If you think a college course about Selena Quintanilla is just about her music, think again. A professor at UTSA is using the Tejano singer’s legacy to address complex issues like identity, race and gender.

A Wilson County family is feeling the devastating impact of cancer after losing their patriarch to the disease this summer.

More Latinos in our area are diagnosed with cervical, stomach and liver cancers compared to other parts of Texas, according to the South Texas Health Status Review.

As the number of cancer cases continues to rise, a San Antonio doctor is working to raise awareness about the importance of preventative care and dispel common myths.

It’s finally October! This vibrant month has a variety of events that highlight Halloween festivities, cultural celebrations for Hispanic Heritage, and fall harvest festivals.

Dancing and teaching the Plena and Bomba is Nereida Burgess' way of staying close to Puerto Rico, her native island.

Colombian food is a must-try for foodies in the Alamo City. Whatever you decide to order, try it with Aji sauce. See how a former journalist is spreading the culture.

In San Antonio, we are fortunate to witness the impactful contributions of many Hispanic individuals who continue to shape and inspire our community.

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month through the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center’s “Rio Bravo” performance that features twenty folklorico dancers and ten mariachi musicians showcasing the history of South Texas Tejano roots.

In San Antonio, we are fortunate to witness the impactful contributions of many Hispanic individuals who continue to shape and inspire our community.

Hispanic Heritage Month is officially underway and Congressman Joaquin Castro and other political leaders are putting a focus on Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI).

El Buen Paladar is a new restaurant on the far West Side of San Antonio. It's a family business that looks to the community for support to expand their Central American flavors.

Huge celebrations across the U.S. are expected to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month, an annual tradition that showcases the awe-inspiring diversity and culture of Hispanic people.

This weekend, a month-long celebration returns to San Antonio honoring Hispanic and Latino history and culture.

The Mexican American Civil Rights Institute (MACRI) hosted a press conference on Friday to announce a “significant milestone” in its steps to creating the nation’s first Mexican-American Civil Rights Museum in San Antonio.

San Antonio Water System announced Friday the promotion of the first Hispanic woman to the role of Executive Vice President/Chief Operating Officer

For Hispanic Heritage Month, we explore Mexico’s national sport that involves skillful roping, talented horsemanship and much more.

Maria Antonietta Berriozabal said her lifelong commitment to helping others has been guided by the question, “Who needs somebody to advocate for them that is not being heard?”

Going to law school or becoming an attorney remains a challenge for Latinas, who make up only a small percentage of attorneys. St. Mary’s Law School wants to combat that statistic with the Lawtina Networking Summit.

Homemade lengua can be a tasty dish for Hispanic Heritage Month.

South Texas Business Partnership (SOTX) and Live from the Southside (LFTSS) are thrilled to announce their strategic partnership to foster growth and support the vibrant business community in the South Texas region.

Market Square is the epicenter of Latino culture and will continue to be for many more generations.

The latest art exhibit, "Arboles Del La Vida De La West Side,” is on display at the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center until Nov. 11.

The annual Day of the Dead River Parade will return to the San Antonio River Walk this year on Oct. 27.

MonteVideo, a local company founded by independent filmmaker and film programmer Manuel Solis, elevates Latinx-themed films through screenings at non-traditional venues.

A new exhibit at the San Antonio International Airport celebrates our city’s car culture, specifically lowriders and the artistry behind these vehicles.

From Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, a time to honor the rich tapestry of cultures and the invaluable contributions of Hispanic and Latino individuals in our South Side community.

For Hispanic Heritage Month, a company in San Antonio is highlighting, connecting and celebrating LatinX founders in tech.

Tejano music singer Shelly Lares is joining the UTSA School of Music as its 2023-2024 artist-in-residence.

Jovita Idar was an activist who fought for Mexican Americans during the time of segregation. Decades later, she’s set to be the first Tejana to be featured on U.S. Currency.

Mexican Surrealist Pedro Friedeberg’s work will once again set up a temporary home in San Antonio, allowing everyone to admire his work spanning many decades.

The familiar sound of the time-honored accordion can still be heard at Lerma’s, the iconic former West Side nightclub that became an historic landmark.

Selena Quintanilla, her music, image and legacy all still live on today.

A section of Cevallos Street from Interstate 35 to Probandt Street will be dubbed Emma Tenayuca Memorial Way in honor of the labor and civil rights leader.

A Latina leader from South Texas discusses her roots

“Our students need to know that the halls that they walk, the neighborhoods that they walk, are an important part of not just San Antonio’s history, but also the state’s history,” Hernandez said.

50 years ago, Dr. Norma Martinez Rogers was the lone Latino on the graduation stage. Today she's leading thousands into the nursing field.

A retired San Antonio teacher had no idea her diary documenting life on the West Side would be a time capsule of culture.

Hispanic Heritage Month is a great time to learn more: For some, more about your own heritage, or for others, perhaps another culture.

