Remembering Esteban “Steve” Jordan

Remembering Esteban “Steve” Jordan

Conjunto accordion legend Esteban “Steve” Jordan died Friday, after this week’s Latino USA was sent to public radio stations for broadcast. Last year, Alex Avila…

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Los Invisibles: New Orleans 5 Years After Katrina

Los Invisibles: New Orleans 5 Years After Katrina

Katrina changed New Orleans. It changed nearly everything about the city. And it changed nothing. Five years ago, the massive storm dumped rain and misery…

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Disaster Migrants & The BP Cleanup

Disaster Migrants & The BP Cleanup

The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has drawn cleanup workers from near and far. Many of those workers are Latinos, so-called “disaster…

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A Conversation with John Phillip Santos

A Conversation with John Phillip Santos

Most people’s idea of family is pretty immediate: the people we live with, the cousins we see at the reunion every year, the ones who…

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Puerto Rican Student Activism Today

Puerto Rican Student Activism Today

When we traveled to Puerto Rico a few weeks ago, we found a story that most Americans don’t know: The little island is going through…

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