Mariana Carrasco

6 days ago | latinitasmagazine.org | Mariana Carrasco |Jenny Castro |Anna Martinez |Camila Dejesus

By Dana GaribaldiAUSTIN, Tx—At this year’s Texas Tribune Festival, investigative reporter Jean Guerrero and law professor Cristina Rodríguez discussed the current and controversial immigration policies of the Trump administration, policies which have affected thousands of members of the Latinx community including the attempt to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).

3 weeks ago | latinitasmagazine.org | Camila Dejesus |Mariana Carrasco

Beatriz de los Mozos was only 28 when she received the devastating news. As a young woman with scoliosis, the time had finally come, and she had been advised against wearing her favorite shoes. Instead, she was instructed to wear shoes that aided her back and were, for lack of a better word, not as complimentary as her favorite espadrilles. For someone as fashion-forward as de los Mozos, this simply would not do. If her own shoes were hurting her back, then she would just have to make new ones.

3 weeks ago | latinitasmagazine.org | Camila Dejesus |Mariana Carrasco |Jenny Castro

Born in 1941 in Los Angeles, CA, and raised in the San Fernando Valley, Richard Valenzuela is known as a pioneer in rock music history, being the first Chicano (Mexican-American) to have merged Spanish with the rock n’ roll sound with his version of the traditional folk song “La Bamba.”  A self-taught musician and singer-songwriter, he was renamed “Ritchie Valens” for easier and anglified pronunciation, (common at the time) by producer and President of Del-Fi Records Bob Keane.