Latino USA is the foremost Latino voice in public media and the longest running Latino-focused program on radio. As the most consistent voice reporting on Latino news and culture since 1992, Futuro Media Group’s Latino USA (LUSA) brings depth of experience, on-the-ground connections and knowledge of current and emerging issues impacting Latinos and other people of color to every broadcast. Reporting stories about diversity, culture, civic dialogue and how people live (and struggle) with diff ...
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Mary’s Journey - Award Edit
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On Tuesday May 24th, 2022, an 18-year-old man entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and shot and murdered 19 children, as well as two teachers. The ripple effects of this mass shooting have been felt across this small Mexican-American community, and across the country. We mourn with Uvalde.In a tight-knit community like Uvalde, Robb elem…
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August 7, 2019 forever changed the lives of many immigrants in Mississippi. Almost 700 people were taken by ICE that day in the largest single state immigration raid in the country.Latino USA continues its reporting in Mississippi and heads back to the state to follow-up with some of the people we met in last year’s episode, After the Mississippi R…
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In this two-part investigation, we look into Los Angeles County’s Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), the largest child welfare agency in the U.S., and what happens when the system that is meant to protect these children falls short—and even puts their lives at risk.Di latinousa
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In this two-part investigation, we look into Los Angeles County’s Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), the largest child welfare agency in the U.S., and what happens when the system that is meant to protect these children falls short—and even puts their lives at risk.Di latinousa
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Latino USA and Black Public Media bring you Alzheimer’s In Color. It’s the story of Ramona Latty, a Dominican immigrant, told by her daughter Yvonne, and it mirrors countless other families of color navigating a disease that is ravaging the Latino community. It’s been four years now since Ramona was diagnosed. Four years of the lonely journey, whic…
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August 7th, 2019 was the day that tore apart an unlikely community of Guatemalan immigrants in central Mississippi. A year ago, hundreds of ICE agents arrived at seven chicken processing plants and arrested 680 workers. Many of them were fathers and mothers whose kids were left behind for days, weeks, or even months. Today, many families are still …
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On March 14th of 2020, just as the governor of California issued a state-wide mandate for Californians to shelter in place, Martha Escudero and her two daughters became the first of a dozen unhoused families to occupy one of over a hundred vacant houses in El Sereno, Los Angeles. Some call them squatters, but they call themselves the Reclaimers bec…
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Produced by Julieta Martinelli and Maria Hinojosa, and edited by Marlon Bishop. Field production by Fernanda Camarena and Benjamin Alfaro. Additional help by Isabella Cota, Janice Llamoca, Jeanne Montalvo, and Miguel Macias. Featured illustrations by Alexander Charner.The executive producer for this series is Diane Sylvester. The series was made po…
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“The Moving Border” series was produced by Julieta Martinelli, Fernanda Camarena, and Maria Hinojosa, and edited by Marlon Bishop. The executive producer is Diane Sylvester. It was made possible by a partnership with the Pulitzer Center, with additional support provided by the Ford Foundation.Featured illustration by Alexander Charner.…
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There’s a long and extensive pattern of sexual abuse and harassment in privately-run detention facilities for immigrants. Over a ten-month period, Latino USA partnered with Rewire.News and dug into the sexual abuse allegations of Laura Monterrosa at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center. What we learned raised troubling questions about The Prison Rap…
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On May 3, 2017, a young woman named Lesvy Berlín Rivera Osorio was found dead on the campus of UNAM, the National Autonomous University of Mexico. The death was shocking for a few reasons: she had been found strangled with a payphone cord wound around her neck, and the campus of UNAM, a prestigious university with hundreds of thousands of students,…
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This story was done in partnership with Rewire.News.There’s a long and extensive pattern of sexual abuse and harassment in immigration detention facilities, even though the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) was introduced in DHS facilities in 2014. Over a ten-month period, Latino USA partnered with Rewire.News and dug into one specific case: that …
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There’s a long and extensive pattern of sexual abuse and harassment in immigration detention facilities, even though the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) was introduced in 2014. Over a ten-month period, Latino USA partnered with Rewire.News and dug into one specific case: that of Laura Monterrosa’s sexual abuse allegations at the T. Don Hutto Res…
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Journalist Paula Moura gives an update on Venezuela. She discusses some of the suppression against dissidents in the country, and explains how activists have organized protests in New York City.Di latinousa
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After a fiery plane crash in 1948, all 32 people on-board died—but they weren't all treated the same same after death. Twenty-eight of the passengers were migrant Mexican workers and were buried in a mass grave. The other four were Americans and had their bodies returned to their families for proper burial. It took the work of a determined Mexican-…
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Castulo Estrada grew up in Oasis, a mobile home community on the east side of Coachella. The way he describes it, Coachella is divided into two parts: the west side and the east side. On the west side, there are beautiful homes with large front and backyards. Fifteen percent of all golf courses in California are there, and it tends to be predominan…
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Castulo Estrada grew up in Oasis, a mobile home community on the east side of Coachella. The way he describes it, Coachella is divided into two parts: the west side and the east side. On the west side, there are beautiful homes with large front and backyards. Fifteen percent of all golf courses in California are there, and it tends to be predominan…
