From NBC:
Doctor Vicki Lynn Ruiz … receiving one of the highest honors from the president, the National Humanities medal for helping shape the field of Latino and Chicano studies. “What I want people to know is that Latinos did not arrive a day before yesterday,” … connecting the past to the present and encouraging her students at UC Irvine to do the same. [Vicki Ruiz says] “To disseminate to a wider audience, why Latino history matters.”

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