The 100-day countdown to the US presidential election is now underway (it’s now, as of today, 99 days) and Democrats are enthusiastic about the small lead Biden has over Trump. Yet, in such a pivotal election, where the future…
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Guest Voz: The invisible people of Mexico contributed to country’s history
Nov 14, 2019, 4:24 PM 0
By Marlen Suyapa Bodden LatinaLista Not everyone in Mexico is Spanish and indigenous (mestizo). Black people have been a significant part of the post-Columbian history of Mexico and even contributed to the very founding of the modern Mexican Republic….
Cultural Survival Zapotec, Wixarica, Odami, and Nahuatl are four of the 68 Indigenous languages spoken in Mexico. Cultural Survival supports many Indigenous community radio stations around the world, including two organizations that are producing radio programs to be…
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An Iconic San Diego Park Is Now a National Historic Landmark
Oct 12, 2017, 11:50 AM 0
By Lauren Walser Saving Places Josephine Talamantez remembers the day she and many of her neighbors in San Diego’s Barrio Logan neighborhood were nearly arrested: April 22, 1970, the official launching of Earth Day as a national holiday. “And…
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Indigenous people invented the so-called ‘American Dream’
Oct 9, 2017, 9:41 AM 0
By Lewis Borck & D. Shane Miller The Conversation When President Barack Obama created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the 2012 program that offered undocumented young people brought to the U.S. as children a path into society, for…
By Ken Jeremiah Ancient Origins Peru has a rich and mysterious history. With extant indigenous groups such as the Uros, Quechua, Aymara, and the Jivaro, which are known for their head-shrinking techniques, and historical populations like the Wari and…
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Seeking Peace and Justice, Alabama Nonprofit Builds Lynching Memorial
Aug 14, 2017, 1:25 PM 0
By Jared Foretek Saving Places For lawyer and author Bryan Stevenson, the United States can’t fully recover from its racial history until it honestly confronts its past. “Truth and reconciliation has always been sequential,” he says. “You can’t get…
By Alexis Blue Futurity Using the largest set of radiocarbon dates ever obtained from a single Maya site, archaeologists have developed a precise timeline that clarifies patterns leading up to two major collapses of the ancient civilization. Scientists have long…
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How US policy in Honduras set the stage for today’s mass migration
Nov 3, 2016, 9:45 AM 0
By Joseph Nevins The Conversation Central American migrants – particularly unaccompanied minors – are again crossing the U.S.-Mexico boundary in large numbers. In 2014, more than 68,000 unaccompanied Central American childrenwere apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico boundary. This year so far there…
National Trust for Historic Preservation (Editor’s Note: A petition has been created on Change.org to help spearhead the creation of a Civil Rights National Park in Birmingham, Alabama. Below is the petition and a link to it.) In…
By Gillian Kiley Futurity The Grolier Codex, an ancient document that is among the rarest books in the world, has been regarded with skepticism since it was reportedly unearthed by looters from a cave in Chiapas, Mexico, in…
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Veteran Latina actress on mission to bring “historias” to the mainstream one tweet at a time
Sep 7, 2016, 1:37 PM 0
LatinaLista — Actress Ruth Livier has never been content to play by the rules. She was part of the groundbreaking cast Resurrection Blvd., the first Latino drama on cable TV (Showtime) that had majority Latinos in front of and…
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Indigenous women photographers provide snapshots into their lives & perspectives with new blog
Jul 18, 2016, 1:47 PM 0
LatinaLista — Though it seems to be popular these days to blame the Internet for all of society’s ills, there’s no denying that this technology is able to accomplish what no other one has done before — be truly…
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Texas Latino school children just got the biggest slapdown from the one state agency supposed to be their strongest advocate
May 25, 2016, 4:17 PM 0
LatinaLista — Demographers have long said to just look at Texas to see the future of the racial make-up of the country. It’s projected that by 2020 the Latino population will surpass all other population groups in Texas to…
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Discovering the only Latin American museum to display pre-Columbian collections from virtually the entire American continent
Apr 5, 2016, 10:01 AM 0
By James Wiener Ancient History Encyclopedia The Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art (Español: Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino) in Santiago, Chile is a jewel among the world’s museums and a highlight to any trip to the country. Widely regarded…
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America’s Sacred Places: From Turmoil to Transcendence
Mar 15, 2016, 11:47 AM 0
By Filip Mazurczak Preservation Nation The term “sacred” holds a variety of meanings for many Americans. For some, sacred places are literally that: places where they go to establish contact with the transcendent world. For others, sacredness implies…
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Guest Voz: Mi Abuelito — Discovering the depth of my grandfather’s love for family and Nicaragua, his country
Mar 7, 2016, 11:15 AM 0
By Carmen Marriott LatinaLista I am the daughter of a woman who emigrated from Nicaragua in the late 1940s, and I feel that I know quite a bit about Nicaraguan history, based on both formal study and family stories….
By Sophia Dembling Saving Places Adina De Zavala’s indignation over a 1912 San Antonio Express editorial explodes from every typewritten word: “The painful ignorance of the history of Texas, and of the Alamo, exhibited by the writers of…
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The ‘real’ first Thanksgiving had no turkey or pilgrims but plenty garbanzo beans and Spanish conquistadores
Nov 24, 2015, 3:32 PM 0
By Stephenie Livingston Futurity This Thanksgiving, people across the US will load the dining room table with turkey, stuffing, and pumpkin pie—the way most of us imagine the Pilgrims did at the first Thanksgiving in 1621. But there’s…
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Latino Tennessean José Vázquez: A bracero for life
Nov 12, 2015, 12:50 PM 0
By Brenn Dowdy El Nuevo Tennessean His smile was inviting, and the red apples José Vázquez’s daughter placed on the table were starting to turn the color of his warm, brown complexion. Vázquez, 77, laughed as he tried…
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Crowdfunder: Preserving the legacy of Hispanic Link – a trailblazer in breaking through mainstream media
Nov 2, 2015, 3:28 PM 0
LatinaLista — Campaign: The Hispanic Link Legacy Project Mainstream media's proverbial arms weren't always open to covering issues of importance to the Latino community. If the local or national news media gatekeepers deemed the story "unnewsworthy," the nation would…
By Stephanie Livingston Futurity The picture most people have of ancient Maya civilizations—royalty and elaborate temples—isn’t broad enough, researchers say. But now, ancient bones are hinting at the lives of the other 99 percent—the Maya middle class. “When…
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The Latino Photographer Who “Humanized” Frank Lloyd Wright
Oct 29, 2015, 3:12 PM 0
By Meghan Drueding Preservation Nation Frank Lloyd Wright isn’t necessarily thought of as warm and fuzzy. But he got along famously with photographer Pedro Guerrero, who started documenting Wright’s work at the tender age of 22 and continued to…
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Crowdfunder: Documentary of forgotten Nuyorican basketballer history
Oct 27, 2015, 12:45 PM 0
LatinaLista — Campaign: Nuyorican Básquet: Documentary Film When the Puerto Rican basketball team played at the 1979 Pan American Games, an oddity was evident: the majority of its players did not speak Spanish, but rather Spanglish. The team…
By James Wiener Ancient History Encyclopedia Despite the popular appeal of the legendary city of El Dorado, our collective understanding of ancient Colombia’s history remains largely obscured by the advanced civilizations of Mesoamerica and the Andes. A new…
