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Dolores Prida

Adiós, Dolores: Celebrating The Life And Work Of The Extraordinary Woman Behind 'Dolores Dice'

By Damarys Ocaña Perez | 04/26/2013 - 12:07 | 0 Comments

These pages were supposed to host a virtual quinceañera — a celebration of Dolores Prida’s 15 years as Latina’s advice columnist, with a special piece by the veteran writer herself. It was to be a toast to her witty, on-point, irreverent and unabashedly feminist advice on everything from getting rid of cheating boyfriends to...

Dolores Prida, Damarys Ocana, Dita Quinones, Yuliana Gomez at Dolores house 2010

Latina's Executive Editor on Remembering Dolores Prida, Columnist & Latina Family Member

By Damarys Ocaña Perez | 01/20/2013 - 19:16 | 0 Comments

I met Dolores Prida shortly after I joined Latina as associate editor, in 2004. She worked mostly from home but had a cubicle in our Times Square office, and she would come in about once a week, usually unannounced, to work and catch up with everyone. I was one of the many young Latinas who read her column in the magazine religiously and wondered...

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Classic 'Dolores Dice': 10 Pieces of Advice Dolores Prida Gave Her Readers

By Samantha Leal | 01/20/2013 - 18:36 | 0 Comments

We're deeply saddened by Dolores Prida's passing, but her wisdom lives on. As the wise and amazing advice columnist for "Dolores Dice," you came to her with marriage troubles, financial woes, sex advice and everything in between -- and she answered! Take a look at some of her best pieces of advice.

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Legendary Playwright and Columnist Dolores Prida Dies

By Lee Hernandez | 01/20/2013 - 16:08 | 0 Comments

We lost one of the great ones today.

Dolores Prida, legendary playwright, columnist and Latina trailblazer, died this morning at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.

The author of Latina's "Dolores Dice" column, and one of the founding members of the magazine, Dolores was a part of our Latina family and our...

Commentary: Thanks to La Vida!

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COMMENTARY: Thanks to La Vida!

By Dolores Prida | 11/21/2012 - 14:52 | 0 Comments

Thanksgiving Day is a Latino holiday... For real.

For one, the first actual bread breaking between Europeans and Native Americans took place 56 years earlier than the one in 1621 at Plymouth Rock. According to historian Michael Gannon, Spanish settlers sat down to dinner with a tribe of Seloy Indians near St. Augustine, Florida, in early...

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COMMENTARY: The New Face of America is Browner, Younger and More Female

By Dolores Prida | 11/14/2012 - 15:49 | 0 Comments

Are your ears ringing? Is your cell phone buzzing? Got lots of texting inviting you to the prom? Any flowers and candy yet?

With the tremendous role the Latino vote played in last week’s presidential election, the courting has begun for next time around. All of a sudden, after being bullied for years, we are the most popular girl in high school....

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COMMENTARY: This Girl's On Fiiireee!

By Dolores Prida | 11/06/2012 - 12:06 | 0 Comments

I haven't called myself a "girl" in a long time, but I'm so fired up about today's presidential election that I can't help singing along with Alicia Keys.

Most of all, I can't stop thinking about the girls on fire of a century ago--the suffragists, those women with plenty of ovarios who marched, got beaten, harassed, thrown in jail for...