Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Have Their Say w/ Tony Diaz

NP ALL LIT: Politica Prose Edition

Featuring: Alfredo Corchado, The Dallas Morning News; Russell Contreras, Axios; Texas State Representative Christina Morales, LULAC Council 60 President Al Castillo, and Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante

Airdate: Tuesday, March 30, 2021.

NP Radio airs live Tuesdays 6 pm-7 pm CST 90.1 FM KPFT Houston, TX. Livestream www.KPFT.org.

More podcasts at www.NuestraPalabra.org.

The Nuestra Palabra Radio Show is archived at the University of Houston Digital Archives. Our hard copy archives are kept at the Houston Public Library’s Special Collections Hispanic Archives.

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Gabriela Vasquez

Liana Lopez

Roxana Guzman

Leti Lopez

Rodrigo Bravo, who mixes ours shows

Tony Diaz

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"What's Your Point" Fox 26 Houston

Tues 2pm

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The term #illegalalien is at best imprecise & at its worst dehumanizes.

Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante tackles this with immigration lawyer Carolina Ortuzar-Diaz, Monty & Ramirez LLP, & Axios Justice & Race reporter Russell Contreras.

The Joe Biden Administration plans to eliminate it.

Air date: March 23, 2p #LPAN 90.1 FM KPFT Houston. Livestream: www.KPFT.org.

We answer only to our community. Please budget a donation to KPFT, and make it in support of Latino Politics and News today. Visit www.kpft.org.

Thanks to our crew:

Roxana Guzman, Communications Director

Leti Lopez

Rodrigo Bravo, who mixes our radio shows

Gabriela Vasquez

Nathan Noble

Tune in every Tuesday from 2 pm to 3 pm for Latino Politics and News with Tony Diaz 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston. Livestream www.KPFT.org. Your Community Radio Station.

That's followed by Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say at 6 pm to 7 pm CST. 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston. Livestream www.KPFT.org.

Tony Diaz also appears on "What's Your Point?" on Fox 26 Houston, Sundays at 7 am.

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Time for precision when we discuss the #LatinoVote & #Latino Demographic. There are 36 million Mexican Americans in the U.S. There are 2 million Cuban Americans. Yet there are 3 Mexican American & 3 Cuban American U.S. Senators.

Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante, interviews Axios Justice and Race Reporter Russell Contreras examines why. This follows up Contreras' piece: The elusive political power of Mexican Americans.

Air Date: March 16, 2021

We answer only to our community. Please budget a donation to KPFT, and make it in support of Latino Politics and News today. Visit www.kpft.org.

Thanks to our crew:

Roxana Guzman, Communications Director

Leti Lopez

Rodrigo Bravo, who mixes our radio shows

Gabriela Vasquez

Nathan Noble

Tune in every Tuesday from 2 pm to 3 pm for Latino Politics and News with Tony Diaz 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston. Livestream www.KPFT.org. Your Community Radio Station.

That's followed by Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say at 6 pm to 7 pm CST. 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston. Livestream www.KPFT.org.

Tony Diaz also appears on "What's Your Point?" on Fox 26 Houston, Sundays at 7 am.

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Livestream: www.KPFT.org.

2021 Immigration Update: The Latin American Student Organization-LASO at LSC-HN, Lone Star College-North Harris, presents its 2021 Immigration Update, focusing on empowerment through Education.

Professor Tony Diaz talks to Abogada Carolina, Immigration attorney Carolina Ortuzar-Diaz and Lone Star College Board of Trustee Ernestine Pierce. They discuss how to overcome obstacles, the power of education, and the role of community. Abogada Carolina also provides an introduction to what we should be looking for regarding changes in immigration laws and policies under the Biden Administration. She focuses on the three ways a president can shape immigration: 1. executive orders 2. Regulations 3. Legislation.

LASO Faculty Advisors:

Dr. Christ Trevino

Sylvia San Pedro

Tony Diaz

Tony Diaz interview Nory Angel, First Latina Exec. Dir of The American Leadership Forum. Find out more about this important organization and what the future holds under its new leader.

Both Tony Diaz and Nory Angel are Senior ALF Fellows.

