By 2001, Latino migration to Durham was in full swing. The Latino Community Credit Union had opened its doors the year before, joining forces with El Centro Hispano by not only occupying the same building space in the heart of Downtown Durham, but by
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“Blessed are the newcomers “
"Blessed are the newcomers" was my first opinion-piece for Nuestro Pueblo and by then, I had been living in Durham on and off since the mid 1980’s and permanently since 1992. 1999 was a transformational year for Durham and...
Rodrigo Dorfman Revisits His Nuestro Pueblo Opinion Pieces
Twenty years ago, I was invited by Mark Schultz, who was then an Editor at the Durham Herald-Sun, to contribute my opinions to a weekly bilingual section of the Friday edition called Nuestro Pueblo. Nuestro Pueblo was a...
Expression through the arts
Cornelio Campos was born in Michoacan, Mexico in 1971 to a working-class family. Cornelio had nine siblings. Cornelio liked painting since he was a child. He was lucky to be take free art classes with a local painter in his little home town of...
Broadcasting Latino Current Events
Broadcasting out of the WTIK, the second oldest radio station in Durham, La Ke Buena is the only Durham radio station to...
How Futsal Supports Local Families
In 1997, at age nine, José Santinbañez moved to Durham from South Central Los Angeles. By the time José graduated from...
Durham’s Latino Media
In October of 1997, The Herald-Sun featured a series of articles over six days called "New Faces, new voices" or "Nuevas caras, nuevas voces." This series...