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Latino USA's Maria Hinojosa and Univision's Maria Elena Salinas speak about news issues of the week affecting the Latino community.

The 1990 PBS documentary called The Civil War by Ric and Ken Burns was a monumental undertaking and a bonafide hit -- the first documentary in history to gross $100 million. It reinvented documentary story-telling and catapulted Ken Burns to public television stardom. Acclaimed historian Stephen Ambrose said that more Americans get their history from Ken Burns than from any other source. Just this past January, PBS rewarded his efforts with an exclusive contract through the year 2022. Latino USA's Alex Avila has been following a growing controversy at PBS, as latino war veterans and activists say they don't understand why public televisions greatest chronicler of the American experience has a blind-spot.

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In February, two afternoon-drive shock jocks known as The Jersey Guys, at WKXW-FM, a local talk radio station in New Jersey, launched a campaign asking its audience to turn in illegal immigrants who live in the Garden State. Many Latino residents and elected officials in New Jersey are denouncing the station for using the public airwaves for what they call deliberately provocative racial profiling. Commentator Mario Murillo believes that the Jersey Guys are only two of many influential media personalities who use their platforms to attack an easy target, all the while oversimplifying a very complex issue.

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A Latin music explosion has been affecting all genres of music in the United States. Artists from Latin America are in the forefronthelping to shape American pop culture. But an explosion of Internet use in Latin American is also influencing music in the region. Through websites like Myspace, Latin American musicians are now able to connect with artists around the world in a way like never before, and thats causing big changes in music and culture. Latino USA's Benjamin Jacob brings us this story.

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Writer Raquel Rivera also examines trends in music, especially of reggaeton and hip hop. She says that blogging on the Internet gives her the ability to engage her readers in a whole new way. Raquel Rivera is author of New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone and the forthcoming anthology, Reading Reggaeton. You can read her blog at BlogSpot.com.

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