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)
212 Pieces
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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
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
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 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
“En Español,” a story about language and memory.
- Added: Jun 22, 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
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
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
