If you are a movie buff or a music fiend, the NCLR ALMA Awards is just around the corner. “Desperate Housewives” star Eva Longoria Parker and comedian George Lopez will host this year’s ALMA awards, celebrating the outstanding achievements of Latinos in entertainment. The awards ceremony will air Sept. 18 on ABC (8:00-10:00 p.m., ET). [...]
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I was hoping to up date everything I did yesterday, but it is impossible because there is just too much to write on. It feels like information overload. So I have decided I will wait and write a big post when of everything I did, which I plan to include pictures. I will write on [...]
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Five years ago, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez made her literally mark when she published her best-selling book, The Dirty Girls Social Club, which earned her the title “The Godmother of Chica Lit” by Time Magazine. Now she’s back with a sequel, Dirty Girls on Top, which continues to follow the lives of the six sucias – [...]
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Xicano
What does the word Xicano mean to me?
It’s about thinking for myself,
setting my mind free.
Challenging everything I was taught,
analyzing my beliefs and every thought.
Knowledge and wisdom,
that for which I yearn,
taking advantage of any opportunity
where there is a lesson to learn.
Strengthening my mind day by day,
my underlying values and principles
I will not betray
Realizing what really matters [...]
In a recent nationwide telephone survey by the Pew Hispanic Center of Latino voters, there is good news for Sen. Barack Obama and not so good news for news for Sen. John McCain.
Hispanic registered voters support Democrat Barack Obama for president over Republican John McCain by 66% to 23%, according to a nationwide survey of [...]
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
Para Justicia y Libertad is a Latino-centered political blog focusing on the humanistic perspective of politics, history, and society as they relate to the Latina/o community throughout Texas and the United States.
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