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Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez

By Mike Greear They say that not all heroes wear capes, and that is mostly true of Puerto Rican comic book writer and graphic designer, Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez. However, in the case of La Borinqueña, the B...
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Miles Morales

By Mike Greear The most endearing character Stan Lee and Steve Ditko created was Spider-Man. Not just because he has cool powers and a neat costume, but because underneath the mask, he could be anybody. It’s...
Fausto Pichardo

Fausto Pichardo

By Victor A. Rodriguez Athletes, movie stars and musicians are typically those hailed and honored as heroes. There aren’t any awards shows for the everyday man who regularly and consistently plies his trade...
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Justin Torres

By Jessica Rodriguez Words can be a window into other worlds. Justin Torres, a writer and UCLA professor, used his words to let people view a version of the world he experienced in a biracial family of five ...
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Ozzie Areu

By Jessica Rodriguez It isn’t often that art imitates life. In the case of Ozzie Areu, his own life story is the stuff that Hollywood movies are made of: a television studio security guard becomes a film and...
Vladimir Guerrero

Vladimir Guerrero

By Victor A. Rodriguez “Numbers don’t lie.” It’s a phrase espoused by business men, sports nuts, even the man on the street. Well with 16 years in Major League Baseball; nine All-Star appearances; eight seas...
James Borrego

James Borrego

By Victor A. Rodriguez When you accomplish something that hasn’t been done in 72 years, it’s fair to say you’ve had a pretty good year. In 2018 James Borrego did just that when he was named the head coach of...
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Residente

By Jessica Rodriguez A multi-hyphenate artist, Residente has donned the cap of rapper-producer-filmmaker-activist and humanitarian, since stepping on to the musical scene in 2004 as one half of the Puerto Ri...

Dante Alvarado

If you build it - they will connect! A mantra Dante Alvarado has embodied since he was a toddler. Alvarado was born in the U.S., yet he grew up in what people commonly refer to as “La Frontera,” the border, in ...
Baseball Player Adrian Beltré

Adrian Beltré

In 2017 Adrian Beltré went were only a select group of men have gone before - the 3,000 Hit-Club. On first glance this may not seem like much. However, in the 115-year history of Major League Baseball only 29 o...