Radio Teco Cultura

In this next episode, Bárbara, Annaya and Jasmine engage in a bilingual conversation with three AfroLatinx college students, Lyrik Azteka Shears, Trent Rodgers and Erykah Rodríguez Freire. From them, we learn about their journeys, identity, and their embracing of their blackness.

Welcome to another episode of Our Culture's series, AfroLatinx Soundscapes. This is a series created by SF State Ethnic Studies ​​Assistant Professor in the Latina/o Studies Department, Bárbara I. Abadía-Rexach, and SF State students, Annaya Jones and Jasmine Guadalupe Figueroa Casillas. In this next episode, Bárbara, Annaya and Jasmine engage in a bilingual conversation with the artivists cofounders of a local Bomba group, Taller Bombalele, Julia Caridad Cepeda Martínez And Denise Solis.

For the month of May we will publishing one episode every Sunday in collaboration with AfroLatinX Soundscapes Podcast created by SF State student's Annaya Jones and Jasmine Guadalupe Figueroa Casillas and Professor Bárbara Abadía-Rexach. 

With the AfroLatinx community being such an important part of our culture, this first episode goes over AfroLatinx identity and who is AfroLatinx.

El Tecolote contributor, Edaena Salinas, chats to the fifth-generation San Franciscan, author Anne Evers Hitz. They discuss the books that Anne has written that cover a wide variety of San Francisco's history including The Ferry Building and the Emporium Department Store, which is now the Westfield Mall.

Guatemalan rapper and activist Rebeca Lane joins our show to talk about her performance at the 40th Annual, Encuentro Del Canto Popular. hosted by Accion Latina. She also discusses her path to creating music and the journey she's been on so far. 

We are privileged to have a Bay Area legend on our show today, Carlos Santana. Editor-in-Chief of El Tecolote, Alexis Terrazas, caught up with the musical legend during the presentation of a mural in honor of Santana and his family. The two talk about Santana's development in music, his beliefs, and how important his family is to him. 

This week we are joined by a member of one of the most legendary families of our Mission District, Rio Yañez. Rio discusses with us the influence his mother, Yolanda Lopez, and father, Rene Yañez, left on him, his future in art, and the importance of activism through art.

In this episode, we are joined by LGBTQ artist, activist, and the director of El Colectivo Del Rescate Cultural, Juan Pablo Gutierrez . We discuss how the Día De Los Muertos ritual procession came to be, the impact and influence that the AIDS pandemic of the 1980s had on the ritual procession, and honoring nuestros muertos during the era of COVID-19.

On this episode of Our Cultura Podcast we speak to local artist and writer Chris Cuadrado. Chris works with a lot of youth, especially young Latino men, as the Principal Program Coordinator for the DJ Project at Horizons Unlimited in San Francisco. One of his main focuses is making sure the backwards patriarch style of life doesn't continue with future generations in our Latino culture.