Latino USA

Series produced by Latino USA

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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

189 Pieces

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We follow Amaya, a Honduran girl traveling alone, on her way to the train known as ‘The Beast’.

  • Added: Mar 20, 2024
  • Length: 54:01
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Maria Hinojosa asks Senator Alex Padilla about Prop 187, the controversial 1994 ballot measure that politicized Padilla and many other Latinos of h...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
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We meet María Antonia Cay, better known as Toñita, and learn about the 1970s era in South Williamsburg, an area known as Los Sures by its majority ...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 54:01
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Latino USA host Maria Hinojosa speaks with Roberto Canessa, survivor of the Andes plane crash at the center of “Society of the Snow.” The movie has...

  • Added: Feb 29, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
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We welcome Salvadoran poet and author Javier Zamora back to Latino USA to talk about some of the most painful moments of his past in his memoir Sol...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 54:01
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Latino USA brings us the story of Roland Sylvain, a Haitian-American man facing deportation over a minor criminal conviction.

  • Added: Feb 14, 2024
  • Length: 54:01
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The story of a house in Los Angeles owned by the California Department of Transportation. And the struggles of residents past and present, who have...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 54:01
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Maria Hinojosa attends ‘Music is Medicine,’ an event at the Health and Human Services headquarters in Washington, D.C., and sits down with Secretar...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2024
  • Length: 54:01
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Latino USA's Maria Hinojosa sits down for a candid conversation with Jeh Johnson, the former Secretary of Homeland Security under Barack Obama.

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 54:01
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Eugenio talks about being in love with movies as a child, the surreal experience of being on the stage at the Oscars with the movie “CODA,” and try...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
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A special episode to honor the life and work of Latino USA founder and pioneer public radio journalist Maria Emilia Martin, who passed away in Dece...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 54:01
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The story of a controversial Puerto Rican network of drug treatment centers and the larger-than-life man who founded it.

  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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A former child death investigator examines Joseph Chacón and Draco Ford’s autopsy reports. The expert raises several questions about their deaths a...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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Leah Garcia calls the police after a domestic violence incident, triggering the involvement of LA’s Department of Children and Family Services. Jos...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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Maria Hinojosa, along with a panel of experts, look back at three decades of immigration policies and reporting. They examine what has changed and ...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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Maria Hinojosa visits the archives of Latino USA at the University of Texas at Austin. Later, she has a conversation with Maria Martin, the visiona...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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In its early years, the Nettie Lee Benson Collection didn’t focus on collecting materials from U.S Latino communities. We explore what had to happe...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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Latino USA tells the story of Richard Oakes, an Indigenous leader in the Red Power Movement of the 1960s, starting with his childhood in a Mohawk n...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2023
  • Length: 54:01