Latino USA

For this Valentine’s Day edition of Latino USA, poet Yesika Salgado heads with Maria Hinojosa to the Hunts Point Produce Market, the largest wholesale produce market in the world, to try to identify the sexiest, most romantic fruit. Then they sit down to talk about relationships

In this conversation with Maria Hinojosa, José Feliciano opens up about why he keeps the 70s alive and about one of his favorite relationships—the one he has with his guitar.

The Puerto Rican musician, singer and composer also spoke to Maria Hinojosa for an upcoming Latino USA episode.

For seventeen years, Ornella Pedrozo thought of her mom’s detainment by ICE as her deepest darkest secret. Until a couple months ago, when she decided to write a letter to her mom about it.

Recently, a local blogger broadcast his discovery of a warehouse full of aid supplies in Ponce, Puerto Rico, through Facebook Live. The public outrage was immediate.

Maria Hinojosa speaks to four people at the heart of the current controversy.

Jessie Reyez talks about the role that music played in her childhood, how she writes through her own emotional pain, and how even when her fans sing along to her saddest songs—she feels more connected to them than ever.

A special episode from NPR’s Code Switch, reporter Adrian Florido headed down to Puerto Rico and attended many cockfights to understand what the ban means for locals.

In the 1970s, a string of devastating fires would turn the South Bronx into a symbol of urban decay. Latino USA visits the South Bronx to interview Vivian Vázquez Irizarry, co-director of the documentary ‘Decade of Fire.’

Jessie Reyez stopped by Latino USA‘s office to perform “Far Away,” and her Spanish-language song titled “Sola.”

In this conversation, Cristela Alonzo gets personal about the shame she felt about poverty as a child, how the singer Selena Quintanilla inspired her and she shares personal stories from her new memoir.

In March 2018, just months after Hurricane María, an eccentric group of cryptocurrency enthusiasts arrived in Puerto Rico. Latino USA follows them for almost two years, from crypto-boom to crypto-bust.

Latino USA spends several days at a free clinic sitting in on doctor’s exams and talking to patients, interpreters, and staff, to try and capture how life as an undocumented person can affect an individual’s health.

For the latest Live From Latino USA, Mexican-American artist Renee Goust performed her feminist single “La Cumbia Feminazi.”

In this Latino USA segment, Maria Hinojosa talks to Gabby Rivera about her beginnings as a writer, her experience with #comicsgate and about her first original comic series “b.b. free.”

Latino USA sits down with journalist Sarah Fuss Kessler who has been following the story of a Latina high school teacher in Merced, California, who reported being sexually harassed.

A young DACA recipient shares stories about her immigrant family’s inability to move forward over the last two decades.

In the series, reporters revisit the fight over Prop 187 and look at how it continues to reverberate in our politics and culture today. 

The story of Isac Garcia-Wislar, a man who became one of about 60,000 people detained each day by the U.S. Marshals Service.

Being a new parent comes with a series of challenges—one being the decision of whether or not to teach your child a second language.

Latino USA explores the history of Columbus Day, the battle for change, and pays a visit to one of the latest states to make Indigenous Peoples’ Day official: Maine.