Hey Pulso Fam, last season here on the Pulso Podcast, Maribel — who’s happily on vacation in Mexico right now — and I, went into it on “Mom to Mom.” If you haven’t heard that episode, it’s a candid conversation about how we’re raising Colombian-Venezuelan-Mexican-African American children in…
Liz AlarcĂłn: Dear Mexican. Why is it that when you invite Mexicans to a party, they feel compelled to bring along 30 of their relatives. mean, bringing along two or three people would be no problem, but we don’t expect the number of people at our party to…
Maribel Quezada Smith: Manuel Jamines Xum, an Indigenous Maya-K’iche’ man moved to the United States in 2003, leaving his wife and three children back in the town of Xexac in Guatemala. He wanted to work hard, save money, and eventually return home to make a better life for…
Maribel Quezada Smith: Hola Pulso fam, this is Maribel. What does it mean to “be” something, to have an identity? And what is it that gets to decide that identity? Is it our parents, our language, our blood, or the world around us? This can be a complex…
Maribel Quezada Smith: What are you willing to do in the name of beauty? Valentina Agosti: Botox. Christie Lazo: Surgery. Katia Reguero Lindor: Wake up at like 4:00 AM to go work out. Maribel Quezada Smith: If I interviewed every Latina about this, I truly believe this list…
Liz AlarcĂłn: We’re back. Welcome to season four of the Pulso Podcast. Maribel Quezada Smith: Hola, hola. Bienvenidos y bienvenidas, ya estamos de regreso. Liz AlarcĂłn: We’re so excited. We’ve been hard at work with our heads down, producing really interesting episodes that will continue to share the…
Eight-time Grammy Award-winning Cuban Icon Gloria Estefan has won many accolades in her life. Her latest: becoming the first Latina inducted in the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Estefan has been topping international charts since the 80s, with hits like her signature “Conga.” And in 1988, she achieved her…
Of course there are Latin Americans of Asian descent and Asian Latinos in the U.S., but we’re talking about moments in history when Asian and Latino communities came together as one. We worked and fought… …side by side as immigrant laborers in the late 1800s when Mexican workers…
Desi Arnaz was born in Cuba to a wealthy and powerful family. But his story became one of riches to rags when his father was jailed and the family fled to the U.S. But setbacks weren’t going to keep him down… At 16-years-old, Desi worked odd jobs to…
New York City was once dotted with symbols honoring our heritage — porcelain enamel medallions painted with the coat of arms of different countries in North, Central and South America — but now they’re almost gone. In 1945, New York City’s Sixth Avenue — a major thoroughfare in Manhattan, was…
