THE SERIES
María Hinojosa: One-on-One is a provocative in-depth series featuring America's foremost Latino artists, writers, activist and leaders.
María Hinojosa is an award-winning journalist and author, and the managing editor and host of public radio's Latino USA. A seasoned journalist who has been interviewing people for more than 25 years, Hinojosa is also the senior correspondent for the Emmy Award-winning PBS newsmagazine NOW with David Brancaccio.
Through her career, María has garnered many awards and honors. Hispanic Business Magazine has named her one of the 100 most influential Latinos in the United States three times. In 1995, María received the Robert F. Kennedy award for "Manhood Behind Bars," a story for NPR about incarceration as a right of passage for men of all races. In 1993, she received both the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Radio Award and the New York Society of Professional Journalists Deadline Award for her NPR report, "Kids and Guns." In 1991, she won a Unity Award and the Top Story of the Year Award from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists for her NPR story on gang members entitled Crews. Also in 1991, María won an Associated Press award for her coverage of Mandela for WNYC Radio.
THE PROGRAMS
Ray Suárez - LPMH 101 SD-Base Revision 001
His 30 years of journalism experience include eight years as the Washington based Senior Correspondent for PBS’s The NewsHour and six years as host of National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation . Suárez has also contributed to the New York Times and the Washington Post and is the author of The Holy Vote and The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration. In this interview with María Hinojosa, Suárez reflects on his life and career, the relationship between religion and politics in America, and the current state of American journalism.
Antonio González - LPMH 102 SD-Base Revision 001
Antonio González, president of the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project and the William C. Velásquez Institute, is the country’s foremost expert on the Latino electorate. The non-partisan SVEP tracks Latino voting trends and the issues that most concern the country’s largest ethnic minority. An American of Mexican decent, he talks with Hinojosa about the influence Latinos will have on the 2008 presidential election.
Ricardo Chavira - LPMH 103 SD-Base Revision 001
Chicano actor Ricardo Chavira is best known for playing Carlos Solís on ABC's hit show Desperate Housewives. He has also appeared in numerous television and theatrical productions, including 24 and Monk as well as Jack and Jill at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. Chavira talks about growing up Chicano, the death of his mother when he was only a teenager, and his work with the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
Gioconda Belli- LPMH 104 SD-Base Revision 001
Gioconda Belli is a Nicaraguan author, poet, feminist, and activist. In her native country, she was an active participant in the communist Sandinista struggle against the dictatorship of President Anastasio Somoza Debayle in the 1970s. After Somoza's ouster in 1979, Belli held several positions in the Sandinista administration. Her semiautobiographical novel from 1988, La Mujer Habitada (The Inhabited Woman), was an international best-seller, and her collection of poems Línea de Fuego (Line of Fire) won the prestigious Casa de las Américas Prize in 1978. Belli discusses her involvement with the Sandinista revolution, women'scapacity for power, and the political future of Nicaragua.
Willie Colón - LPMH 105 SD-Base Revision 001
Salsa legend Willie Colón has earned 11 Grammy nominations and sold more than 30 million records worldwide. Colón has collaborated with salsa’s greatest musicians, including Héctor Lavoe, Celia Cruz, and Rubén Blades, with whom he produced Siembra, the best-selling salsa album of all time. In this conversation with host María Hinojosa, Colón talks about his musical beginnings in New York City, his political aspirations, and the future of the musical genre he helped develop.
Mari Carmen Ramírez - LPMH 106 SD-Base Revision 001
Mari Carmen Ramírez is the director of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and is that museum's Wortham curator of Latin American art. In 2005, Time magazine named her one of 25 most influential Hispanics in the US. Ramírez speaks with María Hinojosa about Latin American contemporary art, the evolution of Latino art in the US, and the response of U.S. art institutions.
Alma Guillermoprieto - LPMH 107 SD-Base Revision 001
Mexican-born journalist Alma Guillermoprieto has written about Latin America for more than 25 years. Her work has appeared in such respected publications as Newsweek, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and the Guardian. She is the author of Looking for History, The Heart that Bleeds, Samba, and Dancing with Cuba. In 1995, Guillermoprieto was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. In this touching and moving conversation, Guillermoprieto recounts the horror of uncovering a massacre in El Salvador, her experience with a notorious Central American dictator, and her time spent writing about a ballet school in Cuba.
Sergio Arau and Yareli Arizmendi - LPMH 108 SD-Base Revision 001
Husband-and-wife team Sergio Arau and Yareli Arizmendi collaborated to produce the successful short film A Day Without a Mexican, a movie about what would happen if all the Mexicans in California suddenly disappeared. A native of Mexico, Arau is a director, visual artist, and member of the band Botellita de Jerez. Mexican born Arizmendi is an actress (Fast Food Nation, Like Water for Chocolate), a political activist, and the author of the forthcoming I Am AmeXican: A Declaration of Identity for the 21st Century.Arau and Arizmendi talk about how they met during the filming of Like Water for Chocolate, their careers, and their evolving cultural identities.
Luis Rodríguez - LPMH 109 SD-Base Revision 001
Chicano writer Luis Rodríguez turned away from an early life of crime to become an advocate for Latino youth. He wrote the best-seller Always Running: La Vida Loca - Gang Days in LA as a cautionary tale for his son Ramiro, who had joined a gang in Chicago. He co-founded Youth Struggling for Survival, a Chicago-based nonprofit that works with street gangs and vulnerable youth. He also opened Tía Chucha, a publishing press, bookstore, art gallery, and performance space in Sylmar, Calif. Rodríguez talks about his life as a former gang member, his commitment to youth, and his return to his indigenous roots.
Anthony Romero - LPMH 110 SD-Base Revision 001
Anthony Romero is the executive director of the American Civil Liberties, a nonprofit that works to defend the individual rights guaranteed by the US Constitution. Born in New York City to parents from Puerto Rico, Romero is the first Latino and the first openly gay man to hold this position. Under Romero's leadership, which began just days before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the ACLU has grown to an organization of more than 500,000 members and has successfully challenged several efforts to limit civil liberties.
Gabriela Chavarria - LPMH 111 SD-Base Revision 001
Mexico native Gabriela Chavarría is the head of the new Science Center at the National Resources Defense Council, a national nonprofit organization of scientists, lawyers, and environmental specialists dedicated to protecting public health and the environment. In her talk with María Hinojosa, Chavarría discusses her passion for bees, her career in science, and the connection between Latinos and the environmental movement.
Davíd Carrasco - LPMH 112 SD-Base Revision 001
David Carrasco, a historian of religions and an expert on the Mexican/American borderlands, is the Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America at Harvard University. A recipient of the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest decoration that Mexico awards to foreigners, Carrasco is the author of many books, including City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization, and the editor in chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures. He is currently working with a team of scholars to decipher the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan, a 16th-century map produced by the Chichimec people of Mexico.
Teresa Rodríguez - LPMH 113 SD-Base Revision 001
Cuban American journalist Teresa Rodríguez is the host of the popular Univisión newsmagazine Aquí y Ahora. She was the first Latina to anchor a national newscast in the United States. She has received 11 Emmy Awards and numerous other prizes. Her many interviewees include Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Barbara Bush, Jennifer Lopez, Carlos Santana, and Pelé. She is the coauthor of Daughters of Juárez, which examines the unsolved murders of hundreds of women in the Mexican border city.