Latino Americans

St. Louis has the smallest Latino community of the nation's 25 largest metro areas — the only one that's less than 5% Latino. So how do local Latinos deal…

When Carmen Dence was growing up in the Caribbean coastal city of Barranquilla, Colombia, she danced to cumbia, porros, gaitas and other traditional…

“It was the wildest Cinco de Mayo party I have ever experienced,” recalled Angel Jimenez-Gutierrez remembering his first May 5 in Missouri.It was 2002 and…

This month, St. Louisans can experience something they’ve likely never seen or heard before: 90 minutes of local theater focused on Latino themes and…

Local music producer and sound engineer Louis Wall thinks challenging area international and local musicians to produce a collaborative album will help…

Latin and jazz musicians will share the stage at Union Avenue Christian Church Saturday, June14 in a concert organized by Gitana Productions. The concert,…

A local media history group has acquired nine issues of the region’s first bi-lingual business paper. The St. Louis Media History Foundation announced on…

Christmas had us coming and going. And not just here in Honduras.A week before Christmas, my sister Barb arrived at her St. Louis city home about 5 p.m.,…

According to the U.S. Census, the United States will become a majority-minority by the year 2043, with Latinos representing the largest portion of the…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Nov. 16, 2010 - A recent Pew Research Center poll found that there is no consensus about a national…