5 Rom-Coms To Watch on Netflix This Month
…unexpected rom-com that has a murder-mystery element to it – the comedy comes before the rekindled romance. Issa Rae plays Leilani and Kumail Nanjiani plays Jabron. Together, they’re a hilarious…
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Five of the Most Anticipated Latina Books of 2022
…by Julissa Arce https://www.instagram.com/p/CQbgqF2gBf9/ Julissa Arce captured our attention with her books, My (Underground) American Dream, and Someone Like Me (How One Undocumented Girl Fought for Her American Dream). Now…
#TheLatinaPress: Issue 7
…pumpkin patches and pull out our coziest sweaters, let’s grab a book and support Latina authors. Dreaming of You by Melissa Lozada-Oliva follows a poet who resurrects pop star Selena from the…
5 TV Shows That Navigate Female Friendship
…Issa’s growth, the subplot with her best friend Molly takes center stage beside Issa’s love life. Always at different life stages, Molly and Issa push each other to be better…
On 'Brooklyn 99' and the Fact that There's No 'Good' Cop Show
…police procedural in history could boast, including Andre Braugher’s Raymond Holt, the gay Black commanding officer of the 99th Precinct; Terry Crews Terry Jeffords, a Black lieutenant, and Melissa Fumero’s…
#TheLatinaPress: Issue 3
…Melissa Barrera in The Cut. But the interview that arguably made the biggest splash was The Root’s Felice León, talking to director Jon M. Chu and the two female leads….
Correction: The Latinx Community Does Not Agree on ‘In the Heights’
…female leads Melissa Barrera and Leslie Grace. If you haven’t seen it already, there’s a lot of obnoxious, problematic shit in there, like Barrera insisting that the light-skinned leads were…
Why it Matters that Supergirl is Latina
…by Helen Slater in Supergirl (1984), the DC icon has been played exclusively by white women in both film and television, including Laura Vandervoort in Smallville (2001–2011) and Melissa Benoist in Supergirl since 2015. The recent casting of Columbian-American…
Five Latinas on 'Wonder Woman 1984'
…Woman 1984 Is (Barely) Saved by Gal Gadot and Chris Pine’s Sizzling Chemistry Daily Beast Entertainment Editor Melissa León gives the film a reluctant thumbs-up, writing “Though it never quite…
Latinxs in Space
…a person, their intelligence, or potential. And of course, Luna isn’t the only Latinx in the Star Wars universe. We also have Oscar Issac as Pilot Poe Dameron and Pedro…