On a special episode, the LMC welcomes filmmaker Johanne Gómez Terrero and Dr. Reinaldo B. Spech on the new film “Sugar Island” and the struggle for Afro-descendent identity and citizenship in the Dominican Republic.
Dr. Reinaldo Speck is also the co-director of the Afro Diaspora Film Festival.
Military executions. Police snipers. Environmental racism. On this episode, the LMC speaks with freelance writer Claudia O’Brien Moscoso and Arturo Ramirez, a professor of public policy at the Catholic University of Santiago, Guayaquil in Ecuador, on the challenges faced by Afro-Ecuadorians under the authoritarian presidency of Daniel Noboa.
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.
The Latino Media Collective is a grassroots Latino public-affairs program that airs on Pacifica station WPFW 89.3fm on Fridays @ 1pm EST in Washington DC.