Race + Diversity
The Show spoke with Lygia Navarro, an independent journalist and contributor for Palabra, the nonprofit news outlet for the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, about how Latinos are disproportionately dealing with long COVID.
Jan. 30, 2024
A local LGBTQ-advocacy organization received a nearly $2 million grant to help support the youth it serves. The grant is the largest in the group’s history.
Jan. 29, 2024
The Show spoke with Miguel Angel Godoy, muralist and instructor of painting and drawing at Arizona State University, about his project creating the Phoenix Suns El Valle jerseys.
Jan. 25, 2024
More younger Latino people are struggling with their mental health. But language barriers and stigma can make accessing care difficult.
Jan. 24, 2024
Artist Luis Rivera Jimenez’s work isn’t normally about the desert Southwest, but the racial complexities of the Caribbean. However, last year, he was brought to Phoenix to be the CALA Alliance’s latest artist in residence.
Jan. 12, 2024
More than 25 million people in the U.S. have limited English proficiency – a hindrance to accessing effective healthcare. Now, cancer-communication researchers are working to lower that barrier using Spanish-speaking chatbots.
Jan. 11, 2024
Ahead of 2024 elections, voting advocates in Arizona are aiming to boost voter registration strategies for Native voters, as they still face many of the same barriers that Navajo elections coordinator Alta Edison worked to break down.
Jan. 11, 2024
The Show spoke with stand-up comedian Gadiel del Orbe about his mission to represent Latinos in comedy.
Jan. 11, 2024
Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne is getting in touch with school districts to see if they're complying with the state's required Holocaust education law. He alleges that schools must not be doing enough given what he calls attitudes surrounding the Hamas Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
Jan. 10, 2024
The Peoria Center for the Performing Arts is launching a six-month free music series. Performances begin Wednesday evening.
Jan. 9, 2024
The Show visited "Griots and Galaxies: Unveiling the Multiverse of Black Speculative Fiction" and spoke with ASU professors Lauren Ruffin and Jenna Hanchey about what the exhibit covers.
Jan. 9, 2024
Along with state officials and other advocacy groups, the Sierra Club’s Grand Canyon chapter took to the Capitol on Wednesday to present a list of priorities for the Arizona Legislature and governor.
Jan. 3, 2024
But Mike Noble of Noble Predictive Insights says that the Latino voters are not a monolith, with the voting group breaks into subcategories based on current culture, country of ancestral origin and age.
Dec. 25, 2023
On this season-ending episode of Word, we highlight some of those who appeared during 2023. It's a "Fest Of Us" celebrating literature and the winners of KJZZ's "Tiny Library" drawing.
Dec. 25, 2023
A steel company headquartered in Phoenix will pay a half-million dollars to current and former Black and Latino workers at its plant in Eloy. The payouts are part of a legal settlement with federal employment regulators stemming from complaints of harassment and retaliation.
Dec. 20, 2023
The Show spoke with author Anthony Macías about "Chicano Chicana Americana," which profiles the film work of Katy Jurado, Robert Beltran, Lupe Ontiveros and more.
Dec. 20, 2023
Historian and author Alaina Roberts spoke with The Show about how some efforts to focus on diverse icons of the West are more successful than others, and more about the historical figure Bass Reeves.
Dec. 20, 2023
Attorneys made their final arguments Tuesday in a lawsuit about heightened voter registration requirements passed by Arizona lawmakers. Depositions show that a conservative group had a heavy hand in passing the Republican measures.
Dec. 19, 2023
Many organizations have already launched get-out-the-vote campaigns ahead of the next presidential election. That includes the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund, which advocates for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
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Dec. 18, 2023
Racial and ethnic underrepresentation remains widespread in clinical studies. Now, a new paper take a fresh look at how the problem affects research into gynecologic cancers, which affect more than 25,000 Arizonans.
Dec. 8, 2023
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