Also, #TexasSizedHistory: hear Texas State Representative Christina Morales read her op-ed about the Ethnic Studies Bill she has submitted, and hear journalists Alfredo Corchado's op-ed on the plight of Migrant Workers as Essential Workers.

Air date: Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021.

We answer only to our community. Please budget a donation to KPFT, and make it in support of Latino Politics and News today. Visit www.kpft.org.

Thanks to our crew:

Roxana Guzman, Communications Director

Leti Lopez

Rodrigo Bravo, who mixes our radio shows

Gabriela Vasquez

Nathan Noble

Tune in every Tuesday from 2 pm to 3 pm for Latino Politics and News with Tony Diaz 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston. Livestream www.KPFT.org. Your Community Radio Station.

That's followed by Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say at 6 pm to 7 pm CST. 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston. Livestream www.KPFT.org.

Tony Diaz also appears on "What's Your Point?" on Fox 26 Houston, Sundays at 7 am.

www.NuestraPalabra.org

www.Librotraficante.com

Livestream: www.KPFT.org.

Find out more about the #TXEthnicStudiesBill 90.1 FM KPFT Houston Latino Politics And News. Tony Diaz interviews Texas Christina Morales - Representative TX District 145 who submitted the Texas Ethnic Studies Bill to make Mexican American and African American History Courses count towards high school graduation requirements.

Is The University of Texas at Austin #discriminating against #Latino Professors? Latino Politics And News interviews legendary scholar Dr. Emilio Zamora about results from an equity report. Tues 2pm 90.1 FM KPFT Houston. Livestream: www.kpft.org https://conta.cc/2KENVSd

Air date: Tuesday, January 26, 2021.

We answer only to our community. Please budget a donation to KPFT, and make it support of Latino Politics and News today. Visit www.kpft.org.

Thanks to our crew:

Roxana Guzman, Communications Director

Leti Lopez

Rodrigo Bravo, who mixes our radio shows

Laurie Flores

Al Castillo

Tune in every Tuesday from 2 pm to 3 pm for Latino Politics and News with Tony Diaz 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston. Livestream www.KPFT.org.

That's followed by Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say at 6 pm to 7 pm CST. 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston. Livestream www.KPFT.org.

Tony Diaz also appears on "What's Your Point?" on Fox 26 Houston, Sundays at 7 am.

www.NuestraPalabra.org

www.Librotraficante.com

Livestream: www.KPFT.org.

NP ALL LIT X: Poetry, Prose, and Music Beginning to End

Enjoy Poetry, Prose, and Music from beginning to end, featuring the genius of Antonio Lopez, Tony Diaz, Angie Trudel, Natasha Carrizosa, Maria Hinojosa, Roberto Lovato, Emmy Perez.

Air date: Tuesday, Jan 19, 2021.

NP Radio airs live Tuesdays 6pm-7pm cst 90.1 FM KPFT Houston, TX. Livestream www.KPFT.org.

More podcasts at www.NuestraPalabra.org.

The Nuestra Palabra Radio Show is archived at the University of Houston Digital Archives. Our hard copy archives are kept at the Houston Public Library’s Special Collections Hispanic Archives.

KPFT hosts a monopoly on community cultural capital. We answer to our community. Please budget a donation to KPFT, and make it support of Nuestra Palabra today. Visit www.kpft.org.

Thanks to our crew:

Roxana Guzman

Leti Lopez

Rodrigo Bravo, who mixes ours shows

Laurie Flores

Al Castillo

Tony Diaz

Sun 7am

"What's Your Point" Fox 26 Houston

Tues 2pm

Latino Politics And News

90.1 FM KPFT, Houston. Livestream: www.kpft.org.

Tues 6pm

NP Lit Radio

90.1 FM KPFT, Houston. Livestream: www.kpft.org.

Join Tony Diaz for this one-hour special on the Tejano Center for Community Concerns which is a living example of Community Cultural Capital in action.

He Interviews Dr. Adriana Tamez President and CEO of The Tejano Center for Community Concerns, and Rich Rodriguez, MBA, Head of Housing. More info: www.tejanocenter.org.

