Art Gallery

Soy Unica

Latinitas showcase their unique beauty in this Soy Unica photo essay. [...]

DIY

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Food Craving Culture Clash

Appreciate your heritage and mix what you like. Many Latinos in the United States face the same issue when it comes to dinner. Do we have traditional Latino dishes or American tonight? Burger and Pizza are usually more popular than enchiladas, paella, ropa vieja, sofrito and mole. American meals are typically easier to make [...]

Tips for High School

Five expert high school students shared some of the tips that they have learned while being in high school. Be Yourself: Seems simple right? Believe it or not, most teens entering high school feel the need to fit in and be part of "the clique." Avoid it that as much as possible, be the person you want to be and don't cha [...]

Girl Talk

Hispanic girk looking sad

I Was Bullied

It’s Monday morning and the sound of an alarm clock goes off. A young girl wakes up and gets ready. She has breakfast, grabs her backpack and says goodbye to her parents before leaving to go spend the next seven hours at school. When she arrives at school, she passes the hallways through a sea of people pushing and shovin [...]

OMG Moments

Girls with glasses

Embarrassing Moments

I was putting gas in my car and as I was going into my car to wait for it to pump. I stepped over the gas pump but my second leg didn't make it. I tripped and fell on my face.- Monica In my basketball game, my friend pulled down my shorts when I was shooting a free throw.- Unknown During the Hispanic Student Associati [...]

Embarrassing Moments

I was in swimming and I had to wake up real early and I forgot to get my clothes ready the night before so I was rushing to get my clothes and to get to practice. Well I just ended up getting my underclothes and jeans. I FORGOT MY SHIRT! So I was freaking out. Well everyone was like wear a jacket and no one will know. So I [...]

Poetry

School for Girls

Poem: Clock

Clock Clock please stop your hands please stop your hours that I'm getting old please clock, stop the day that now my love is here don't go any more days my love is here now my ha [...]
Hispanic girl writing

Poem: Lost in My World

By Dom Lost in my world of emotions when I hear your name, I wanna cry, When I see your face I wanna shout, When you walked towards me I got butterflies, When you said hi I simply smiled, When you walked away I went through hell and back, But when I think of the past I realize...... I’m alright, I guess, I’m [...]

Where I am From

I am from the love and care of tender hands. I've always thought you could tell a lot about a person by the look and the feel of their hands. If my grandma was still alive today and you asked her to hold out her hands you would see the lines of scars from her labor in kitchens and burns from ovens. She was born in America, [...]