Puerto Ricans Mennonites in Pennsylvania Dutch Country who’ve made this region home, proudly claiming space and identity.
“If Hamilton is an Obama-era hope musical, we are a Trump-era protest musical,” said Nygel D. Robinson, co-creator of “Mexodus.” “Mexodus,” a high-energy Off-Broadway show that looks at a lesser-known ...
Discover Petrona Martínez, the "Queen of Bullerengue," who rose from poverty in rural Colombia to win a Latin Grammy, ...
John Leguizamo reflects on iconic roles from "Encanto," "Ice Age," and "Carlito’s Way," and discusses Latino representation, activism, and his new Hulu series playing Pablo Escobar.
Artist and singer Kali Uchis was born in Virginia to Colombian immigrant parents. When she was four or five years old, her family moved back to Colombia. She spent several years living in a small town ...
Trigger Warning: We should mention that parts of this story might be disturbing for some of our listeners. For decades, Cesar Chavez’s name has been synonymous with the fight for workers’ rights and ...
When Dina Ortega, 37, found out that Texas had passed Senate Bill 8 (SB-8), one of the strictest abortion laws in the country, she started crying at her desk at Roosevelt General Hospital in Portales, ...
In the late 1950s, a young mechanical engineer from the Bronx named Martin Cohen stumbled into Birdland, the famous jazz club in New York City. He discovered the rhythms of Latin music and thus began ...
In a special two-part radio series, NPR’s Latino USA investigates the unusual death of a man in an U.S. immigrant detention center, and what his death tells us about conditions —especially mental ...
The thousands of Central American and Mexican children that have come to the US border in the past few years are not getting here on their own. Here are the 10 things you need to know about so-called ...
My manners: we haven’t properly been introduced! My name is Gustavo Arellano, and if you’ve heard of me at all, it’s probably because —take your pick— I was editor of OC Weekly/I wrote the syndicated ...
Journalist, historian, and author Jelani Cobb often looks to the past to better understand the present, and he says the right’s pushback against immigration and multiculturalism is rooted in this ...