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Latino USA For this blog post of today, I listened to a podcast from Latino USA called "Alzheimer's in Color" aired on September 11, 2020.  I listened to this program produced by Maria Hinojosa from Latino USA in collaboration with Black Public Media on October 21st 2020. For this blog post I listened to the host of the show, Latinx, Black Dominican, Yvonne Latty a journalist and university professor tell the story of her mother, Ramona Latty and her struggle living with Alzheimer's. During this pandemic, Yvonne talks about the difficulty of keeping in touch and being there for her mother. I liked this podcast especially, because it touched on the issues of health care for people of color. When Ramona Latty got diagnosed with Alzheimer's Yvonne mentioned that the doctor told her to "Google" the disease. Most of the people in that waiting room where she found herself with her mother were people of color about to receive in adequate health care. If you are...

The Book of the Maya For this blog post, I finished reading the book the Popol Vuh, the book in the image to the left. This is a translated book from original Maya text by Allen J. Christenson. This book is about how the Maya believe the world and everything came to be, everything from Gods to the first animals and the first people to exist. The book begins by stating "We shall begin to tell the ancient stories of the beginning, the origin of all that was done in the citadel of Quiche..." (Christenson 59). Quiche referring to the land, the nation, the capital city, and the people themselves.  There are a lot of key characters in this story that help bring understanding to this book. But of the most important characters talked about in this text is a set of twins that are called "The Hero Twins". These twins names are Hunahpu and Xbalanque. These twins are heroes because they seek to protect all. Referring to the twins the book states "They were simply gods. As ...