UT Austin assistant professor Belem López discusses the importance — and the implications — of the day-to-day informal language process known as language brokering.

Do you translate for a non-English speaking member of your family at the doctor's office or at a restaurant? You're probably a language broker.

"Fronteras" is a Texas Public Radio program exploring the changing culture and demographics of the American Southwest. From Texas to New Mexico and California, "Fronteras" provides insight into life along the U.S.- Mexico border. Our stories examine unique regional issues affecting lifestyle, politics, economics and the environment.

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Holy Cross of San Antonio educator Eddie Vega was selected to serve as the city's seventh poet laureate. He began his three-year term in April and will hold the position until 2027.

Taco-Poet Eddie Vega talks inspirations, belonging, and new title as San Antonio Poet Laureate

"Indigenous Foodways of Texas and Northern Mexico" will highlight the food traditional, techniques, and histories that have been passed down by Mexican and Indeginous peoples from generation to generation.

New book series preserves indigenous foods and traditions of South Texas and Northeastern Mexico

The FBI and CIA surveilled the Latino civil rights movement and its leaders in the 1960s and '70s at the height of the communist panic. Democratic Congressman Joaquin Castro and his mother, activist Rosie Castro, talk about the effort to establish a clear historical record of the movement.

Fronteras: 'Our own government was working against them'  — Declassifying FBI files on the Latino civil rights movement

The United Farm Workers of America became a target of FBI surveillance during the communist scare of the 1960s and '70s. Arturo Rodriguez spent over 50 years with the UFW. He talks about working alongside civil rights leader Cesar Chávez and about government surveillance of their movement.

‘We were not communists’ — A dive into FBI surveillance of Cesar Chávez and the United Farm Workers movement

Musician Lisa Morales has released six albums both as a solo artist and as part of the duo, Sisters Morales. She discusses her introduction to music growing up in Tucson, Arizona, the death of her sister Roberta in 2021, and more ahead of her April 13th Creekside Sessions Concert at TPR.

Do you translate for a non-English speaking member of your family at the doctor's office or at a restaurant? You're probably a language broker.

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