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3 weeks ago | 
refinery29.com | Zameena Mejia
When Karol G dropped her newest single and music video “Latina Foreva” on May 22, it became undoubtedly clear that the Colombian pop reggaeton artist sought to make an instant Latina pride anthem.
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1 month ago | 
latina.com | Zameena Mejia
At just seven years old, Barbara Rivas and her mother moved from Venezuela to the United States. The pair settled in Miami without extended family to fall back on or a community to help them acclimate. She grew up in an environment where she had to advocate for herself in order to feel seen and understood.
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2 months ago | 
refinery29.com | Zameena Mejia
Trigger warning: This article references domestic violence. Grammy Award-winning rapper Cardi B is no stranger to sharing her unfiltered thoughts online. She has used her platform to call out injustices on a wide range of issues, including health care, Donald Trump and the U.S. government. She has also used social media to air out personal conflicts.
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2 months ago | 
refinery29.com | Zameena Mejia
Story from EntertainmentTrigger warning: This article references domestic violence. Grammy Award-winning rapper Cardi B is no stranger to sharing her unfiltered thoughts online. She has used her platform to call out injustices on a wide range of issues, including health care, Donald Trump, and the U.S. government. She has also used social media to air out personal conflicts.
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2 months ago | 
remezcla.com | Zameena Mejia
Latina empowerment brand JZD launched a new capsule collection with Brooks Running today (April 2) that celebrates community, culture and belonging. This is the Latina brand’s first major partnership and marks a milestone for Latine and LGBTQ+ visibility in sports and fashion. The collection features an exclusive Brooks running shoe, a sweat set, and a t-shirt with sayings and subtle yet bold designs centered around the intersection of Latinidad and queerness.
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2 months ago | 
remezcla.com | Zameena Mejia
Latina-owned hair care brand Ceremonia has found a way to encapsulate the tropical scents of summer into a pink glass bottle. Today (April 1), the brand launched Perfume Mist de Guava, a hair and body mist with notes of guava, lemon zest, and peach. Combined, these scents evoke the feeling of enjoying fresh fruits right off the tree on a warm, sunny day. Shimmery golden flecks in the mist also add a subtle and buildable glow on your body and tresses.
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Mar 25, 2025 | 
popsugar.com | Zameena Mejia
CareersIdentityCarla SantamariaCarla SantamariaCarla Santamaria was more than a year into her job in higher education when she first learned about Latina Equal Pay Day. This symbolic day, usually in October, marks when Latinas finally earn what white, non-Hispanic men earned in the year prior. It prompted her to question if she was being fairly compensated at work, where she earned $51,000 a year as a campus director.
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Mar 7, 2025 | 
remezcla.com | Zameena Mejia
Jools LeBron, the TikTok creator of 2024’s viral “very demure” trend, just revealed that a brand took advantage of her viral success without ever paying her. On her new Very Demure podcast, Lebron alleges she was never offered any compensation for attending and promoting the launch of a beauty brand’s new foundation.
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Mar 5, 2025 | 
refinery29.com | Zameena Mejia
Story from SomosLea Landaverde has been creating her exit strategy from the U.S. from the moment Donald Trump won the Presidential Election in 2024. Just a few weeks ago, she visited the consulate general of El Salvador in Las Vegas to start the process to get her dual citizenship in her parents’ home country. Landaverde says Trump’s onslaught of anti-immigrant policy changes, attacks against LGBTQ communities, and threats against women’s rights have renewed her urgency to leave the country.
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Feb 27, 2025 | 
remezcla.com | Zameena Mejia
Buddies Coffee co-owner Rachel Nieves is shedding light on the dark side of gentrification. In a new viral TikTok video, the entrepreneur burst into tears as she shared that she might have to close her Brooklyn-based business because her landlord is raising her shop’s rent and a new coffee shop is opening right next door to hers. “This is my life, this coffee shop is my life. This is my business, I have no other form of income.
