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Thursdays at 9AM
Multi award-winning Latino USA, the radio journal of news and culture, is the only nationally distributed English-language radio program produced from a Latino perspective. It combines high-quality news, cultural and public affairs journalism with compelling sound to bring a rich understanding to a wide spectrum of listeners.
Latino influences and contributions continue to have an increasingly important impact on the evolving identity, life, and reality of the U.S. Latino USA acts as a forum for connections and reflects the experience of a changing population from a Latino viewpoint.
Maria Hinojosa is the popular host of Latino USA. She is also urban affairs correspondent for CNN and a former NPR News reporter. In addition to being a venerable broadcaster, Hinojosa is the author of Raising Raul (Viking Press, 1999), a frequent lecturer on college campuses, a devotee of the arts, and a first generation American Latina. A widely acclaimed journalist, she has received the Robert F. Kennedy Award, an Associated Press award and the National Council of La Raza's 1999 Ruben Salazar Award, to name a few.
Latino USA has gained a loyal audience and won more than a dozen prestigious national awards, including a Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Award and awards from the communications industry for journalistic and production excellence.
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Podcasts
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Friday, May 18, 2012 1:46pm
In this week’s show, we begin a series looking at how political ads aim to attract Latino voters. A new era of outreach, or old-fashioned pandering? We examine one ad from the Democrats in Arizona that asked young Latinos to express their political outrage by texting for a chance to win concert tickets. We also speak with Dr. America Bracho, a health hero battling diabetes and obesity in Orange County, California, visit women who stitch their deepest secrets into quilts, and find out how those New Yorker cartoons are dreamt up.
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Friday, May 11, 2012 11:35am
What exactly was going on in the Mexican-American studies classes eliminated by the Tucson, Arizona, school district? A new documentary tells us. Then we learn what life is like for lesbians in Cuba, and visit a green haven in San Francisco’s tough Tenderloin District. And we speak to the Mexican jockey who won the Kentucky Derby, turning Cinco de Mayo into Cinco de Derby.
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Friday, May 4, 2012 5:23pm
This week on Latino USA-- we give you our take on Cinco de Mayo with a story about a Haitian charro who’s winning the hearts of Mexican New Yorkers. And we check in with our friends at Alt.Latino and hear some of the Cinco de Mayo tunes that are on their playlist. We also visit Lahinaluna (LAH.HI.nuh.LOO.nuh) High School, a public boarding school on Maui where students reconnect with their agricultural past.
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Friday, April 27, 2012 10:56am
This week on Latino USA’s Podcast…we look back to 1992 when four police officers were acquitted of beating black motorist Rodney King and set off several days of rioting in the city of Los Angeles. We talk to journalists, community activists, and a poet who lived through the events—and to a group of Harlem teens who only know about the riots from books.
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Friday, April 20, 2012 1:37pm
This week on Latino USA, the Supreme Court hears arguments on the constitutionality of Arizona’s strict immigration law; we hear from people across the country on what they think about the law. And a telenovela with a message about managing diabetes.