White actors: 76.9 percent of leads. Latino actors: under 3 percent. UCLA's diversity report on 2025 films records retreat, not progress.
The Congressional Research Service counts 56 Hispanic members and includes three of Portuguese ancestry. NALEO counts 52. The gap is not an error.
The Latino congressman who proposed Hispanic Heritage Month watched his bill die in committee. The text that became law was introduced by a senator from Illinois.
A heritage is what remains of someone who is gone. Applying that word to 70 million living people does work worth naming.