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Sin La Habana: A Celebration to Cuban and Afro-Latino Culture With a Beautiful Story of Heartbreak

The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival features Sin La Habana, a story of desperation and yearning featuring three souls hopeful for destiny in a hopeless world. The Canadian-Cuban film might come off as just another story of immigrants finding ways to escape the poverty of their country for a better life somewhere else, but it ends up digging deeper and revealing a story of love, sacrifice, and opportunity.

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Netflix's Gentefied: “¡Qué pinche orgullo!” (Harvard)

I am an absolute nobody. Yet, Marvin Lemus gave me the time of the day to talk about his Netflix show Gentefied. My stalking skills are not to be credited for this opportunity - even though I really exploited them here. It was merely the incredible humbleness of Lemus. 

This is how it went, why Gentefied speaks suitably to me as a Latin immigrant, and how Lemus doesn’t give a shit if the “blanquitos” get it or not. 

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My Grandmother and Mom Both Sacrificed Their Careers To Raise Kids — That Stops With Me

On my 20th birthday, I looked at my mother and grandmother, and my mind started racing. At my age, they were both married and giving birth to their first child. In contrast, I was entering my senior year of college, didn’t even want to date anyone seriously, and had never changed a diaper in my life. I was busy making my dreams come true.

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