Presenting the Past, Episode 5: Latino empowerment through Latino Public Broadcasting
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This series features a series of informed conversations with scholars, educators, industry professionals, researchers, archivists, and others about significant events, issues, and topics documented in the more than 70 years of programming available in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting collection.
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EPISODE 5: Latino Empowerment through Latino Public Broadcasting
Immigration protest, Washington, D.C., from The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer: https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_507-8p5v698w0m#at_194.069211_s (MacNeil/Lehrer Productions & WETA, 2006).
The fifth episode of “Presenting the Past” explores the history of Spanish language public radio and television programming and its roots in community activism. The discussion features activists Hugo Morales, Executive Director and co-founder of Radio Bilingüe Inc., and Jesús Treviño, television director, author and creator of Latinopia.com, along with scholars Dolores Inés Casillas, Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies and Director of the Chicano Studies Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Gabriela Rivera Marín, a doctoral student at the University of Florida studying Hispanic Linguistics and co-curator of the AAPB Latino Empowerment through Latino Public Broadcasting exhibit.