Tag: CapacitandoWeeklyFeature
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Salma Hayek: Changing Hollywood, Celebrating Mexican Culture
Salma Hayek: Transformando Hollywood, celebrando la cultura mexicana Capacitando.org Weekly Feature | Film This week, Capacitando.org celebrates Salma Hayek, the Mexican actress and producer whose career has helped challenge Hollywood’s expectations of Mexican performers and bring Mexican art and culture to audiences around the world. From her early career in Mexican television to her success…
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Gabriela Mistral – A Voice Across the Americas
Gabriela Mistral — Una voz a través de las Américas Celebrating the poet, educator, and reformer whose work connected literature, education, and human dignity. This week, Capacitando.org celebrates Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957), the Chilean poet, educator, and diplomat who became the first Latin American author to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded in 1945. Born…
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Geronimo: Reconnecting With Our Indigenous Roots
Gerónimo: Reconectando con nuestras raíces indígenas Watch the video: Gerónimo in cinema The story of Gerónimo has also been depicted in film. This trailer for the movie Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) invites us to reflect on how Indigenous leaders are represented in popular culture and why it is important to compare those portrayals with…
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Kali Uchis: When Culture Becomes Music
Kali Uchis: cuando la cultura se convierte en música Featured Video: Kali Uchis — “telepatía” (Official Music Video) Our stories matter. Our history matters. Our future matters. This week, Capacitando.org is proud to feature Kali Uchis, an artist whose music provides an opportunity to explore culture, identity, language, memory, and creativity. Kali Uchis grew up…
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Fernando Valenzuela: When Fernandomania Changed Los Angeles
In 1981, a young pitcher from Sonora, Mexico, stepped onto the mound at Dodger Stadium and sparked a phenomenon that transformed Los Angeles baseball. His name was Fernando Valenzuela. To understand Fernandomania, we must also remember Chavez Ravine, where Mexican American families had been displaced to make way for Dodger Stadium. That history shaped the…
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The Caesar Salad: A Mexican Creation That Traveled the World
What can a salad teach us about the Indo-Hispano American world? Quite a lot. This week, Capacitando.org features the Caesar Salad—a dish created in Tijuana, Mexico, in 1924, that would eventually become a familiar part of menus around the world. The story takes us from Italy to California, across the border into Mexico, and eventually…
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Understanding Our America: Martí’s Vision
José Martí: Education, Freedom, and “Our America” This week, Capacitando.org turns our attention to José Martí, one of the most important intellectual, literary, and political figures in the history of Cuba and Latin America. Martí was much more than a revolutionary. He was a poet, journalist, educator, essayist, and advocate for independence who believed that…
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Learning from Becky G: Culture, Ambition, and Success
As you watch, consider: How can embracing our culture, language, and personal experiences become a source of strength rather than a limitation? A medida que observas, considera: ¿Cómo puede abrazar nuestra cultura, idioma y experiencias personales convertirse en una fuente de fortaleza en lugar de una limitación? From Inglewood to the world, Becky G has…
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Ricardo Montalbán: A Trailblazer for Latino Actors
This Week on Capacitando: Ricardo Montalbán This week, Capacitando celebrates the life and legacy of Ricardo Montalbán, a performer whose remarkable career reminds us why representation, opportunity, and cultural pride matter. From Mexico City to Hollywood, Montalbán built a career that crossed generations and genres. But his legacy was about more than memorable performances. At…
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