Let’s start with the basics: making money. According to the National LGBTQ Anti-Poverty Action Network, 37.3% of queer Latinos live in poverty, compared to…
Thorpe then gave football a crack, beating Harvard’s and West Point’s teams along the way to winning the 1912 college championship as a running…
In 1557, at the Battle of Lagunillas, the Spanish captured 150 Mapuche warriors. Among them was Galvarino, who had both his hands hacked off…
The unit was composed largely of Mexican Americans and Native Americans from 20 different tribes. Despite experiencing widespread discrimination in their civilian lives, the…
“I’m Puerto Rican, Jewish, Colored, and married to a white woman,” Sammy Davis Jr. often joked. “When I move into a neighborhood, people start…
John is of mixed Yaqui, Cherokee, and Mexican heritage. He did not have an easy childhood, as his father and uncle died from drug…
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Juan remembers finding the bodies left in the open by their murderers. Despite the intense trauma he underwent, it took him 83 years to…
Born in 1485, Guzmán served as King Charles I’s bodyguard. Apparently impressed by the howling vacuum where Guzman’s soul should reside, the king yeeted…
Cabrillo was born in either Portugal or Spain at the end of the 15th century. Regardless, his birthplace clearly didn’t instill a strong distaste…