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We aired a part 2 of the interview that featured Danny reading even more excerpts from his new book and we also featured more songs from his record label. Now, its up so check it out! Tony Diaz El Librotraficante, interviews Dany Trejo about his new book: "Trejo: My Life of Crime: Redemption, and Hollywood" featuring Danny reading from his book, music from his record label, including Houston's own Baby Bash, and Danny's potent point of view. Air Date: Tuesday, July 13, 2021. Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say On The Air. 90.1 FM KPFT Houston, Texas. More episodes at www.NuestraPalabra.org. The Nuestra Palabra Radio Show is archived at the University of Houston Digital Archives. Our hard copy archives are kept at the Houston Public Library’s Special Collections Hispanic Archives. KPFT hosts a monopoly on community cultural capital. We answer to our community. Please budget a donation to KPFT, and make it in support of Nuestra Palabra today. Visit www.kpft.org.

The #LatinoBookStore #TAS Texas Author Series every first Friday features a lineup cultivated by Mouthfeel Press (MFP). As a preview, Tony Diaz features several of the talented artists of Mouthfeel Press including: Liliana Valenzuela is the author of the poetry collections Codex of Love: Bendita ternura (FlowerSong Press, 2020) and Codex of Journeys: Bendito camino (Mouthfeel Press, 2013). Her poetry and essays have been widely anthologized, most recently in Latinas: An Anthology of Struggles & Protests in 21st Century USA. Valenzuela is also the acclaimed Spanish language translator of works by Cristina García, Julia Alvarez, Denise Chávez, and many other writers. Her most recent translation is Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo, by Sandra Cisneros. And this fall, Vintage Español will publish her translation of Sandra Cisneros’ new poetry collection, Woman Without Shame/Mujer sin vergüenza. A CantoMundo and Macondo fellow, she collaborates with the Hablemos, escritoras podcast. Valenzuela is curr

#LibrotraficanteX The 10th Anniversary of the Librotraficante Caravan Saturday, March 12, 2022 Casa Ramirez Folk Art Gallery, Houston, Tejas Happy Mexica New Year Thank you for joining us to launch the next chapter This is a Nuestra Palabra: Multi Platform Broadcast Share the FB Live Stream, hear it on the Nuestra Palabra Radio Show on 90.1 FM KPFT watch it www.Fox26Houston.Com MC: writer and activist Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante • Caravan Co-Founders: Filmmaker Bryan Parras, Texas Poet Laureate Lupe Mendez, Multimedia artist Liana Lopez, Education Consultant Laura Razo, Writer and activist Tony Diaz. • Multi Media Platforms – Introduced by Liana Lopez • Caravanistas – Introduced by Lupe Mendez • NP Board Members – Introduced by Bryan Parras with a memorium • Umbrella Groups, NP Chapters, Under Ground Libraries – Introduced by Tony Diaz • BANF Executive Dir. Sixto Wagan & BANF Steering Comm Members Long Chu & Tony Diaz • Texas State Representative Christina Morales, who championed HB 1504. Next chapter:

Nuestra Palabra Presents Poetry Spotlight with 2022 Texas Poet Laureate Lupe Mendez; listen to him from his book "WHY I AM LIKE TEQUILA" and from his new writings. This is a Nuestra Palabra Multi-Platform Broadcast across social media. You can hear us on 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston's Community Station. You can watch us at www.Fox26Houston.com Originally from Galveston, TX, Lupe Mendez (Writer // Educator // Activist) is the author WHY I AM LIKE TEQUILA (Willow Books, 2019), winner of the 2019 John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters. He is the founder of Tintero Projects which works with emerging Latinx writers and other writers of color within the Texas Gulf Coast Region, with Houston as its hub. Lupe earned his Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Texas @ El Paso. Mendez’s work can been seen in print and online formats including the Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast Journal, the Texas Review, the L.A. Review of Books, Split This Rock, Poetry Magazine and Poem-A-D

We interview Lesley Briones, Candidate for Harris County Commissioners County Precinct and her vision for the area and her constituents. Additionally, Is Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Against Mexican American History? Dan Patrick recently held a press conference attacking job security for professors at Texas public universities. He also proposed going after professors who teach Critical Race Theory. This mumbo jumbo is vague for Kindergarten through 12th grade, where CRT is not taught. However, Patrick has crossed the border of higher education where the book "Critical Race Theory" can be part of a course, especially at higher levels. Worse, Patrick needs to clarify if he believes Mexican American History and African American HIstory count as CRT in his opinion. Is he attacking Mexican American History and African American History? These are the topics that get swept up in rambling definitions of CRT. So Dan Patrick needs to reveal if he thinks Mexican American and African American History fall int

