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)
213 Pieces
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
