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2018 Grammy Predictions

2018 Grammy Predictions

The 60th GRAMMY Awards are upon us, and we, at BoldLatina, are ready to see Luis Fonsi perform, as well as the rest of our Brown and Black people represent on stage. This year, the industry will be sporting white roses to support #TimesUp. Here are our predictions (in green

Recap of Women's March and the Unapologetic Women of Color/Latinx

Recap of Women's March and the Unapologetic Women of Color/Latinx

This year nearly 2 million marchers showed up included Latinx/women of color combined. BoldLatina asked many of you to tag us, #boldlatinasmarch and you showed up for us! The above gallery is a sampling of those who marched with some of the most unapologetic messages geared toward women of

Oreo, Beaner, Cracker- The Snack Food of Prejudice

Oreo, Beaner, Cracker- The Snack Food of Prejudice

Originally published on EducatedLatina.com Did you know that an Oreo is not just Milk’s Favorite Cookie? According to UrbanDictionary.com, an Oreo is also… Oreo A racist slur and schoolyard name based on racist stereotypes wrongly assuming that intelligence, articulateness, dapperness, and manners are traits of whites and

How Many of Us Have An 'American' Name?

How Many of Us Have An 'American' Name?

Cassandra a writer in Dallas, wrote up something that so many of us can relate to. About our perfectly sounding, perhaps gringo names. Her piece for The Dallas Morning News,  “My Parents Gave Me An ‘American’ Name…” is contemplative and wrestles with the idea if she should change it, as

Love & Hip Hop Miami's Amara La Negra...Is Everything. (period)

Love & Hip Hop Miami's Amara La Negra...Is Everything. (period)

First, we here at BoldLatina have been onto Dana Danelys De Los Santos otherwise known as ‘Amara La Negra‘ since she was doing her thing in the urban Latino music space. Watch her ‘Asi‘ music video or the booty shakin’ ‘Ayy‘. Her love for the music business began as a

TIME'S UP Makes A Hollywood Power Move Against Sexual Harassment

TIME'S UP Makes A Hollywood Power Move Against Sexual Harassment

2017 was definitely the year of much needed call outs of sexual harassment and abuse by ‘too many high power men’ in the Hollywood, media and technology industries, and the reckoning shall continue. It’s no secret, that women have been at the forefront of many movements in the past

6 Latinas Whose Works Have Inspired Us In 2017

6 Latinas Whose Works Have Inspired Us In 2017

2017 was the year of noise. As we tried to hold on to our sanity, some of us yelled screams of unity, resistance, protection, and rebellion. Those screams were meant to fight off and identify the oppressors, racists and sexual predators alike. With (what seems like) chaos taking over the

How the Women of 'Coco' Woke My Broken Heart

How the Women of 'Coco' Woke My Broken Heart

Reader Submission by Rocio L.  You would never expect a single woman, a ‘childless’ single woman to go see Disney/Pixar’s ‘Coco‘. A look around the theater, it was apparent…families. Lots of familia vibes. As a woman in Hollywood, a Latina working in the industry, I had to

Healing After My Sexual Assault

Healing After My Sexual Assault

Some time ago, in a conversation with a woman, I shared my experience as a survivor of sexual assault. To my surprise, she burst into tears and revealed that she too had been assaulted years ago and had never spoken about it to anyone. In her cry, I recognized shame

Time's Person of The Year - The Latina 'Silence Breakers'

Time's Person of The Year - The Latina 'Silence Breakers'

It’s not Trump, that’s for sure! Apparently, there had been rumors circulating it would be him…again. Sadly, he was runner up of which Demi Lovato has been trending due to her disapproval. Remember that infamous past Time magazine cover that had us shaking our heads in disapproval?

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