Rigoberto Hernandez

A high-fashion designer in Paris recently copied their look on the runway, Rihanna dressed like one for Halloween, and Gwen Stefani's been ripping them off basically forever. It's the "chola look," a Mexican-American female aesthetic that's now being appropriated by celebrities. Think white sleeveless undershirts, Dickies pants with ...

This weekend, tens of thousands of Selena megafans are expected to descend on Corpus Christi, Texas, for Fiesta de la Flor, a music festival marking the 20th anniversary of the Tejana pop star's death. Among them will undoubtedly be hundreds of Selena look-alikes — for the weekend, at ...

It's hard to believe that it's been 20 years since Selena Quintanilla-Perez was murdered in a hotel in Corpus Christi, Texas. Thursday would have been her 44th birthday, so on this week's episode of Alt.Latino, we take stock of her legacy, what she meant to Chicanos then, and what ...

The New York Times has a tribute to a pioneering film archivist who made it her life's work to find and preserve the works of little-known black filmmakers. Phyllis R. Klotman, a white film scholar from Texas, died last week at the age of 90 after compiling a stunning ...

In 2011, KPBS reporter Angela Carone wrote about a fashion trend that started in a rural town in Mexico, had swept parts of Texas, and was leaving her speechless: men wearing ridiculously pointy boots with a wicked upward curl — the tip of some pairs reaching as high ...

If your name isn't traditionally white-sounding, there's a good chance it's been misspelled by a coffeehouse barista. It's awkward when that happens, but is it the perfect time to engage in a dialogue about race and ethnicity? Starbucks seems to think so.

This week, baristas at 12,000 Starbucks locations will ...

The Justice Department's investigation into the Ferguson, Mo., police department reveals a series of racist emails passed around between Ferguson police officers and court officials.

The senders aren't identified by name, but the DOJ says commanders, police officers, and court officials were all involved.

Below are seven emails ...

The Justice Department reportedly did not find enough evidence to charge white former officer Darren Wilson with any civil rights violations for shooting Michael Brown last August in Ferguson, Mo. But it did find plenty of evidence of routine discrimination by Ferguson police against black residents.

Those findings, ...

#NPRreads is a new feature we're testing out on Twitter and on The Two-Way. The premise is simple: Correspondents, editors and producers throughout our newsroom will share pieces that have kept them reading. They'll share tidbits on Twitter using the #NPRreads hashtag, and on occasion we'll share a longer ...

Dori J. Maynard, a relentless champion of diversity in newsrooms, died on Tuesday at her Oakland, Calif., home. She was 56.

Maynard was a reporter at The Detroit Free Press, the Bakersfield Californian and The Patriot Ledger. Along the way she became a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University ...

The lack of diversity among this year's Oscar acting nominees (all 20 are white) and the perceived lack of opportunity for minorities in Hollywood generally were subjects of criticism in the run-up to the ceremony. And in their acceptance speeches, some of the winners broadened the discussion to income inequality, ...

Voice of San Diego has a head-spinning story of a policing debacle involving a late-night cop patrol, two Peruvian-American brothers, and a break-in that wasn't.

Late one night in July, Luis and Diego Lobaton were ambushed by San Diego police, Luis was beaten up, and they were both ...

Brooklyn-based artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh recently went to Mexico City to talk with women who've gotten unwanted "piropos," as catcalling is known in Mexico. Here are some of the things they recalled hearing:

Fazlalizadeh, 29, has been taking on street harassment since 2012 with her campaign "Stop Telling Women ...

My parents, who immigrated from Mexico in 1985 and 1996 respectively, weren't so sure when I told them I wanted to be a journalist when I grew up. 'How about being a car mechanic?' they'd suggest gently. That is, until I informed them I was interviewing for an internship at ...