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Americas Latino Eco Festival – Boulder & Denver SEPTEMBER 12-15, 2014

Tweet Boulder & Denver SEPTEMBER 12-15, 2014 Uniting diverse communities for a sustainable future highlighting Latinos long time readiness to lead this mission. The Americas Latino Festival unites diverse communities for a sustainable future and fosters a platform of dialogue and mobilization for a just society that ensures that everyone has access to a stable […]

Jessica Alba’s main street high fashion

Tweet PARIS – The first full day of Paris’ frenzied ready-to-wear shows mixed up iconic fashion veterans like Dries Van Noten with a whole new sort of fashion player: H&M. It may be a tricky ride ahead for the main street shop, which is now attempting to walk the snooty high fashion runway. Yet the […]

Did the Beatles lift a song from an east LA Chicano band, Cannibal and the Headhunters? You be the judge.

Tweet When Shea Stadium Was Invaded By Cannibal And The Headhunters When The Beatles played Shea Stadium August 15th, 1965, most people don’t realize there were quite a few opening acts, specifically, Killer Joe Piro and His Discothèque Dancers, Motown star Brenda Holloway, King Curtis and Sounds Incorporated. These groups all got some face time […]

LULAC Celebrates 85 years of service

Tweet LULAC has accomplished a tremendous amount since our founding on February 17, 1929, yet we know that the Latino community still faces many challenges. Celebrate our birthday today by joining LULAC!  https://lulac.org/contribute/

Education Fund Launched in Memory of Advocate Hector Galvan

Tweet LOS ANGELES, California – February 12, 2014 – (HISPANICIZE WIRE) – On February 1, 2014 the Hispanic business and marketing community lost an advocate as Hector Galvan from Sprint passed away. “We at the Chicano Radio Network extend our deepest condolences to Hector’s friends and family. We were always honored to help him with […]

Christina Aguilera Is Engaged to Matt Rutler

Tweet By DAHVI SHIRA AND ELIZABETH LEONARD 02/14/2014 at 08:15 PM EST Christina Aguilera may be having the best Valentine’s Day ever! The “Genie in a Bottle” singer and The Voice coach, 33, announced on the most romantic day of the year that she and film producer Matthew Rutler, her beau since the end of 2010, […]

Ted Cruz isn’t planning to be in the Senate for very long

Tweet BY CHRIS CILLIZZA (WP) February 14 at 9:00 am On Wednesday, Ted Cruz did something you almost never see in the Senate: He purposefully made political life harder for his Republican colleagues. US Republican Senator from Texas Ted Cruz walks off the Senate floor after a vote on a debt ceiling increase in the […]

Award-winning TV Journalist Sues Jenni Rivera Estate for “Unbreakable” Book Royalties

Tweet By Bel Hernandez of LatinHeat.com – Jenni Rivera Enterprise Response to allegations in Laura Lucio’s lawsuit below. Award-winning TV journalist Laura Lucio, and a close friend of the late Jenni Rivera, has filed a $10 million dollar lawsuit against Jenni Rivera Enterprises, Inc.; Estate of Jenni Rivera; Executor Rosie Rivera Flores; ex-Manager Pete Salgado; […]

Arizona Democrat Bill Would Automatically Restore Voting Rights to Felons

Tweet By Matthew Hendley Wed., Feb. 12 2014 at 6:00 AM – phoenixnewtimes.com U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder made headlines Tuesday by calling on states to repeal laws that keep felons from voting after they’ve finished their sentences. One Arizona Democrat already introduced a related proposal several weeks ago, but it hasn’t seen any action at […]

HBO Orders “The Brink” With Esai Morales TV Series

Tweet The word came down yesterday, HBO has given a series order to the dark comedy The Brink, which means Esai Morales will be the the next Latino President of the United States (his pal Jimmy Smits held that office first on TV). The pilot script was written by Roberto Benabib and Kim Benabib, directed […]