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December 11, 2020 7:00 AM
Terri de la Peña at the Pascual Marquez Family Cemetery in Santa Monica Canyon, where some of her ancestors are buried. (Courtesy Terri de la Peña)
Over the next year, we re hoping to hear your stories about how race and ethnicity shape your life and, hopefully, publish as many of these stories as we can, so that we can all keep on talking. We re calling this effort
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By Terri de la Peña
In October 2019 eons ago, it seems I watched John Leguizamo s Latin History for Morons unfold at the Ahmanson Theater.