“Papá, I’m coming to the ranch, I need to be there,” David said. On...
“Papá, I’m coming to the ranch, I need to be there,” David said. On...
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“I think it’s time to harvest some of the crops. I always told myself,...
I believe that when you wake up, your goal should be to shine, to...
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Manuel Vicente and Luis Valentán in front of the microphones of Radio Jornalera. Immigrants...
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“My father was gone, my mother left me in the hospital after giving birth—she...
Anna Maria and her husband, Shawn, run the shop. He’s the mechanic and...
“You need to let people know that there are resources available, and they...
Yojana ad Eric Fombona, the pillars of this life project. As a...
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After doing various jobs upon arriving in California, Fermín Morales wanted to do more,...
Luis Emilio Botero passed away just under four years ago. “Claudia Botero’s father has...
I don’t know why, but when I speak with José Vergara, a music teacher...
Gema Sandoval had just arrived in California, specifically to La Habra. She had left...
One can imagine it. A five-year-old boy would grab the gas tanks and start...
Each night, Sara Mena, entrepreneur, wife, and mother of two children, before going to...
Music has always been a part of Alberto López’s world. It began in his...
Mariana Contreras emigrated to Los Angeles at the age of 15. Born in Mexico...
His voice is sweet, clear and determined. He is eight years old, and...
"I must have been five years old when I started defending my sister or...
She thinks that domestic violence can be addictive.
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"My father always told me, it's not about what you have but what you...
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"I know how difficult it is, as an immigrant, to achieve our dreams"
Originally from Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexico, Flores endured a childhood that no one would wish for.
“There’s nothing wrong with that word. We are fat; sometimes when we walk down the street, people shout at us, ‘move, fatty'”
“They’ve spent a lifetime telling us how we should be; Latinidad is an experience. I don’t have to pretend to be Latina”
For José “Hoozay” Velasquez, comedy has become his profession, his job, and his life. But it is also a form of survival. Whether facing difficult situations, suffering from slight depression,
She couldn’t believe it. There were moments when she thought she was transforming her life, during which time she often felt lost and, at times, in a constant search. But
Oh, the sounds of the season: the sneezing, the coughing, the blowing of noses. The fall season is the beginning of flu season, and the perfect time to get your
Élmer Mendoza frequently converses with Édgar “El Zurdo” Mendieta, the lonely, lovestruck detective who is the main character in his novels. Mendieta is also an unyielding policeman against the criminals
Élmer Mendoza learned to read at the age of nine, which was somewhat late, but coming from a very poor family with limited resources, it was an odyssey to achieve.
In 2022, drug overdoses claimed over 100,000 lives in the United States. Drug addiction doesn’t discriminate, but access to treatment and recovery often does. In recognition of September being
“We never had great resources; we didn’t have a car, always taking the bus. For us, buying new shoes for school meant a trip to K-Mart—PayLess was too expensive for us”
“I took some Chicano History classes, and I got angry. I was upset when I learned about how we had been taken advantage of.”
“I saw my father go from being a busboy to owning his own business in East Los Angeles, a small dealership.”
It was during the pandemic that César Castro decided to launch his podcast Radio Jarochelo on YouTube. He didn’t want to lose that connection with the community and wanted to
Mario Trujillo, the current mayor of Downey, learned from the best mentor, his mother Ofelia Rodríguez.
“God, if you save me, I promise to become a priest, but save me,” he recalls saying in the water.
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