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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
All the comedy nerds in the house say ‘aye’– aye. For those of us who live to laugh, comedians are the storytellers we turn to because they boldly speak our truth. They will say what ...