Week # Air Date, 8/31/2008

Segment #1 3WAY MISSISSIPPI RAIDS

Latino USA's Maria Hinojosa speaks with Bill Chandler, executive director of the Mississippi Immigrants' Rights Alliance and one of the Postville, Iowa translators. Erik Camayd-Freixas, about the detainment of nearly 600 immigrants at a local plant Laurel, Mississippi. (Self-contained 0:00)

Segment #2 2WAY ELIZABETH FUSSELL

Latino USA's Maria Hinojosa speaks with Washington State University sociologist Dr. Elizabeth Fussell about changing demographic trends in New Orleans. (Self-contained 0:00)

Segment #3: Commentary: CHANGING NEW ORLEANS

Latino USA commentator Jose Torres Tama reflects on reconstruction in a changing New Orleans. (0:00)

Segment #4: GRUPO FOLKLORICO

Recently, on a hot humid Saturday afternoon in Washington DC...Latin music history was made...again. At the Smithsonian Folklife Festival...a handful of the original members from the seminal Afro Caribbean ensemble Grupo Folkloriko y Expirimental Nuevayorquino reunited to play music that, after three decades, still has the power to move hearts and hips. Latino USA contributor Felix Contreras was there and has our report. (0:00)