Former Congresswoman and former Florida Senior Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen was the first Latina elected to the US Congress and the first Republican in Congress to publicly support the Marriage

Esteban Torres, who passed away on January 25 from natural causes, two days before his 92nd birthday, served eight terms in the House as a congressman and was recognized for guiding an entire legacy o

The first Latino to represent California in the US Senate, Alex Padilla, says he is “a progressive problem solver”. In January 2021, he was named a senator to take over from then Vice President Ka

Son of Puerto Rican immigrants, Samuel Rodriguez has his church in Sacramento, California, and according to a BBC News report from 2018, was the first Latino gospel to participate in a president inaug

Janet Murguía was born in 1960 and stood out as a civil rights activist in the United States. She is President and CEO of “UnidosUS” (formerly “National Council of La Raza”, NCLR), a non-prof

Our profile of the week is Representative Lucille Roybal-Allard, the first Mexican-American congresswoman elected to California's 40th congressional district, who announced her retirement late Decembe