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Today, Atlanta is a cultural hub—a center for music, movies and TV shows. But that wasn’t always the case.Almost three decades ago, the mayor of Atlanta, Andrew Young, wanted to give his city a rebranding. After coming into the national spotlight during the Civil Rights Movement, the image of tense race relations in Atlanta was hard to shake.But fo…
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Vicente Montalvo grew up in Echo Park, minutes away from Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. Little did he know, his family had history that was buried underneath the stadium that opened its doors in 1962.His grandparents told him their story: how they grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in a community named Palo Verde, how they owned a home, and how happy the…
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Neighborhoods of Color in Los Angeles Suffer Higher Amounts of Deadly and Severe Car Crashes
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In 2016, 260 residents were killed from vehicle collisions in Los Angeles. That includes drivers, bikers and people walking. What’s more, car crashes are the No. 1 killer of children in all of L.A. The city is aware that its streets are dangerous and is currently looking to a policy from Sweden that was developed in the 1990s to help make their roa…
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Devotion to The Holy Death, a folk saint with the face of a skull, is a religious movement growing in Mexico and Central America that is also represented in New York City.Di latinousa
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Part of our conversation with Chilean actor Pedro Pascal, who plays one of the Netflix series' main characters; Spanish actor Miguel Angel Silvestre, who plays a money launderer for the drug cartel; and Guatemala native Arturo Castro, who goes from playing the sweet gay best-friend in Broad City, to playing the son of a cartel bossman in this seaso…
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The Strange Death of José de Jesús
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The following segment is from Latino USA's "Unheard but Unafraid: The Story of the San Antonio 4" story, which first aired on August 12, 2016. To listen to the entire story, visit http://latinousa.org/2016/08/12/san-antonio-4/Di latinousa
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The following segment is from Latino USA's one-hour episode, "The USA v. Oscar López Rivera," which aired in January, 2017.Who is a freedom fighter, who is a terrorist, and who gets to decide?For the complete episode, go to http://latinousa.org/episode/usa-v-oscar-lopez-rivera/Di latinousa
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The following segment is from a special two-part radio series which broadcast in July, 2016. NPR’s Latino USA investigates the unusual death of a man in an U.S. immigrant detention center, and what his death tells us about conditions —especially mental health services— inside the immigrant detention system. This investigation was reported with assi…
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A 2016 segment from our sister podcast, In The Thick (inthethick.org)In this conversation, Maria Hinojosa leads a discussion about the almost unbelievably complex relationship between Puerto Rico and the US with guests Sandra Lilley, Managing Editor of NBC Latino, Natascha Otero, a leader of South Florida’s chapter of the National Puerto Rican Agen…
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This month Puerto Ricans commemorated the centennial of the Jones Act, the first piece of legislation that gave Puerto Ricans a pathway to U.S. citizenship. Starting in 1917, people born in Puerto Rico, a territory of the U.S, were able to become American citizens through naturalization, and they did so for about 20 years."It's a complicated identi…
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'Julieta' is out in theaters now, and to hear how Almodóvar feels about its place relative to the rest of his films, listen to a snippet of Latino USA’s interview with the director.http://latinousa.org/2017/01/12/almodovar-julieta-us-politics/Di latinousa
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Twenty-one years after her death, Tejano singer and pop culture icon Selena Quintanilla Perez once again became immortalized. It all started when Patty Rodriguez launched an online petition over a year ago with a single mission: to get MAC Cosmetics to release a “Selena Quintanilla for MAC” limited edition collection. A few months and 38,000 signat…
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On August 1, KERA's Think show talked with with Latino USA executive producer and anchor Maria Hinojosa about the two-part audio series, THE STRANGE DEATH OF JOSÉ DE JESÚS.Di latinousa
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In part two of our two-part special, we continue our investigation into the death of a man in a U.S. immigration detention center, examining surveillance video and other clues about what happened.More info: latinousa.org/josedejesus/Di latinousa
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A man dies in a U.S. immigration detention center, under unusual circumstances. He is found unresponsive in his cell, with a sock stuffed down his throat. His death is ruled a suicide, but little information is put out about what happened, and the family wants answers. In this first part of a special two-part series, Latino USA investigates why Jos…
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Tarik Davis writes and performs comedy and also teaches improv to children and adults. He's performed at the Upright Citizens Brigade in New York and The Second City in Chicago.Di latinousa
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Jenny Yang is a comedian and one of the founders of Disoriented, a (mostly) female Asian-American standup tour. She's based in Los Angeles.Di latinousa
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Jes Tom is a standup comedian who's performed at Caroline's on Broadway, New York Comedy Club, Gotham, and many other venues. They're from San Francisco but currently based in New York.Di latinousa
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In New Mexico during the 1960s, Reies López Tijerina transformed the issue of land rights into an issue of civil rights. He led a movement of Hispanos —people with Spanish, Mexican and Native American ancestry— who had lost their communal land to private landowners or government agencies and demanded it back. López Tijerina’s activism reached its p…
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The Southwest was once a part of Mexico, but that doesn’t mean that Mexicans have always felt welcome there. Land disputes led to segregation, discrimination and even state-sanctioned violence. Latino USA looks into the history of resistance leaders like Juan Cortina and Reies López Tijerina, the dark side of the Texas Rangers and school segregatio…
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