A few months ago, an unprecedented crisis happened in Sasabe, a small Mexican town in a remote area of the...
The Tiarras have been playing together since they were just little girls, but they’ve been sisters forever. This power sister-trio...
For Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Ileana Cabra — better known under her stage name, iLe — music has always been a...
For more than three decades, Pedro Almodóvar has embraced the stereotype of the neurotic, over-emotional and dramatic Spanish-speaking woman in...
Author Shea Serrano was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. He grew up in a Latino community where the...
For eight months now, the war on Gaza, which many experts and historians have called a genocide, has gripped the...
Luna Luna is a four member band from different walks of life. The band consists of vocalist Kevin Gonzalez, back-up...
Last November, San Antonio-born Robert Santos became the first Latino to be confirmed as the Director of the U.S. Census...
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Mexican women won the right to vote in 1953. Now, more than 70 years later, and for the first time...
When she was nine years old, Xiomara Torres fled the civil war in her home country of El Salvador and...
DJ and producer Michael Brun says that Haiti is often portrayed as a “taking country”—meaning always receiving, never giving. That’s...
In January of 2018, a 65-year-old grandfather was attacked and fell onto the New York City subway tracks—which eventually led...
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Back in 2013, Lucía Díaz Genao was living a quiet life in the eastern state of Veracruz, Mexico, when one...
Journalist Andrea Elliott won the Pulitzer Prize for her book “Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City”...
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Trans activist, actress and author, Cecilia Gentili, knows the power of stories. Whether she is working at her company Trans...
Throughout her 20-year career, Mexican singer and songwriter Natalia Lafourcade has reinvented herself and her sound. For her latest album,...
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As part of “The Latino Factor: How We Vote,” our 2024 election year series, we bring you a look at...
Melissa Barrera has been consistently making a name for herself in recent years. The Mexican actress is probably most recognizable...
Brothers Santos and Mariano have been chasing work after hurricanes for nearly two decades. The grueling work of cleaning and...
When Mireya Ramos found herself subject to scrutiny and machismo as the only woman mariachi singer in the male-dominated mariachi...
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones rose to instant recognition when she published “The 1619 Project” in 2019. “The 1619 Project...
For the past decade, Armando Perez has worked as a wildland firefighter with the Eldorado, California, Hotshot crew—an elite group...
What and who do you include in a national Latino museum? That’s a question that many have been asking since...