Over at Remezcla, Kristen Lopez writes about Netflix announcing a third season for the loved show “One Day At A Time”! Click HERE for more info. Photo: Getty Images Posted by: Yenesis Alvarez
“For any Olympic athlete, it’s a tremendous honor to be selected as a your country’s flag-bearer – but sometimes being thrust into the national spotlight can have unintended consequences. In the case of Puerto Rican wrestler and Olympic silver medalist Jaime Espinal, it was his status as a Dominican-born immigrant that caused for some unfortunate […]
“The U.S.-Mexico border is typically thought of as a place where people flow from south to north. They leave Mexico, it’s thought, in search of something better in the United States – not the other way around. But Americanos, a series of photographs taken by the Mexican photographer Alejandro Cartagena, contradicts this south-to-north view of […]
Eddy Martinez from Remezcla interviews Radiolab co-host, Jad Abumrad. “The WNYC podcast – which we recently profiled here – is, in a nutshell, amazing. Last week, they released a new episode titled Los Frikis, exploring the story of Cuban punk rockers in late 1980s Cuba who deliberately injected themselves with HIV. Part political protest, part […]
De La Peña was the first Latino to win the John Newberry Medal for his childrens book, “Last Stop on Market Street.” Remezcla writes: “For the very first time, a Latino author won the Newberry Medal. NPR reports that Matt de la Peña’s Last Stop on Market Street (illustrated by Christian Robinson), which tells the […]
Remezcla gets to know 23 year old, Itzel Alejandra Martinez, who has taken photography to a whole new level. “Itzel Alejandra Martinez is a 23 year-old multimedia artist and photojournalist with roots in Mexico. As an artist, her fresh perspective is informed by the everyday mosaic of US and Latino cultures she encountered growing up […]
Watch this …. and all will be revealed. The Spot is what Remezcla and Heineken have cooked up to celebrate and explore Latin Culture this summer. Peep this.