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Línea Directa Con la Comunidad
El programa de televisión, Línea Directa, es único en su género en el país y, desde noviembre del 2000, ha hecho historia al iniciar una nueva etapa, producto de una alianza con empresas de ...
“La TV educativa es una lucha por los derechos”
Eduardo López está comprometido con una obsesión: la televisión educativa en español. Salvadoreño, criado en el área de Washington, López comenzó a trabajar en la idea en 1981, después ...
DIXON'S EYE ON LATINO OFFICE
Mayor Sharon Pratt Dixon's administration, after largely ignoring its Office of Latino Affairs for the last four months, now sees it as a valuable communications channel between the D.C. governme...
Hispanic Heritage Awards Given
The D.C. court system has presented 1999 Hispanic Heritage CORO Awards to the founders and producers of a public service program aimed at educating the Latino community and to a nonprofit group t...
BLACK POWER'S NEW DILEMMA
AFTER A TYPICAL riot in one of our nation's cities during the 1960s, it was a white mayor whose limousine pulled up in front of the television studio where he grudgingly appeared on a show to giv...
A DIRECT LINE TO LATINO COMMUNITY
The tiny production company's first effort, if you can picture it, was recorded in someone’s bathroom. Without access to a real studio, the unusual locale made acoustical sense, and to this day...
HEALERS WHO LEAVE WOUNDS
To these believers, every curse has a cure, and Mauricio Zelaya was a believer. Each visit to the little office in Adams-Morgan, each test performed by the white-haired spiritualist, had convince...
LATINO TV SHOW RETURNS WITH MESSAGES FOR IMMIGRANTS
The video clip shows a Latina riding in a car through Mount Pleasant, with her small daughter perched happily on her lap. Suddenly, the scene shifts to another front seat, where the dummies of a ...
'Linea Directa' -- Medical TV Show Targets Latinos
On a recent weekday afternoon, in the crowded waiting room of La Clinica Del Pueblo, a man with a clipboard was frantically trying to find a patient. Any patient would do, he explained, as long a...
'Línea Directa' Moves to a New Station
"Linea Directa," the Washington area's longest-running Spanish language public education show, debuts tomorrow on a new television station, in a new time slot and with a new, more upscale look. ...
Harvest of Empire on Democracy Now
"Media portrayals of Latinos and immigrants are fueling rampant negative stereotypes among the general population"
Harvest of Empire Featured on MSNBC
Another year since we started this adventure (from 2009) of trying to bring help to our communities in the Washington, DC, region. Gracias, Elda DeVarie and all Partners throughout the years.
Eduardo Lopez and Wendy Thompson-Marquez on Harvest of Empire
My first ancestors to come to America journeyed on the Mayflower in 1620; it’s hard to have a heritage more firmly rooted in America’s beginnings and long history. Just under a hundred years ...
"Línea Directa" — A Direct Line to Washington-Area Latinos for 25 years
The worried face of then D.C. Mayor Sharon Pratt Dixon flashed on the television screen, right after images of a torched vehicle, shirtless looters celebrating atop an overturned police cruiser, ...
Línea Directa on NBC
Founder of Latino Impact Media, Eduardo López, talks about Línea Directa a Community Affairs show produced by the organization. A public service media partnership allows Latino Impact Media to ...