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Roberto Lovato is an educator, journalist and writer based at The Writers Grotto in San Francisco, California. He is he author of Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs and Revolution in the Americas (Harper Collins). Lovato is also a Co-Founder of #DignidadLiteraria, the movement advocating for equity and literary justice for the more than 60 million Latinx persons left off of bookshelves of the United States & out of the national dialogue. A recipient of a reporting grant from the Pulitzer Center, Lovato has reported on war, violence, terrorism in Mexico, Venezuela, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Paris and the United States. He has also reported on immigration, race and Latino politics in the United States. Until 2015 ...more

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	Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and the Revolution in the Americas 4.26 avg rating — 856 ratings — published 2020 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	South Central Noir (Akashic Noir) by Gary Phillips (Editor), Steph Cha (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Jervey Tervalon (Contributor) 3.88 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History by Beth Winegarner (Goodreads Author), Roberto Lovato (Goodreads Author) (foreword) 4.65 avg rating — 20 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The hemisphere comes to the heartland: ready or not, the next generation of movimientistas will redefine immigration politics.: An article from: Colorlines Magazine 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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El destino de la palabra. De la oralidad y los códices mesoamericanos a la escritura alfabética

by Miguel León-Portilla

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Guadalupe: Visión, Historia y Controversia (Spanish Edition)

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COMPENDIO HISTORICO DE AZCAPOTZALCO (Spanish Edition)

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“Forgetting begets forgetting begets ongoing mass murder.”
― Roberto Lovato, Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas

tags: america, el-salvador, gangs, history, migrants, salvadoreño, violence

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“aletheia, unforgetting,”
― Roberto Lovato, Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and the Revolution in the Americans

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