Audiences are shrinking for Hispanic- and black-oriented U.S. news media
Audiences are shrinking for Hispanic- and black-oriented U.S. news media
In a fact sheet released this week, Pew looks at how “news media made by and for the two largest racial/ethnic minority groups in the United States — blacks and Hispanics” […]
How 3 Latina Comic Book Artists Carved Out a Space in a Male-Dominated Industry
*These 3 young Latinas are killing it in a white male dominated world! VL By Yara Simón, Remezcla (8.5 minute read) In 2014, comics historian and researcher Tim Hanley summed […]
Why Hollywood Can’t Put Real-Life Mexicans on TV
*There’s a very good point in the second layer of this story, about how the use of the word “pocho” revealed a telling lack in decision-making Hollywood. The fact that […]
George Lopez, Edward James Olmos And Jackie Cruz On The First Latino They Saw On TV
*This is kinda’ cool, like a game. Who was the first Latino I saw on TV? It was Desi Arnaz, on I Love Lucy. On a U.S.-made film it was […]
Political Shows Lack Latino Voices
*Here’s what works: I wrote a weekly opinion column for the San Antonio Light and later for the San Antonio Express News for a total of 20 years. I got […]
It’s 2016 and Latino Representation on TV Is Finally Starting to Reflect Reality
*Well that’s a step in a good direction. VL By Ellie Kaufman, Mic Latinos make up 17% of the U.S. population. They account for 32% of frequent moviegoers. But as […]
Gael Garcia Bernal, Gregory Nava among new diversity Academy appointees
*There are 51 members of of the AMPAS board of directors, three new members are from minority communities. Three out of 54. It’s a start, but Latinos purchase 25% of movie […]
NewsTaco Podcast Network, Episode 2: Two Laredenses
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco I catch up with my high school friend Billy Nericcio, now a Chicano literary theorist, cultural critic, American Literature scholar, and Professor of English andComparative Literature at […]
Hollywood is missing a big opportunity with Latinos
*There’s an incongruity when Latinos are 1/4 of the nation’s moviegoers and big industry executives say that Latinos are driving retail sales but Latinos are almost invisible in the entertainment […]
“Give Us One of Those Latin Bombshell Dances” : Lupe Velez Comic-Generated!
*We’re big fans of Memo Nericcio’s take on Mexican-American stereotypes in mass media. He keeps us current and sharp. VL Another Great Chapter in the History of Mexicans in American […]