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This week’s program brings poetry, laughter, joy, history and music.  We celebrate Capoeira being officially declared a Brazilian national hertitage with “Postcards from Brazil” by Julieta Kusnir. We walk the “Streets of Aztlan” with Mr. Chuch. We hear Avotcja‘s very latest poem and hear Milta Ortiz discuss “My Red Underwear : the Godess Remix” with Nina Serrano. Vanessa Bohm brings us headlines from the Americas in “News sin Fronteras“. It’s all swimming in a sea of musica.

Hosted by Nina Serrano.

PLAY NOW:
La Raza Chronicles – July 29, 2008 – stream @ KPFA FM

Mp3 / iTunes podcast:
La Raza Chronicles – Tuesday, July 29, 2008

La Raza Chronicles/Cronicas de la Raza is
broadcast live on the air every Tuesday 7 pm PST:

KPFA 94.1 FM – San Francisco Bay/Northern California
KPFB 89.3 FM – Berkeley
KFCF 88.1 FM – Fresno

Listen live on the web at: http://www.kpfa.org/

More info:
http://www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?show=16

This week’s program brings poetry, laughter, joy, history and music. 
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Tonight, La Raza Chronicles presents a special program focusing on the iconic, legendary and revolutionary Mexican painter, Frida Kahlo, through conversation, poetry, music and sound mix.

Vanessa Bohm quotes Frida on News Sin Fronteras,
Mr. Chuch brings her through the Streets of Aztlan,
Nina Serrano discuses the Frida Kahlo current exhibit at the SF MOMA with curator, John Zarobell; Rafael Jesus Gonzalez recounts his first encounter with a Frida Kahlo painting, and Adrian Arias reads his new Poem “Frida at the Mirror.”

You will hear one of her favorite songs “La Llorona” in a post-modern version by Omar Sosa and Greg Landau.

Hosted by Nina Serrano.

PLAY NOW:

Audio stream -KPFA:
La Raza Chronicles – July 22, 2008 – stream @ KPFA FM

Mp3 / iTunes Podcast:
La Raza Chronicles – Tuesday, July 22, 2008 – Mp3

More info:
http://kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=27468

Tonight’s program presents:

• Vanessa Bohm with News Sin Fronteras: the headlines from the Americas
• Mr. Chuch with Streets of Aztlan focusing on El Salvador
• Nina Serrano with interviews of Alexis Stoumbelis of CISPES about the the US ambassador’s admission of US intervention in the 2004 Salvadoran election,
  and Fernando Torres of La Pena Cultural Center about La Pena’s history and activities. This includes a bonus sampling of his music group, Grupo Raiz, playing a song based on a poem by Puerto Rican former political prisoner, Lolita Lebron.
• Emiliano Echeverria with musical offerings from Cuba in the 20’s and 30’s with interesting historical commentary.
• Another bonus is Nina Serrano’s new English translation of Salvadoran poet Roque Dalton‘s poem, O.A.S.

Hosted by Nina Serrano.

PLAY NOW:
La Raza Chronicles – July 15, 2008 – stream @ KPFA FM

Mp3 / iTunes Podcast:
La Raza Chronicles – Tuesday, July 15, 2008 – Mp3

more info:
http://kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=27350

Tonight’s program presents:

News sin Fronteras with Vannessa Baum;

Special commentary on Venezuela, and on Ingrid Bentancourt;

Conversation with special guest Fernando Torres on the La Pena Cultural Center , and his music with Groupo Raiz.

We’ll cruise the Streets of Aztlan with Mr. Chuch, hear the new hip hop music from Latin America with Somos Hip Hop en Espanol, from DJ Illegal
and hear Litcrawl News and a celebration of Latino Poetry.

Hosted by Nina Serrano.

PLAY NOW:

Audio stream -KPFA:
La Raza Chronicles – July 8, 2008 – audio stream

Mp3 / iTunes Podcast:
La Raza Chronicles – Tuesday, July 8, 2008 – Mp3

more program info:
http://kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=27232

Tonight’s program presents a conversation with Salvadorean filmmaker Jorge Dalton, son of Roque Dalton.

Hosted by Nina Serrano.

PLAY NOW:

Audio stream -KPFA:
La Raza Chronicles – July 1, 2008 – audio stream

Mp3 / iTunes Podcast:
La Raza Chronicles – Tuesday, July 1, 2008 – Mp3

more program info:
http://kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=27115