Community - WALN

UW Latine Student Commission Fosters Community Through Unity Day Celebration

“I really do feel like community means having people there to support you and being uplifted, being empowered, and being inspired.”

“It becomes a way to assert identity, presence, and visibility, despite efforts or tendencies to erase or silence a population.”

Creators of Latinx theater face a difficult challenge in bringing their productions to a largely monolingual community.

The only lucha libre school in the PNW is located in Tacoma & hosts several wrestling events per year. Here’s how this school came to be.

“We want to show people our communities here in Seattle,” Daniel Calderon said.

Ricardo Ruiz won the Washington State Book Award in poetry this year for “We Had Our Reasons.” The book shares migrant farm workers’ stories.

Richard “Cheech” Marin, who has built a Chicano art collection of 700 pieces over 30+ years, spoke at the Tacoma Art Museum.

Angelina Villalobos is breaking barriers in a male-dominated space and has created 25 murals in WA, including one at a park in Lakewood.

Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero, a final-year student at the University of Washington, has been named the Hortencia Zavala Foundation (HZF) intern.

Grammy award-winning Mexican singer Peso Pluma has announced dates for the North American leg of his “Exodo” tour, which includes

Over 100 immigrants detained at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma have ended their second hunger strike of the year.

The rhythm and beat of ping, clunk, crunch, bam, and “STOMP” is coming to Washington! Touring the U.S. since 1994, the show