The Field Museum will recognize Latinx Heritage Month with a variety of programs celebrating the culture and honoring contributions to science. The month is celebrated September 15 – October 15. “Now in its third year, we’re excited that celebrating Latinx Heritage Month has become a Field Museum tradition,” says Vicky Sanchez, the Museum’s Annual Fund and Membership Director and one of the organizers of Latinx Heritage Month events. “We think it’s important to highlight our scientists’ and scholars’ work with Latinx communities and celebrate our culture.” A full calendar of in-person and digital programming is available on the museum’s website, www.fieldmuseum.org. Field Museum Latinx Heritage Month is sponsored by La Michoacána Premium-Pilsen, and Montenegro, Inc.
Photo Caption: La Escuelita Bombera de Corazon (pictured above during a 2022 event) will return to the Field Museum to perform during Latinx Heritage Month.
Photo Credit: The Field Museum
In a show of honoring the Yucatan peninsula’s past, Yucatan Governor Mauricio Vila and other state officials raised the flag of the former Republic of the Yucatan. The ceremony marked the coming to terms with the Yucatan’s turbulent historic past, and that the flag of the Republic of the Yucatan is no longer seen as a symbol of revolt against Mexico but as a cultural heritage of the Yucatan peninsula. A recent change in the Mexican Constitution has allowed for state and local officials to be able to display flags, coats or arms and symbols of their locale along with the national flag of Mexico. Hence, the flag of the former Republic of the Yucatan can now be legally flown for the first time since the existence of the Second Republic of the Yucatan. The flag, containing five white stars in a green square background and two red stripes with a white stripe in the middle, had first flown over the Yucatan in 1823.
