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I'm Nancy Lopez, president and CEO for Deloria Hispanic.com. The first Hispanic yellow pages in the state of Delaware.

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Well, you know, the history of Latinos in the US is not complete and many of us don't know the exact contributions Latinos

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have made to make in this country. Great. And I think that the impact that we're making now is all of that is coming into light.

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Inclusive of what our founding fathers have done, which they're great. Many of us my age don't really know. And unless you go to college,

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you don't get that information in grade school. And I think that what many Latinos are starting to do is to,

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is to educate everyone. What Latinos have done to contribute to the greatness of this country. In the year 2000, my, my,

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I was doing door-to-door canvassing on teaching Latinos how to vote, why it's important to vote. And when my daughter's grades were failing,

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I was just doing too much community service work. A friend of mine suggested that I start a website

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and that it would also help to get a close the digital divide. And so I started Dalloway Hispanic.com, and at the time it was

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the first Hispanic Internet magazine in Delaware. And so I created that to again, provide information for people.

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So people can learn about Hispanics and also so that Hispanics can be more educated as far as what's

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going on in Delaware for them. While the Yellow Pages started when I visited a store in in in bear and it was

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a hispanic owned water company. She she distributed water and drinking water. And I figured if I didn't know about her, who else didn't know about it.

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And I want it to have a way for Hispanics to know each other as far as businesses, and also for non Hispanics

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to patronize our businesses. My target target audience, they are hispanics as well as non Hispanics. And that was done on

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purpose because I want the two to meet. If you don't want them to to to understand each other and know that we, we both, you know, the the,

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the non-Hispanic culture and the Hispanic culture. But whatever we have to offer in a positive light,

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it can only benefit everyone in Delaware.