Portal:Hispanic and Latino Americans/Did you know/1

...That Cuban-American actress, writer and director Migdia Chinea Varela (pictured) had an essay on minority quotas published in Newsweek in 1988?
... that a 1963 bus crash in California's Salinas Valley, which claimed the lives of 32 Mexican farmworkers, highlighted unsafe conditions and helped to spur the end of a 20-year-old guest worker program?
... that in 2001 "A Puro Dolor" by Puerto Rican band Son by Four won Lo Nuestro Awards for both Pop Song of the Year and Tropical Song of the Year?
... that support for the free association movement in Puerto Rico expanded by a hundredfold in 14 years?
... that Stop the Music, the debut album by brother-sister hip hop duo New Breed, features a Latin influence that highlights the duo's Puerto Rican heritage?

January - June 2014