LaDonna Brave Bull Allard was a Standing Rock Sioux elder who spent most of her life educating people about the history of the land and protecting the sacred sites of…
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Hector La Fosse has had a life more reckless than most. It all started in New York City, in the 1960’s. La Fosse was born – the youngest of seven…
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Luz Rodriguez was born to Puerto Rican parents who migrated to NYC in the 1950’s. When she was a young girl growing up in the Lower East Side of New York…
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Francisco Stork’s youth was so compelling that it makes for a great novel. He was born in Monterrey, Mexico in 1953 to a single mother from a middle class family in Tampico (a city on…
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When asked for her full name, Charo is known to laugh in her cheerful manner and ask, “Do you have time?” The Spanish-American actress, comedian, and flamenco guitarist was born in…
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