Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB) today announced that VOCES, the acclaimed PBS documentary series exploring Latino arts, culture and history, will premiere two new films this fall on PBS.

Premiering on Tuesday, September 15th is Chelsea Hernandez’s Building the American Dream follows immigrant construction workers in Texas fighting for justice in an industry rife with exploitation. Building the American Dream takes viewers to Texas, the site of a massive construction boom. Its dirty secret: the abuse of immigrant labor. The film captures the rise of a workers’ movement fighting widespread construction industry injustices. Grieving their son, a Mexican family campaigns for a much-needed safety law that would allow workers 10-minute breaks for every four hours of labor, while a Salvadoran couple of skilled electricians owed thousands in back-pay fights for their children’s future. A story of courage, resilience and community, the film reveals eye-opening truths about the hardworking immigrants who build our American Dream.

Hernandez (See the Dirt, An Uncertain Future) is an 8-time Emmy award-winning director, producer and editor. She is a Mexican-American filmmaker based out of Austin, Texas. Hernandez began her career in media at age nine as a co-host and producer for a local children’s educational TV show with her mother, but began her documentary career right after college.

Premiering on Tuesday, October 6th is Bernardo Ruiz’s Latino Vote: Dispatches from the Battleground which follows the high-stakes effort to mobilize the burgeoning Latino electorate in this year’s pivotal election. In the upcoming presidential election, nowhere are the stakes higher for both political parties than in the nation’s swing states. There, community organizers, local activists and political operatives are targeting Latino voters, projected to be the largest eligible bloc of non-white voters this year. But operatives seeking to woo this diverse electorate using a “one size fits all” strategy do so at their own peril. Taking an immersive approach, Latino Vote delves into the campaigns in the battleground states of Nevada, Florida, Texas, and Pennsylvania to explore how Latino voters are poised to shape not only the upcoming election but the future of the country.

Ruiz (The Infinite Race, Harvest Season, Reportero) is a two-time Emmy award-nominated documentary filmmaker. He has directed and produced four feature documentaries and a host of nonfiction programming for a variety of outlets including PBS, HBO, ESPN and Facebook Watch.

“We’re proud to present these two timely documentaries in what has become a uniquely challenging year for the Latino community,” said Sandie Viquez Pedlow, executive director of LPB and executive producer of VOCES. “Building the American Dream shines a light on the important role Latinos play in essential jobs such as construction, but also reveals how immigrants often work in dangerous conditions and are denied benefits to which they are entitled. Latino Vote: Dispatches from the Battleground provides a fascinating, in-depth look at the lead up to the presidential election in battleground states around the country. With Latinos poised to be the largest non-white voting bloc in November, it’s more important than ever that the concerns of our community be a part of the national conversation.”

 “As one of the nation’s most trusted sources for news and public affairs programming, PBS is pleased shine a light on the important role this community will play in our upcoming democratic process,” said Perry Simon, PBS Chief Programming Executive and General Manager of General Audience Programming. 

Part of the PBS election and democracy special programming premiering this fall, both films will be available on PBS, pbs.org and the PBS Video app.

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Los Angeles – The Imagen Foundation President Helen Hernandez today announced 114 nominees in 20 categories for this year’s 35^th Annual Imagen Awards. The award show has expanded by adding three new categories: Best Director in Television, Best Music Composition for Film and Television and Best Music Supervision for Film and Television. The Imagen Awards will be presented virtually Thursday, September 24^th, at 5 PM.

“This year’s list of nominees is a far cry from four honorees 35 years ago,” said Hernandez. “The level of creativity and talent in our community is bountiful and is exemplified in this year’s list. The judges were challenged with the overwhelming increase of quality submissions for consideration. It’s clear that we are making some strides, but have a way to go to achieve significant equity and inclusion in the industry. Until then, Imagen is committed to be the means to elevate and profile Latino talent in front of and behind the camera. Congratulations to this year’s nominees.”

The many years of continuous effort to spotlight and celebrate diversity in the entertainment industry has positioned the Foundation as a leader in distinguishing actors, studios, executives, and many more for their exceptional performances and achievements in film and television.

The Imagen Awards program was established in 1985 from a suggestion by veteran television producer Norman Lear to encourage and recognize the positive portrayals of Latinos in the media. The Foundation expanded its programs and initiatives to further its mission to serve as a bridge between the Latino community and the entertainment industry in providing access, education and resources for Latinos in the industry, as well as those seeking careers in entertainment.

