Latino history and culture take center stage across the U.S. for National Hispanic Heritage Month beginning today.
Alabama marks the 60th anniversary of one of the most heinous acts during the Civil Rights Movement, the 1963 church bombing that killed four Black girls.Before there was National Hispanic Heritage Month, there was Hispanic Heritage Week, created through legislation sponsored by Mexican American Rep. Edward R. Roybal of Los Angeles and signed into law in 1968 by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The annual celebration was to be held the week that included Sept. 15-16.
The Central American nations of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica celebrate their independence on Sept. 15, and Mexico marks its national day on Sept. 16, the day after the cry for independence. “Their needs are not being met,” Godinez-Puig said. “Not having access to banking products, not having access to investment, not having access to credit — all of these things impact the wealth, building opportunities of families, which are passed from generation to generation.”Hispanic was a term created by the federal government for people descended from Spanish-speaking cultures, said Anita Huízar-Hernández, associate director of Arizona State University’s Hispanic Research Center.
There are also events spotlighting Latino Americans in various industries like Suave Fest, a Latino Craft Beer Festival in Denver on Sept. 30, and the New York Latino Film Festival, which runs Friday through Sept. 24.elevating Hispanic heritage. Its National Portrait Gallery will be teaming up with Lil’ Libros, a bilingual children’s book publisher for the second Fotos & Recuerdos Festival. There will be story times, arts and craft workshops and gallery tours.
“It’s not Mexico and you can see them eating different foods and you can see like the music is different,” said Huízar-Hernández, who is Mexican American. “Movies, TV, that’s the way a lot of people learn.”
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