Latin and Spanish New Orleans

The city's major FM radio station in Spanish.

Programming includes a variety of Latin music as well as news, sports, weather, sports and religious programming.

Bilingual station out of Metarie, LA.

https://www.wwoz.org/programs/tiene-sabor-latin-show-with-yolanda-estrada

Saturdays, 2-4pm on New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Station, WWOZ 90.7 FM.

Saturdays, 5-6AM on the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage station, WWOZ 90.7 FM.

This documentary focuses on those rebuilding this city through interviews with some of the estimated 100,000 Latino migrant laborers who have converged in this area over the past two and a half years.

Media Insurgente is a film collective founded in the Fall of 2005 whose mission is capturing important contemporary struggles for social justice. Media Insurgente is a film collective founded in the Fall of 2005 whose mission is capturing important contemporary struggles for social justice.

PBS documentary telling the story of Loreta Velazquez, a Cuban immigrant to New Orleans who fought in the Civil War as a Confederate soldier-turned-Union spy.

Documentary in progress on NOLA-Brazil cultural connections. Listen to this WWNO radio piece to hear a description of the project.

A TUBA TO CUBA follows New Orleans' famed Preservation Hall Jazz Band as they retrace their musical roots from the storied city of jazz to the shores of Cuba and in turn discover a connection that runs much deeper than could have been imagined (2018).

This Spanish-language video series covers historical events and local places in Louisiana and the connection between Latin America and New Orleans.

El historiador dominicano criado en Nueva Orleans Rafael Delgadillo comparte sus investigaciones sobre las históricas conexiones económicas y culturales entre Nueva Orleans y América Latina. Esta charla virtual se enfoca en cómo un motín, periódicos de habla hispana, y exiliados latinoamericanos en la Nueva Orleans del siglo diecinueve nos ayudan a entender flujos migratorios contemporáneos y el desarrollo de comunidades latinas en el área metropolitana de Nueva Orleans.

Explores some of the many musical connections between New Orleans and the Caribbean. Looks at some of the shared Afro-diasporic drumming and dance traditions, such as the bamboula, the travels and compositions of Louis Moreau Gottschalk, and the relationship between early New Orleans jazz, Cuban danzón, and creole bands throughout the Caribbean.