Caitlin Dickerson, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss her journey to the Darién Gap – a stretch of land connecting South and North America – and the 800,000 migrants who will put their lives in danger this year to try to cross it.
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Mike Madrid is a political consultant and a cofounder of The Lincoln Project, and he joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why both Democrats and Republicans have had trouble connecting with Latino voters – and why focusing on immigration is a turn-off for the middle-class.
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Stanford professor Asad L. Asad discusses his research into the ways immigrants take part in U.S. systems – like registering with the IRS – while also fearing they will be deported for taking part.
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Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Héctor Tobar discusses his conversations with a multitude of voices identifying as Latino in the U.S. and the many ways they contribute history and culture to the American landscape.
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Maya Cueva discusses her PBS documentary following three Latinx people and their connection to the last reproductive health clinic on the Texas side of the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Frederick Luis Aldama joins host Krys Boyd to talk about Latino representation on television – and about how too often that representation devolves into stereotype.
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Héctor Tobar, a professor of journalism and Chicano/Latino studies at the University of California, Irvine, joins us to discuss his 9,000-mile road trip across America to understand Latino communities and their widely-varying beliefs.
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Laura E. Gómez, co-founder and faculty director of the Critical Race Studies Program at UCLA, joins us to talk about the dynamic Latino experience and the growing influence Latinos have on American life and politics.
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The Univision broadcaster joins us to talk about why even after 35 years of living in the U.S., he still feels like an outsider.
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North Texas teacher Hector Rodriguez, author of the comic “El Peso Hero,” joins us to talk about creating a character who seeks justice for those without hope.
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This hour, we’ll talk about how America’s growing Latino population is affecting everything from politics to cultural identity with Neil Foley, the Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Chair in History at SMU. His new book is Mexicans in the Making of America.
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