¡Nosotros! with Elaine Ayala

“Nosotros with Elaine Ayala” brings together a panel of experts to discuss how a national designation that’s meant to be empowering and celebratory can also be troubling.

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Ayala: Success of National Hispanic Heritage Month stirring debate

Ayala: In San Antonio and elsewhere, National Hispanic Heritage Month will mean nothing unless Latinos vote and answer the 2020 Census

Mexican American Studies growing exponentially in schools, no thanks to Texas

State Board of Education just couldn’t leave well enough alone

Ayala: A modest San Antonio affair marks its 10th anniversary with another book launch

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Metro Columnist Elaine Ayala: [email protected]

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Twin brothers Joaquin and Julian Castro aren’t just San Antonio political figures, they’re national ones. One a congressman, the other a former San Antonio mayor and former housing secretary under President Barack Obama. As they celebrate a major milestone in their lives, they look back at their political careers and talk about what’s to come.

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Latino Community Foundation CEO

Congressman for the 20th District of Texas

After getting divorced and landing a new job in California, Julián Castro is staying in San Antonio

What you don't know about Rosie Castro is that she's a poet

Ayala: Should 'Blood In, Blood Out' be in the National Film Registry? U.S. Rep. Castro says yes.

Joaquin Castro talks about the boar that saved his life

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Metro Columnist Elaine Ayala: [email protected]

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When San Antonio artists Lionel and Kathy Sosa bought a historic home in Querétaro four years ago, they began to learn about the surprising connections between the two cities. Those go back at least 300 years and has led an exhibit of San Antonio artists in the central Mexican city and a four-part documentary on KLRN.

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Al Otro Lado Del Espejo (othersideofthemirror.com)

Commentary: Beating the heat in Mexico

Sosa: Keep striving, friendly city, to be inclusive

Children of the Revolucion - The Project

Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico- Trinity University Press

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Metro Columnist Elaine Ayala: [email protected]

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Longtime KSAT 12 reporter Jessie Degollado is now the former KSAT 12 reporter. But the beloved broadcaster won’t leave our TV screens entirely, announcing her new gig at KLRN.

KSAT announced in May that Degollado and five other veteran on-air personalities would retire from the station as part of buyouts offered by parent company Graham Media Group.

Her final day at the station was July 1 after 40 years on the job. But she’s not done telling San Antonio's stories.

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Ahead of retirement from KSAT-TV, reporter Jessie Degollado reflects on 40-year career at station

Five longtime KSAT-TV personalities to retire July 1

‘I love you San Antonio’: Legendary reporter Jessie Degollado talks about her 40-year career at KSAT

GMSA@9 debrief: Jessie Degollado talks about her 40-year career with KSAT

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Metro Columnist Elaine Ayala: [email protected]

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With shaker in hand, the celebrated San Antonio restaurateur talks about food and beverage trends and shakes up a couple of her favorite cocktails.

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365 Days of Tacos: Aldaco’s Mexican Cuisine

Add teacher to Blanca Aldaco's culinary resume

Best margaritas in San Antonio: Aldaco's

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Metro Columnist Elaine Ayala: [email protected]

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The groundbreaking Netflix series from Shonda Rhimes may be about England's Regency era, but Chicanas are fans, too. And on this episode of "Nosotros," they spill a ton of tea.

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Live out your 'Bridgerton' fantasies at these San Antonio tea parties

'Bridgerton' author to be featured by the San Antonio Public Library on heels of big news for the Netflix series

Compete in 'Squid Game,' waltz through 'Bridgerton' at Netflix House entertainment venue in Texas

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Metro Columnist Elaine Ayala: [email protected]

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José María DeLeón Hernández, otherwise known as Little Joe, the five-time Grammy winner and leader of Little Joe y la Familia, has a lot to look back on at 83. The memories are both heartbreaking and hilarious.

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Little Joe’s American story to be documented: _https://www.expressnews.com/news/news_columnists/elaine_ayala/article/Little-Joe-s-American-story-to-be-documented-6122465.php_

Ayala: ‘Call Ramón’ — chronicler of Tejano music has known everyone who was anyone, from Selena to Freddy Fender: _https://www.expressnews.com/columnist/elaine-ayala/article/Ayala-Call-Ram-n-chronicler-of-Tejano-17355615.php_

A national honor recognizes Tejano music legend and pioneer Little Joe: _https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/little-joe-national-heritage-award-tejano-music-mexican-american-rcna118601_

Ayala: We missed César Chávez’s birthday, let’s not miss his legacy: _https://www.expressnews.com/news/news_columnists/elaine_ayala/article/Ayala-We-missed-Cesar-Ch-vez-s-birthday-15183190.php_

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Metro Columnist Elaine Ayala: [email protected]_

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In this episode, veteran political activist and San Antonio icon Rosie Castro — also known as mother to Julian and Joaquin Castro — reaches back in time to reveal moving memories of the leaders of the Chicano civil rights movement, including La Raza Unida’s Irma Mireles, voting rights leader Willie Velasquez and others who’ve never fully received the recognition they deserve. She also reveals herself as a published poet.

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Rosie Castro has been here before: on the precipice of the seemingly impossible

Ayala: Appointing Castro to D7 seat would right a historical wrong

Rosie Castro finishes what she started — 52 years ago

Rosie Castro has been selected to take over District 7. Here’s 5 things you should know about her.

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Metro Columnist Elaine Ayala: [email protected]

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The popular San Antonio TV news anchor settled into to the ¡Nosotros! podcast chair to talk about her conversion to Catholicism, her long career in front of the camera and her new role in the classroom, training up the next generation of journalists at University of the Incarnate Word.

Romero also dished about working with husband Phil Anaya at KENS, being a mom to three boys and enjoying life in San Antonio, a "magical" city that she considers her second hometown.

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Isis Romero embraces her Catholic conversion

Isis Romero takes up new role, as teacher

Isis Romero leaves KSAT ‘broken hearted beyond measure’

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Elaine Ayala’s conversation with San Antonio native Jesse Borrego covered so many topics, it had to be split in two. Last week, they talked about the Harlandale High School alum’s acting career and the role he’s probably best known for, Cruzito in the cult classic “Blood In, Blood Out.” This week, Borrego shares his dream of building a full-fledged film and music studio on San Antonio’s South Side. Plus his work to get young Chicanos educated and to the polls, and his involvement in the radio, TV and film program at San Antonio College, which his brother James Borrego heads up.

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‘Blood In, Blood Out’ star dreams big about a film studio for San Antonio

San Antonio native Jesse Borrego starred in a 1996 film that is making an impactful comeback

San Antonio actor Jesse Borrego talks about ‘Phoenix, Oregon,’ an unlikely No. 1 movie in an unusual time

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