More than 60 percent of Latinos in some Central Valley counties are still not vaccinated. The numbers are even more dramatic for younger folks, especially teens and those in their 20s and for indigenous farmworkers. Now former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, along with famed Ranchera singer Carmencristina Moreno and other musical groups, are trying to get the word out through original songs, radio dramas, and poems in Spanish, English, and Mixteco. Sasha talks with Hugo Morales, founder of Radio Bilingüe, and Amy Kitchener, of the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, about the new campaign, with excerpts from the music and poetry.
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Many of us are still rocked by the siege of the Capitol, and some of us are anxious about the upcoming inauguration. But a lot of Californians are getting ready to celebrate. Our state is about to send the first woman of color to the White House. The whole world will be watching next week as Kamala Harris is sworn in as our next Vice President. But there’s one person who will be tuning in who says he owes his life to her. The California Report’s health correspondent April Dembosky brings us his story.
The pandemic has been making things more challenging for schools that serve some of the newest Californians: Guatemalan immigrants who speak a Mayan language called Mam. Maria Aguilar grew up speaking it, but she says back in Guatemala in the 1980s, her teachers would punish her and other students for talking in Mam, and tell them to speak Spanish instead. Aguilar never had an interpreter to help bridge the language divide, but today that’s exactly what she’s doing in Oakland,