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Interview: 'Latino Americans' Miniseries Documents Birth of a Movement

KUT 90.5 | By David Brown
Published September 17, 2013 at 9:00 AM CDT
John Valadez (left) is one of the producers of "Latino Americans," a six-part miniseries airing on PBS stations across the country.
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John Valadez (left) is one of the producers of "Latino Americans," a six-part miniseries airing on PBS stations across the country.

To coincide with Hispanic Heritage month, PBS TV stations nationwide begin an historic six-hour documentary series tonight, titled 鈥� .鈥�   

Covering 500 years of history in six hours, it is the first major documentary series on the history and experience of Latinos in  America.

Watch Latino Americans on KLRU (18.1) Tuesday, Sept. 24 at 7 pm and Tuesday, Oct. 1 at 7 pm.  KLRU's VME channel (18.4) will show the series in Spanish starting Friday, Sept. 20 at 8 pm.  Or watch online at

For KUT, David Brown interviewed one of the series producers, John Valadez. Listen to their conversation 鈥� and excerpts from 鈥淟atino Americans鈥� 鈥� in the player above. 

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David Brown
David entered radio journalism thanks to a love of storytelling, an obsession with news, and a desire to keep his hair long and play in rock bands. An inveterate political junkie with a passion for pop culture and the romance of radio, David has reported from bases in Washington, London, Los Angeles, and Boston for Monitor Radio and for NPR, and has anchored in-depth public radio documentaries from India, Brazil, and points across the United States and Europe. He is, perhaps, known most widely for his work as host of public radio's Marketplace. Fulfilling a lifelong dream of moving to Texas full-time in 2005, Brown joined the staff of KUT, launching the award-winning cultural journalism unit "Texas Music Matters."
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