Three Stan Lee Street Murals Spring Up – More to Come?

Three Stan Lee Street Murals Spring Up – More to Come?

By Rich Johnston – BleedingCool.com – Photo: jimvision From IVTV. Image: 34th St Stan Lee Mural Hey this is kind of a weird place to put this but do any of you guys want to organize and paint a Stan Lee memorial on the 34th St wall? I would love to get...
The Veteranas of Chicana Youth Culture in Los Angeles

The Veteranas of Chicana Youth Culture in Los Angeles

By Melissa Smith – NYTimes.com – Photo: Courtesy of Guadalupe Rosales. Photo: A party crew on 6th Street Bridge, in Boyle Heights. 1993. Guadalupe Rosales is a collector.  For an installation in art school, she built her version of a typical teenager’s...
Preserving the Latino veteran experience

Preserving the Latino veteran experience

By Kaylah Jackson – ConnectingVets.com – Photo courtesy of VOCES Oral History Project. When Dr. Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez was looking for books about the Mexican-American experience during World War II, she couldn’t find anything. But it’s not because there...
5 Latino authors you should be reading now

5 Latino authors you should be reading now

By Laura Lomas | Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University Newark – TheConversation.com – Photo: Alvy Libros/flickr, CC BY-SA Photo: Many authors born in Latin America have produced some of their finest work while living in the United States. As...