James Early, the former Smithsonian Institution Assistant Secretary for Education and Public Service, joins the LMC to discuss the Trump administration’s attempts to rewrite history by taking over the Smithsonian Institute, the Kennedy Center, and the defunding of public libraries.
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April 18th, 2025: The Politics of Wearing Black
On this special episode merging fashion with politics, the LMC spends the hour with writer Edward Salazar Celis on the political history of Latinos wearing black from the Zoot suit Chicanos from the 1930s to the west coast Chicanas in the 90s and everything in between from a working-class point of view.
Edward Salazar Celis is a writer, cultural critic and educator, specializing in Latin(x) American arts, fashion and visual cultures.
April 11th, 2025: Bukele’s Prison Industrial Complex
Amid a firestorm of controversy over illegal deportations to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison, the LMC spends the hour with Jorge Cuellar, assistant professor, Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies @ Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, to discuss Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele’s illegal deportation agreement with the Trump administration.
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