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