We are celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with a series of news stories, vignettes and a half-hour special!
The Vault Gallerie, founded by Delilah Martinez who began the Mural Movement to showcase Black unity, will serve as a backdrop for the special.Throughout the Hispanic Heritage Month celebration, Sept. 15 through Oct. 15, a series of vignettes spotlighting inspiring people from the Hispanic community will be featured on ABC7.
Like Martinez, Otto Rodriguez is reaching out to the migrant community. As a coach for Street Soccer USA, Martinez has been working with migrant adults from the Wadsworth Shelter in Woodlawn to gather together for a game of soccer or baseball in an effort to promote a sense of community. Throughout his childhood, he threw himself into all things musical. As an adult, his passion for music and playing the trumpet has remained. He now drives around Chicago, playing his trumpet and showing the beauty of Chicago and sharing the music he loves.is a self-taught community gardener brightening up the neighborhood he grew up in by landscaping "hot corners" - streets where there is a lot of gun violence. Most of Florentino's work can be found along 48th and 49th streets.
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