Bien Hecho: Working To Showcase Latino Film

Bien Hecho: Working To Showcase Latino Film

Mary Mata May 17, 2011

Since 2005 John Ramirez has been heading up the Reel Rasquache Art & Film Festival in Southern California, an event billed as the only film festival in the world to deal […]

Bien Hecho: 6 Indiana DREAMers Arrested, 5 To Be Deported

Mary Mata May 10, 2011

On the day President Barack Obama made a speech about the importance of immigration reform, news of six DREAMers being arrested in Indiana comes to light. The students were protesting […]

Bien Hecho: Geneticist Recruits More Latino Researchers

Mary Mata April 26, 2011

Carlos D. Bustamante is a Stanford University geneticist, MacArthur genius and generally awesome. Originally from Venezuela, Bustamante is working to include more Latinos and African-Americans in genetic research in order to […]

Bien Hecho: Washington’s Blanca Gonzalez Torres Honored By Legislature

Mary Mata April 19, 2011

Blanca Gonzalez Torres was an advocate for the Latino community in Washington state who died unexpectedly from a brain aneurysm last August. Last week she was honored by the state senate […]

Bien Hecho: Puerto Rican Students Win NASA Moonbuggy Race

Mary Mata April 5, 2011

Students from Puerto Rico took the top prizes in the high school and college division in the NASA Great Moonbuggy Race this year. The teams came from Teodoro Aguilar Mora […]