Giving voice to all communities
Giving voice to all communities
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Ventura, who won a Latin Grammy for best merengue album, was recognized for modernizing the Dominican style of music and dance..
"It would be a honor and a privilege to represent my home country but also be able to be a voice and represent over 600,000 Dreamers like me," Luis Grijalva said.
A track star at Northern Arizona University will get to live his Olympic dreams after all. Luis Grijalva qualified for the Olympics earlier this summer to represent Guatemala, but he soon realized getting to Tokyo would be tough because he is DACA recipient. Normally, DACA recipients who leave the U.S. are not permitted to return. Grijalva spent the last several weeks petitioning the U.S. government and yesterday, he received word he can go to Tokyo.
As people in Cuba raise their voices against their government, they are chanting the message behind the rap track "Patria y Vida" – "Homeland and Life."
Danny Trejo talks about his journey from the infamous San Quentin State Prison, to a life helping others find sobriety, with Hollywood blockbusters along the way. Jamie Yuccas reports.
The Mexican town of San Cristobal De Las Casas is suffering from water scarcity and local activists say the local Coca-Cola bottling plant is to blame. The plant consumes most of the community drinking water and while the soda giant says they replenish the water used, local municipal water tanks reveal another story. Jonathan Vigliotti reports.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas joins “CBS This Morning” to talk about his visit to the border crossing in El Paso with Vice President Kamala Harris and how the administration is working to improve the conditions for migrant children.
If you like to eat, you can thank a farm worker, among the hardest-working, lowest-paid, yet most vital workers in America – and a labor force that farmers are finding increasingly more difficult to employ.
As an immigrant from Honduras, Al Lopez is aware of the lack of financial opportunities Honduran youths face. That is why his coffee business "Alma Coffee" in Canton, Georgia, purchases coffee beans straight from Honduras grown by young aspiring farmers. Jessi Mitchell has more.
Adriana Diaz returns to her birthplace, Washington Heights, with "In the Heights" screenwriter, Quiara Alegría Hudes The film is about community, and the neighborhood itself is one of the stars of the film.
