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From the community journalists and media leaders behind CALÓ News and the Latino Media Collaborative, El MIC (Media in Color) podcast elevates the voices, stories and contributions of Latinx leaders, activists and organizers across Los Angeles, California and beyond.
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EL MIC is a fact-based podcast that fosters critical thinking and challenges power structures through community reporting, policy discussions, and cultural conversations that center the Latino community.
These discussions build on CALÓ News's community-driven reporting on local issues—such as deportations, environmental racism, housing injustice, and resistance against anti-democratic forces—produced by and for the communities themselves.
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CALÓ News, the Latino Media Collaborative's central news initiative, is a community-centered, nonprofit newsroom dedicated to stories from the Latinx community across California and the Southwest.
Grants and listeners like you support our reporting, but our newsroom maintains full editorial independence. Our funders do not review, influence or edit our stories.
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Environmental Racism and the Fight for Health Equity
From the devastating LA fires to the effects of the toxic Lineage fire in Boyle Heights still under scrutiny, we take a deep dive into the effects of environmental racism on working-class communities.
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Small Businesses vs. Big Corporate PromisesComing soon
Voting Beyond the Presidential BallotComing soon
Level Infrastructure—Where Are Our Taxes Going?Coming soon
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EL MIC co-hosts Fermin Vasquez and Carla Fuentes chat with CA State Senator Sasha Renée Pérez, East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice (EYCEJ) community organizer Mark Lopez and CALÓ News reporter Brenda Verano on environmental racism.
