Abuse Reported Against Transgender Immigrants in Detention – In Arizona, groups in support of immigrant rights and the rights of gay, lesbian, and transgender people are getting together around a new campaign to call for transgender women to be released immediately from male detention centers. A few days ago, a group marched in the gay pride parade in Phoenix to attract more attention to the case of a transgender woman from Guatemala who is being held in a detention center in Florence, while her political asylum petition is considered. Valeria Fernández reports.
Los Angeles Parents Form a Traditional Rondalla Group for their Children – Los Angeles schools, like many others in the country, cut their art and music programs in recent years. In response, some parents joined up with a teacher from Mexico to create their own music classes for their children. Together, they founded a rondalla, a musical group that has its origins in medieval Spain and which flourished in Mexico in the 1960’s. The group, Rondalla Sueño Romántico, is made up of young people between 12 and 20 years old. The musical group was symbolically sponsored by the famous group Rondalla Del Amor de Saltillo during its first concert at a church in Santa Monica, California. Our correspondent Rubén Tapia reports. This feature story is part of our series, Raices, Los Maestros: Artists who are passing on their art to the next generation
Goodbye, Eduardo Galeano – This week, famed Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, a grand figure in Latin American literature, maker of utopias, chronicler of the invisible, and writer of forgotten histories. In order for the memories not to be forgotten, we are sharing some segments of his conversations on Radio Bilingüe in San Francisco and Montevideo. Marco Vinicio González presents some of the words the maestro left recorded for history.
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