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)
193 Pieces
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We head down to Mexico’s southern border and later meet with a caravan of asylum seekers hoping to find safety in numbers as they attempt to reach ...
- Added: Mar 10, 2022
- Length: 54:00
Latino USA breaks down the life and story of composer Maria Grever.
- Added: Mar 17, 2022
- Length: 54:01
In 2008, Melissa Lucio was sentenced to die after the death of her two-year-old daughter. But her family and many others say that she was wrongly c...
- Added: Mar 24, 2022
- Length: 54:00
Latino USA goes to the Tucson Rodeo, also known as La Fiesta De Los Vaqueros. First up is the rodeo parade - the largest non-motorized parade in th...
- Added: Mar 30, 2022
- Length: 54:01
Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera, award-winning independent filmmakers and married couple, share their love story and their favorite moments from ea...
- Added: Apr 06, 2022
- Length: 54:01
We learn about La Lupe’s origins as a performer in Cuba and her subsequent exile amid the Cuban Revolution. She finds success in New York as the “Q...
- Added: Apr 15, 2022
- Length: 54:01
Maria sends Elisa and Monica on a quest to understand the meaning of chisme (gossip) in the US Latinx community and they begin a cheeky experiment....
- Added: Apr 22, 2022
- Length: 54:01
Latino USA brings us the story of Teresa Matias, a mother of five and indigenous immigrant from Guatemala who lives in Huntsville, Alabama.
- Added: Apr 22, 2022
- Length: 54:00
In the last few years, with the 2020 presidential election and information around COVID-19, we’ve seen misinformation and disinformation campaigns ...
- Added: May 05, 2022
- Length: 54:01
Violeta Parra sets out on a mission to preserve Chile’s traditional folk music, and make it known across the world. But while she’s in Europe pursu...
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 54:00
Miguel Macias emigrated from Spain to the United States in 2001 at the age of 25. But the idea of going back was always in his mind. Until the 2008...
- Added: May 18, 2022
- Length: 54:01
With the Los Angeles Times, Latino USA looks at the history of Prop 187, a 1994 ballot measure in California that sought to bar undocumented famili...
- Added: May 23, 2022
- Length: 54:01
Latino USA looks at the challenges the Biden administration is facing with immigration policy and what it means for the future of this country.
- Added: Jun 02, 2022
- Length: 54:01
The story of resistance in Uvalde, a Mexican-American community in Texas. How it stood up against segregation and oppression, and how today, after ...
- Added: Jun 09, 2022
- Length: 54:01
Our guests reflect on the importance of Roe v. Wade to them personally and share their reactions to the Supreme Court’s leaked document suggesting ...
- Added: Jun 16, 2022
- Length: 54:00
Listeners get to know the town of Surfside and we meet Iliana, a resident of the Champlain Towers South who managed to flee her unit before it coll...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 54:00
In the 1940s, the U.S. government sent Walt Disney on a goodwill trip to multiple countries in Latin America. The goal of the trip was, in part, to...
- Added: Jun 28, 2022
- Length: 54:01
We meet Manuel, an undocumented immigrant from Honduras who has been living in his car with his 19-year-old son for almost a year, after getting si...
- Added: Jul 07, 2022
- Length: 54:01
COVID-19 has had devastating impacts on the most vulnerable, highlighting huge inequities for Black, Latino and Indigenous communities.
- Added: Jul 13, 2022
- Length: 54:01
We look at the history of the student loan system in the U.S and dive into the story of Nathan Hornes, a former student at a for-profit college tha...
- Added: Jul 20, 2022
- Length: 54:01
