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DIECIOCHO Podcast – Manny Ruiz, Hispanicize Texas

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco (1 munite read, 20 minute listen)  Here’s the deal, if you’re a content creator in Texas or close to Texas, you should be at Hispanicize Texas and you should listen to this...

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Half of Latino Immigrant Characters on TV Are Portrayed as Criminals, Study...

Define American, the immigration nonprofit founded by Pulitzer-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, has released its first-ever media reference guide for writers, directors, and producers concerning...

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How a harsh criticism turned ‘Coco’ into Pixar’s most uniquely made movie yet

Director Lee Unkrich was hot off the box office success and Oscar win for 2010’s “Toy Story 3” when he delved into making a movie that focused on the Mexican holiday, Dia de los Muertos. Seven years...

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We sang in Spanish, fell in love with ‘Coco’ — Latino culture trumped hate in...

If you’re a Latino in America — or Latinx, the gender-neutral the younger generation prefers — the national landscape felt particularly brutal this year, the stinging divisive words of President Donald...

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‘Coco,’ Guillermo del Toro win Golden Globe awards

Latinos and Latino-themed movies won big in some of the top categories at the 2018 Golden Globe Awards on Sunday. Disney Pixar’s ‘Coco‘ won a Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature, while acclaimed...

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A New TV Show Inspired by the Life of Selena Quintanilla Is Coming to ABC

Selena Quintanilla lives on. Just two months after the late legendary songstress received a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, ABC has announced its plans to commemorate the...

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How ‘One Day at a Time’s Diverse Writers Room Creates Authentic Latino...

Much like the loving Alvarez family they created, the writers of One Day at a Time work closely together, don’t always agree but love each other anyway. Their collective family experiences helped...

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Latino directors, movies may nab major Oscars, but once again, no actors

As the 90th Academy Awards approaches, the nominations garnered by Pixar’s “Coco,” Chile’s “A Fantastic Woman” and Guillermo del Toro’s fantasy-horror “The Shape of Water” may very well triumph as some...

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How One Woman Is Fighting To Get More Latino Movie Roles

When casting director Carla Hool moved to Los Angeles from Mexico City in 2011, she found stereotypical Latino movie roles written without much depth: “The gardener, the immigrant who crossed the...

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NBC calls Tom Brokaw’s assimilation comments ‘inaccurate and inappropriate’

New York (CNN Business) – NBC News, facing mounting backlash stemming from former “NBC Nightly News” anchor Tom Brokaw‘s comments that Hispanics should “work harder at assimilation” into American...

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