Co-founder of the United Farm Workers Association, Dolores Clara Fernandez Huerta is one of the most influential labor activists of the 20th century and a leader of the Chicano civil rights movement.&

Chita Rivera is the first Latino woman to be awarded the Kennedy Center Honors, or “Kennedy Awards”, an honor bestowed since 1978 to five artists in different categories each year for their contri

Sonia Sotomayor was born in the New York City borough of The Bronx.  Her father was Juan Sotomayor (c. 1921–1964), from the area of Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico, and her mother was Celina B�

Jorge Mas Canosa was the founder of The Cuban-American National Foundation, and according to the institution’s website, was also an inspiring community leader and visionary pragmatist. Like an unpar

Former Congresswoman and former Florida Senior Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen was the first Latina elected to the US Congress and the first Republican in Congress to publicly support the Marriage

Esteban Torres, who passed away on January 25 from natural causes, two days before his 92nd birthday, served eight terms in the House as a congressman and was recognized for guiding an entire legacy o