Filmmaker Alex Rivera’s award-winning sci-fi film touches on current debates surrounding immigration, climate change and technology. Militarized water sources. Robot farmworkers. Commercialized memories. Everything is…
SACRAMENTO — Republican lawmakers, excluded from the Democratic-led California Latino Legislative Caucus, have taken matters into their own hands.Nine Latino GOP legislators have created the California Hispanic…
From first-time features by emerging U.S.-based talent to a star-studded production to a new look at one of the most beloved Mexican American music artists…
Jorge Paz Reyes still remembers the feeling of those first few months in fifth grade after arriving in the US from Honduras with his mother…
In 1967, Brenton Wood looked as if he was on the cusp of mainstream success.The Compton crooner’s single “The Oogum Boogum Song” became a hit…
From border narratives that go beyond the immigration debate to coming-of-age quasi-musicals with puppets; from a western that confronts Chile’s dark past to an adaptation…
Over the phone, Lena Gonzalez’s voice had the patient but proud tone of a lawyer charged with defending the damned.Her metaphorical client: The California Latino…
Thirty years ago this fall, California’s Latino voters coalesced into a multigenerational ethnic voting bloc for the first time in response to a draconian, citizen-led…
BRAWLEY, Calif. — While Assemblyman Jeff Gonzalez, a newly elected Republican, was taking the oath of office in Sacramento last week, the phones of two supporters…
Postelection analyses continue to ignore the political and economic power of Latinas. The big story about the Latino vote is that the electoral bets the…
WASHINGTON — Brian Leija, a 31-year-old small-business owner from Belton, Texas, was not surprised that a growing number of Latino men of his generation voted for…
Two plays down, five more to go. As the 5 p.m. shows concluded, a lingering crowd filled the L.A. Theater Center’s lobby. With an hour…
Six years ago in this newspaper, I coined the term “rancho libertarian” to describe a political ideology I was observing in many of the Latino…
In the secretly recorded conversation that upended his political career, Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin de León kept returning to a familiar theme: preserving and…
The text message that showed up on the phones of Eastside voters last month began with a warning: Forty years of Latino political representation is…
New York City, the US – In Queens, 26-year-old Claudia, a first-generation college-educated Latina born in the United States, sat at her family’s dinner table…
There is no Spanish word for “swing state.”But there are many Latinos living and voting in the seven battlegrounds that will determine the outcome of…
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris holds a commanding lead with Latino voters over former President Trump, with a margin that tracks closely with President Biden’s…
The Democratic and Republican candidates in the November 5 battle for the White House have turned their attention to two key swing states in the…
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has made an appeal to the Latino stronghold of Allentown, Pennsylvania, shortly after his controversial rally in New York’s Madison…