Giving voice to all communities
Giving voice to all communities
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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.
"You can never do right, it seems," Moreno said Tuesday. "I'm simply saying, can't you just wait a while and leave it alone?"
"In trying to paint a mosaic of this community, we fell short. I'm truly sorry. I'm learning from the feedback, I thank you for raising it and listening," Lin-Manuel Miranda, the film's creator, said.
For years, Richard Montañez sold an American success story that, as a janitor at a Frito-Lay factory, he cold-called the company CEO to pitch the snack food hit Flamin' Hot Cheetos. There's just one problem: Flamin' Hot Cheetos were already on store shelves.
The actor and singer featured in the original cast of "Hamilton" now stars in the film version of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony Award-winning musical, "In the Heights."
Brenda, 13, and Rosa, 15, are two of more than 45,000 migrant children who have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border unaccompanied in the past three months.
"I see how hard they work, I see the work ethic and you know, they really shaped me," said Ramirez, who worked as a farm worker as a teen.
It's estimated that over 70% of professional photographers are white. But as Lilia Luciano shows in our series A More Perfect Union, one Los Angeles nonprofit is trying to change the future of the industry by offering photography classes and mentorship to teenage girls in communities of color.
Affirmative action programs were created to help level the playing field for underrepresented groups. The CBSN Originals documentary "The Diversity Dilemma" examines when these measures can be helpful or harmful. Coleman Hughes, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, joins CBSN AM with more.
