Latino USA
Latino USA
Latino USA is the longest-running news and culture radio program in the U.S. centering Latino stories, hosted by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Maria Hinojosa Every week, the Peabody winning team brings you revealing, in-depth stories about what’s in the hearts and minds of Latinos and their impact on the world. Want to support our independent journalism? Join Futuro+ for exclusive epis…Social links:
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‘Demographic Paranoia’: Jelani Cobb on ICE, Race, and the Importance of History
“We are dealing with the consequences of a demographic paranoia now.” Journalist, historian, and author Jelani Cobb often looks to the past to better understand the present, and he says the right’s pushback against immigration and multiculturalism is rooted in this country’s history. He speaks with…
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‘Demographic Paranoia’: Jelani Cobb on ICE, Race, and the Importance of History
“We are dealing with the consequences of a demographic paranoia now.” Journalist, historian, and author Jelani Cobb often looks to the past to better understand the present, and he says the right’s pushback against immigration and multiculturalism is rooted in this country’s history. He speaks with…
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The Tuba's Emancipation: Unknown History, Magic, and Lessons From the World of Band
Journalist and author Sam Quinones spent his career reporting on crime, drug trafficking and addiction. After his latest book on the opioid epidemic, he turned to a vastly different topic that long held his interest—the tuba, an instrument that for decades was often looked down on or ignored. The…
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The Tuba's Emancipation: Unknown History, Magic, and Lessons From the World of Band
Journalist and author Sam Quinones spent his career reporting on crime, drug trafficking and addiction. After his latest book on the opioid epidemic, he turned to a vastly different topic that long held his interest—the tuba, an instrument that for decades was often looked down on or ignored. The…
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Los Oscars Are Back: Sinners, Battles, and Secret Agents
The Oscars are back! The live three-hour broadcast can be a pressure cooker of high emotional stakes, with technical failures and unpredictable celebrity behavior. All leading to a range of cultural moments from slaps to political dissent. In anticipation of this year's Oscars, Maria Hinojosa sit…
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Los Oscars Are Back: Sinners, Battles, and Secret Agents
The Oscars are back! The live three-hour broadcast can be a pressure cooker of high emotional stakes, with technical failures and unpredictable celebrity behavior. All leading to a range of cultural moments from slaps to political dissent. In anticipation of this year's Oscars, Maria Hinojosa sit…
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Six Weeks and One Day: A Day Inside an Atlanta Abortion Clinic
In Georgia, most abortions are illegal after six weeks, which is often before most people even realize that they are pregnant. At one abortion clinic in Atlanta, Tracii, the head of security, spends her days guiding patients past shouting protestors of megaphones, and into the clinic where she assu…
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Six Weeks and One Day: A Day Inside an Atlanta Abortion Clinic
In Georgia, most abortions are illegal after six weeks, which is often before most people even realize that they are pregnant. At one abortion clinic in Atlanta, Tracii, the head of security, spends her days guiding patients past shouting protestors of megaphones, and into the clinic where she assu…
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'Testing Grounds': How the U.S.-Mexico Border and Honduras Help Explain Immigration Enforcement Today
What started decades ago at the U.S.-Mexico border didn’t stay there. Journalist, author, and professor Jean Guerrero speaks with Maria Hinojosa and argues that communities on the southern border were a “testing ground” for the increased immigration enforcement that we’re seeing play out across U.…
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'Testing Grounds': How the U.S.-Mexico Border and Honduras Help Explain Immigration Enforcement Today
What started decades ago at the U.S.-Mexico border didn’t stay there. Journalist, author, and professor Jean Guerrero speaks with Maria Hinojosa and argues that communities on the southern border were a “testing ground” for the increased immigration enforcement that we’re seeing play out across U.…
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