Friday Film Roundup: Transformers, Unidentified Objects, Scarlet, and more
Friday Film Roundup: Transformers, Unidentified Objects, Scarlet, and more
Latinos are winning big this weekend at the movie theater in everything from the week’s biggest release to its most obscure. In front of and behind the camera, Latinos are all over a weekend that encompasses all kinds of genres, styles, and subjects. From the week’s tentpole release, “Transformers: [...]
Dressing the Wu-Tang Clan: A Look into the Styling of the Saga
Dressing the Wu-Tang Clan: A Look into the Styling of the Saga
The Wu-Tang Clan holds high ground within music culture, and following the legacy built from scratch by the Wu-Tang members, came Wu-Tang: An American Saga, Hulu’s three-season biopic series that lent viewers a voyage into the definitive years of the Wu-Tang Clan's rise and journey to recognition, plus a [...]
Op-Ed: If We Want Healthcare Equity, We Need to Get Radical
Op-Ed: If We Want Healthcare Equity, We Need to Get Radical
My life changed forever the day that my mother received her leukemia diagnosis. At least, I thought, Mama’s job will come through for her. For the decade prior, my mother had been working in health insurance. While we processed the difficult news, my family assumed that my mother’s job-secured healthcare [...]
Lina Hidalgo Can’t be Stopped
Lina Hidalgo Can’t be Stopped
For Judge Lina Hidalgo of Harris County, Texas, the work is never done. Wearing a navy suit and a matching floral face mask, ringed by her signature crop of black curls, the top elected official of the nation’s third-largest county announced the grim news in early August: the Houston-area COVID-19 [...]
U.S. Life Expectancy Drops: Latinos Most Affected
U.S. Life Expectancy Drops: Latinos Most Affected
Life expectancy in the United States fell 1.5 years in 2020, and declined even more for members of the Latinx community, according to a recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The decline represents the sharpest life expectancy fall in a single year since World War II. [...]
WATCH: Laz Alonso Addresses Cuban Protests in Instagram Video
WATCH: Laz Alonso Addresses Cuban Protests in Instagram Video
Laz Alonso, from Amazon's series "The Boys," used his social media platform earlier this month to address the ongoing protests in Cuba and speak to the political situation of his ancestral homeland. His comments came as a response to the Black Lives Matter statement on the political situation in Cuba [...]
Vaginal Davis: Genderqueer Godmother of the Queercore Movement
Vaginal Davis: Genderqueer Godmother of the Queercore Movement
Since the late 1970s, genderqueer artist, filmmaker, performer, and curator Vaginal Davis has indelibly shaped the underground art and music scenes through “low-cost, high impact” genres of club performances, queer zines, and experimental film and video productions. Through her art, Davis has sought to disrupt and question the social norms [...]