Category: Outstanding Hispanics

A Pioneer of the Hispanic theater movement in New York City, Miriam Colon became the first Puerto...

Despite only three years of Elementary education, Porfirio Salinas showed considerable artistic...

Celebrated novelist, poet and essayist, Ana Castillo has long been considered one of the Pioneers...

In a letter dated October 4th 1778, George Washington wrote: “If the Spaniards would but join...

Professor of Neurology and Associate Vice President for Research Administration at Northwestern...

Born on the fabled King Ranch in Kingsville, Texas in 1927. Lauro Cavazos was Dean of Tufts...

Hollywood’s highest-paid Hispanic actor, bad boy Charlie Sheen made his acting debut at age 9 and...

Thirty years prior to the social movement of the 60’s, Eleuterio Escobar began to document the...

Photo courtesy of miramarcemetery.com Earning his pilot’s wings months before the attack on Pearl...

Born in New York in 1951, Oscar Hijuelos published his first novel, “Our House in the Last World”,...

The world has grown to love the musical magic of Carlos Santana. Since he first began creating his...

A fourth-generation Coloradan, Polly Baca-Barragan took an interest in politics while at Colorado...