Latinas in Wisconsin

WUWM’s Race & Ethnicity Reporter Teran Powell has been talking with Afro-Latinas from Milwaukee about exploring and celebrating their identities. In this conversation, Teran speaks with multidisciplinary artist Anamarie Edwards.

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we’re continuing to highlight conversations with Afro-Latinas in Milwaukee. Today on Lake Effect, WUWM’s Race & Ethnicity Reporter Teran Powell talks with Rozalia Hernandez-Singh about her Afro-Latino identity.

WUWM is celebrating the rich cultural diversity of Milwaukee’s Hispanic and Latino people during Hispanic Heritage Month by highlighting Afro-Latino voices in the city. WUWM’s Race & Ethnicity Reporter Teran Powell talks with Joan Marie Luciano Vargas about the importance of her Afro-Latina identity.

WUWM’s Rafa Munoz visits Viva La Fitness on Milwaukee's South Side.

Stephanie Melnick, owner of She Stands Tall, speaks on this year's events returning to an in-person setting.

Latina-owned small businesses are growing steadily in the U.S., including here in Milwaukee, and new organizations have cropped up to help them find support and community.

WUWM Community Engagement Coordinator talks with the owners of La Revo Books, Barbara and Valeria Cerda.

Nancy Hernandez is the president of Milwaukee’s Hispanic Collaborative. She wants to improve the quality of life for Wisconsin's growing Latino community.

Two first generation Marquette Students, Julie Alemán and Wendy Pérez, started a business to provide textbooks free of cost for first generation students. It's called Community. Books. YOU., a non-profit business that seeks to make the first generation student experience easier.

In the COVID Earners Series, WUWM speaks with businesses owned and operated by people of color, who are reimagining our city’s futures through the pandemic. This week WUWM will look at local pop-up bookstore La Revo Books owned by two sisters, Barbara and Valeria Cerda.