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Author Junot Díaz stripped of award for speaking out
Junot Díaz is a MacArthur Fellow, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and a creative writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His most notable work is the book “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” He is also a Dominican American who has used his public status to speak out against the persecution of Haitian refugees in the Dominican Republic …
Ancestry Mexico launches with free access until November 2, 2015
Family historians rejoice! Ancestry.com has announced that they’ve added records to help Mexicans and Mexican-Americans track down their family histories. This includes “220 million searchable historical records from Mexico, including […]
Video Pick: “Pride And Prejudice And Zombies” Trailer
My favorite book of all time is Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” so I was more than a little appalled when I first heard of the book “Pride and Prejudice […]
Submissions due on December 20, 2015 for Second Annual UH Conference in Hispanic Studies
The University of Houston’s Hispanic Studies Graduate Student Organization has announced the Second Annual Conference in Hispanic Studies, to be held on Friday April 22, 2016. The conference will focus primarily on […]
Houston’s first Hispanic fire chief passed away
The Houston Chronicle reported that E.A. “Eddie” Corral passed away on Saturday, October 24, 2015. Corral was Houston’s first Hispanic fire chief and only the fourth Hispanic to join the Houston […]