Tiffany Jasmin Gonzalez

LATINOPIA PLÁTICA MARIO GARCÍA – BREAKING BARRIERS FOR INCLUSION

Dr. Mario García has co-edited, with Ellen McCracken, a book of essays titled Rewriting the Chicano Movement, New Histories of Activism in the Civil Right Era. In this Latinopia Plática, García … [Read more...]

POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SALOMON BALDENEGRO 10.11.24 VOTE YOUR VALUES

October 11, 2024 By wpengine

It’s about voting values… Values are not just words, values are what we live by. John Kerry, Vietnam War decorated veteran, U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of State Indeed, values pave the road we walk on as we go through life. They are our moral compass. We all have a value system – beliefs and principles […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 10.11.24 DAY OF THE DEAD HAS RISEN TO GREAT ACCLAIM

October 11, 2024 By wpengine

The Day of the Dead Has Risen to Great Acclaim Día de los Muertos (“Day of the Dead”) is coming, and its macabre observance across many Latino communities in the US is highly anticipated and welcomed. The celebration originated in Mexico hundreds of years ago and is now honored in many parts of the world. […]

MIS PENSAMIENTOS with ALFREDO SANTOS 10.06.24

October 6, 2024 By wpengine

Bienvenidos otra vez a La Voz Newspaper. By the time you read these words, the Republic of Mexico will have sworn in its first female President of the nation. Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo will begin a six year term as Mexico’s President. And in doing so, Mexico joins a host of nations around the world […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 10.06.24 AMALIA MESA-BAINS AT SAMA

October 6, 2024 By wpengine

Visionary Concepts of Amalia Mesa-Bains at San Antonio Museum of Art The San Antonio Museum of Art retrospective, Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory, is impressive and a triumph for the museum. This exciting exhibit can be seen in the museum’s large Cowden Gallery from September 20, 2024 through January 12, 2025. Four decades ago Mesa-Bains […]

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