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Live Event Seeks Immigrant and Refugee Storytellers
Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees is partnering with The Moth to feature the experiences of immigrants and refugees during a live storytelling event in Austin, Texas on May 4, 2016.
Signs Along the Way
Continuing his journey along Spain’s Camino de Santiago, author Silvio Sirias tells the story of Don Elías Valiñas Sampedro and the yellow signs.
The Case Against ‘Offensive’
While we’re debating the use of ‘Latinx,’ a note on emotional reasoning, political correctness, microaggressions, and the rest.
The Camino’s Most Enthusiastic Ambassador
Continuing along Spain’s Camino de Santiago, author Silvio Sirias stops to reflect on how the journey changed the life of a modern-day literary giant.
Eulogia a un ilustre: Dr. Mario Fitzpatrick Usera
Dr. Mario Fitzpatrick Usera, 1945 – 2015
A Legendary (and Literary) Publicity Stunt
Author Silvio Sirias crosses Órbigo bridge in León, Spain, where in 1434 a local knight undertook a quixotic challenge.
Record Your Stories, Save the Planet
With StoryCorps’ Great Thanksgiving Listen, you can record the stories shared around your dinner table this year and help save the planet.
Trans Enough: Coming Out Again for the First Time at 31
“I wish I could say I suddenly educated myself, or came to my trans-ness through pure self-enlightenment or something, but, in actuality, the Universe still had to drag me along.”
What Happened in Puerto Rico on November 19, 1493?
For centuries the people of Puerto Rico have been celebrating an event that may have never actually occurred.
Dungeons Along the Camino
Continuing his journey along the Camino de Santiago, author Silvio Sirias encounters the tale of Francisco de Quevedo, one of the greatest poets of Spain’s Golden Age.
In the Shadow of El Cid
Continuing along the Camino de Santiago, author Silvio Sirias encounters the legend of El Cid in Burgos and ponders his legacy in the midst of current Spanish politics.
Podcast from Intelatin: Twila True and the Black Hills
This month on Intelatin, Serigo Muñoz speaks with Twila True of South Dakota’s Lakota tribe on the many threats currently facing the Great Sioux Nation.
La melaza que llora: How to Keep the Term Afro-Latino from Losing Its Power
It’s time to bring our black grandmothers out of the closet.
Stepping on History
With so much to take in along the Camino de Santiago, it’s easy to miss what’s right under our noses — and our feet.
A Camino Encounter
“You are what?!” I asked, not sure I had heard Pedro Pablo Pérez García correctly. “I’m a Banderillero lidiador,” he repeated.
Ana Tijoux: Conmemorando la resistencia indígena
Nuestra hermana Rebelde es una diosa del hip hop en español, dictando letras anti-coloniales, intrínsecas, fulminantes y poéticas.
Ernest Hemingway and the Camino
How Spain and the Camino helped launched the career of one of America’s most celebrated writers.
It Isn’t Fun When People Can’t Name Latino Celebrities (VIDEO)
In a game dubbed “LaTina Fey,” the comedian and writer only manages to name eight Latino performers.
From History to Legend to Literature
A journey along the Camino de Santiago that features what many consider to be the birthplace of Western European epic literature
21st-Century Pilgrim
Author Silvio Sirias arrives in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, the starting point of the Camino de Santiago, and learns about how the label “pilgrim” has changed in recent years
The Things I’ll Carry on the Camino
Author Silvio Sirias provides a rundown of the things he’ll carry on his 500-mile trek along the famed Camino de Santiago in Spain