Nuestra Palabra Presents our latest supercut of some of the amazing readings, poetry, prose, y musica from the last few months! Thanks to Roxana Guzman, Multiplatform Producer Rodrigo Bravo, Jr., Audio Producer Radame Ortiez, SEO Director Marc-Antony Piñón, Graphics Designer Leti Lopez, Music Director Bryan Parras, co-host and producer emeritus Liana Lopez, co-host and producer emeritus Lupe Mendez, Texas Poet Laureate, co-host, and producer emeritus Writer and activist Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante, hosts Latino Politics and News and the Nuestra Palabra Radio Show on 90.1 FM, KPFT, Houston’s Community Station. He is also a political analyst on “What’s Your Point?” on Fox 26 Houston. He is the author of the forthcoming book: The Tip of the Pyramid: Cultivating Community Cultural Capital. www.Librotraficante.com www.NuestraPalabra.org www.TonyDiaz.net Instrumental Music Produced courtesy of Bayden Records Website | baydenrecords.beatstars.com

This is a Nuestra Palabra Multi-Platform Broadcast across social media. You can hear us on 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston's Community Station. You can watch us at www.Fox26Houston.com Hosted by Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante The Latino Bookstore & Gift Shop is proud to launch its Texas Author Series Friday, April 1, 2022. We will spotlight a Texas Latino author every first Friday after that. We are thrilled to kick off this series with best-selling Latina author Reyna Grande with her new novel A Ballad of Love and Glory. As a girl, she crossed the US– México border to join her family in Los Angeles, a harrowing journey chronicled in The Distance Between Us, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Her other books include the novels Across a Hundred Mountains and Dancing with Butterflies, and the memoirs The Distance Between Us: Young Reader’s Edition and A Dream Called Home. Featured on Oprah's Book Club, NPR's Morning Edition, the BBC, CNN, Univision, and The New York Times, among others, Reyna Grande has be

NP Poetry Spotlight: Roberto Tejada & Rodrigo Toscano: Houston & New Orleans This is a Nuestra Palabra Multi-Platform Broadcast across social media. You can hear us on 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston's Community Station. You can watch us at www.Fox26Houston.com Hosted by Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante Roberto Tejada is the author of poetry collections Why the Assembly Disbanded (2022), Todo en el ahora (2015), Full Foreground (2012), Exposition Park (2010), and Mirrors for Gold (2006), as well as Still Nowhere in an Empty Vastness (2019), a LatinX poetics on colonial settlement and cultural counter-conquest in art and literature of the Americas. His writings on art and media history include the books National Camera: Photography and Mexico’s Image Environment (2009) and Celia Alvarez Muñoz (2009), as well as catalog essays in Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980 (Hammer Museum, 2011) and Allora & Calzadilla: Specters of Noon (The Menil Collection, 2021). Tejada’s writing spans method, discipline, and f

Special Broadcast: Is Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Against Mexican American History? Dan Patrick recently held a press conference attacking job security for professors at Texas public universities. He also proposed going after professors who teach Critical Race Theory. This mumbo jumbo is vague for Kindergarten through 12th grade, where CRT is not taught. However, Patrick has crossed the border of higher education where the book "Critical Race Theory" can be part of a course, especially at higher levels. Worse, Patrick needs to clarify if he believes Mexican American History and African American HIstory count as CRT in his opinion. Is he attacking Mexican American History and African American History? These are the topics that get swept up in rambling definitions of CRT. So Dan Patrick needs to reveal if he thinks Mexican American and African American History fall into his definition of CRT. https://www.tonydiaz.net/blog/does-gop-tx-lt-gov-dan-patrick-consider-mas-crt Host Tony Diaz, El Librotraf

Nuestra Palabra Presents Poetry Spotlight: David Romero "My Name is Romero" & Edward Viduarre "Cry Howl" This is a Nuestra Palabra Multi-Platform Broadcast across social media. You can hear us on 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston's Community Station. You can watch us at www.Fox26Houston.com Edward Vidaurre is the author of eight collections of poetry. Vidaurre’s poems have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Avalon Literary Review, The Acentos Review, Poetrybay, as well as other journals and anthologies. He is the 2018-2019 City of McAllen,TX Poet Laureate and publisher of FlowerSong Press and its sister imprint Juventud Press. He has been nominated for the pushcart prize five times and was a finalist for Poet Laureate for the state of Texas. Vidaurre has been a judge for submissions for the Houston Poetry Festival, Director of Operations for the Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival, and editor of Cutthroat, a journal of the arts. His book Jazzhouse Won the Award of Merit 2020 by The Philosophical

