It’s past time to crush racial and ethnic labels

By Esther Cepeda, Dallas Morning News All one has to do to rile a group of Hispanics is mention the names of blond, blue-eyed Cameron Diaz or Canadian-born Ted Cruz […]

By Philip Kennicott, The Washington Post My Oct. 25 review of a new exhibition at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, “Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art,” ignited strong […]

By Latino USA Is Jorge Bergoglio, aka Pope Francis, Latino? Does it matter? Why did Bruno Mars drop his Puerto Rican father’s surname? And who is the new Obama staffer […]

By Josh Dulaney, Hispanic Business An advertising executive says Spanish speakers with Venezuelan accents are best when selling to Latinos in the U.S. because their accents are the most neutral. A […]

By Melissa Pitt, Huffington Post Latino Voices It takes something pretty substantial to make eyebrows raise on Madison Avenue, but last week, just that happened when this list of “Who […]

By Daniel Alarcón Last April I was invited to a literary fundraiser of sorts. It was a fancy affair, full of very wealthy people and well-dressed waiters carrying trays of […]

It’s not surprising to me to see disconnects in political rhetoric. What is surprising is to see how readily they’re accepted and go unquestioned. Take for instance the idea that Latinos are […]

So what is it? Latino, Hispanic, Mexican, Chicano, what? I avoid this topic like I avoid heavy traffic – sometimes it’s impossible. Sometimes, like when the Pew Hispanic Center does a study on it and releases […]

(Editor’s note: This is a verbatim, just released, press release by the Pew Hispanic Center. I thought it was pertinent to make it available to the NewsTaco community. I’ll be ruminating on […]