By Nidhi Thakar & Mark Magaña LatinaLista What do our national parks mean to us? As we approach the National Park Service's centennial, this question becomes especially relevant. For American Latinos, having the National Park System be a storyteller…
Hispanic News Online (HNOnline) (Editor’s Note: For Hispanic Heritage Month, HNOnline has created the 30-4-30 podcast series highlighting 30 Latino leaders/trailblazers across the country for the 30 days of Hispanic Heritage Month. HNOnline is the sister publication of Latina…
LatinaLista — If visiting Peru’s National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History (MNHAAP) has been on your bucket list, you may be able to check that off sooner than you thought. The MNHAAP opened its virtual doors to cyber-museum…
By Andrea Estrada Amgios805 The Chicano movement of the late 1960s and 1970s was the largest and most widespread civil rights and empowerment movement by Mexican-Americans in U.S. history. But without strong and dedicated leadership, it might not have…
By Mark R. Day La Prensa San Diego The aroma of ceremonial sage brush and the sound of Indian drums and chants mingled with the cool ocean breeze blowing over Mission San Luis Rey recently at the 19th annual…
By Heather O’Connell The Conversation None of us alive today had any direct involvement in slavery in America, but we continue to be affected by its legacy and could even be perpetuating it in subtle, everyday ways. One of…
PreservationNation Blog The National Trust for Historic Preservation issued our 28th annual list of the America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. This year’s list helps underscore the ongoing effort we have at the National Trust to tell the story…
By José Antonio López Rio Grande Guardian One of the favorite descriptions used by advertising and news media to define San Antonio is “The Álamo City”. Also, the popular Spanish Mexican colonial church silhouette is a universal logo used…
By Andra Cernavskis MissionLocal On Saturday afternoon, Susan Goldstein, the City of San Francisco’s archivist, could be found in the San Francisco Public Library’s fifth floor DIGI Center, a room for digital archiving, pouring over old, print photos with…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Music and Dance In the Barrio The Floricanto Center for the Performing Arts was originally a furniture factory that has been reclaimed and converted into a community arts space. Nestled in the City Terrace neighborhood of…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Helping Garifuna children of Honduras discover their history and cultural pride via first-ever published children’s book for them Garifuna culture originated from the Island of St. Vincent (in the Caribbean) in the 1600’s. Garifunas are a…
By Leslie Nguyen-Okwu Mission Local If San Francisco city planners had known more about the former thriving North Beach Latino neighborhood near Guadalupe Church, they would have done more to minimize the negative impact of the Broadway Tunnel, which…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Save Our History: The Chicana!o Archive Project The Latino history of San Diego is largely unwritten because people do not know about what others have done or their struggles in life. For five years, a committee…
By Lydia Chávez Mission Local As a boy, Francisco Camplis acquired a repertoire of songs that would have served him well in Dublin. Never mind that Camplis, now 80 years old, was the son of two Mexican immigrants in…
By Steven Piccione Preservation Nation Younger generations are vitally important for the continuation of historic preservation. That is why we at the National Trust responded enthusiastically to a request from Ivan Robles, a sophomore at Miami Beach Senior High…
By Rocío Lower National Park Foundation On the last Monday of May, our nation will come together to observe Memorial Day and honor the men and women who gave their lives in service of our country. Throughout the National…
By Steve Taylor Rio Grande Guardian EDINBURG, TX — A Texas State Board of Education member says his efforts to allow school districts to provide Mexican American Studies have been boosted by the White House’s focus on Hispanic war…
By Annika Darling CTLatinoNews.com Carlos B. Vega, Ph.D, has dedicated his entire professional life to fostering better relations and understanding between the Hispanic and American cultures. He is a prolific writer, both in Spanish and in English, and specializes…
By Claire Marie O’Brien LatinaLista There are some American places where history overlaps and becomes so condensed, so close and nearly visible, that each layer is almost like its own separate lens. Lorraine Gomez grew up in such a…
By Lauren Walser Preservation Nation As it approached its 400th year, St. Augustine Mission in the Pueblo of Isleta, 15 miles south of Albuquerque, N.M., was showing its age. Built in 1613 by local masons and craftsmen, the adobe…
LatinaLista — University of Chicago professor Raúl Coronado delivered an interesting talk in 2011 as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival, that examined how “Latinos came into being.” Since he studies the history of Latino identity, Coronado has been…
LatinaLista — Horror films are a genre of film that can trace its popularity back to our ancestors as they gathered around a flickering campfire sharing stories to scare one another. However, the genre has evolved over time not…
LatinaLista — The U.S. Census reports that there are 1.2 million Latinos 18 and older who are veterans of the U.S. military. The Department of Defense says that more than 157,000 Latinos are serving in active-duty and that in…
LatinaLista — The innovation happening in the world today would never have occurred had there not been people who were curious enough to search for answers to their questions. In fact, curiosity is what has driven almost every major…
LatinaLista — South America may be better known for its illustrious ancient history — the Incas, Aztecs, Mayans, the Nazca Plain and pyramids — but the region has been steadily gaining recognition for being the home of more than…
