Salvador Castro: Contribution to the Chicano Movement

Salvador ‘Sal’ Castro was a social studies teacher at Lincoln High School for the Los Angeles Unified School District. He was the son of Mexican immigrants and was born in Boyle Heights. He helped instigate the protests in the 1968 “blowouts”. It was the influential event in the development of the Chicano movement. He saw […]

Aarón Sánchez: Awesome Mexican Chef

Aarón Sánchez is one of the world’s most distinguished Latin chefs. He is a cookbook author, award-winning chef and philanthropist. He is the chef/part owner of Johnny Sánchez restaurants. They are located in New Orleans and Baltimore. He is also the co-star of Food Network’s hit series, “Chopped” and “Chopped Junior”. Aarón is very passionate […]

Silva Tcherassi: Colombian Fashion Designer

Colombian designers have been taking over the Fashion world, and Silvia Tcherassi is only the tip of the oceberg. She is one of the most acclaimed figures in Latin American fashion. She is the FIRST Latin American designer to be invited to both the Milan and Paris fashion weeks. Her collections are known as classic […]

Franklin Chang Diaz: Highest-Ranked Latino Astronaut

Franklin Chang-Diaz is a (San José, Costa Rica), Costa Rican physicist and the highest-ranking Latin American astronaut for NASA. Chang Diaz’s passion for space began at a very young age and continued for the rest of his life. Moving from Costa Rica to Connecticut, he earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and later received […]

Hector Cedillo: Tattoo Artist

Hector Cedillo is a tattoo artist that started out since his younger years. It all happened with homemade tattoo machine in the ninth grade. He comes from his native country of Cuenca, Ecuador. He can bascially do styles all the way from Surrealism, Japanese style, realistic portraits, to pieces that can be of a random […]

Jordi Munoz- 3D Drone Inventor 1986-Present

While waiting for his green card, Jodi Munoz moved from Tijuana in 2007 to Los Angeles. At the time he was 20 years old, and he and his girlfriend had set up home near Los Angeles. Since he couldn’t work legally or even enroll at a college, until he got his card. Instead of just sitting around […]

Menswear Designer Carlos Campos 1972-Present

Born in Honduras, Carlos Campos grew up inspired by his father, a master tailor. Carlos decided to follow in his father’s footsteps to become a fashion designer. At 13, Campos left Honduras and came to New York City to pursue the American Dream. Without knowing English, he got a job as a tailor’s apprentice in […]

Origin of Bachata

Bachata is a style of dance that originated in the Dominican Republic. Bachata is commonly known by many as a very sensual dance. It is danced widely all over the world but not identically. The early slow style in the fifties from where everything started was danced only close. The basics to the dance are generally […]

Origin of Cumbia

Cumbia is a music genre popular throughout Latin America. It originated in Colombia’s Caribbean coastal region and Panama, with musical and cultural fusion of Native Colombians and Panamanians that were slaves brought from Africa during the Spanish during colonial times. Spain used its ports to import African slaves, who tried to preserve their musical traditions and […]

Origin of Salsa

Salsa is one of the most dynamic and important musical phenomena of the 1900’s. In many Latino/Hispanic communities, it remains the most popular style of dance music. Salsa is a mix of Latin musical genres, but its primary is Cuban dance music. The roots of salsa originated in Eastern Cuba or Santiago de Cuba, Guantanamo […]