Archive for March 31st, 2009
14 Years Without Selena
4:23 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Entertainment|Music|Tejano Culture · 6 Comments
31 Mar 200914 years ago, Tejano music and Mexican American culture lost one of its most beloved artists. Selena was gunned down at the age of 23 outside of a hotel in her hometown of Corpus Christi, Texas 14 years ago today, on March 31st, 1995. Her funeral brought fans from all over the country to Corpus (myself among them) to bid a final farewell to the amazing artist and humanitarian.
14 years later, Selena’s legacy lives on. Her music is unparalleled in the Tejano genre, a genre she proudly represented as much as she proudly represented her Texas-Mexican (a.k.a. Tejano) heritage. There have been many imitators since, but there will never be another Selena.
If you’ve never heard Selena’s music or heard her perform, you’ll get a taste of her at her best in the above clip from her last concert.
Bill Clinton Gives Shakira 2 Million Bucks
3:59 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism|Celebrities|Colombia|Latin America|Politics|society · Comments Off
31 Mar 2009
‘Cause he’s cool like that:
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton donated two million dollars to the school that was built by Shakira’s Pies Descalzos foundation.Clinton visited the school in Barranquilla on the side of his performance at the IADB summit in Medellín.
The money will be spent on the nutrition of the mostly poor children that attend the school and for a course in how to generate income for the children’s parents.
Clinton received a warm welcome at the IADB Summit, where he urged Latin American bankers to “engage the left”, meaning the people of Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, whom he called “Colombia’s neighbors”.
Via / Colombia Reports
Today is Cesar Chavez’s birthday
2:09 pm By la Macha · Activism|history|Politics · Comments Off
31 Mar 2009
You all know who Cesar Chavez is, right?
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy called Cesar, “one of the heroic figures of our time.” He led the historic non-violent movement for farm worker rights and dedicated himself to building a movement of poor working people that extended beyond the fields and into cities and towns across the nation. He inspired farm workers and millions of people who never worked on a farm to commit themselves to social, economic and civil rights activism. Cesar’s legacy continues to educate, inspire and empower people from all walks of life.
Let’s make Cesar’s birthday one to remember. Sign the petition to make his birthday a national holiday.
Pedro Zamora’s Real World Story Comes to MTV Tomorrow Night
7:58 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · GLBT|TV · 3 Comments
31 Mar 2009Tomorrow night, MTV, mtvU, LOGO and MTV Tr3s will premiere Pedro, a movie about the life of “The Real World’s” Pedro Zamora. Here’s a sneak peek:
I remember when the Real World actually seemed real and Pedro’s season was one of them. Pero no se, just based on the clip, it does look pretty poorly acted. So why will I be watching anyway? Pedro Zamora was first-ever openly gay, HIV-positive main character on TV and he was Latino involved in an interracial relationship so his presence on TV was historic and the issues raised important. He was an activist and educator. His family fiercely loved him and I remember being impressed by those aspects of his life. And the film is being aired not just as a memorial biopic, pero in an effort to encourage young people to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases as April is STD Awareness Month.
Pedro, was written by Dustin Lance Black who wrote Milk, and I already explored some of my issues with that film.
I’ll watch and let you know my thoughts on Thursday.
Will you be watching? Why or why not?
UPS Will Not Deliver to Bill O’Reilly
6:37 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration|TV · Comments Off
31 Mar 2009
My UPS guy kind of has a cosa for me, pero I am very happy that the company of UPS has decided it will no longer have a thing for Bill O’Reilly and his FOX News Show.
Thank you for sending an e-mail expressing concern about UPS advertising during the Bill O’Reilly show on FOX News. We do consider such comments as we review ad placement decisions which involve a variety of news, entertainment and sports programming. At this time, we have no plans to continue advertising during this show.
Via / Think Progress
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