Shades of identity
Shades of identity
By Jan Peña-Davis – “My bad, girl, I thought you were black.” Fifteen-year-old Delisha Lopez recounts as she remembers how her new locker partner greeted her at the start of this school year. A sophomore student at Roberto Clemente Community Academy in gentrified Humboldt...
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Mujeres Asesinas
Mujeres Asesinas
By Jenny Patiño – Author’s Disclaimer: Don’t go killing anyone.  It doesn’t end well.  Not on television.  Not in real life.  Not even on television inspired by real life. That being said, I am a connoisseur of televised murder. The “CSI” and “Law & Order”...
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Sin Nombre
Sin Nombre
By Benita Zepeda– In the 2009 film “Sin Nombre”, there are many themes that are apparent throughout the film. Some of those themes consist of gang culture, where a “brotherhood” is placed before the law. Then there are themes of love.  Love that is lost, found, concealed...
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Latinas lose out
Latinas lose out
By Angelica Jimenez– Latinas are losing a desperately need program providing culturally competent reproductive health and family planning because of harassment and intimidation from pro-life groups. Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast has succumbed to...
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Deliciosa!
Deliciosa!
By Natalia Avilez– “Barriga llena corazón contento” is a Spanish proverb when translated means a full stomach, a happy heart.  For celebrity, author and chef- Ingrid Hoffman, she has turned this metaphor into her reality. Hoffman, 44, started her entertainment career...
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Brown kids in brochures
Brown kids in brochures
By Jenny Patiño– Latino students are looking for the same things other students look for in a college, according to Ana Maria Soto, the executive director of Latino Initiatives at National Louis University in Chicago. “They’re looking for value in their education–a...
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Latinas struggling with weight
Latinas struggling with weight
By Luz Garcia– Georgia Hernandez, 20, a student says she has an image in her head of what she should look like and when she sees herself in the mirror she feels she is overweight. “Sometimes I don’t feel attractive after I eat,” she said. “I don’t feel guilty...
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Defying expectations
Defying expectations
By Angelica Jimenez– Maria Cardenas leads a full life-she juggles four different jobs, a serious relationship, social commitments with a multitude of friends and raises six cats-but children are not a part of this picture. Cardenas, 47, is one of a minority of Latinas who have...
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One poet who won’t be boxed in
One poet who won’t be boxed in
By Jenny Patiño – According to Cuban-American poet Rita María Martínez, if you attend one of her readings “expecting that every poem is going to have coconuts in it, or mangos, or that every poem is going to be an exile poem then you are going to be disappointed.” But...
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Shaping her own destiny
Shaping her own destiny
By Amalia Gonzalez and Jenny Patiño – Walking into Panaderia/Tortilleria Nuevo Leon, you can find Marisa Morado working behind the counter, bagging delicious sweet bread and ringing up customers. She grew up in Pilsen, a predominantly Mexican neighborhood of Chicago and now...
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