Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking and Adhara PĂ©rez all have genius IQs. Two are amongst the greatest scientists the world has known (who are also deceased), and one is an 8-year-old girl from Mexico, who will change our world today! When she was 3 years old, Adhara was diagnosed…
These films and TV shows made history for Latinos in the U.S. In 1981, “Zoot Suit” was the first film directed by a Mexican-American (Luis Valdez) to have a theatrical release. And 2002’s “Real Women Have Curves” was the first film directed by a Latina (Patricia Cardoso) to…
It’s terrible but true. In the 1920s and 1930s, the United States reportedly deported up to 2 million people of Mexican descent, nearly 60% of them were U.S. citizens. It was during the Great Depression that “the Republicans decided the way they were going to create jobs was…
In 1903, Rosa Quirino became the first recorded woman to play in a mariachi band. This was a huge deal for the all-male 🧔🏽 music genre. In the 1940s, the first all-woman mariachi band, Las Adelitas, formed in Mexico City after their director visited Cuba and saw an…