From Futuro Media and PRX, a new Latino USA podcast is out 🎙️

In this episode, Luz Elena Mendoza Ramos of Y La Bamba reflects on their path towards becoming more themselves.

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Tomorrow on Latino USA, we explore the Bracero program’s legacy as seen through the eyes of Juan Loza, a former bracero, and his niece and historian, Mireya Loza.

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In this rebroadcast, Omar Apollo takes us to the days of making music on borrowed equipment, and tells us how he explored everything from funk music to corridos to make his debut album “Apolonio.”

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Tomorrow on Latino USA, in 2022, the Bering Sea snow crab season was canceled for the first time in history. Essentially 10 billion snow crabs went missing. The cause? Warming waters due to climate change.

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In this rebroadcast, Maria Hinojosa 🥑 talks to singer-songwriter Miguel about his life-changing trip and how his multicultural upbringing influenced his unique sound.

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In this rebroadcast from 2022, the growing call to abolish student debt. We listen to the stories of student organizers with The Debt Collective 🟥 and Dream Defenders about the past, present & future of the movement.

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On this rebroadcast, Latino USA sets off to answer the question: Do Latinos cry more? The result is a meditation on how Latinos process emotion and the role of tears in society in general.

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A new Latino USA, in collaboration with Texas Observer.

Lance Corporal David Lee Espinoza was killed in 2021. Producer Reynaldo Leaños Jr. travels to Laredo, TX to meet with those closest to David and explore the military's relationship with Latinos.

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Tomorrow on Latino USA, we look back on a topic the show has heavily reported on for the past 30 years: Latinos serving in the military.

Listen to Jesús M. Cavazos Jr., a local veteran who served in the Army in Afghanistan.

This is a collaboration with Texas Observer.

Also in The Nation today, this article from Steve Phillips perfectly captures my thoughts on where the Democratic party should be with white voters.
Yes, we need about 43% of them. No, that doesn't mean kicking black people in the face for their amusement.

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Federal judge again declares #DACA immigration program unlawful, but allows it to continue via ⁦CBS News⁩ cbsnews.com/news/daca-ruli…

Scoop: The Department of Homeland Security has opened an investigation into the government’s use of a little-known law to disproportionately prosecute & imprison migrants from Muslim-majority countries.

The Times exposed the prosecution patterns.

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“It all starts and ends with labor.” Just got back from ⁦MLK Labor⁩ picnic and now listening to this podcast as I clean my dishwasher. All workers deserve a union. #organize #LaborDay #SiSePuede ⁦IN THE THICK⁩ #WaLeg podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-…

A new Latino USA podcast is out 🎧

Brothers Isaac and Esteban Hernández, principal dancers for the San Francisco Ballet, reflect on learning ballet from their father, the decisions young dancers face, and expanding access to ballet in their native Mexico.

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Tomorrow on Latino USA, a conversation between Isaac and Esteban Hernández, the first siblings to become principal dancers for the San Francisco Ballet.

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Tomorrow on Latino USA, a conversation with poet and revolutionary Gioconda Belli, who is living in exile in Spain after being recently stripped of her Nicaraguan citizenship by the authoritarian government of Daniel Ortega.

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We’re unpacking AI. We’re joined by Karen Hao, contributing writer The Atlantic, to talk about the human impact of the rapidly evolving technology and what it means to decolonize AI.

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