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)
194 Pieces
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Leah Garcia calls the police after a domestic violence incident, triggering the involvement of LA’s Department of Children and Family Services. Jos...
- Added: Dec 13, 2023
- Length: 54:01
Maria Hinojosa, along with a panel of experts, look back at three decades of immigration policies and reporting. They examine what has changed and ...
- Added: Dec 13, 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 visiona...
- Added: Dec 07, 2023
- Length: 54:01
In its early years, the Nettie Lee Benson Collection didn’t focus on collecting materials from U.S Latino communities. We explore what had to happe...
- Added: Dec 05, 2023
- 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 22, 2023
- Length: 54:01
Maria Hinojosa sits down with legendary labor leader and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta. They discuss politics, the current state of democrac...
- Added: Nov 16, 2023
- Length: 54:01
World-famous conductor Gustavo Dudamel talks about his many jobs — from arts educator to heading the L.A. Philharmonic — and the importance of stay...
- Added: Nov 08, 2023
- Length: 54:01
Maria Hinojosa and Latino USA producer Reynaldo Leaños Jr. ride Air Force Two with Vice President Kamala Harris to an event in Miami, Florida. Mari...
- Added: Nov 01, 2023
- Length: 54:00
Latino USA visits University Park, a neighborhood in South Los Angeles, and the epicenter of a battle brewing between communities who are fighting ...
- Added: Oct 26, 2023
- Length: 54:01
We meet former bracero worker Juan Loza and his niece, Georgetown University historian Mireya Loza, as they start their conversation exploring the ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 54:00
An eccentric group of cryptocurrency investors arrive in Puerto Rico with plans to change “everything” on the island. They meet resistance from loc...
- Added: Oct 12, 2023
- Length: 54:00
Latino USA producer Reynaldo Leaños Jr. travels to Kodiak, Alaska to witness the impact of climate change on a community that’s relied on the fishi...
- Added: Oct 05, 2023
- Length: 54:01
We accompany Mary Estrada as she drives from Pomona, California to San Diego to visit her husband Robert, who is incarcerated.
- Added: Sep 27, 2023
- 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: Sep 21, 2023
- Length: 54:01
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
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
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
Latino USA tells the story of heavy metal music and its huge appeal in Latin America.
- Added: Aug 23, 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
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