Air date: Tuesday, January 19, 2021.

We answer only to our community. Please budget a donation to KPFT, and make it support of Latino Politics and News today. Visit www.kpft.org.

Thanks to our crew:

Roxana Guzman, Communications Director

Leti Lopez

Rodrigo Bravo, who mixes our radio shows

Laurie Flores

Al Castillo

Tune in every Tuesday from 2 pm to 3 pm for Latino Politics and News with Tony Diaz 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston. Livestream www.KPFT.org.

That's followed by Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say at 6 pm to 7 pm CST. 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston. Livestream www.KPFT.org.

Tony Diaz also appears on "What's Your Point?" on Fox 26 Houston, Sundays at 7 am.

www.NuestraPalabra.org

www.Librotraficante.com

Livestream: www.KPFT.org.

CA is Electing Poets to City Council: Meet Antonio Lopez, Newly Elected Poetician

Tony Diaz El Librotraficante interviews Antonio López whose debut poetry collection, Gentefication, was selected by Gregory Pardlo as the winner of the 2019 Levis Prize in Poetry, and will be published through Four Way Books in September 2021.

Born and raised in East Palo Alto, CA, he has received scholarships to attend the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, Tin House, the Vermont Studio Center, and Bread Loaf. He is a proud member of the Macondo Writers Workshop and a CantoMundo Fellow. His nonfiction has been featured or is forthcoming in PEN/America, Jacket2, and Insider Higher Education, and his poetry in The New Republic, Tin House, and elsewhere. He holds degrees from Duke University, Rutgers-Newark, and the University of Oxford.

He is pursuing a PhD in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University. Antonio is currently fighting gentrification in his hometown as the newest and youngest councilmember for the City of East Palo Alto.

Latino Politics And News

Airdate: Tues Dec. 22, 2020, 2 pm, CST 90.1 FM KPFT Houston, Livestream: www.kpft.org

We answer only to our community. Please budget a donation to KPFT, and make it support of Latino Politics and News today. Visit www.kpft.org.

Thanks to our crew:

Roxana Guzman, Communications Director

Leti Lopez

Rodrigo Bravo, who mixes our radio shows

Laurie Flores

Al Castillo

Tune in every Tuesday from 2 pm to 3 pm for Latino Politics and News with Tony Diaz 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston. Livestream www.KPFT.org.

That's followed by Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say at 6 pm to 7 pm CST. 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston. Livestream www.KPFT.org.

Tony Diaz also appears on "What's Your Point?" on Fox 26 Houston, Sundays at 7 am.

www.NuestraPalabra.org

www.Librotraficante.com

Livestream: www.KPFT.org.

Nuestra Palabra Alum Liana Lopez produced and hosted this one-hour special honoring the legacy of Chicana Icon Maria Jimenez who recently succumbed to cancer. Thanks to Anna Nuñez who provided audio interviews. Maria paved the way, inspired, and trained an entire generation of activists and artists. Her impact on our community and the world is profound. This is our tribute to her.

Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say

Airdate: Tues Dec. 22, 2020, 6 pm, CST 90.1 FM KPFT Houston, TX

Livestream: www.kpft.org

NP Radio airs live Tuesdays 6pm-7pm cst 90.1 FM KPFT Houston, TX. Livestream www.KPFT.org.

More podcasts at www.NuestraPalabra.org.

The Nuestra Palabra Radio Show is archived at the University of Houston Digital Archives. Our hard copy archives are kept at the Houston Public Library’s Special Collections Hispanic Archives.

KPFT hosts a monopoly on community cultural capital. We answer to our community. Please budget a donation to KPFT, and make it support of Nuestra Palabra today. Visit www.kpft.org.

Thanks to our crew:

Roxana Guzman

Leti Lopez

Rodrigo Bravo, who mixes ours shows

Laurie Flores

Al Castillo

Tony Diaz

Sun 7am

"What's Your Point" Fox 26 Houston

Tues 2pm

Latino Politics And News

90.1 FM KPFT, Houston. Livestream: www.kpft.org.

Tues 6pm

NP Lit Radio

90.1 FM KPFT, Houston. Livestream: www.kpft.org.