Protecting voting rights isn’t what it used to be in the 60′s and 70′s, said longtime civil rights attorney Rolando Rios.

Owners of small startup eager to share her take of the traditional concha bread, shares her story of rising to notoriety.

A group of local women artists is showcasing treasures of the West Side through Loteria-style paintings depicting iconic places and faces of the community.

When it comes to the Mexican-American experience in San Antonio and South Texas, the UTSA Libraries Special Collections is considered the library of record, said director Amy Rushing.

Local students are embracing their culture through a club at their school.

An exhibit of many of the abstract paintings by the late artist Alberto Minjangos is on display at the Mexican Cultural Institute where he was its founding director.

A group of Air Force training instructors at JBSA-Lackland are celebrating their Hispanic Heritage this month in a subtle, yet powerful way.

Generation after generation of family history is being unlocked by the local organization Los Bexareños Genealogical and Historical Society.

AARP is offering San Antonians of all ages a wide variety of free events for Hispanic Heritage Month, including AARP San Antonio’s signature event, the 9th annual “Celebrando con AARP,” on Oct. 2 at Traders Village.

The first Latina military pilot is receiving a huge honor at the National Hispanic Heritage Awards in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.

Never before had a Hispanic woman been elected to Congress, but that changed thanks to Ros-Lehtinen.

Whataburger celebrates Hispanic Heritage month with clothing and accessories in the Whatastore.

“He worked hard, and he did it all for the right reason. It was to serve his family."

This month marks 50 years since La Raza Unida Party became a national organization founded in South Texas, pushing back against injustices and inequities facing the Mexican American community for decades.

If there a cause to be won or a fight to be fought, it seems Willie Velasquez was there.

On Sept. 30, 1822, a man by the name of Joseph Hernandez was elected to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.

After years of hard work and dedication, a small South Texas Latina-owned business has made its national debut with hopes of inspiring Latinos across the U.S with its exclusive new collection at Target stores.

The “Selena: A Mexican American Identity & Experience” course is taught by Sonya M. Alemán, an associate professor and instructor of Mexican American Studies.

Dia de los Muertos is so important to the San Antonio community and right now there are special alters all around the city.

The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center hosts an annual altar exhibit for the community to celebrate and mourn during Day of the Dead.

The term Chicano is derived from Indigenous groups, and while it’s been used for decades, it’s an identifier that has been recently reborn.

A Pew Research Center study found that nearly 70% of second generation Latinos in U.S. are bilingual and fewer than a quarter of third generation Hispanics speak Spanish.

A local Puerto Rican non-profit IS contributing to San Antonio's culture.

Feliz Modern, a small San Antonio business, is getting big love from the crowd-sourced review website Yelp.

Rebecca Flores went from a little girl on her family’s small farm in Atascosa County to traveling with them as migrant farm workers wherever crops needed harvesting.

San Antonio’s unique Day of the Dead River Parade welcomed in-person attendees on Friday night after the pandemic forced the event to be virtual-only last year.

Carmen Tafolla is San Antonio’s first poet laureate, an author, performance artist, university professor and much more.

Long before becoming executive director of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Institute, Dr. Sarah Zenaida Gould’s grandmothers already had planted the seed.

A young accordionist delighted the crowd this past weekend in Gonzales.

When it comes to Hispanics and Latinos, there’s a term that continues to bring up a lot of discussion: Latinx. A local professor explains the term.

When thinking of Hispanic heritage, many South Texans think of the history, culture, and food -- especially tamales.

A new bookstore and gift shop makes space from stories, achievements and experiences of Hispanics and Latinos.

The Bandera Museum of Natural History is now home to one of the nation’s finest collections of New Spain art, permanently housed in a new hall adjacent to the museum.

For more than 30 years Texas Senator Judith Zaffarini has been in office.

Much like his mother pushed for change for the nation’s largest and oldest Hispanic civil rights organization , Rodolfo Rosales Jr. said he plans to do the same now that he's the leader of LULAC.

Show off your artistic skills and you may win an iPad Mini!

A Salvadoran woman is making her dreams come true and helping San Antonio develop a palate for Central American food.

A free “Find Your Roots” genealogy class is being offered in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month.

Calling all makeup and skin care enthusiasts!

The Alamo and the Jose Miguel Arciniega Descendants Society will unveil a new art piece in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month.

When it comes to language, many generations have lost Spanish because it was not passed on.

KSAT 12 News will broadcast the San Antonio Day Of The Dead River Parade 2021 on October 29.

A public input meeting is being held Saturday to decide if a naming addition should be made to Las Palmas Library.

San Antonio Chef Johnny Hernandez is honoring Hispanic Heritage Month with KSAT by sharing his recipe for Chiles en Nogada.

All around San Antonio, hard-working Latinos are making a difference. Last year, we mentioned 25 Latinos who are influential to many, and this year, we are spotlighting 20 more Latinos.