The complete list of 35^th Annual Imagen Awards nominations follows:

The Theatrical Motion Pictures Nominees are:

Best Feature Film

• Dora and the Lost City of Gold (Paramount Pictures)
• I Carry You with Me (Black Bear Pictures, Loki Films, The Population, Zafiro Cinema and Sony Pictures Classics)
• Las Pildoras de mi Novio (Pantelion Films and Lionsgate; Fuego Films, Pantelion Films, Traziende Films, ECABA)
• Sergio (Netflix; Black Rabbit Media, Anima Pictures and Itapoan Productions for Netflix)

Best Director – Feature Film

• James Bobin, Dora and the Lost City of Gold (Paramount Pictures)
• Heidi Ewing, I Carry You with Me (Black Bear Pictures, Loki Films, The Population, Zafiro Cinema and Sony Pictures Classics) 
• Andy Muschietti, IT Chapter Two (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Best Actor – Feature Film

• Jaime Camil, Las Pildoras de mi Novio (Pantelion Films and Lionsgate; Fuego Films, Pantelion Films, Traziende Films, ECABA)
• Eugenio Derbez, Dora and the Lost City of Gold (Paramount Pictures) 
• Armando Espitia, I Carry You with Me (Black Bear Pictures, Loki Films, The Population, Zafiro Cinema and Sony Pictures Classics) 
• Michael Garza, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Lionsgate, CBS Films, eOne)
• Al Madrigal, The Way Back (Warner Bros. Pictures) 
• Adrian Martinez, Lady and The Tramp (Disney+; Disney+/Taylor Made) 
• Wagner Moura, Sergio (Netflix; Black Rabbit Media, Anima Pictures and Itapoan Productions for Netflix)

Best Actress – Feature Film

• Ana de Armas, Knives Out (Lionsgate) 
• Priscilla Star Diaz, Release (HollyHood Productions, Inc.)
• Sandra Echeverría, Las Pildoras de mi Novio (Pantelion Films and Lionsgate; Fuego Films, Pantelion Films, Traziende Films, ECABA)
• Eiza Gonzalez, Bloodshot (Sony Pictures Entertainment Columbia Pictures)
• Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers (STXfilms, Gloria Sanchez Productions, Nuyorican Productions) 
• Isabela Moner, Dora and the Lost City of Gold (Paramount Pictures)

The Television Nominees are:

Best Primetime Program: Drama

• Good Trouble (Freeform; Freeform in association with Nuyorican Productions, Blazing Elm Entertainment and JJ Prods) 
• Law & Order: SVU (NBC; Wolf Entertainment & Universal Television)
• Mayans M.C. (FX Network; Fox 21 Television Studios & FX Productions)
• Narcos: Mexico (Netflix; Gaumont International Television for Netflix)
• Pose (FX Network; Fox 21 Television Studios & FX Productions)
• Queen of the South (USA Network; Fox 21 Television Studios and UCP)

Best Primetime Program: Comedy

• ANA (Pantaya; Viacom International Studios)
• El juego de las llaves (Pantaya; Pantaya, Corazón Films and Amazon Prime)
• Gentefied (Netflix; Netflix)
• Little America (Apple TV+; Apple / Universal Television)
• Mr. Iglesias (Netflix; Netflix)
• One Day at a Time (Pop TV; Sony Pictures Television, Act III Productions, GloNation, Snowpants Productions)

Best Primetime Program: Special, Movie or Limited Series

• Collisions (Fuse; Widdershins Film, Mitchell Street Pictures, Don’t Foam)
• Into the Dark: Culture Shock (Hulu; Hulu / Blumhouse Television) 
• Live in Front of a Studio Audience: “All in the Family” and “Good Times” (ABC; Sony Pictures Television, Act III Productions, Kimmelot, Gary Sanchez Productions, Simpson Street, D’Arconville)

