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The Pura Belpré Award, established in 1996, is presented to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth. Homecoming is this...

Ezequiel Cabeza de Baca was the first Hispanic elected for office as lieutenant governor in New Mexico’s first election. He served from 1912-1917.  His term as lieutenant governor was followed by his election as the second elected governor of New Mexico (after...

Carlos Juan Finlay was a Cuban epidemiologist who in 1881 discovered that yellow fever is transmitted from infected to healthy humans by a mosquito. Although he published experimental evidence of this discovery in 1886, his ideas were ignored for 20 years. Homecoming...

Ellen Ochoa is an American engineer, former astronaut, and former director of the Johnson Space Center. In 1993 Ochoa became the first Hispanic woman to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. Did you read the alchemist by...

Did you read the alchemist by Paolo Coelho last year?! If you have an extra copy you don’t want, please drop it off in room 167. Thanks! The Franklin County Board of Elections is looking for students 17 and older to work the polls on November 5th. They are...

Celia Cruz was a Cuban-American singer.  She is known as the Queen of Salsa music. She won 3 Grammys and 4 Latin Grammys.  The Celia Cruz Foundation was created to help Latino students learn about music. Did you read the alchemist by Paolo Coelho last year?! If you...

With 329 million native speakers, Spanish ranks as the world’s No. 2 language in terms of how many people speak it as their first language. It is slightly ahead of English (328 million) but behind Chinese (1.2 billion). Did you read the alchemist by Paolo Coelho last...

Oscar Hijuelos was an American novelist, the son of Cuban immigrants, whose writing chronicles the pre-Castro Cuban immigrant experience in the United States, particularly in New York City.  In 1990, he was the first Hispanic writer to win a Pulitzer Prize for his...