"Oh, I auditioned for that show, but I heard they were going ethnic." Imagine sitting at a table with other women in the acting industry and hearing this, knowing you were the "ethnic hire". This was Stephanie Beatriz's reality when she landed the role of Rosa Diaz on Brooklyn Nine-Nine. She recounts this uncomfortable memory on the More Better  podcast she co-hosts with Melissa Fumero. Perhaps the woman meant to say, "I'm happy to see more representation on television"—at l

Chapa tells a new story for Malinalli, creating an environment where Malinalli has a chance to show herself in a way that history has not afforded her.

For too long, horror has spoken in a single accent—one that whispers of European castles, New England graveyards, and monsters born from traditions that never felt like home. But Our Shadows Have Claws (Hatchett, 2022) arrives like a long-overdue reckoning, and this time, the terror speaks in voices I recognize, in languages that feel like family.

Alejandro Heredia offers something far more valuable: the messy, beautiful truth of lives lived between languages, cultures, and identities

The film's "mash-up" approach risks reducing the Aztec Empire to a stylized backdrop—a commodity rather than a culture.

Genesis Stanley's Book Talk on Natasha Alford's Extraordinary Memoir, American Negra

This book is, in many ways, a love letter to the Southwest—especially Colorado and New Mexico.

Knowing the truth is painful, but liberating. Without it the scars will never heal.

My hope is that it makes its way to Latin America, to Guatemala, because this history isn't taught in schools there.

I'll be honest—I'm not a fan of demons. Or demon-related things. Suffice it to say I won't be re-watching The Exorcist   (1973) anytime...

Hollywood has put Pascal in an impossible bind: he can't be the traditional superhero leader without invoking the machismo stereotype that Latino men supposedly embody and, thus, must avoid.

When I'm writing, I'm not thinking about representing an entire culture or place. I'm just thinking about representing the experiences of these particular people on the page.

This semi-autobiographical novel lands like a punch to the chest because Pérez refuses to sanitize the migrant experience. Instead, she offers something far more valuable: an unflinching look at how families fracture and heal under the weight of assimilation, how racism operates both outside and within our own communities, and how resilience grows in the most unlikely soil.

This is about stepping into a world of what-ifs and asking questions that can unravel everything.

From Cocinas to Lucha Libre Ringsides brings together an extraordinary collection of Latinx creators to explore how food and sports serve as powerful touchstones of identity and community in the Latino Americas.

Aldama interviews actor Anthony Mackie who Anthony Mackie wakes audiences to new perspectives, thoughts and feelings about superheroes +

Gunn's Superman inadvertently maps the persistence of Hollywood's most enduring hierarchy: the sounds of heroism versus the sounds of Otherness or, frankly, evil.

This comic is a tribute: to her, to the borderlands, and to the mestiza consciousness that takes shape in the messy, meaningful rituals of becoming.

oday’s white-optic televisual landscape teems with what I call white-regenerative narratives—stories in which worn-out, broken, or morally adrift white dudes are reinvigorated through contact with Brown suffering.

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