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La Brega: Basketball Warriors
Despite being a U.S. colony, Puerto Rico competes in sports as its own country on the world stage. Since the 70s, Puerto Rico’s national basketball t…
4 years, 9 months ago
La Brega: An Encyclopedia Of Betrayal
Photographer Chris Gregory-Rivera examines the legacy of the surveillance files known in Puerto Rico as las carpetas — produced from a decades-long s…
4 years, 9 months ago
A Year Like No Other
A year after COVID-19 first shut down the United States, Latino USA looks at how the pandemic has changed the lives of Latinos across the country. We…
4 years, 9 months ago
Texas In The Dark: A Reporter’s Notebook
A winter storm in Texas left millions with no power and water issues in February. Latino USA producer Reynaldo Leaños Jr. documented his family’s exp…
4 years, 10 months ago
La Brega: Vieques And The Promise To Build Back Better
Weeks after Hurricane María, the Government of Puerto Rico accepted an emphatic suggestion from officials of the Federal Emergency Management Agency …
4 years, 10 months ago
How I Made It: Futuro Conjunto
What will the music of Texas’ Rio Grande Valley sound like 100 years from now? That’s the premise at the heart of Futuro Conjunto, a multimedia sci-f…
4 years, 10 months ago
Gustavo Dudamel’s Harmony In Times Of Crisis
Gustavo Dudamel is one of the most famous and acclaimed conductors in the world. He’s been the Music and Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Philhar…
4 years, 10 months ago
La Brega, Episode 2: Levittown, Where The Good Life Begins
Alana Casanova-Burgess traces the history and development of Levittown, a massive suburb that was founded on the idea of bringing the American middle…
4 years, 10 months ago
La Brega, Episode 1: What Is La Brega?
In this kick off episode, host Alana Casanova-Burgess sets out to define la brega and examine what its ubiquity among boricuas really means. A brega …
4 years, 10 months ago
Yesika Salgado On Love, Lust, And Being A Hopeless Romantic
Yesika Salgado grew up in Los Angeles in a Salvadoran family, and she calls herself a fat, fly poet—her most recent book of poems is titled "Hermosa.…
4 years, 10 months ago