Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
50+ Influential Latina Women in History. 1. Dolores Huerta. Huerta is a civil rights activist and labor leader. She worked tirelessly to ensure farmworkers received US labor rights and co-founded ...
Ellen Ochoa (born May 10, 1958) is a Hispanic engineer, former astronaut and former director of the Johnson Space Center. [1] In 1993, Ochoa became the first Latina woman to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. [2] Ochoa became director of the center upon the retirement of the previous director ...
Selena. Selena Quintanilla Pérez[1] (Latin American Spanish pronunciation: [seˈlena kintaˈniʝa ˈpeɾes]; née Quintanilla; April 16, 1971 – March 31, 1995) was an American singer. Referred to as the "Queen of Tejano Music", her contributions to music and fashion made her one of the most celebrated Mexican-American entertainers of the ...
Women in Latin music. Gloria Trevi (pictured) and Alejandra Guzmán were the first women in the Top Latin Albums chart's 24-year history to have a number-one collaborative album in 2017. Although Julieta Venegas does not call herself a feminist, she said that her music reflects a woman's point of view. Women have made significant contributions ...
These 61 Latina and Hispanic actresses have starred in some of your favorite films and TV shows. In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, get to know them better. ... Women's Health cover star Eva ...
She is the third woman, first woman of color, the first Hispanic and the first Latina to serve on the Supreme Court. [3] [a] Sotomayor was born in the Bronx, New York City, [4] to Puerto Rican-born parents. Her father died when she was nine, and she was subsequently raised by her mother.
American Airlines Pilot - one of the first Hispanic women to become a commercial airline captain. Lieutenant Colonel Olga E. Custodio [note 1] (born 1953) is a former United States Air Force officer who became the first female Hispanic U.S. military pilot. She was the first Hispanic woman to complete U.S. Air Force military pilot training.
As part of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Google Doodle on September 21, 2020, paid homage to Idar by depicting her famous blockade of the offices of El Progreso against the Texas Rangers and commemorating via hover box her 135th birthday [24] (two weeks after her actual birthday [2]). Idar was honored on an American Women quarter in 2023. [25]