Nuestra Palabra Celebrates Sur Fest 2020. This is a Nuestra Palabra Multi-Platform Broadcast across social media. You can hear us on 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston's Community Station. You can watch us at www.Fox26Houston.com. Pablo Devera, founder of Sur Fest, performs live as a sneak preview of the 2022 Edition of Sur Fest, featuring bands from Houston, Texas, Mexico, representing a broad spectrum of the Latino experience and musical influences. Sur Fest 2022, Sat. Feb. 26, 2022, Houston, Texas, at the iconic Continental Club, 3714 Main St, Houston, TX 77002. 7 pm. Thanks to Roxana Guzman, Multiplatform Producer Rodrigo Bravo, Jr., Audio Producer Radame Ortiez, SEO Director Marc-Antony Piñón, Graphics Designer Leti Lopez, Music Director Bryan Parras, co-host and producer emeritus Liana Lopez, co-host and producer emeritus Lupe Mendez, Texas Poet Laureate, co-host, and producer emeritus Writer and activist Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante, hosts Latino Politics and News and the Nuestra Palabra Radio Show on 90.

Macondo: A Homeland for Writers: Deadlines and Updates. www.MacondoWriters.com Here is your chance to apply for the writer's retreat founded by author Sandra Cisneros. Meet Macondo board members and find out what is planned, who is leading workshops. The deadline to apply is Feb. 20, 2022, at midnight PST. For more information, visit: www.MacondoWriters.com This is a Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say multi-platform broadcast. You can listen to it on 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston's Community Station, and you can watch it on www.Fox26Houston.com. Hosted by writer and activist Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante, who is also a political analyst on "What's Your Point?" On Fox 26 Houston. Macondo 2022. A Homeland for Writers: Feb. 22, 2022 is the deadline to a... https://youtu.be/74rORXgv6No via @YouTube www.Librotraficante.com www.NuestraPalabra.org www.TonyDiaz.net Instrumental Music produced / courtesy of Bayden Records Website | http://baydenrecords.beatstars.com

This one-hour special features an interview with literary giant Sandra Cisneros on the Nuestra Palabra anniversary. This also celebrates the 2021 National Endowment for the Art Big Read Campaign, which featured THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET by Sandra Cisneros. This broadcast offers insights into the book and celebrates the two Houston institutions that received Big Read grants from the NEA: Lone Star College-Houston North and the Alley Theatre. Their partners are The Houston Public Library, Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say, and LASO, the Latin American Student Organization. Air Date: October 2021. Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say On The Air. 90.1 FM KPFT Houston, Texas. More episodes at www.NuestraPalabra.org. The Nuestra Palabra Radio Show is archived at the University of Houston Digital Archives. Our hard copy archives are kept at the Houston Public Library’s Special Collections Hispanic Archives. KPFT hosts a monopoly on community cultural capital. We answer to our communi

NEA’s Big Read: Alley Theatre/El Zócalo bilingual programming has been a huge success in the community. A special thanks to Council Member Robert Gallegos and Texas State Representative Christina Morales for presenting a proclamation and a resolution to Alley Theatre to commemorate this historic occasion. Especialmente gracias a TI, the El Zócalo advisory committee for helping us deliver close to 1,000 free books to our community. More info, visit: https://www.alleytheatre.org/elzocalo On this one-hour multi-platform edition, Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante talks to CM Gallegos, Rep. Morales, and from the Alley Theatre: Dean Gladden, Marry Sutton, and Baldemar Rodriguez on the kick-off of Hispanic Heritage Month 2021 and The NEA Big Read Alley Theatre/Zocalo with City of Houston and Texas Legislature Proclamations. Air Date: October 2021. Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say On The Air. 90.1 FM KPFT Houston, Texas. More episodes at www.NuestraPalabra.org. The Nuestra Palabra Radio Show is arc

Ending a Book Desert Announcing a New Latino Bookstore. Cristina Balli, Director, The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, Texas joins Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante, and GCAC Latino Bookstore Literary Curator to announce the opening of the GCAC Latino Bookstore & Giftshop Friday, Oct. 1, 6:30 pm. 1301 Guadalupe Avenue, San Antono, Texas. And Tony talks to Roberto Cintli Rodriguez​ about his new book "Writing Fifty Years mas o menos Among the Gringos" which he will launch nationally at the opening. It's published by Aztlan Libre Press​, established by Juan Tejeda​ Anisa Onofre​. #Unidos! Original airdate: Tuesday, September 21, 2021. 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston's Community Station. LIvestream: www.kpft.org The book store will be a destination stop showcasing Community Cultural Capital through books, visual art, music, dance, and more. You will be able to take home part of our gente's legacy when you visit during the week. The bookstore is also an official state to Texas visitors center and part of

