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JOHN LEGUIZAMO The Latino actor and comic makes his Spanish-speaking debut in Cr??nicas, a serial-killer thriller set in Ecuador...
Guinier also noted that a disproportionate number of incarcerated Americans are black and Latino and that many felons who are denied the right to vote are nonviolent drug offenders. According to Guinier, criminal records currently prevent 13 percent of African-American men from voting...
...originally emerged as a light-hearted alternative discourse in the aesthetic lives of black and Latino poor in the 1970s and 1980s Bronx. Hip-hop built on existing disco, reggae and funk genres and served as a creative outlet for those youth who maintained a zeal for life, despite trickle-down economics that never quite trickled down to the bottom. Contrary to the elitist posturing of many “real hip-hop heads,” the first rap songs were not about the problems of ghetto life, but instead were composed of nonsensical rhyming about fun and love...
...surfing for college football or CSl on Monday nights and seeing the green-eyed platinum blond making dramatic hand gestures to her audience on Univision. At 56, the Cuban-American media mogul is riding a wave that seems in its mere infancy as the country's demographic becomes more Latino. Mainstream advertisers seeking to tap into the Hispanic market have flocked to her like Mexicans to mole. Most often compared with Oprah, Cristina is the host of a show that has received 11 Emmys during its 16 years. It is seen in Latin America, the U.S. and Europe. Cristina publishes...
...historical references (as in series of pieces based on, among other things, the dimensions of various Manet paintings) to personal associations (that shiny bike on top of the piano was a gift from a friend who lived near Prina in L.A., a kind of token to remember the Latino culture of his old neighborhood), to self-reflexive allusions to his own work (a substantial portion of the work on display is a series of graphic constructions featuring photographs and floor plans of another recent retrospective of Prina’s work, which incidentally had the same title he chose...