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Valentina Sampaio Belatina
Valentina Sampaio, a 22-year-old trans model from Brazil, has joined VS Pink to become Victoria’s Secret’s first-ever transgender athleisure babe. The announcement received praise from LGBTQ activists — including GLAAD and the legendary Laverne Cox — as well as people who simply want to see corporate entities take a more inclusive approach to conducting business. After all, the fashion...
2019 backpack
With the constant stream of mass shootings in the headlines, it’s hard not to feel like you’d be doing your child a potentially fatal disservice by not buying them a bulletproof backpack. These macabre products have been on the market since the Sandy Hook shooting but have seen a recent spike in popularity. Fear is a powerful motivator. One...
Cyntoia Brown Feature FB Belatina
The long-awaited day has finally come for 31-year-old Cyntoia Brown, who has been released on parole from the Tennessee Prison for Women after serving 15 years of what could have been a lifetime sentence. At the age of 16, Brown was tried as an adult and convicted of first-degree murder and aggravated robbery of an armed man who had...
Toni Morrison BELatina
This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me what your position is. You've got to keep asserting the complexity and the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets of it. This is about being a complex human being...
Easy Back to School Lunch BELatina
Back to school is almost upon us, which means many more kid-free hours during the day (amen!) but it also means a bit more of a hectic morning routine, especially if you’re in charge of packing lunches. There’s nothing worse than rolling out of bed and scrambling to pack your kids’ lunch, only to find out that a) your...
Joyce Giraud Puerto Rico BELatina
If you stumble upon a photo of Joyce Giraud, your first impression will most likely be awe. She is gorgeous. And accomplished. And did we mention gorgeous? A former Miss Puerto Rico, pageant star and model, it’s clear that she has a lot of outer beauty. But she is so much more than just a pretty face. This actress,...
FB Feature Bianca de la Garza Belatina
Bianca de la Garza, a fierce Latina mompreneur, Emmy nominee journalist, former late-night host, producer, a beauty mogul, and boss lady or a.k.a “Jefa Latina” is making her imprint in the heart of the entertainment industry. She wears several different hats but that doesn’t stop her from following her passion. Last week, BELatina got the chance to catch up...
del tacos netflix documentary
Netflix Latin America’s new documentary series Las Crónicas del Taco (Taco Chronicles) opens with a spit of pork being sliced. Then it cuts to a food porn-esque shot of a mouthwatering taco: A soft, warm bed of tortilla spread open with flaming bits of golden meat lying on top of it.  “What do you see?” asks the Spanish-speaking narrator in your friendliest...
UnidosUS Julian Castro BELatina
Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro was a welcome last-minute addition to the UnidosUS 2019 Vision 2020 Luncheon on Monday afternoon, greeted by raucous applause as he walked on stage at the San Diego Convention Center. (“We’re proud to have a Latino running for president,” said UnidosUS President Janet Murguía, in case it was unclear.) Castro...
BTS MOM Belatina
When you were a kid, the start of summer was the absolute BEST feeling in the world. You’d toss your worksheets and reports in the sky and run out of that school so fast you’d think it was on fire. Freedom at last! But for moms, well, things pretty much happen in reverse. Summer break is the most stressful...
UNIDOs San Diego Belatina
Being in public gatherings after the shooting in El Paso gives me pause as I attend the UnidosUS 2019 conference that wraps up today in San Diego, especially where I’m in such a concentration of our Latinx brothers and sisters. Following the deadliest shooting in modern history to impact the Latinx community — twenty people lost their lives in...
google sundar pichai companies stand against
Prominent and successful businesses like Amazon, Coca-Cola, Apple, JPMorgan Chase, Uber, Airbnb, Etsy, Facebook and dozens more are strongly and proudly supporting their consumers while condemning the President's arbitrary policies on immigration, transgender rights and climate. All the companies taking a stand against Donald Trump are putting people before profits and have been offering a helping hand to those...