Alda P. Dobbs is the author of the novel "Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna." She was born in a small town in northern Mexico but moved to San Antonio and was raised on the South Side as a child. She studied physics and worked as an engineer before pursuing her love of storytelling. She’s as passionate about connecting children to their past, their communities, different cultures and nature as she is about writing. Alda lives with her husband and two children outside Houston.

Guadalupe Dance Company had their first performance on Sept 15, 1991 for the city’s celebrations for Mexico’s Independence. Years later, the mission to preserve and promote the Mexican culture through dance, continues.

To find one San Antonio teacher's true artistic spirit you’ve got to follow the path of her paintings, mural to mural across South Texas.

In Episode 38 of KSAT Explains, we take a look San Antonio's taco scene: the history, evolution and importance to our city's culture and identity.

National Hispanic Heritage Month is held annually from Sept. 15 through Oct. 15 and celebrates the culture and contributions of Hispanic and Latino Americans.

Roberto Clemente was the first Latino to be inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame. The legacy of Roberto Clemente is still treasured today, proven nearly 50 years after his death. In fact, the Orange County School Board unanimously voted to rename the facility Roberto Clemente Middle on Sept. 21, coincidentally during Hispanic Heritage Month. Becoming baseball’s most prominent Afro-LatinoRoberto Clemente started his Major League Baseball career with the Pittsburg Pirates. The son of a sugarcane worker, Clemente began his professional baseball career just after finishing high school.

SAN ANTONIO – Tejano heroes of the Texas Revolution were honored on Feb. 27 with a range of events for Tejano Day at the Alamo. “Tejanos at the Alamo” is a new addition to the annual Battle of the Alamo Commemoration lineup. The Alamo featured in-person activities throughout the day on Saturday to demonstrate Tejano life in the 1830s. There was also a virtual event, “The Alamo Addresses: Tejanos of the Texas Revolution” at 10 a.m., which you can watch in the video player above. “It’s important for people to know that this is a bigger story,” Alamo curator Ernesto Rodriguez said.

Four major networks, ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC, have newly-appointed women as their White House correspondents. Kaitlan Collins and Nancy Cordes will be covering the White House for CNN and CBS respectively. “If we’re going to survive as an industry, we need to respond to the needs of our audience,” Hernandez said. That means telling stories from the perspective of journalists of color, particularly Hispanics.”Hernandez said although it’s great to see women in charge of storytelling, she hopes to see more women, especially women of color, rising to higher positions of power within major news networks. “I hope that these are long-term commitments.”According to the latest census, 50.8% of the U.S. population are women.

Latinx is a term that seems to be popping up more often in the last couple of years, but research reveals that still very few Latinos identify with it. A recent Pew Research survey revealed that only 3% of the U.S. Hispanic population use the term Latinx and only 1 in 4 have even heard of it. Even if few Hispanic people know what it means, Latinx is now a part of the culture, so here’s everything you need to know about the term. In 2018 Latinx was added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary and is defined as a gender-neutral alternative to Latino or Latina. Any Latino can identify with the term but according to Pew Research, the LGBTQ community and younger generations identify as Latinx more than others.

SAN ANTONIO – Cruz Ortíz has been creating art in San Antonio since the early ’90s. His style has evolved, but his mission to capture historical perspectives through art remains. “I remember starting off thinking, man, I really want to have a show at the Bluestar (Arts Complex),” Ortíz said. “Especially with, like, the Castro (brothers) or, you know, Dr. Ellen (Riojas) Clark (from UTSA), (or) Willie Velásquez, there’s definitely those historical perspectives (I want to capture),” Ortíz said. It’s Texas, you know, and Texas is a large community of Latinos,” Cruz said.

How have you been celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month this year? National Hispanic Heritage Month is held annually from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15. It started in 1968 as Hispanic Heritage Week under President Lyndon Johnson, until President Ronald Reagan chose to cover a 30-day period in 1988. Related:56 influential Hispanic-Americans: In photosCelebrating Hispanic culture through danceHow did Hispanic Heritage Month come to be? 7 ways to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month you haven’t consideredTo learn more about Hispanic Heritage Month, click here to see KSAT12′s page.

SAN ANTONIO – Whataburger is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month by giving free access to download Loteria sets. Designs for the Whataburger-themed Loteria set were shared on Instagram over the weekend and show cards with names like “La Doble U” and “El Taquito.”In total, 36 Whataburger Loteria cards are available for download. Hispanic Heritage Month kicked off on Sept. 15 and ends Thursday. It started as National Hispanic Heritage Week in 1968 and was expanded to a month-long celebration in 1988, according to USembassy.gov. Download your Loteria tablas and cards here.

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SAN ANTONIO – The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center is located in the heart of the west side of San Antonio. This month dance instructors and students are coming together even more so (online) to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. “We are always celebrating our Hispanic heritage, that is why we exist,” Education Director at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Belinda Menchaca said. Preserving and conserving the Mexican traditions is at the root of the dance classes available at the Guadalupe Dance Company. The Guadalupe Dance Company is located at 723 S. Brazos St.