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Meet Danny Trejo "Machete" During His Virtual Book Talk with Steve Buscemi and Daniel Peña. Wed. July 14, 7 pm. Click here: https://www.brazosbookstore.com/virtual-danny-trejo-trejo Tony Diaz El Librotraficante, interviews Dany Trejo about his new book: "Trejo: My Life of Crime: Redemption, and Hollywood" featuring Danny reading from his book, music from his record label, including Houston's own Baby Bash, and Danny's potent point of view. Air Date: Tuesday, July 13, 2021. Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say On The Air. 90.1 FM KPFT Houston, Texas. More episodes at www.NuestraPalabra.org. The Nuestra Palabra Radio Show is archived at the University of Houston Digital Archives. Our hard copy archives are kept at the Houston Public Library’s Special Collections Hispanic Archives. KPFT hosts a monopoly on community cultural capital. We answer to our community. Please budget a donation to KPFT, and make it in support of Nuestra Palabra today. Visit www.kpft.org. Thanks to our crew: Gabriela Vas

Texas House Bill 1504 makes history by passing the Texas House of Representatives. This bill would allow Ethnic Studies courses to count towards high school graduation requirements. A bi-partisan rainbow coalition united to take this important step to deliver the American Dream through education. It is set to receive a hearing at the Texas Senate Friday, May 21, 2021, where Texas Senator Carol Alvarado carries the bill. Call your Texas State Senators to inspire them to support this bill. The bill was authored by Texas State Representative Christina Morales, Democrat, and co-sponsored by Texas State Representative Dan Huberty and Democratic State Representatives Alma Allen, Gene Wu, and Jarvis Johnson. Co-sponsors include: Bowers, Button, Canales, Dominguez, Guerra, Hinojosa, Martinez, Meza, Morales Shaw, Muñoz, Jr., Perez, Rodriguez, Sherman, Sr., Thierry, some of whom speak during this press conference moderated by Tony Diaz joined by Mexican American Studies Scholars Dr. Angela Valenzuela, Dr. Christop

NP ALL LIT Gentefication Edition Featuring Antonio Lopez & Tony Diaz Antonio Lopez Councilmember City of East Palo Alto Reading from his forthcoming poetry collection Gentefication. And, Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante Reading from "Who Will Stand Up for El Barrio?" Airdate: Tuesday, April 13, 2021. NP Radio airs live Tuesdays 6 pm-7 pm CST 90.1 FM KPFT Houston, TX. Livestream www.KPFT.org. More podcasts at www.NuestraPalabra.org. The Nuestra Palabra Radio Show is archived at the University of Houston Digital Archives. Our hard copy archives are kept at the Houston Public Library’s Special Collections Hispanic Archives. KPFT hosts a monopoly on community cultural capital. We answer to our community. Please budget a donation to KPFT, and make it in support of Nuestra Palabra today. Visit www.kpft.org. Thanks to our crew: Gabriela Vasquez Liana Lopez Roxana Guzman Leti Lopez Rodrigo Bravo, who mixes ours shows Tony Diaz Sun 7am "What's Your Point" Fox 26 Houston Tues 2pm Latino Politics And News 90.1 F

Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante, interviews Dan Stoecker, President and CEO, The Alliance, & Michelle Remy-Maillet, Entrepreneurial Program, The Alliance. The Alliance is a nonprofit organization that has been serving the Greater Houston area for over 35 years. Their mission is to create opportunities for refugees, immigrants, and other underserved residents to achieve their goals for self-sufficiency and improve their quality of life. Air date: Tues. Apr 6, 2021. We answer only to our community. Please budget a donation to KPFT, and make it in support of Latino Politics and News today. Visit www.kpft.org. Thanks to our crew: Roxana Guzman, Communications Director Leti Lopez Rodrigo Bravo, who mixes our radio shows Gabriela Vasquez Nathan Noble Tune in every Tuesday from 2 pm to 3 pm for Latino Politics and News with Tony Diaz 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston. Livestream www.KPFT.org. Your Community Radio Station. That's followed by Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say at 6 pm to 7 pm CST. 90.1 FM KPFT