Somos Connecticut
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Meet the journalists behind ¡Somos Connecticut!
A dedicated team telling the stories, sharing the voices, and covering the issues that shape Latino life across our state.
Mark Mirko
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Connecticut Public
Barbara Lopez is a founder of Make the Road Connecticut, an organization that fights for the rights of immigrant, Latino, and working-class communities. She looks back on her years of leadership and reflects on the lessons learned that will help her continue to grow as a leader.
Kent Nishimura
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Ryan Caron King
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Connecticut Public
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The Puerto Rican coffee business owner from Hartford runs Hasta Luego Friend out of a vintage trailer and founded a queer collective at bars around town. -
La empresaria puertorriqueña de Hartford opera su negocio de café Hasta Luego Friend en un tráiler clásico y fundó un colectivo queer en varios bares de la ciudad. -
The license plate comes in addition to the highway and monument erected as a tribute to the legacy of Puerto Rican soldiers. -
Dominicans in Connecticut recognized 182 years of independence in the Dominican Republic Friday. Waterbury celebrated with a symbolic mayor for the day. -
Nearly a century later, the Institute for Puerto Rican Studies at the University of Connecticut is analyzing the cases of 288 Puerto Rico residents, who, in 1917, rejected naturalization as U.S. citizens under the Jones Act.
Radio Shows
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Latino USA, the radio journal of news and culture, is the only national, English-language radio program produced from a Latino perspective. Listen to past episodes at latinousa.org. -
Every week, Alt.Latino introduces listeners to new alternative Latin music, including diverse genres such as cumbia, Mexican garage rock, Panamanian rap, heavy metal mariachi and many more boundary-blurring sounds from around the world. Listen to past episodes on npr.org.
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Somos Connecticut is made possible, in part by funding from Avangrid Foundation, Charles D. Fleischman Charitable Trust, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Adam R. Scripps Foundation, The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts, and Susan Howarth Foundation.