Latino USA
Series produced by Latino USA
Latino USA chronicles how Latinos are living, shaping and changing America, with in-depth reporting and candid conversations. Hosted by Maria Hinojosa.
Celebrating its 25th Anniversary in 2018, Latino USA is the longest running Latino-focused program on U.S. public media, and embodies Futuro Media's mission to elevate the voices of historically marginalized communities through authentic storytelling.
Additional Files
- LUSA_broadcast_clock (LUSA_clock_2020.pdf)
- Latino USA logo (LUSA_logo.png)
147 Pieces
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Maria Hinojosa meets Caitlyne Gonzales, a young survivor of the Uvalde massacre and learns how she’s doing since the mass shooting. We also look at...
- Added: Jun 05, 2023
- Length: 54:01
Award-winning chefs Zarela Martinez and Aarón Sanchez reflect on their early years and discuss how they made it in New York City.
- Added: May 25, 2023
- Length: 54:01
The story of Reyes, who would leave school early in spring and return late in fall, spending the months between picking asparagus, weeding fields, ...
- Added: May 18, 2023
- Length: 54:01
A conversation with music legend Linda Ronstadt, known as “The First Lady of Rock.” We talk to her about her memories growing up in Tucson, Arizona...
- Added: May 11, 2023
- Length: 54:01
Maria Hinojosa visits the archives of Latino USA at the University of Texas at Austin. Later she has a conversation with Maria Martin, the visionar...
- Added: May 05, 2023
- Length: 54:00
Gloria Martinez’s son walked out the door one day and never came back. His disappearance would be revealed to be part of a massive scandal in Colo...
- Added: Apr 27, 2023
- Length: 54:00
We examine the discriminatory and exploitative practices inside a seasonal farm worker program developed during World War II that set the basis for...
- Added: Apr 20, 2023
- Length: 54:00
Unaware they’re being deceived, Diego and Mario join the H-2A visa program through a local recruiter in Mexico. Meanwhile, the program is experienc...
- Added: Apr 13, 2023
- Length: 54:01
We bring you a portrait of Latina icon Gloria Estefan. Maria Hinojosa sits down with Gloria to discuss her life, and how she overcame trauma.
- Added: Apr 05, 2023
- Length: 54:00
When the pioneering translatina activist Lorena Borjas first arrived in the U.S. in the early 80’s, she found both community and crisis. Lorena’s o...
- Added: Mar 28, 2023
- Length: 54:01
Antonia Cereijido has an intimate conversation with Luis Moreno Ocampo, the real assistant prosecutor who was portrayed in the Oscar-nominated film...
- Added: Mar 23, 2023
- Length: 54:01
Puerto Rican musicians Villano Antillano and Ana Macho bring both laughter and brutal honesty as they talk about what it’s really like to be a tran...
- Added: Mar 15, 2023
- Length: 54:01
We hear how Puerto Rican salseros began seeing Dominican merengue musicians as unwelcome immigrants who were stealing their jobs in the music scene.
- Added: Mar 09, 2023
- Length: 54:00
We begin with the birth and upbringing of Teresa Urrea, once called the most dangerous girl in Mexico by the dictator Porfirio Diaz.
- Added: Feb 28, 2023
- Length: 54:01
We dive into the significance of Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam’s “I Wonder If I Take You Home” …a song that made intergenerational talks about love and se...
- Added: Feb 23, 2023
- Length: 54:01
Jorge Drexler follows his family’s tradition in medicine just like his father, an ENT doctor and Holocaust survivor who found refuge in Uruguay. Bu...
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 54:01
A conversation between Nadine Córdova and Tim Hernández, two teachers who —almost three decades and more than 400 miles apart— faced the same conse...
- Added: Feb 09, 2023
- Length: 54:01
What it was like to hear El Gran Varón as a Puerto Rican child growing up in the Bronx, and what the song's lyrics say.
- Added: Feb 02, 2023
- Length: 54:01
