Jasmine Garsd

Sex education conjures images of teenage giggles and discomfort. But Bronx-based teacher Lena Solow is more than happy to talk about the topic.

On Alt.Latino, Felix Contreras and I often discuss how much we love celebrating things that mix the old with the new. As Latinos, we constantly receive marketing messages from Hispanic and non-Hispanic entertainment industries alike, each desperate to tap into our ever-growing population. As a result, there's a lot of ...

NYU has announced that when looking at applications, it will initially overlook the criminal record of prospective students.

On a gusty Friday evening in Manhattan's Union Square Park, Francisco Ramirez is setting up his chairs and a big sign that yells, "FREE ADVICE."

The park is packed with street musicians, chain-smoking chess players and preachers yelling predictions

Ramirez just wants to talk.

This seems like an unusual place ...

We are exhausted, but it's the good kind of exhaustion — the kind that comes from singing along with live bands, dancing and laughing hard with friends. And, if your name is Felix Contreras, it's the kind of exhaustion that comes from getting on stage and killing it on the ...

MIGUEL MIGUEL MIGUEL MIGUEL. That's what I'd like this week's show to be all about.

But I didn't get my way. Felix saved all of you from a podcast about my obsession; guess I'll have to wait until he's out sick! But we do have a terrific episode, featuring a ...

Prince performed in Baltimore Sunday night. It was billed as a "Rally 4 Peace" — just weeks after violence erupted following the funeral of Freddie Gray. Police officers are charged in his death.

Despite some legal challenges, the Virginia school is closing — after more than 100 years of teaching women.

This year on Alt.Latino, we try something different. Instead of your typical Cinco De Mayo show, we've created an entirely new holiday: Cinco De Morrissey!

Why Morrissey? Because he's a Mexican obsession on both sides of the border, a true icon. So today we check out Moz's best tunes and ...

One of our favorite things to talk about here on Alt.Latino, in addition to music, is the inevitable war between humans and robots.

That's not true. We've never talked about this topic before, in part because I suspect Felix is a Chicano robot — deployed by a mysterious Fresno-based underground ...

In the 1920s, Aurora Orozco crossed over from Mexico to Texas — a child of African descent who spoke not a word of English. She was an uneasy transplant.

Many years later, in an essay published in 1999, she recalled attitudes towards students who were caught speaking Spanish in ...

Every child's ability to succeed in school is influenced by lots of external factors: teacher quality, parenting, poverty, geography, to name a few. But far less attention has been paid to the power of a child's bedroom walls. Or, rather, the paint that's on them and the lead that may ...

Galeano's 1971 book Open Veins of Latin America was a fierce critique of U.S. and European imperialism. It made him an enemy of the right-wing governments that ruled much of Latin America at the time.

Laina Morris is the real person behind the Internet meme known as the "Overly Attached Girlfriend."

In recent years, I've developed a musical obsession with new and old Latin soul. Nothing beats going for a long run in the evening, then getting home, pouring a glass of wine and cranking up a smooth, soothing song by Colombia's Kali Uchis, or a powerful vintage ballad by La ...

Felix Contreras just got back from SXSW. I didn't go this year, but you know what they say: When the cat is away, the mice come out to play. So while Gato Felix was roaming the streets of Austin, Texas, I was putting together a mix tape — a smooth ...

Katie Morrow became a teacher, among other things, because of wanderlust.

"I'm going to be a teacher because I can go anywhere in the world," she thought.

She's originally from a small town in Nebraska called O'Neill, population 3,700. "In the middle of nowhere, literally," she says.

So where did ...

Sweet Briar College in Virginia will close its doors in May, after 114 years of teaching women at its scenic campus in western Virginia.

The school's board of directors says the school has been unable to increase revenue, and as a result the institution cannot survive. The announcement shocked students ...

This week on Alt.Latino, Felix and I talk about the different music we associate with spring, which keeps teasing us here on the East Coast, but hasn't made a full-on appearance quite yet.

For some, warm weather might be associated with sweet, breezy music like the love ballads of Peruvian ...

France is considering banning the use of anorexic models in the fashion industry.

Legislation debated Tuesday in France's Parliament would require modeling agencies to get medical certificates from models to prove that they have a body mass index of at least 18. And models would have to get routine checkups. ...