Hillary Clinton Clinches Nomination – Hillary Clinton won the Democratic primaries in California, New Jersey and New Mexico, affirming herself as the virtual candidate of the Democratic Party, and making history as the first woman to win the nomination of an important political party in the United States. At the same time, Bernie Sanders said he will continue to fight. On Radio Bilingüe’s Línea Abierta show, news director Samuel Orozco spoke with Dr. Lisa Garcia Bedolla, political science professor at the University of California Berkeley, about what this means on the way to the presidential convention.
Thousands of CA Students Drink Polluted Water at School – Hundreds of California schools offer unsafe drinking water to their students, according to a study by environmental groups. More than a million students, many of whom are Latino and poor children, especially in the state’s Central Valley, are putting their health at risk when they drink water from their school drinking fountains. A bill to partially fix the problem is now in the state Senate. Radio Bilingüe reporter Rubén Tapia traveled to one of the areas most impacted and has this story.
Looking for Latinos in Children’s Books – About 13 million students in the nation’s public schools are Latino, about a quarter of all kindergarten through high school students. But some parents, teachers and librarians say Latino kids rarely see themselves reflected in the characters and plots of children’s books. José Luis Buen Abad visited a library in Seattle, Washington, to investigate. This story is part of the series, “Hablando de la Raza”.