Best Director – Television

• Miguel Arteta, Room 104 (HBO; HBO in association with Duplass Brothers Productions) 
• Norberto Barba, Better Call Saul (AMC; High Bridge Productions; AMC)
• Steven Canals, Pose (FX Network; Fox 21 Television Studios & FX Productions) 
• Aurora Guerrero, Little America (Apple TV+; Apple / Universal Television) 
• Gigi Saul Guerrero, Into the Dark: Culture Shock (Hulu; Hulu / Blumhouse Television)
• Ben Hernandez Bray, Queen of the South (USA Network; Breakout Kings Productions, LLC) 
• Tanya Saracho, Vida (STARZ; Big Beach and Chingona Productions in association with Starz Originals) 
• Batan Silva, Law & Order: SVU (NBC; Wolf Entertainment & Universal Television)

Best Actor – Television

• Arturo Castro, Flipped (Quibi; Funny or Die / Quibi) 
• Jesse Garcia, Collisions (Fuse; Widdershins Film, Mitchell Street Pictures, Don’t Foam)
• Gabriel Iglesias, Mr. Iglesias (Netflix; Netflix)
• Diego Luna, Narcos: Mexico (Netflix; Gaumont International Television for Netflix) 
• JD Pardo, Mayans M.C. (FX Networks; Fox 21 Television Studios & FX Productions) 
• Carlos Santos, Gentefied (Netflix; Netflix) 
• J.J. Soria, Gentefied (Netflix; Netflix)

Best Actress – Television

• Alice Braga, Queen of the South (USA Network; Fox 21 Television Studios and UCP) 
• Jearnest Corchado, Little America (Apple TV+; Apple / Universal Television) 
• Justina Machado, Family Pictures (Lifetime; Lifetime Pictures) 
• Justina Machado, One Day at a Time (Pop TV; Sony Pictures Television, Act III Productions, GloNation, Snowpants Productions) 
• Mishel Prada, Vida (STARZ; Big Beach and Chingona Productions in association with Starz Originals) 
• Mj Rodriguez, Pose (FX Network; Fox 21 Television Studios & FX Productions) 
• Gina Torres, Pearson (USA Network; UCP)

Best Supporting Actor – Television

• Arturo Castro, Room 104 (HBO; HBO in association with Duplass Brothers Productions) 
• Guillermo Diaz, Law & Order: SVU (NBC; Wolf Entertainment & Universal Television) 
• Fabrizio Guido, Mr. Iglesias (Netflix; Netflix) 
• Julio Macias, On My Block (Netflix; Netflix) 
• Hemky Madera, Queen of the South (USA Network; Plural Entertainment) 
• Edward James Olmos, Mayans M.C. (FX Network; Fox 21 Television Studios & FX Productions) 
• John Ortiz, Little America (Apple TV+; Apple / Universal Television)

Best Supporting Actress – Television

• Lisseth Chavez, Chicago P.D. (NBC; Wolf Entertainment & Universal Television)
• Cote De Pablo, N.C.I.S. (CBS; Belisarius Productions in association with CBS Television Studios) 
• Melissa Fumero, Elena of Avalor (Disney Junior; Disney Television Animation) 
• Isabella Gomez, One Day at a Time (Pop TV; Sony Pictures Television, Act III Productions, GloNation, Snowpants Productions) 
• Rita Moreno, One Day at a Time (Pop TV; Sony Pictures Television, Act III Productions, GloNation, Snowpants Productions) 
• Manni Perez, Law & Order: SVU (NBC; Wolf Entertainment & Universal Television) 
• Chelsea Rendon, Vida (STARZ; Big Beach and Chingona Productions in association with Starz Originals)
• Cristina Umaña, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan (Prime Video; Paramount Television and Amazon Studios)

Best Young Actor – Television

• Izabella Alvarez, The Casagrandes (Nickelodeon, Nickelodeon) 
• Izabella Alvarez, Collisions (Fuse; Widdershins Film, Mitchell Street Pictures, Don’t Foam) 
• Isaac Arellanes, Ghostwriter (Apple TV+; Apple / Sesame Workshop / Sinking Ship Entertainment) 
• Paulina Chávez, Ashley Garcia: Genius in Love (Netflix; Netflix) 
• Tess Romero, Diary of a Future President (Disney+; CBS Television Studios) 
• Justin Sanchez, Ghostwriter (Apple TV+; Apple / Sesame Workshop / Sinking Ship Entertainment)

