Our Thing: The Birth of Salsa in Nueva York (hosted by Rosie Perez)
The 1960s brings social and political change to the world and to New York City, where a young Johnny Pacheco keeps people dancing with his o...
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WNYC Studios and Futuro Studios present “La Brega: Stories of the Puerto Rican Experience”: a seven-part podcast series that uses narrative storytelling and investigative journalism to refle...
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The First Time The Men’s World Cup Came to the U.S.A.
The Men’s World Cup is coming to our continent – and to this country. So we’re using this huge event to dive deep into what soccer means in...
My Futuro is Impactful: Our Projects for 2026
It’s been a time of growth at Futuro – we’ve been breaking news and bringing rigorous in-depth journalism at Latino USA, creating ambitious...
TRAILER DROP: Our Thing — The Birth of Salsa in Nueva York (hosted by Rosie Perez)
A new podcast from Futuro is coming to you soon! In 1964, an Italian-American ex-cop and a Dominican musician in New York City opened “the M...
Donde el Mar Se Enciende (Buenas noches, Cráneo)
Hoy les traemos un episodio de nuestros amigos de Buenas noches, Cráneo . Esta noche viajamos a una bahía de Puerto Rico donde el agua brill...
A look at the human toll of the construction of the Panama Canal
This week, we’re sharing an episode from our friends at Code Switch. President Donald Trump says he wants the U.S. to take back control of t...
Un vampiro entre nosotros
Hoy les traemos un episodio especial desde Puerto Rico de nuestros amigos de Radio Ambulante, quienes se encuentran en plena publicación de...
BONUS: Boricuas on the Ice
You’ve seen the Instagram posts and the headlines of Puerto Rican campeones in all kinds of arenas. For this special bonus episode we talk t...
8. Tengo a Puerto Rico en mi corazón
Los Young Lords surgieron en los 60 en Chicago como una ganga callejera, pero evolucionaron y se convirtieron en una organización política q...
8. I Have Puerto Rico in My Heart
In the late 1960s, the Young Lords emerged from a Chicago gang and became a political organization mainly made up of Puerto Ricans in the di...
7. Madera de campeón: el futuro del béisbol boricua
El dominio de Puerto Rico en el beisbol es más que conocido, pero hay quienes piensan que la pelota boricua ya vio sus mejores días. Y algun...
7. The Stuff of Champions: The Future of Puerto Rican Baseball
Puerto Rico has been a baseball powerhouse. For decades, we operated as our own country, under the same rules as nations like the Dominican...
6. Tres minutos para Puerto Rico
Por décadas, políticos y activistas boricuas han depuesto ante el Comité de Descolonización de la ONU durante su vista anual sobre Puerto Ri...
6. Three Minutes for Puerto Rico
For decades, Puerto Ricans from different political persuasions have gone to the United Nations in New York to speak about the decolonizatio...
5. La importancia de ser Mr. Mundo
En Puerto Rico, los concursos de belleza son una obsesión nacional que entusiasma al público como cualquier competencia deportiva. Y, en 202...
5. Wearing Puerto Rico On Your Sash
Puerto Rico has a reputation as a beauty queen mecca, the pageant scene is treated as seriously as any competitive sport in the archipelago....
4. Isabel González vs. Estados Unidos
En 1902, Isabel González llegó a Ellis Island sola, con 11 dólares en el bolsillo y embarazada. La detuvieron, como a tantos otros, por ser...
4. Isabel González v. United States
In 1902, Isabel González arrived in Ellis Island, pregnant, alone and with only $11.00 in her pocket. She – like others before her – was det...
3. Las banderas de Alberto Mercado
En plena Guerra Fría, el presidente estadounidense Jimmy Carter llama al boicot de los Juegos Olímpicos Moscú 1980 y en Puerto Rico se debat...
3. The Many Flags of Alberto Mercado
It was 1980, and the Olympics were to be held in Moscow against the backdrop of the Cold War. When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, Pre...