Louis Aguilar

At age 16, Louis Aguilar was declared “incorrigible” by the nuns at St. Hedwig High. Mr. Aguilar has eagerly tried to live up to the title. He is an award-winning reporter and author. Aguilar briefly ran Cruzando Fronteras film fest in Washington, D.C. and curated Latino programming at the Smithsonian Institution. Since 2004, he has reported on the epic nature of his hometown Detroit for various media. It is family lore that his abuelo (grandfather) is featured prominently in Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry mural.

• Are You a Dancer?
• Why Detroit needs Juan Martinez’s whimsical art more than ever
• Chapter excerpt from Long Live the Dead: The Accidental Mummies of Guanajuato
• The tiny southwest Detroit taqueria that sparked a movement
• Museum of the Dead
• San Ignacio The Town Detroit Built
• Living La Vida Loca at Club Internacional
• Tooling Craft Rapidly Vanishes
• Factories for Sale
• $14 Per Hour
• Men Hit Harder by Job Losses
• Death and Taxes