Week # 18-93, Air Date 5/2/1993 - 5/8/1993

Feature Segment A:

NPR Reporter and Latino U.S.A. Host Maria Hinojosa recently spoke with a group of Latino journalists who regularly cover Washington D.C. politics. The topic: Latinos and the Clinton Administration. 3:59

Feature Segment B:

#18: Alberto Aguilar visited the principally Latino Pico Union district of Los Angeles. He reports that area residents, many of them Central American immigrants, still have not recovered from the violence and destruction of the civil disturbances of the spring of 1992. 6:30

#2B: Excerpt from remarks by California State University Professor Gloria Romero, chair of the Hispanic Advisory Council of the Los Angeles Police Commission. Romero's remarks are from a speech at a recent conference of the National Association of Chicano Studies in San Jose, California. Romero reflects on the civil disturbances which began on April 29, 1992 in Los Angeles. 1:33

Feature Segment C:

#1 C: Mandalit Del Barco reports on new cultural curricula now presented on the popular public television program 'Sesame Street', targeting minority viewers. This year, the program is making an extra effort to target Latino children in order to increase their self esteem. 4:08

#2C: Latino U.S.A. production interns Laura Varela and Arthur Dungan present an audio essay on the Mexican-American celebration of Cinco de Mayo. The holiday commemorates a battle fought in Puebla, Mexico, on May 5. 1862. However, the producers found that many of those who celebrate the holiday are unaware of its historical significance. v.o. 2:40 and music to 4:25