Olga Perez of Lake Worth, one of Florida's few Mayan translators, faces deportation, leaving her four U.S.-citizen children ...

Olga Perez awaits a March 4, 2026, hearing in Arizona about whether she will be deported to Guatemala or return to her four U.S.-citizen children.

LAKE WORTH, Fla. — An organization in Palm Beach County is working to battle cultural and language barriers to health care, making sure there is access for the local indigenous Maya community. Staff ...

A view of Guatemala's Huehuetenango Department. Many native Q'anjob'al speakers of Guatemalan origin are from that department, or have family roots there. A group of Lake Worth high schoolers who call ...

A page of a historic Mayan manuscript, which depicts the Mayan calendar (Credit: Getty Images) Immigrants from Mexico and Central America are taking their ancient languages to new territories. Three ...

#StoriesThatInspire. Meet 10 activists who use digital media to strengthen and promote Mayan languages in Mexico. Read the inspiring story of one of the grantees selected for the 2024 Mayan Language ...

Aldo Barriente will continue his studies in the Mayan language as the University of Virginia’s seventh Beinecke Scholar. The Lithia Springs, Georgia, native, a third-year linguistics and computer ...

Over the course of five days in January 2023, digital activists and their communities, as well as speakers of Mayan languages, gathered in Merida, Mexico for the Summit of Mayan Languages Digital ...

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Two of the Mayan Girls, Magda Francisco (in pink) and Ramona Francisco (in denim), gather around a laptop and phone to record a Facebook Live video about measles with Guatemalan-Maya Center outreach ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...