AK-47s, Accordions And Angels Of Death: Narcocorridos Hit The Big Screen
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View ArticleHow 'Black Nativity' Made Its Way To The Big Screen
This season, Fox Searchlight has served audiences a three-course menu of movies with African-American casts and themes.First, it served an appetizer in September, with the romantic comedy Baggage...
View ArticleWriter Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Who Gave Voice To Latin America, Dies
Latin American author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1982, died Thursday. He was 87. Garcia Marquez, the master of a style known as magic realism, was and remains...
View ArticleHow Do You Get Latino Kids Into Classical Music? Bring The Parents
Outside the concert hall at Occidental College, in Los Angeles' Eagle Rock neighborhood, children are invited to test out the instruments the Santa Cecilia Orchestra will play later. Alexa Media...
View ArticleAuthors Angered Over Amazon's Dispute With Publisher Hachette
Transcript DAVID GREENE, HOST: We've reached a moment that probably shouldn't surprise us when it comes to the modern publishing industry. A lot of people are addicted to buying books online using...
View ArticleRuby Dee: An Actress Who Marched On Washington And Onto The Screen
Born Ruby Ann Wallace in the early 1920s in Cleveland, actress and civil rights activist Ruby Dee most identified with the part of New York City where she was raised."I don't know who I would be if I...
View ArticleSacred, Sad And Salacious: With Many Meanings, What Is True Blue?
The color blue has meant a lot of things to a lot of different people. In medieval times, the Virgin Mary's cloak was often painted a celestial, pure, sacred blue. In the early 1900s, Pablo Picasso...
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Sony Cancels Theatrical Release Of 'The Interview'
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View ArticleRemembering 'Generation Mex' Writer And Proud Outsider Michele Serros
When Michele Serros burst onto the literary scene in the 1990s, she was a new kind of Latina writer: She didn't speak much Spanish, she listened to ABBA and she was a vegan who liked to surf and...
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