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Getting Real About Pregnancy
Pregnancy comes with all kinds of questions, but the journey to pregnancy and the mishaps along the way are often overlooked or taboo in the Latino c…
5 years, 1 month ago
Ilia Calderón: My Skin Color Doesn't Define Me
Ilia Calderón was still a little girl when she first experienced racism. But being rejected by part of her native Colombia's society would not deter …
5 years, 1 month ago
How I Made It: La Doña
Cecilia Peña-Govea who calls herself La Doña, grew up in the Mission District in San Francisco. She started playing music in her family's band at jus…
5 years, 1 month ago
By Right Of Discovery
On Thanksgiving Day, hundreds of people gather on Alcatraz Island, the famous former prison and one of the largest tourist attractions in San Francis…
5 years, 1 month ago
Kate's Summer
The summer of 2020 was filled with uncertainty as more than 20 million people in the U.S. were left unemployed — including Kate Bustamante’s parents.…
5 years, 1 month ago
Portrait Of: Gloria Estefan
Gloria Maria Milagrosa Fajardo Garcia was a shy, quiet young woman who joined a band named the Miami Latin Boys. Although she had no plans of interna…
5 years, 1 month ago
How I Made It: From Foster Kid to Judge
When she was nine years-old, Xiomara Torres fled the civil war in her home country of El Salvador and came to the U.S. As a child she adjusted to her…
5 years, 1 month ago
The Myth Of The 'Latino Vote'
A major lesson from the 2020 election is one that Latinos already know: The idea of a single “Latino vote” is a myth. Latinos and Latinas throughout …
5 years, 1 month ago
How I Made It: Las Cafeteras
Las Cafeteras are a band out of East LA that met while doing community organizing. They began playing at the Eastside Cafe, where they discovered Son…
5 years, 2 months ago
Reclaiming Our Homes
On March 14th of 2020, Martha Escudero and her two daughters became the first of a dozen unhoused families to occupy one of over a hundred vacant hou…
5 years, 2 months ago