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Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One
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Dominican-born novelist Junot Diaz is considered one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary fiction. Diaz is the author of the national bestseller Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. He is
After Iraq, Mexico is one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists. Alfredo Corchado, the Mexican bureau chief for The Dallas Morning News, is one of the last journalists covering the increasingly violent drug war. Corchado rec
Host Maria Hinojosa talks with Mercedes Doretti, a world leader in using forensic anthropology and archeology to investigate human rights violations. Doretti is the co-founder of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team. From Indonesia to Cong
Franklin Chang-Díaz is a former NASA astronaut and the current chairman and CEO of Ad Astra Rocket Company. Chang has recently been in the headlines for his creation VASIMR, a new space propulsion system that is now entering its commercial
Comedian and actor Cheech Marin is best known as half of the iconic comedy act Cheech & Chong. He has appeared in dozens of TV, film, and stage productions, including Spy Kids, Nash Bridges, and The Lion King. In addition to his work as an acto
Conceptual artist Krzysztof Wodiczko joins María Hinojosa to discuss his career as one of the most admired conceptual artists in the world. His work has ranged from large-scale slide and video projections on architectural façades worldwide to c
Maria Hinojosa is joined by critically-acclaimed screenwriter Jose Rivera, whose 2004 film The Motorcycle Diaries earned an Oscar nomination for “Best Adapted Screenplay,” making him the first-ever Puerto Rican nominee in the category.Maria
Francisco Goldman's first three novels, The Long Night of White Chickens, The Ordinary Seaman and The Divine Husband, received numerous awards. His fiction and journalism writing has appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times. In his fir
Tulane University professor and MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry (at the time of our interview, Melissa Harris-Lacewell) joins Maria Hinojosa to discuss the state of African Americans in the Obama era. Winner of the W.E.B. DuBois book award for
Host María Hinojosa interviews the man with perhaps the greatest backstage pass of all time: former Rolling Stone editor Ben Fong-Torres. During his career at Rolling Stone, which spanned from 1968–81, he wrote cover stories on legends like Bob
Phylicia Rashad is one of the most iconic mother figures in the history of American television. In the 1980’s she became a household name with her role as Clair Huxtable as Bill Cosby’s wife – in the hit sitcom The Cosby Show. The Cosby Show is
A worldwide phenomenon, the female empowerment play The Vagina Monologues has been translated into 45 different languages and performed in more than 119 countries. Creator Eve Ensler joins María Hinojosa for discussion about the play, its globa
In 1978 she became the first American-born queen of an Arab country when she married His Majesty King Hussein of Jordan. For the last three decades, she has been a world-famous advocate of cross-cultural dialogue and global peace. In this int
Grammy Award-winning pianist Danilo Perez is considered one of the most dynamic and influential jazz musicians of our time. His career spans more than two decades, a journey that took him from his native Panama to stages all over the world.Pe
Jennifer 8. Lee is a former staff writer for the New York Times and author of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, which made it to #26 on the New York Times best-seller list. She has appeared on The Colbert Report, The Martha Stewart Show, The Today
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, author of The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet and host of the WGBH-produced TV series Nova ScienceNow talks about his passion for science, his efforts to make astronomy accessible,
The classic images of Brazil are the carnival, samba and soccer, but this Portuguese speaking 190 million people country to the south is much more than that. It is the world’s 5th most populated nation in the world and is rapidly establishing i
In 2009, at age 34, Julian Castro was elected the mayor of San Antonio, the 7th largest U.S. city, and made history by becoming the youngest mayor ever of a top 50 American city. Mayor Castro was born into a political family. His mother Rosie i
Legendary activist Dolores Huerta co-founded the United Farm Workers of America with César Chávez. She organized the infamous grape boycotts of the 1960s and ‘70s. A committed feminist at age 80, she spent two years traveling the country, urgin
Kevin Bales is one of the world's leading experts on modern-day slavery. He has determined that approximately 27 million people are enslaved worldwide. Although most of these slaves are in Africa and Asia, there are over 40,000 slaves living am
Award-winning journalist Robert Cox is called the hero of Argentine journalism. As the editor of the Buenos Aires Herald during the Dirty War of the 1970’s and 80’s, he risked his life to report kidnappings, torture and murder of thousands of A
Native American actor Wes Studi is best known for his roles in The Last of the Mohicans, Dances with Wolves, and Avatar. He has been an activist involved in American Indian causes since the 1970s, when he was part of the American Indian Movemen
Henry Louis Gates Jr., editor of the Norton Anthology of African American Literature, and Ilan Stavans, editor of the Norton Anthology of Latino Literature, talk about the parallels between the Latino and African American experiences, and betwe
Franklin Chang-Diaz, NASA's first Latino astronaut, reflects on the significance of April 12th. The Era of human spaceflight began on April 12th, 1961 when Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarian became the first man to orbit the earth. Twenty years la
After her convoy was ambushed while on patrol in Iraq in March 2003, Shoshana Johnson became the United States’ first black female prisoner of war. She was held hostage in Iraq for 22 days after being captured with Jessica Lynch and other membe
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