Puerto Rico was not the only country hit hard by last year’s hurricane season. The LMC speaks with Dr Matthew Quest about the struggle for social and environmental justice in Antigua & Barbuda. Dr Quest is a lecturer of Africana Studies @ the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Category Archives: Beyond Latinx
June 22nd, 2018: Undocumented & LGBTQ
What is it like to be undocumented & LGBTQ? Does the Latino LGBTQ immigrant community receive support from the rest of the mainstream American LGBTQ community? What is the Latino LGBTQ communities interpretation of Pride? The LMC tries to answer these questions when we spend the hour with Dagoberto Bailon and Crystal Zaragoza from Trans Queer Pueblo in Arizona.
June 15th, 2018: Latinos in the Vietnam War
On this episode, Tomas Summers-Sandoval talks about the little known history of Latinos in the Vietnam War and how the number of Latinos in that war was a lot larger than people realize. He also talks about the forgotten legacy of the Chicano Moratorium of 1970, one of the largest minority-led, anti-war movements during this period. Summers-Sandoval is an associate professor of History &Chicanx/Latinx studies @ Pomona College.
