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There is no doubt that with all this controversy behind the publication of American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, author Myriam Gurba was the key spark in calling attention to what she feels are major problems in Cummins' novel. In this conversation with Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela, Gurba shares her reasons why and also explains that the fight for representation in publishing shouldn't solely be centered around the American Dirt mess.
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The start of 2020 has already been intense, but Latino Rebels Radio has decided this week that all this news will not get us down. For this latest episode, we discuss a new film about the life of Walter Mercado that is being screened at Sundance later this week and will soon be distributed by Netflix. Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Cristina Costantini, one of the co-directors of MUCHO MUCHO AMOR, which pays tribute to a popular culture legend who took horoscopes to the next level.
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On this latest episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela talks with journalist Dánica Coto of the Associated Press. Coto is an AP Caribbean correspondent who is based in Puerto Rico. She has been covering the recent earthquakes that have been hitting the island since December 28. In this conversation, Coto provides the latest updates as of Sunday, January 12, 12 p.m. local time.
Latino Rebels is an AP member and publishes Coto's work, as well as the work of her AP colleagues in Latin America and the United States.
Featured image: Debris from a collapsed wall of a building litters the ground after an earthquake struck Puerto Rico before dawn, in Ponce, Puerto Rico, Tuesday, January 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
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On Friday afternoon, FEMA scheduled a media call with other government agencies about the current federal response to the Puerto Rico Earthquakes. We are sharing that call here.
Featured image: The inside of 67 year-old William Mercuchi’s home that was destroyed by the previous day’s magnitude 6.4 quake in Yauco, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, January 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
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Latino Rebels Radio will be back next week, but our friends at the Latino Media Collective guest host with Part 6 of its Undocumented and LGBTQ series. In this episode, the LMC talks with Giuliani Alvarenga of The Body about the life and LGBTQ legacy of the late Salvadoran professor Horacio Roque Ramírez.
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Earlier this year, LatinoJustice PRLDEF and the Southern Center for Human Rights filed a class action lawsuit that challenged what they said was the Georgia Department of Driver’s Services’ (DDS) unlawful and discriminatory treatment of Puerto Ricans living in the state. Last week, there was a major development as a result of the lawsuit. On this episode of Latino Rebels Radio, we talk with Latino Justice's Jorge L. Vasquez, Jr. about the case.
Featured image: Georgia State Capitol (Photo by DXR/Credit)
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Our friends at the Latino Media Collective are guest hosting this latest Latino Rebels Radio episode with the fifth part of the LMC's Undocumented and LGBTQ series. Guest Kenyon Farrow talks about the long history of using AIDS/HIV to prevent LGBTQ migrants from entering the U.S., going back to the Reagan administration. Farrow is the senior editor for The Body and The Body Pro.
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A course called "Selena and Latinx Media Representation" is now an official offering at San Diego State University. We talk with Dr. Nathian Shae Rodriguez about why he decided to create the course, what the course will be about and why Selena's story is relevant to issues of media representation today.
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We took the holiday weekend off, but our friends at the Latino Media Collective got us covered with one of their shows from earlier this year. In this episode, the LMC proves that you can find Latinos in the most unlikeliest of places. Catherine Travis, Professor of Modern European Languages in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at the Australian National University in Canberra, speaks with the LMC about Australia's small Latin American diaspora—a community of between 90,000 to 180,000 people that is mostly comprised of Chileans, Uruguayans, Argentinians, Colombians and Salvadorans.
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Last Thursday in South Carolina, Carlos Rojas of Movimiento Cosecha was translating questions from Silvia Morreno of Dignidad Inmigrante to presidential candidate Joe Biden. By the end of the exchange about Obama's deportation legacy, Biden was telling Rojas to vote for Trump. We talk with Rojas about what happened and what he thinks it means for Democrats running in 2020.
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