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Extra Edition: Cinco de Mayo (Program Repeat.)
THURSDAY, MAY 5 PROGRAM # 9613 11:00 AM PT Extra Edition: Cinco de Mayo (Program Repeat.) This is a conversation with Rosa Guerrero, the founder of the International Folklorico Dance Group and organizer of a number of Cinco de Mayo parades in El Paso, Texas. Guerrero was inducted into the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame. […]
The Legacy of La Malinche.
THURSDAY, MAY 5 PROGRAM # 9614 12:00 PM PT The Legacy of La Malinche. La Malinche, a Nahua woman best known for serving as interpreter and advisor for Hernán Cortés, the Spanish conqueror of the Aztec Empire, is synonymous in Mexico with treason and deceit. But Malinche was a woman who despite surviving a life […]
First Latino US Census Director.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 4 PROGRAM # 9612 12:00 PM PT First Latino US Census Director. This is a conversation with Robert L. Santos, who recently made history as the first Latino and first person of color to lead the US Census Bureau. A leading statistician, Santos gives his perspective on the undercount of millions of Latinos […]
Extra Edition: Stressed About Climate Change (Program Repeat.) Also, Climate Change Worsens Air Pollution.
TUESDAY, MAY 3 PROGRAM # 9610 11:00 AM PT Extra Edition: Stressed About Climate Change (Program Repeat.) Gripped by anxiety about the future of children and grandchildren or the trauma of those displaced by wildfires or storms, a majority of Latinos say they are anxious about how climate change will affect future generations. Surveys show […]
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, MAY 3 PROGRAM # 9611 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. The United States runs the largest immigration prison system in the world. Most jailed immigrants are held in for-profit prisons, without trial. Abolition advocates are asking hard questions: Does advocating for bond hearings, counsel, or more humane conditions help or hurt the cause? What […]
Latinos at Most Risk of Dementia. Also, Health Care for the Undocumented.
MONDAY, MAY 2 PROGRAM # 9609 12:00 PM PT Latinos at Most Risk of Dementia. Senior Latinos are among the hardest hit by Alzheimer’s disease. A distinguished neuroscientist talks about why Latinos are the most at risk of Alzheimer’s and dementia, how giving birth more often or having less social support impacts memory and learning […]
Mexico Edition.
FRIDAY, APRIL 29 PROGRAM # 9608 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. In the first major setback against President López Obrador agenda, the opposition in Congress stopped his ambitious plan for energy reform. What’s next in this debate? Also, a Mexican Senator for the state of Oaxaca talks about his efforts to include the native language […]
Extra Edition: Dolores Huerta: Sí Se Puede! (Program Repeat.)
THURSDAY, APRIL 28 PROGRAM # 9606 11:00 AM PT Extra Edition: Dolores Huerta: Sí Se Puede! (Program Repeat.) Legendary labor and civil rights champion Dolores Huerta turns 92. In this conversation, she reflects on her life journey, since her early childhood in New Mexico, to teaching farmworkers’ children in California, to becoming a lifetime community […]
Virtual Tool to Fight Covid Misinformation.
THURSDAY, APRIL 28 PROGRAM # 9607 12:00 PM PT Virtual Tool to Fight Covid Misinformation. As part of its SMARTER plan, California’s public health agency is now using a new virtual assistance platform on WhatsApp in both Spanish and English to offer reliable information especially to Latinos. The updates include the latest on vaccine safety, […]
Librotraficantes of Banned Books. Also, Firebrand Activist, Scholar Armando Navarro Remembered.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27 PROGRAM # 9605 12:00 PM PT Librotraficantes of Banned Books. When Arizona officials banned Mexican American Studies and literature, cultural activists from Texas responded by organizing a caravan of “librotraficantes” to smuggle books into Arizona. Ten years later this week, they remember the anniversary with rallies in several cities under the banner […]
