What Bad Bunny’s Big Grammy Win Means for Latinos

When Puerto Rican-born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio — better known as Bad Bunny — walked onto the Grammy stage at the end of the night, tears coming down his face, he was holding more than a historic album of the year statuette.

Bad Bunny held the weight of every abuela who crossed a border with little more than hope and determination. He held every father who was detained on his way to work. He held every child who now fears the sound of a knock at the door. And most of all, it was for everyone who has been disparaged for their language, their music and their culture.

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