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In California, a new study has found that Latinos are more likely to living in neighborhoods where the air is polluted. According to the Environmental Working Group, Latino neighborhoods in California experience air pollution levels 36% higher than in predominately white neighborhoods. And the agriculture rich California Central Valley asthma rates have been on the rise. While the disease crosses all racial and socio-economic boundaries, some doctors say it's taking an especially heavy toll on the regions Latinos. Tamara Keith reports from Fresno.

Music, mambo, memories, and movement in New York City in the 1940s and 50s, we take you back to the glory days of the Palladium Ballroom. The ballroom was located at the corner of 53rd Street and Broadway in New York City. And from the late 1940's until it closed in 1963 it was known among Latin music fans as 'The Home of the Mambo.' In 1993 Latino USA's Mandalit del Barco wrote and produced a radio documentary on the Palladium Ballroom with then WNYC producer David Carp. Here's an excerpt from that program. It originally aired as part of National Public Radio's Horizon radio series.

'The Home of the Mambo' was perhaps the first night club in New York City to blend be-bop, jazz orchestrations, and Afro-Caribbean rhythms for an audience of Puerto Ricans, African Americans, Italians, and Jews. Director Kevin Kaufman's latest film is a documentary called 'The Palladium: Where Mambo was King' its airing on the Bravo cable network on August 30th and NPR's Felix Contreras has our special report.