Best Variety or Reality Show

• America’s Most Musical Family (Nickelodeon; IPC)
• De viaje con los Derbez (Pantaya; Pantaya, Amazon Studios, World-wide)
• Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted (National Geographic; Studio Ramsay and Objective Media Group, An ALL3 Media Group Company for National Geographic)
• Jerry Garcia: It’s Not My Weekend (HBO Latino; Viva Pictures Distribution LLC)
• Pati’s Mexican Table (WETA Washington, DC / Distributed nationally by American Public Television; Mexican Table, WETA Washington, DC, and FRANK.)
• Total Bellas (E!; Bunim/Murray Productions, E! Entertainment)

Best Children’s Programming

• Ashley Garcia: Genius in Love (Netflix; Netflix)
• The Casagrandes (Nickelodeon; Nickelodeon)
• DuckTales (Disney Channel; Disney Television Animation)
• Elena of Avalor (Disney Junior; Disney Television Animation)
• Ghostwriter (Apple TV+; Apple / Sesame Workshop / Sinking Ship Entertainment)
• Sesame Street’s 50^th Anniversary Special (HBO; HBO in association with NYC Filmgree, Sesame Workshop and Sesame Street)
• Vampirina (Disney Junior; Brown Bag Entertainment)

Additional Nominees are:  

Best Informational Program

• Activate: The Global Citizen Movement – “Education Cannot Wait” (National Geographic; Produced by RadicalMedia and Global Citizen for National Geographic)
• Dylan Reales: El Loco Del Palo (Golf Channel; Golf Channel)
• Life Connected (NBC; KNBC-TV)
• SC Reportajes: Caballitos de Totora (ESPN Deportes; ESPN Productions Inc.)
• VICE News Tonight (HBO; HBO Entertainment in association with Vice and Bill Maher Productions)
• VOCES: Raul Julia: The World’s a Stage (PBS; Latino Public Broadcasting, PBS SoCal)
• Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas (HBO; HBO in association with Amalgamated Bear, Sixteen String Jack Productions and Avalon)

Best Documentary

• Colossus (Fuse; Campanario, Perimeter Pictures)
• The First Rainbow Coalition (PBS; Latino Public Broadcasting, Nantes Media, LLC, Good Docs, ITVS)
• Home: Mexico (Apple TV+; Apple / MediaWeaver / Four M Studios / Altimeter Films)
• POV: The Silence of Others (PBS; Semilla Verde Productions, Lucernam Films, American Best Documentary | POV, Independent Television Service (ITVS) and Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB), in association with El Deseo, with funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).)
• Sea of Shadows (National Geographic; Terra Mater Factual Studios in association with Appian Way, Malaika Pictures, The Wild Lens Collective for National Geographic Best Documentary Films)
• Torn Apart: Separated at the Border (HBO; HBO Best Documentary Films in association with Talos Films)
• VOCES: Porvenir, Texas (PBS; Latino Public Broadcasting, PBS SoCal)

Best Commercial Advertisement or Social Awareness Campaign

• Chain of Heroes (Orci Studios)
• DIY Girls (Orci Studios)
• Entre Latinos (AmericaFilmWorks)
• Hazte Contar (Green Power Media, Sandblast Productions)

Best Music Composition for Film or TV

• Andrés Sanchez Maher, Gus Reyes, and Emilio Acevedo, Los Espookys (HBO; HBO in association with Mas Mejor, Antigravico and Broadway Video)
• Angélica Negrón, Independent Lens (PBS series Independent Lens; Nantes Media, LLC)
• Joey Newman, Diary of a Future President (Disney+; I Can & I Will Productions, CBS TV Studios)

Best Music Supervision for Film or TV

• Janet Lopez, Diary of a Future President (Disney+, CBS Television Studios)
• Javier Índice Nuño and Joe Rodriguez, Los Espookys (HBO, HBO in association with Mas Mejor, Antigravico and Broadway Video)

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It has long been known through academic studies that fair representation in media matters because that is where people get their beliefs as to who we are, what we are, and how much we are worth. American Latinos, other people of color, LGBTQ people and women, can only thrive in a society where we are authentically represented in film, television, radio, digital media and newspapers. But that is not the case in “liberal” Hollywood. It continues to make films and television shows with white male leads, adding truth to Trump’s vision of who the “real Americans” are in our country.

Historically marginalized communities are grossly under and misrepresented in media. The numbers speak for themselves. It is not for a lack of talent, but a lack of opportunity that is so pervasive that in 2015 the ACLU sought a state and federal investigation into the discriminatory practices at Hollywood’s major studios, networks, and talent agencies, which it deemed a violation of civil rights.

