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The ‘No Sabo’ Generation Just Proved That Being Latino Has Never Been About Perfect Spanish

They stumble over Spanish conjugations and their families tease them for it, calling them “no sabo kids,” a playful jab at ...
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Did You Know Latino Voters Were Left Out of the Most Important Civil Rights Law in U.S. History Until 1975?

The message for Latino voters heading into a midterm election year is the same one that has been true since 1975, which is ...
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Salma Hayek Posted About Día de Muertos Today and Millions of Mexicans in the Diaspora Recognized Themselves in It

Salma Hayek posted something on Instagram today, on Día de Muertos itself, that stopped a lot of people mid-scroll.
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The Selena Gomez vs. Demi Lovato Fan War Lasted Over a Decade and a Rare Beauty Campaign Just Made It Irrelevant

Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato didn’t just launch a makeup campaign this week. They quietly closed a chapter that had been left ...
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Lula Won Again at 80, But Who Exactly Is the Man Who Has Been Running for President of Brazil Since 1989?

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has lived one of the most improbable political lives in the history of Latin America, and on Sunday ...
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What We Know So Far About Oscar Belgal the Dominican Man Shot by an ICE Agent While a Five-Year-Old Was in His Car

An ICE agent shot a 28-year-old Dominican man in the neck during an arrest operation in the Marble Hill neighborhood of Manhattan on Thursday afternoon while a five-year-old child sat in the car with ...
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Rosalía Won Three Billboard Latin Music Awards and Thanked Latin America for Every Single One of Them

Rosalía walked into the James L. Knight Center in Miami on Thursday night as a Spanish artist who makes music in Spanish and walked out with three Billboard Latin Music Awards, including the Hall of ...
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Horacio Fernández Built Tajín Out of His Grandmother’s Kitchen and Turned It Into One of the Most Powerful Latino Food Brands in the U.S.

Fernández grew up in Guadalajara as one of seven children of a wealthy gasoline entrepreneur, but he wanted to build something entirely his own. Without any help from his father, he launched over 20 ...
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Isabel Allende Wrote a Sequel to Her Most Famous Novel 45 Years Later and It Already Won One of the Biggest Literary Prizes in the World

Allende told the audience in Barcelona that she had always avoided literary competitions to spare herself the humiliation of finishing last. Entering the Premio Planeta felt, by her own admission, as ...
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Maluma Talked About His Eating Disorder in Miami This Week and Latinas Who Have Been There Heard Every Word

Maluma stood in front of an industry room at Billboard Latin Music Week in Miami this week and said out loud that he still deals with a great deal of anxiety, that he had an eating disorder he did not ...
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Celia Cruz Would Have Turned 101 Today and the Stories Behind Her Life Are Still Bigger Than Her Legacy

Celia Cruz has a Grammy, a Hollywood star, a presidential medal, a Barbie doll, a quarter with her face on it, and an asteroid named after her floating somewhere between Mars and Jupiter. Rolling ...