De-Americanization comes at a great cost to us all. I was born and raised in Northern California. My father’s family and my mother’s family, both from Mexico, emigrated to the U.S. during the Bracero guest worker program. I am the eldest of four children and the first person in my family to have graduated from…
Latinos come in all shapes and sizes but our identity is probably one of the most important things that shape us as people. Take a moment and listen to these Latino adoptees talk about the challenges they’ve faced growing up in different cultures and finding the beauty in their unique identities. Embracing the beauty of…
President Donald Trump continues to face widespread criticism from police chiefs across the country following a speech he gave to police officers in Long Island, New York, that appeared to openly endorse police brutality. Commenting on the need to crack down on gang members, Trump suggested that police officers have license to use excessive force…
Is a new “show me your papers” law in Texas hurting public safety even before it takes effect on September 1? Senate Bill 4 makes it a Class A misdemeanor for local law enforcement officials to limit cooperation with federal immigration agents. The law requires police to comply with detainer requests from Immigration and Customs…
Longing life to be about something valuable, in 2015 Eileah Ohning gave away most of her belongings and moved into her car forsaking the idea of “house as home.” Eileah lived this way for the following year and became rooted in a community focused on alternative living situations. All this has given her several opportunities…
Laz Alonso, one of the stars in the new movie “Detroit” discuss his role in the film depicting the events surrounding the 1967 Detroit riots.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has embarked on a five-day trip across Southeast Asia. In the Philippines, he is expected to address President Rodrigo Duterte’s ongoing war on drugs, in which over 2,500 people have been killed. Lindsey Ford, the Director of Political-Security Affairs for the Asia Society Policy Institute, joins Hari Sreenivasan from Washington.
The Latino Paradox refers to the fact that — for America’s 54 million Latinos — these really are, as Dickens would put it, the best of times and the worst of times. We’re told we have all this power, and yet we’ve never felt more powerless. Two longtime friends — Syndicated Columnist Ruben Navarrette and…
Los Angeles-based Chicano band Las Cafeteras joins us in studio for an interview and performance. The band has been described by the Los Angeles Times as “a uniquely Angeleno mishmash of punk, hip-hop, beat music, cumbia and rock.” This year they released a new album called “Tastes Like L.A.” with the hit single, “If I…
The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, known as MASS MoCA, has become one of America’s largest exhibition spaces for modern creativity, as well as a case study in reviving old industrial towns. Jeffrey Brown reports on the museum’s decision to embrace the town’s industrial past, and whether replacing manufacturing with art and culture is sufficient…