Given President Trump’s divisive, anti-immigrant policies and racist rhetoric, representation in media matters now more than ever. Trump has repeatedly insulted and dehumanized American Latinos, immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQ Americans and women for nearly three years, emboldening radical, white nationalist groups, and inciting intolerance and hate against the “others”, the non-real Americans, us, almost 40% of the nation.

Latinos currently makeup 18.3% of the U.S. population, have a purchasing power of $1.5 trillion dollars, and buy 24% of all tickets sold at the box office, which allows Hollywood to achieve its significant margin. Yet, according to a recent study from USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative out of 1,200 popular films released between 2007 and 2018, only 3% featured Latino leads or co-leads. As Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times culture columnist and critic, recently pointed out that even the USC initiative itself faced criticism in January for leaving Latinos out of its ‘Inclusion in the Director’s Chair’ study, which broke down statistics for black, Asian and female directors.” (This was the second time, Stacy Smith, associate professor of communication, and founder and director of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, has left Latinos out of her studies).

That sharp criticism McNamara refers to came from an NHMC January 8, 2019 press release which Alex Nogales, NHMC President and CEO, argued that the exclusion of Latinos in the USC director’s study, as well as the Los Angeles Times failing to question why Latinos were left out of the discussion, sends the message and perception that Latinos are non-existent and not worthy of being included, even when they are excluded. 

Thomas A. Saenz, MALDEF President & General Counsel and National Latino Media Council (NLMC) Chairman, also stated in the release that “inexplicably omitting the nation’s largest minority group from this report is the exact opposite of inclusion; it is academic apartheid that should have no place at any reputable scholarly institution, particularly in the very Latino city of Los Angeles. The L.A. Times and the so-called Annenberg Inclusion Initiative are complicit in suppressing the extreme and unacceptable exclusion of Latinos in the entertainment industry, and in serving a naked Trumpian agenda.”

Consequently, the NHMC, Saenz, and other top Latino national leaders met with top editors of the Los Angeles Times who verbally promised coverage that is more inclusive, accurate and authentic of the American Latino community, and pledged to meet again in the fall of this year to discuss how the Times can be more engaged with the Latino community.

In the fall of 2018, NHMC demonstrated against Paramount Pictures twice for having the worst record amongst the six major film studios in hiring Latinos in its workforce. After extensive research, NHMC announced in a press conference that none of the twelve Paramount Pictures films in 2016 featured any Latino directors, writers, or lead actors, and of the top 100 grossing films in 2017, eight produced by Paramount, none of Paramount’s films featured any Latino writers or lead actors. Only two months after NHMC’s last protest against the studio, on February 20, 2019, Paramount’s Chairman and CEO, Jim Gianopulos, announced a historic initiative that includes promoting diversity and inclusion across the studio’s film, television and animated storylines, vendors, shooting locations and crews. The initiative was the first of its kind since Paramount was founded over 105 years ago. NHMC’s actions prove that boycotts and demonstrations work, and NHMC and its allies will use them more often to get positive results.

When Netflix canceled the critically acclaimed American Latino sitcom One Day at a Time in 2018, NHMC was the lead signatory of an open letter endorsed by fifteen other civil rights organizations nationwide, urging the studio to renew the series for season three. It did. Although the show was later canceled by Netflix because, according to it, the viewership did not justify the cost of another season. (Netflix did not reveal the cost of the program nor its viewership numbers). Fortunately, One Day at a Time was saved by PopTV in part because of its loyal fan base and because executives at the TV channel felt it was a “show to be proud of.”

Institutional change in Hollywood will occur not just by mounted and longtime pressure of national civil rights groups and activists, but also with the top studios and networks understanding that demographics in the U.S. have shifted, and continuing to do stories about white people, with a majority of white males in them, is prejudicial and financially small-minded when you consider the huge population of people of color and other marginalized groups in the U.S..

The Change will come when studios and networks allow people of marginalized groups to give voice to the stories they know and experience, who also know great writers, actors and directors across the nation. Failure to do so puts these studios in complicity with the president who disregards the marginalized and call on “real Americans” to follow his racist lead. His followers don’t know us and of course believe the prejudices the president preaches.

