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Justice Sonia Sotomayor lets her inner “wise Latina” roar: “U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Monday condemned racially charged language used by a federal prosecutor in Texas. The justice, appointed to the court by President Barack Obama in 2009, took the relatively unusual step of writing a statement to accompany the nine-member Supreme Court’s Read More
A shock came over me when I found out what students in the school I teach at were reading. I saw in opened book bags copies of Piri Thomas’s Down These Mean Streets. My horror was confirmed when I saw stacks of the books on the side of a classroom that I happen to share Read More
It’s about a quarter after 10:00 p.m. and the Harlem Haberdashery is officially closing up shop after a successful event for Elena Romero’s book release. All the meeting and greeting is done for the evening. Every hors d’oeuvre has been served and taken in along with the cocktails by each gormandizer in attendance. Elena gets Read More
I have to be completely honest with everyone who will be reading the following piece. This one will contain a horde of firsts for me. I’ve never done an article about fashion of any category. I’ve never interviewed a journalist of Puerto Rican heritage. Nor did I ever entertain the notion that I’d be interviewing Read More
If summer time = more free time = nothing to do, you might want to try these activities. – go to free events: There are some cities that stand out for free fun, including New York, Washington D.C. and St. Louis, but all cities come equipped with free entertainment. Most people know about museums that Read More
A marriage falls apart; the father goes one way, the mother goes another, and the kids shuffle back and forth. One parent gets custody of the friendships that were cultivated during the marriage, and the other goes out into the world learning how to make friends all over again. In Better With You Here, the Read More
Book of the Month Join us as we explore the work of Latino authors together, both old and new! The Book of the Month for June is The Death of Artemio Cruz by the late author Carlos Fuentes, one of the most admired writers in the Spanish-speaking world. Along with Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa Read More
Book Review The Maria Paradox by Rosa Maria Gil, D.S.W., and Carmen Inoa Vazquez, Ph.D. As Latinas, many of us have felt the tug-of-war between nuestra cultura and American culture. At times, we feel the need to be more assertive, more independent, but we may not want to completely discard the Latino traditions we’ve grown Read More