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.


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192 Pieces

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The children's show "Dora the Explorer" aired nearly 20 years ago. The three creators of the show and the longest-running consultant talk about how...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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Mexican singer-songwriter Natalia Lafourcade discusses her newest album “De Todas las Flores” and the emotional journey of writing music amid a glo...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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Maria Hinojosa speaks with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones about feeling at home at Howard University, trying to fit-in in pr...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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Nachos are one of the most popular snack foods in the United States. But nachos’ vast popularity overshadows their origins on the U.S.-Mexico borde...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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The story of Anthony Acevedo, the first Mexican-American to register as a holocaust survivor at the United States holocaust memorial museum in Wash...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
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We are introduced to the Coachella Valley and the discrepancies between the wealthy west side and the disadvantaged east side where people don’t ha...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
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Maria Hinojosa speaks with MIT President Rafael Reif in a conversation that soon gets emotional as they reflect on the value of mutual respect, hum...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 54:01
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Maria Hinojosa and Peniley Ramírez introduce us to Genaro García Luna, detailing the former Mexico top security official’s alleged ties to corrupti...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2022
  • Length: 54:01
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We head down to southern Arizona with a group of volunteers that search for missing migrants in the Sonoran Desert. And we learn how the Border Pat...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2022
  • 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 21, 2022
  • Length: 54:01
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Kicking off our special post-election coverage, we hear from our very own Latino USA and In The Thick listeners, who called in and told us what iss...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2022
  • Length: 54:01
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Introducing The Last Cup, by Futuro Studios and NPR. Host, Jasmine Garsd, takes us to Argentina to meet a young Leo Messi, a rising soccer star. We...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2022
  • Length: 54:01
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Maria Hinojosa has an intimate conversation with, author and journalist Carmen Rita Wong as they discuss her new memoir “Why Didn’t You Tell Me?”

  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 54:01
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Journalist and artist Sayre Quevedo gets some news about his long-lost grandmother that leads him on a journey to find out what happened to her.

  • Added: Oct 25, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
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We meet Miguel Castillo and he tells us about the dangers and harsh working conditions in the oil and gas industry.

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 54:00