Juneteenth (June 19th) marks the date that the last people who were enslaved in the United States, located in Texas, were declared free in 1865. What is less known is that there were far more enslaved people brought to Latin America than the U.S during the Trans-Atlantic Slave…

MARIBEL VO: If you’re driving through the hip Santurce area of San Juan, PR you’ll come across a giant mural on the side of a building depicting a young Boricua with a bright smile, holding something shiny. Her name is Monica (Pweeg) Puig, and in Puerto Rico, she’s…

LIZ: We’ve talked about representation in media a lot here on the Pulso Pod, and it’s because it matters. The images we see or don’t see in the movies, commercials, TV shows, on billboards, in magazines, those formulate ideas in our minds about what is possible for us.…

Aaron Martinez was found dead in his truck with multiple gunshot wounds. He was 35 years-old and leaves behind a 14-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son. Family members are calling for his murderer, Trevor McEuen, to be charged with a hate crime. Martinez’s father, Salvador, told CBS News Texas…

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 Alarcón: 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…

One year ago, the oldest cold case at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children was finally solved. In the summer of 1960, 4-year-old Sharon Lee Gallegos disappeared, while playing outside of her home in New Mexico.  Ten days later, the burned body of a young girl…

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…

Latinas made history at the 95th Annual Academy Awards this past Sunday. Sylva Villagran became the first Latina (and third woman) announcer for the Oscars – welcoming attendees and viewers to the show, and announcing presenters to the stage. This makes her an EGOT – not for winning…