Disney’s Newest Princess Is Latina? Really?

Disney’s Newest Princess Is Latina? Really?

Mary Mata October 19, 2012

By Latino Rebels You know when you have pages like NBC Latino and Remezcla sending you posts about a new Latina Disney princess, the Rebeldes have to check it out. Ok, at first, we […]

Autism Does Not Speak Spanish In Latino Children

Mary Mata October 8, 2012

By Victor Escalante, NewsTaco According to a study released earlier this year from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, autism spectrum disorders are up 78% from 2007. That equals […]

Coachella Students Respond to Congresswmn Bono Mack

NewsTaco September 27, 2012

By Aurora Saldivar, Coachella Unincorporated/New America Media Thank you!!!! I heard some of your remarks with the councliman (sic) from Coachella. You were great!!!!!! Unbelievably great!!! Third World Toilet? That was […]

Children’s Citizenship Ceremony at Los Angeles Central Library

Mary Mata September 23, 2012

By Yago Cura, NewsTaco What with all the starched white dress shirts and itchy pants, at first I thought I was at a spelling bee; but, then I realized that […]

OMG! Latino Teens Text The Most while Driving

Mary Mata September 11, 2012

By Tania Haiman, Being Latino A recent study by AT&T revealed that 54 percent of Latino teens “admit to texting while driving compared to 41% of Caucasians and 42% of African-American teenagers.” […]

Tackling Latino Child Hunger Will Bring Prosperity to All

Mary Mata

By Melissa Boteach, Latinovations San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro made an impassioned argument at the Democratic National Convantion that investing in opportunity today leads to prosperity for all tomorrow. Telling the […]

Hispanic Barbie Running For President!

Mary Mata September 4, 2012

Hispanic Barbie Running for President! Is She a Democrat or a Republican….. hmmmm From the textmex obsessed imagination of William A. Nericcio Thanks to ace cultural studies detective Sarah Gould for pointing this […]

Mayor Julián Castro Delivers More Than A Keynote For My Family

Mary Mata

By Melanie Mendez-Gonzales, NewsTaco The Alamo City’s mayor’s keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention is all the buzz today. As a resident of San Antonio, TX, I am very […]

Nerd In The Colonia

Mary Mata August 23, 2012

By Eres Nerd, NewsTaco They were cotton fields located on a floodplain of the Rio Grande. Irrigation canals divided them. Water flowed from the open canal gates soaking the cotton […]

No Such Thing As A Gifted Television

Mary Mata

By Oscar Barajas, NewsTaco TV was awful when I was growing up. I grew up in a one channel household – and you would get hit if the television would […]