Podcast Episodes

Mexico's murdered journalists

Mexico trails just Syria and Iraq as the deadliest country in the world to be a journalist. That’s according to data collected from 2000 through 2022…

4 years, 3 months ago

Tet, today and yesterday

Tet, the Vietnamese Lunar New Year, is a national holiday, not just in Vietnam but all over the world wherever Vietnamese may be. And in the United S…

4 years, 3 months ago

Home was where the freeway is

In Santa Monica during the 1950s and ‘60s, city leaders evicted hundreds of Black families to build what ended up being the 10 Freeway. But now, in a…

4 years, 3 months ago

The Blur guy insulted a pop star. The reaction? Swift

It was the Taylor Swift diss heard around the world. “She doesn’t write her own songs.” That’s what Damon Albarn, the lead singer for the British ban…

4 years, 3 months ago

The Omicron kids

Just when it seemed schools and parents and teachers were figuring out how to do in-person learning again, Omicron hit.

The highly contagious variant …

4 years, 3 months ago

A comic and COVID walk into a cruise ship ...

On New Year’s Day, comedian Jen Murphy boarded a cruise ship out of Miami and got ready to perform for 1,800 people. She never did end up getting on …

4 years, 3 months ago

A new Honduras president-elect is set to make herstory

Xiomara Castro is about to be inaugurated as the first-ever female president of Honduras. But la presidenta has a daunting task in front of her. Her …

4 years, 3 months ago

An Indigenous language, back from the brink

Native American culture and history have long been ignored or romanticized as vestiges of a lost people — or both.

The Serrano people of Southern Cali…

4 years, 3 months ago

Standing up for Black lives at the border

Felicia Rangel-Samponaro used to live a fairly normal life as a suburban stay-at-home mom in the border city of Brownsville, Texas. But now the half …

4 years, 3 months ago

Where carne asada is a crime

For over 140 years, street vendors hawking Mexican food have been a staple of life in Southern California. Horse-drawn tamale wagons turned into taco…

4 years, 3 months ago