• The Latino USA host, who’s spent a career covering those silenced in the media, now tells her own story in a new memoir. “We all have to work at making the immigrant story much more public,” she said.
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• Cuban-American pop star Gloria Estefan may have one of those game changing albums on her hands with the release of Brazil305, a re-examination of some of her most familiar songs through the lens of her life-long love of Brazilian music and rhythms.
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• The guide is available in both English and Spanish.
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• We are in a defining moment for Natalia Lafourcade’s career. For the last five years, she has embraced traditional folk music from Mexico and throughout Latin America. She also recorded with veteran musicians who played with the legendary ranchera singer Chavela Vargas — she brought Juan Carlos Allende and Miguel Peña to the Tiny Desk in 2017.
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• Dancing to the mariachi horns of “Ciega, Sordomuda,” one young Latina found a deep, unwavering love staring her in the face. It just took a song about being blinded by emotion to see it clearly.
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• The first-term Democrat from El Paso, Texas, was thrust into the spotlight last year due to the Trump administration’s immigration policies and a mass shooting that targeted Latinos.
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• This week we observe the third anniversary of the worst day in Orlando’s history. In the early morning hours of June 12, 2016, 49 people were shot to death at Pulse. The nightclub posted a terrifying message on its Facebook page, “Everyone get out of pulse and keep running,” as the bullets began to fly. As that merciless Sunday turned to daylight, friends and neighbors rose up to help each other however they could. Blood banks couldn’t handle the influx of donors, who often sat for hours in the sun. Bilingual residents helped translate for the friends and family of the mostly Latinx victims. Like any city, Orlando wants its name to ring out, but not like this. To the …
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