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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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
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
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
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
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
There are 28 million uninsured people in the United States, and for some of them, free clinics are their safety net. Latino USA goes inside the big...
- Added: Jun 07, 2023
- Length: 54:01
We meet Martha López, one of the participants of Los Angeles’ guaranteed income program.
- Added: Jun 16, 2023
- Length: 54:01
“En Español,” a story about language and memory.
- Added: Jun 22, 2023
- Length: 54:01
Latino USA brings us the story of an intrepid Texas state representative, José Tomás Canales, who in 1919 led a groundbreaking investigation into t...
- Added: Jun 29, 2023
- Length: 54:01
A conversation with pioneering documentary filmmaker Hector Galán, who returns to Latino USA 30 years after his first appearance in the show.
- Added: Jul 06, 2023
- Length: 54:01
Latino USA brings you back to 1968, when thousands of students participated in a series of protests that helped spark the Chicano Movement, histori...
- Added: Jul 12, 2023
- Length: 54:01
We meet Viviana, a young Venezuelan woman who was held at Stewart Detention Center, an ICE facility in Georgia. She says that while held there, she...
- Added: Jul 20, 2023
- Length: 54:01
Producer Jeanne Montalvo’s son Martin has a difficult time at a daycare ill equipped for bilingual children. But then, she found solidarity in an i...
- Added: Jul 25, 2023
- Length: 54:00
Latino USA and Black Public Media bring you Alzheimer’s In Color. The story of Ramona Latty, a Dominican immigrant, as told by her daughter Yvonne.
- Added: Aug 02, 2023
- Length: 54:01
Meg Medina, award-winning author and the first Latina National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, shares what it was like to grow up as a Cu...
- Added: Aug 09, 2023
- Length: 54:01
Producer Patricia Sulbarán digs into how Latino USA covered the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and, in the process, finds a woman leading the figh...
- Added: Aug 17, 2023
- Length: 54:01
Latino USA tells the story of heavy metal music and its huge appeal in Latin America.
- Added: Aug 23, 2023
- Length: 54:01
We meet Elvis and Wendy, Guatemalan newlyweds who flee violent extortion threats only to be detained at the U.S.-Mexico border.
- Added: Aug 24, 2023
- Length: 54:00
A conversation with poet and revolutionary Gioconda Belli, who is living in exile in Spain after being stripped of her Nicaraguan citizenship by th...
- Added: Sep 07, 2023
- Length: 54:00
Latino USA producer Reynaldo Leaños Jr. introduces us to the parents of fallen Marine David Lee Espinoza and we learn about David’s childhood in La...
- Added: Sep 14, 2023
- Length: 54:01
