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At the Los Angeles Times, Gustavo Arellano speaks up for much-maligned cartoon character Speedy Gonzales, who “blazed through my childhood like a sombrero-clad comet, terrorizing gringo villains in the name of us downtrodden Mexicans.” Sure, “Polite society . . . tried everything possible to dim his star — but we Mexicans always fought loudly against any attempts to cancel our compadre.” They’re doing it again after New York Times writer Charles Blow renewed the complaints. Read More...
Natalie Grant is a Grammy Award-nominated Christian gospel singer born on December 21, 1971 in Seattle, WA. She is best known for her song "Held" and won her first Grammy Award for the song "Alive." In 2017, she was nominated for her sixth Grammy Award. Natalie Grant is a member of Rock Singer Age, Biography and Wiki 💰 Net worth: $11 Million About Grammy Award-nominated Christian gospel singer known for her song " Read More...
In the early 1980s, I began traveling to the U.S.-Mexico border to take make photographs for my book “To the Promised Land.” I wanted to tell the story of people desperate to reach America. Although my own immigrant family had no visual record of our journey from Eastern Europe in the late 19th century, I’d always found inspiration in the photographer Lewis Hine, whose work in the early 1900s capturing Ellis Island and images of child labor that had stunned a nation with scenes meant to be hidden — breaker boys in the coal fields, doffer girls in America’s spinning mills, newsies, oyster shuckers. Read More...