Sea of Change: Happy Period

“Every woman deserves access to menstrual products.”

While federally funded shelters are not required to provide homeless and lower-income women with menstrual hygiene products, Chelsea Von Chaz set out to change that.

Von Chaz founded Happy Period, an organization that collects and distributes menstrual hygiene products to homeless and low-income women around the country. What originally started with a couple friends buying pads and tampons at a local department store, has turned into a nationwide movement.

Folkslore: Lil Grandma

“I’ve never healed so fast as the time Lil Grandma bound me to a dead bird.”

FOLKSLORE explores the quirky and sometimes odd rituals, superstitions and traditions of Americans living between two cultures. Our first episode of FOLKSLORE retells Tony Ochoa’s experience as a child growing up with a curandera grandmother.

BESE Meets: Vicky Jean Mochi

“Breaking up with Jesus is really hard.”

Hidden Figuras: Roberto Clemente

Roberto Clemente was a true hero on and off the field.

Be You: Cole Santiago

Hidden Figuras: Dolores Huerta

Contrary to popular belief, this great American civil rights activist actually coined the call to action, “Sí se puede!”

Point x Point: Rudy Garcia-Tolson

“They all look at me because I’m different, but I look at them because they’re all the same.”

Gimme the Word: Xicanx

How did we get from Chicano to Xicanx?

Be You: The XICANICA

“I’m making room for people who look like me.”

Hidden Figuras: Domingo Liotta

Everyone should know more about the man who created the world’s first total artificial heart.