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Crowdfunder: The Maya Angelou Documentary

Oct 29, 2015, 12:13 PM 0

LatinaLista — Campaign: The Maya Angelou Documentary The Maya Angelou Documentary is the first documentary about Dr. Maya Angelou. As friends from Dr. Angelou's inner circle, the filmmakers have been granted remarkable and unmatched access to Dr. Angelou’s…

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New biography of labor leader César Chávez is one of few in U.S. to be written in Spanish

Sep 17, 2015, 1:45 PM 0

By Jim Logan Amigos805.com When César Chávez founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW), he did it mostly in Spanish. For more than 30 years, he inspired millions of people —…