Crossing the Latino Diaspora
Kendall, I am very glad to see all this happening! ;-)
Paz, amor y justicia para todos,
Sherrie
Originally posted on The Neighborhood:
When I was growing up
I lived in a neighborhood that was largely Latino
and I thought I was Latino!
– Meagan Goode
Selena Quintanilla
I did not know of her until the day after she was murdered.
When I learned of her, I could not stop thinking about her, and I would never think so low of anyone else, as I did for the woman who killed her. Her birth name was Selena Quintanilla and would later be hyphen (Perez) after she married. But the Spanish-speaking world who knew her, simply called her Selena.
At the age of 12, she shocked the Tejano music world by winning the coveted title of Female Vocalist of the Year. It was at that moment, her legend would begin to grow. Adored in the Spanish-speaking world, she was not well-known in her country outside her home state of Texas, but that was about to…
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