Cachita, the unknown history of slavery in Spain
10/26/2020 - 06:20
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The official story hides this dark part of Spain's past, but a recently released documentary film faces the truth.
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The official story hides this dark part of Spain's past, but a recently released documentary film faces the truth.
Pope Francis publicly defends gay marriage (though only civil unions)
10/22/2020 - 07:18
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"They are sons of God and have the right to a family," assured the pontiff in a surprising documentary that goes much further than just telling the story of his life.
J-Lo shows love to her trans nibling’s journey on Instagram
08/25/2020 - 12:03
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The new documentary, Draw With Me, profiles Brendon and their struggle of coming out to family and coping with art.
The El Paso Walmart Massacre: Fake heroes and too many unsolved questions
08/06/2020 - 07:05
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Filmmaker Charlie Minn shows the most humane, brutal and raw face of the El Paso Massacre in the documentary 915, to be released on October 9.
The VOCES series returns this Fall with two new documentaries about Latino lives in the U.S.
07/29/2020 - 04:30
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Latino Public Broadcasting has announced the premiere of Building the American Dream and Voto Latino as part of PBS election special programming.
La serie VOCES vuelve este otoño con dos nuevos documentales sobre las vidas latinas en U.S.
07/29/2020 - 04:24
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Latino Public Broadcasting ha anunciado el estreno de ‘Building the American Dream’ y ‘Voto latino’, como parte de la programación especial electoral de PBS.
Everything you think about Danny Trejo is true
07/01/2020 - 07:01
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Before walking the red carpet, Trejo followed the yellow brick road until he became Oz.
Traveling While Black, or the green book that black America carries within
06/08/2020 - 15:29
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"Traveling While Black" is a 20-minute documentary that uses virtual reality to discuss the danger of simple travel for an African-American.
Traveling While Black, o el libro verde que la América negra lleva adentro
06/08/2020 - 15:23
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“Traveling While Black” es un documental de 20 minutos que a través de la realidad virtual plantea la discusión del peligro que un simple desplazamiento implica para un afroamericano.
The "Mick Jagger" of Mexican cuisine is British
05/27/2020 - 14:20
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At 97, Diana Kennedy is one of the most renowned Mexican food connoisseurs and treasures the culinary delights of each region. Now a documentary tells her story.
The first black astronauts who went from slavery into space
02/21/2020 - 07:45
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Is there a "last frontier" for civil rights? A documentary provides all the clues...
Netflix unveils the last years of famous astrologer Walter Mercado in a documentary
01/22/2020 - 01:58
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Entitled "Mucho Mucho Amor", the documentary will be coming to Netflix this summer, after screening at Sundance and Tribeca festivals.
Documentary looks at controversial deaths on US-Mexico border
11/10/2017 - 07:41
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"Bullets at the Border" aims to bring renewed attention to two fatal shootings by Border Patrol agents and to a third death blamed on negligence by US Customs and Border Protection personnel.
No papers, no scholarship: Latino budding scientist becomes food truck chef
06/20/2017 - 06:39
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After winning a prestigious robotics contest, Dreamer Lorenzo Santillan had the chance to become a scientist, but his immigration status kept him from getting a university scholarship and he had to find an alternative, which turned out to be a traveling food truck that he calls "Neither Here Nor There."
[OP-ED]: Documentary ‘Elián’ Brings Back Painful Memories for Cubans
06/06/2017 - 16:28
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“Elián,” a recently released documentary about the saga of Elián González, the little Cuban castaway that became a worldwide cause célèbre 17 years ago, is bringing back painful memories of the Cold War-induced bitter political battle between South Florida Cuban-Americans and Cubans on the island. At a time when President Trump seems poised to reverse Barack Obama’s measures and go back to a Cuba policy of hostility and irrationality, the film becomes even more distressing.
Grabados de la mente y la imaginación de Francisco de Goya en el Museo de Arte de Filadelfia
05/26/2017 - 13:04
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Desde sátira política e injusticias sociales hasta sus batallas físicas personales y su final aislamiento de la gente, el creativo genio del trabajo de Goya estuvo ampliamente influenciado.
Prints from the mind and imagination of Francisco Goya at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
05/25/2017 - 23:54
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From political satire to social injustice to his personal physical battles and his ultimately isolation from people were the factors in the creative genius of his work.
Almendrones, the real stars of Miami's CubaNostalgia fair
05/22/2017 - 04:58
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The popular US vintage cars of the 1940s and '50s, still seen driving around the streets of Cuba, played the leading role at the CubaNostalgia fair in Miami. The CubaNostalgia program commemorates the independence of the Caribbean country that is celebrated every May 20.
"Film studios failed to realize what the Latino community means to the movie industry," Hayek
05/02/2017 - 05:06
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The box-office success of the film "How to Be a Latin Lover," which entertained the second-largest number of moviegoers last weekend in the United States, plus the growing presence of Latino films in theaters nationwide, indicate an awakening both of the film industry and of Hispanic audiences.
“Voy para el Cine” – Latino Films debuting at the Tribeca Film Festival
04/21/2017 - 15:50
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Several Latino-directed films make their screening at one of the most popular film festivals in the country
[OP-ED]: Trump could fix health care
04/07/2017 - 13:23
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The recent Republican debacle on health care could prove to be an opportunity. It highlighted, yet again, the complexity of America’s system, which continues to be by far the most expensive and inefficient in the advanced world.
[OP-ED]: A familiar voice with an all-too-familiar story
04/06/2017 - 11:02
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Best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell says it takes around 10,000 hours of practice to master a craft.
But there’s a catch. Who’s to say that, by the time you put in the years necessary to get really good at something, you won’t be at an age where it is tough to find gainful employment?
Hispanas: seis mujeres, una sola historia
04/05/2017 - 11:53
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Pese a que todavía existen brechas en temas como el acceso a la educación y la equidad salarial, miles de latinas están liderando los índices de acceso a educación superior y creación de empresas. AL DÍA News reconocerá este 12 de abril seis experiencias exitosas.
Women at the Top
04/05/2017 - 11:45
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Overcoming all odds, Latinas are progressing almost twice as fast as their male counterparts in their community. AL DÍA News will honor them.
[OP-ED]: Trump’s Latino enablers will be neither forgiven nor forgotten
03/24/2017 - 09:24
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Latinos are much like the Irish. Both came to America as down-on-their-luck Catholic immigrants from failing countries only to be despised when they got here.