I came across Dominique Carella on the Instagram feed of her longtime friend and queen of my Spotify Top Songs playlist, La Doña. The amount of time I spend looking at my favorite artists’ Instagrams ...
This past Monday, I did what most people love to do on a snowy Monday morning, I went to jury duty. Yes, jury duty at 8:30 AM on the day of the first real snow ...
In the heart of Washington, DC, it seems like politicians are not the only ones getting political – chefs and restaurants are, too. Immigrant Food, a fast-food restaurant specializing in fusion cuisines and representing the ...
What am I thankful for? Above all, I am thankful for every morning I wake up next to my nenas. Being able to still hear my mom tell me for the millionth time about how ...
Vibes From The Tribe is a podcast connecting the Latinx community to the folks defining Latinx culture through intimate conversations. In this episode, I sit down with fellow DJ, artist manager and creative proprietor, Autumn ...
Earlier this year, the nation experienced a painful tragedy in the El Paso shooting that struck a personal cord with the Latinx community. Many looked to Día de los Muertos this weekend to honor and ...
Got any plans this Saturday? If not, and if you happen to be in San Diego, California this weekend, why not check out Millennial Lotería‘s collaboration event with Artelexia? On Saturday, bring your Halloween A-game ...
It’s actually quite simple: Are you Black? No? Then don’t use the N-word. The N-word was a derogatory term for African people brought over as slaves to serve white people in this country. It’s being ...
Puerto Rican born Melissa Lugo is Head of Marketing for Eskalera Inc, a company that specializes in Diversity and Inclusion education in the workplace. I begin by acknowledging the country where I came from, Puerto ...
Personally speaking, fall is best time to visit New York City. Tourism dips ever so slightly, leaving more room for residents like me to power walk across the streets of concrete jungle. As the city ...
For our final installments of our Latinx Heritage Month Feature series, we share the stories of three staff members working at LatinX. We ask Val Souza, Jessica Hoppe, and Freddy Izaguirre what their heritage means ...
For our final installments of our Latinx Heritage Month Feature series, we share the stories of three staff members working at super{set}, a San Francisco-based startup studio. We ask employees Melissa Lugo, Martìn Vargas-Vega, and ...
When was the last time you were invited to a classy formal dinner party with multiple courses of food served on fine china? The answer is likely years ago, or even never. Vox recently published ...
Despite being LGBTQ+ and his negative feelings around institutionalized religion, World Nomad Patrick Abboud travels to Mexico to meet the passionate pilgrims who walk on their knees in devotion at the Fiesta of the Virgin ...
Victoria Vonderheyden is a multidisciplinary artist who showcases her talent for sculpting, painting, making headdresses, jewelry, and others by utilizing her family’s powerful story of resilience and weaving it into every piece. She juxtaposes their ...
Being Latinx is so much more than speaking Spanish or having that “complexion.” As we make our way into National Hispanic Heritage Month, join in the conversation on Latin American identity with these students from ...
Every year, Google hosts a Doodle for Google contest, selecting one winner out of the hundreds of thousands of applications received. Arantza Peña Popo, a Colombia native and recent high school graduate from Georgia, is ...
Have you ever felt left out of the group because you aren’t similar enough? Have you ignored someone based on visible differences between you two? These kinds of actions are called “othering.” It’s something that ...
Look out, bubble tea fans! A tapioca-themed Instagram playground is coming to Tokyo later this summer. Tokyo Tapioca Land, based in Tokyo’s Harajuku neighborhood, will feature bubble tea-themed rides, photo opportunities, and of course, a ...
Mijo, Welcome to the world, baby boy. I’m half-Salvadoran and half-Bolivian. Your daddy is mostly Italian, which means pupusas, saltenas, and a lot of raviolis in your future. He and I met at a concert ...
Being biracial or mixed-race in our society typically means being asked to choose which culture you identify with more. According to this video, produced by The Atlanta Black Star, a lot of Afro-Latinx’s identify as ...
The beauty of being from another culture is the fact that we have a complex and diverse background. The terms Latino and Hispanic are not synonymous and here’s why:
Code-switching is a term in linguistics referring to using more than one language or dialect in conversation. It is not limited to just languages, but also how we modify our speech when we are around ...
San Juan de la Vega is not your average village in Mexico. Every year, the Festival of San Juanito, a Robin Hood-like figure, calls for the smashing of homemade explosives with the strike of a ...
When I think of Latinx, I think of diversity. From the natural landscapes, to the food, which use a variation of the same ingredients but with different purposes. I also think of the vast array ...
Cinco de Mayo is more than just a plain excuse for Americans to whip out sombreros and consume tacos and beer like there’s no tomorrow. In fact, many of us probably don’t know the actual ...
In San José Buenavista, Mexico, Francisco, the self-proclaimed “Piñata King,” and his family have been producing colorful piñatas for 50 years. Despite making a beautiful object meant to be broken, the process is not only ...
Singer and actor Lenny Kravitz cordially invites you on a virtual tour of his Brazilian farm compound, courtesy of Architectural Digest! Located in the remote foothills, the home is built on a former coffee plantation ...
Last weekend, the Brooklyn Museum hosted a one-of-a-kind display featuring life-size sculptures of Cardi B, Jaden Smith, Juice WRLD, and Gunna. Photo Credit @NuevaYorka The installation was sponsored by Spotify’s RapCaviar, and was designed to ...
It’s a bleak world for inmates serving life sentences for crimes such as murder, fraud, and drug trafficking. Yet, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, female convicts have a chance to look forward to something truly ...