU SWIM IN THE SEWER…” THE LATINOPIA TEACHER’S GUIDE: THE LATINO VOICE IN AMERICAN SOCIETY, VICTOR SÁNCHEZ CARDONA VIRTUAL GALLERY TOUR, AND ACTOR PEPE SERNA ON AUDITIONS. What up my Latinopians! This week we have another potpourri of genres. We begin with Sal Baldenegro’s monthly blog, Political […]

POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 7.15.18 “IF YOU SWIM IN THE SEWER”

July 15, 2018 By Tia Tenopia

If you swim in the sewer… “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” Martin Luther King, Jr. Enrique Morones of the San Diego-based group Border Angels said it clearly and unequivocally […]

BRAVO ROAD with DON FELIPE 7.08.18 “A DREAM DEFERRED”

July 8, 2018 By Tia Tenopia

My dream has not withered like a raisin in the sun, though at my age I wonder what my “future” would have been had I realized my dream of being a college or university president. It never happened, but I’m not bitter. I’m reminded of the last words in The Sun Also Rises when […]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO 7.08.18. “BORICUAS ‘PA QUE TU LO SEPAS”

July 8, 2018 By Tia Tenopia

Boricuas pa que tu lo sepas Mucho me lamenta repetir lo bien sabido; los tiempos están dificiles. Quizá por ello se colma mejor el orgullo ante las dos Boricuas que han acaparado ésta semana el acontecer noticioso y político de los Estados Unidos. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez y Sonia Sotomayor encabezan las páginas de periódicos (NYT […]

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