Salsa or Sofrito?
Hector chats with Dr. Kim Potowski, a professor of Spanish linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the author of ‘IntraLatino Language and Identity: MexiRican Spanish’
The Democrats’ Definition of Progress
The Biden administration wants “more inclusive language” toward immigrants, but not a more inclusive immigration policy
To Us, For Us
Hector chats with Tootie Alvarez, a poet and truck driver in Chicago who writes for Latino Rebels
Songs by an Immigrant
Hector chats with Jaime Lozano, a musical theatre composer, director, arranger, orchestrator, and vocal coach
Rainbow in the Word
A chat with Ellin Jimmerson, writer and director of ‘The Second Cooler,’ and the first Baptist minister to officiate a same-sex wedding
When in America
‘The Second Cooler,’ a documentary by Ellin Jimmerson, centers on a crucial question: Who benefits from illegal immigration?
The Land of Open Graves
A chat with Jason De León, professor of anthropology and Chicana, Chicano & Central American Studies at UCLA, director of the Undocumented Migration Project, and author of ‘The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail’
Fanita Banana
A chat with Stephanie Manriquez, a writer, radio producer, music selectah and teaching artist based in Chicago