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Cultural Memory from the Margins

Isabel Gonzalez breathes in religious tradition

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En memoria: Natividad Durán

Amantina Durán medita sobre los regalos de su hija

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Un árbol nuevo nace en Brooklyn

Alejandro Enríquez narra el florecimiento de las Fraternidades Jesús de Nazaret

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The Stupidest Angel

Beatriz Terrazas on why she re-reads a book about zombies every Christmas

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Return to Rancho La Ceja

Journalist Macarena Hernández on the wings of one family, two homelands

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Soundtracking ‘Blue Beetle’

Listen alongside Sudabée Lotfian-Mena for theological imagery in the superhero movie

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Flor de Cocula: Jesús in memoriam

Honoring the Contreras Farm founder who harvested a field of dreams in the Bay Area

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Thank You, Earth Angels

Jackie Cruz recounts their ways

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Dreams of Reversal

Miguel Escobar offers a biblical understanding of money and prosperity from the perspective of his migrant farmworker family experience

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Return to Padre

Journalist and anthropologist Cecilia Ballí tells a legal and personal history of South Texas

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On Music, Justice, and Hope

Dr. Leopoldo A. Sánchez M. serenades Instituto Nacional de Panamá Class of 1966 alumni: his father Carlos Sánchez, musical artists Basilio Fergus and Rubén Blades

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Seventy Years Since

Dr. Efraín Agosto narrates a first-generation Puerto Rican migration story in honor of his parents

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Nuestra Señora De Las Nieves

Beatriz Terrazas seeks a saint in the heart of a war zone

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What Cancer Did Not Take

Jackie Cruz holds strong

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Complex Dynamics

Mathematician Dr. Robert D. Ogden reflects on being an Anglo in Anglican Hispanic ministry

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A Coyolxauhqui Imperative

César “CJ” Baldelomar ruminates on writing, memory, and death

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The Wafers

Angie Cruz presents an excerpt from her novel Dominicana

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Hostias

Angie Cruz presenta un extracto de su novela Dominicana, traducida por Kianny N. Antigua

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The Harlem Lynching Tree, with Poems for Alma

Taylor Alexis Baker presents inspired excerpts from her novel in progress

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My Ancestors’ Keys

Ruth Behar in search of the Jews of Cuba