Category: Historias

“Everywhere we went my mother would make sure that they enrolled us in school.”

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Lourdes Villanueva tells her son Roger about growing up in a family of migrant workers.

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Recorded in Tampa, FL, in partnership with Redlands Christian Migrant Association.

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“She still thought I was in Iraq.”

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Hector Vega and his wife, Leopoldina, remember the day Hector returned home from war.

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Recorded in New York, NY. Click here for more from Historias.

“We saw the searchlight from the patrol boat...”

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Gustavo Mestas talks to his daughter, Ileana, about escaping from Cuba to the U.S. in 1963.

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Recorded in Georgetown, DE. Click here for more from Historias.

“They would allow potential parents to check you out like a library book.”

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Ray Martinez remembers growing up in an orphanage during the 1950s.

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Recorded in Fort Collins, CO. Click here for more from Historias.

“As he's walking away, I'm like, 'Hey, you forgot something...'”

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Julio Diaz remembers being robbed on a subway platform in the Bronx.

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Recorded in New York, NY. Click here for more from Historias.

“A friend of ours wanted us to be together in a scene...”

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Miriam Cruz-Colon and her husband Oscar Colon remember meeting as acting students in 1959.

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Recorded in New York, NY, in partnership with the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors (HOLA).. Click here for more from Historias.

“I would see tons of doctors...”

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Gloria Mengual tells her partner, Charles Gregory, about growing up with epilepsy.

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Recorded in Hartford, CT. Click here for more from Historias.

“He said, 'When the border patrol changes shifts, you're going to run.'”

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Blanca Alvarez tells her daughter, Connie, about crossing the border from Mexico to the United States.

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Recorded in Los Angeles, CA. Click here for more from Historias.

“So I ran back to the bus, and I said, 'Sweetie, your restaurant is right here.'”

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New York City bus operator Ronald Ruiz remembers one of his passengers on the City Island line in the Bronx.

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Recorded in New York, NY. Click here for more from Historias.

“He went somewhere; you could see it. And there was no pain. There's a quiet dignity in there.”

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Jesus Melendez telling Frank Perez about poet Pedro Pietri's final moments in an air ambulance.

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Recorded in New York, NY. Click here for more from Historias.

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