Alejandra Vasquez and Sam Osborn’s "Folk Frontera" is a border-set tale, expertly portraying the beauty and heartbreak that comes with living on the U.S.-Mexico border. Connecting two strangers through their love of music, this short film highlights the uncertainty the inhabitants of the border must dance with in their daily lives.

When you hear the word Medusa your brain is likely to immediately conjure images of a fearsome and hideous monster no one should look at. This is quite interesting since the representation of the Medusa varies immensely...

One of the more horrible legacies we are left with from the war on drugs is the lack of compassion toward those who struggle with addiction. Instead of treating this crisis as a health issue, society has spent all of its time (and money) making it seem like a moral failure of individuals. Demonizing drug use has a long and racially-loaded history that has destroyed lives...

"Brother" is an intimate portrayal of addiction that makes us question our preconceptions, and helps shed light on what really goes on inside the mind of a person suffering through this process.

Only a fool or someone with vast resources should even attempt to make a case about money’s supposed lack of importance because, as Louisa May Alcott put it originally and later Jo March would put it in the 2019 movie, most of us ”cannot afford to starve on praise”.

Mexico shines in the new trailer for Eva Longoria in Searching for Mexico. “I don’t know the secret to happiness. All I know is that every time I eat Mexican food, I’m happy, ” a joyous Longoria proclaims at the beginning of the trailer, later joking she needs a t-shirt that reads “More salsa!”

What is more important: laws or lives? This is the question at the center of the immigration debate and its ramifications. Conversations around illegal border crossings often result in the dehumanization of migrants and separate from conversations about the reality of immigration laws, “no human being is ever illegal".

Rosario Dawson has a new passion project: a documentary called Split at the Root that unapologetically focuses on the separation of families at the U.S/Mexico border due to the Zero Tolerance Policy and the reunification of families.

We like to think of villains as fun rebels these days. Characters like Loki from the Thor movies are fan favorites, and we even love questionable anti-heroes such as the modern interpretations of Sherlock we’ve gotten in recent years. If you look further, though, this sort of playful acceptance of attitudes that would normally be somehow socially reprehensible is, more often than not, reserved for male characters.

Time Magazine’s Women of the Year list is out for 2023 and two Latinas were among the 10 “extraordinary leaders who are working toward a more equal world,” according to TIME magazine. So, who are they?

COVID has revealed and intensified all kinds of challenges in our lives and our society, and, while it is certainly a complicated time for everyone, amongst all, parents find themselves in a particularly tricky position during this whole global pandemic.

Fashion has often been relegated to the sidelines of what is considered “serious culture” and worthy of “real cultural studies” because it has for some time been regarded as frivolous and unimportant. Nothing could be farther from the truth...