Latino Heritage Month celebrated

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Illinois State University’s Latin American and Latino/a Studies Program is joining forces with campus and community groups to celebrate Latino Heritage Month from mid-September to mid-October.

Famed jazz musician gains faculty translators

Chichito Vlades

Illinois State University faculty acted as a gateway for the local community to discover and experience Cuchito Valdes.  Valdes, the grandson of Bebo Valdes, a renowned jazz musician, will come to Bloomington-Normal as part of events marked for this year’s Latino/Hispanic Heritage Month celebration. On Thursday, Sept. 19, Director of the Latin American and Latino/a Studies Program Maura

New book about immigrant working women

Illinois State University’s Professor of Sociology Maura Toro-Morn is delving into the plight of immigrant working women as co-editor of a new book of Immigrant Women Workers in the Neoliberal Age.