Today I wanted to share creators doing the quiet, unglamorous work of remembering. Pulling names back out of the margins, sitting with the parts of our history that got sanded down so they'd be easier to swallow. They probably have no idea they're showing up in my newsletter this morning. But that's what good work does… it travels further than you ever get to see.

So today's not a necessarily a list of people I know. Some are are on my feed every day…. others are just getting started and I want to see more of.

It's a list of people I'm grateful exist.

Did I miss some of your faves?

Reply to this email or comment below who should be added.

💚…George Torres

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1. Dash Harris (Panamanian) — Peabody-nominated journalist/filmmaker behind the docuseries NEGRO, exploring Afro-diasporic identity and colonization across Latin America; also co-founded AfroLatinx Travel.

2. Eileen Ivette / Black Latin History (Colombian) — Started posting one video a week on Black Latin American history in 2022 and hit 30K followers in a month; now runs a travel-history series on the African diaspora in Latin America.

3. Dr. Margarita Lila Rosa (Dominican) — Historian of Black and Indigenous women's history in the Caribbean, Brazil, and the U.S.; public scholar who translates academic research into accessible social content.

4. Anthony Modesto Miliàn (Puerto Rican) — Public historian and photojournalist writing "Learn Something New Today," focused on the erased Black roots of Puerto Rican and Nuyorican history (salsa, the term "Nuyorican" itself, etc.)

5. Veteranas and Rucas (@veteranas_and_rucas, IG) — One of the earliest and biggest Latinx-history archive accounts; 130K+ followers reliving SoCal Chicana/Latina culture from the '20s through the '90s.

6. ATX Barrio Archive (@atx_barrio_archive, IG) — Documents historically POC barrios in Austin fighting gentrification — old news clips, protest photos, Tejano memorabilia.

7. Spanish Harlem 1975 (@spanishharlem_1975, IG) — Photo-history of El Barrio, a historically Puerto Rican NYC neighborhood

8. Rock Archivo de LÁ (@rockarchivola, IG) — Jorge N. Leal's archive of the "rock en español" scene among Chicanos/Latinos in LA

9. Archivo de la Memoria Trans (@archivotrans, IG) — Archive preserving trans Latina history and memory from the 1940s–90s, founded by María Belen Correa.

10. Dean Huertas —(TikTok/IG) Bronx-born, island-based, and correcting Latino history one viral video (and one AI-slop debunk) at a time.

Interested In Creating Historical Content?

Here's a list of nationally-accessible Latino history archives and collections — solid resources whether you're researching forinspiration so that you can create content or pointing your community to primary sources:

National Museum of the American Latino — Smithsonian's dedicated Latino history museum and digital collection
https://latino.si.edu

Smithsonian National Museum of American History — Latino History collection
https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/topics/latino-history

National Archives — Hispanic/Latino Heritage collection
https://www.archives.gov/research/hispanic

Library of Congress — Latinx Studies research guide
https://guides.loc.gov/latinx-studies

Voces Oral History Center (UT Austin) — the country's leading Latino oral history archive, 18,000+ interviews
https://voces.moody.utexas.edu

Latina(o) Cultural Heritage Archives (Calisphere / CSUN) — SoCal-focused Latino/Chicano photos and documents
https://calisphere.org/collections/26735

Digital Public Library of America — Hispanics collection
https://dp.la

Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project (University of Houston / Arte Público Press)
https://artepublicopress.com/recovery-project

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