John Leguizamo's PBS series American Historia' unravels Latino history and triumph

This has been a passion project of mine and my cultural contribution to American Latinos in America, Leguizamo tells The Times.

A lot of the history that we hear about it is told from the point of view of the colonizers, DeJesus said. It's almost as if it's assumed that until the Spanish arrived on the shores of the Caribbean, we didn't exist.

We've been here since 1492 and way before, said the Colombian-born, Queens-raised actor. So for us to be so invisible, so erased, so excluded all over the map in America.

From honoring the medical feats of Indigenous civilizations pre-colonization to exploring the prevailing civil rights contributions of Latinos in the U.S., Leguizamo and DeJesus hope to reclaim the stories.

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