Studio and television executives must be willing to shatter decades-old myths that white leads are the only actors who will make money, and employ and cast women and people of color. They must be willing to lose money on many Latino-focused projects in order to gain money on the successful ones. They must be willing to allow Latino-focused projects to potentially fail as they have consistently done for generations with hundreds of movies with white leads and co-leads. They must be willing to hire talented Latinos in decision-making roles so that they, in turn, help create authentic, three-dimensional stories that speak to diverse audiences and their demands.

As McNamara eloquently stated, “Hollywood likes to play it safe, even though safe has led not only to a monochromatic landscape but all the various financial issues currently plaguing the entertainment industry. You want a bigger audience? Broaden the stories you tell.”

NHMC is strongly urging Hollywood executives to be all-inclusive in their hiring practices, and recognize that the negative and stereotypical images of people of color and women seen on the big and small screens impact people’s identites and sense of self. Seeing positive portrayals of American Latinos in media will allow more people throughout the U.S. to view Latinos – immigrants included – as hard-working contributors to our economy, culture and society. 

Some of these executives are not believers of diversity and inclusion, but at the very least, will accept that diversity benefits the bottom line, as evidenced in the successful films and television shows such as Coco, Black Panther, Crazy Rich Asians, Empire and One Day at a Time. Providing content that aligns with the growing, more diverse audiences will help these big studios save money in the end, instead of losing it.

As always, NHMC will continue to stand firm and demand change in Hollywood, patiently and sometimes impatiently, moving the needle one bit at a time. But, real, widespread change can only happen with the collaboration of Hollywood’s top leaders allowing change to occur, shaping the behaviors and opinions about the “others” through its content. This has been NHMC’s key message since its founding in 1986, and as Alex Nogales has stated then and now, “Hollywood, sooner or later you’re going to have to face the consequences of exclusion, and that’s beginning to happen now. I don’t want to tell you that I told you so, but I told you so!”

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Los Angeles, CA — CCNMA Latino Journalists of California and LA Plaza De Cultura Y Artes present Straight Talk with Media pioneer Frank Cruz at 7:00 p.m., open-to-the-public event in LA Plaza’s courtyard – 501 North Main St., downtown Los Angeles.

Join a panel of reporters who will interview veteran journalist and Telemundo Co-founder and media executive Frank Cruz regarding his groundbreaking careers in education, social reporting, and television station and network ownership.

Free Event — Open to the Public

How Cruz and partner Joe Wallach assembled the coast-to-coast Telemundo network in less than 12 months is certainly one for the record books.  And in a more poignant mood, his new memoir, “Straight Out of Barrio Hollywood,” Cruz begs the question — When history repeats itself, must it always come down on the backs of the least powerful?

“When I started the project of writing my memoir, I enjoyed correcting the various legends about how Telemundo was started.  But what I didn’t expect, was how upsetting it has been to recount many of the issues I reported on back in the ‘70s and ‘80s which still plague our society today,” said Cruz.

The memoir leads with Cruz in Congress defending the Corporation for Public Broadcasting from an assault by Contract for America supporters, hell-bent on deleting a federal budget line item for the non-profit Cruz chaired that supports 1400 television and radio stations nationwide.

Cruz then harkens back to his roots in the poorest of neighborhoods in Tucson, Arizona, Barrio Hollywood, which he sites as the foundation for his groundbreaking careers in higher education, investigative reporting, Spanish-language television station and network ownership, as well as public broadcasting leadership.

Whether recalling darting under cars with fellow reporter Christine Lund to avoid the barrage of bullets at the SLA Shootout in Los Angeles, speaking to then-KNBC-TV helicopter pilot Francis Gary Powers for the last time on-air just prior to his fatal crash, or shepherding CCNMA and Latino Public Broadcasting, Cruz offers a unique perspective on numerous major events.

Latino leaders from Jorge Ramos to Xavier Becerra hail Cruz for filling a void of trailblazer stories which are needed to flesh out the historical record of the Chicano Movement of the sixties as a precursor to the Latino Wave. “If you want to understand us, read this book,” encourages Jorge Ramos. The memoir is a recent award winner at the International Latino Book Awards.

July 16th, La Plaza De Cultura Y Artes
501 North Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012

For more details, contact:
Cruzmemoir@cox.net or call (760) 908-4717

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