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Latino Voices
Saturdays at 6 pm
Hugo Balta, Host and News Director for WTTW News
Latino Voices
Shoe Repair Dynasty: A Dozen Cobblers Across 3 Generations
A cobbler in his mid-80s inspires a shoe repair dynasty that spans three generations.
Read more > Latino Voices
Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices, Nov. 14, 2020 - Full Show
COVID-19 rages across the state. How President Trump made significant gains with Latino voters. Honoring service members on Veterans Day. And inside a Latino shoe dynasty — right here in Chicago.
Read more > Black Voices
Sundays at 6 pm
Brandis Friedman, Host and co-anchor for Chicago Tonight
Black Voices
Chicago Tonight: Black Voices, Nov. 15, 2020 - Full Show
What a new presidential administration could mean for communities of color. Making Black and Brown communities the focus of COVID-19 recovery. Extending the Red Line. A new life for Emmett Till’s home.
Read more > Black Voices
Poverty and the Pandemic: Helping Marginalized Communities Weather the Storm
We speak with Audra Wilson, the head of the Shriver Center on Poverty Law, on what the new Biden administration could mean for communities of color.
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Latino Voices
Chicago Businesses Struggle as COVID-19 Shutdown Appears Imminent
Chicago officials say they’re trying to help small businesses survive what appears will be — as President-elect Joe Biden put it — a very dark winter.
Read more > Latino Voices
‘The Latino Vote’: 2020 Election Proves Community Is Not Monolithic
Latinos played an important role in local and national elections this year — what their impact tells us about diversity within the community.
Read more > Latino Voices
Chicago’s Ensemble Espanol Has Exported Spanish Dance Around the World
Behind the scenes with Ensemble Espanol as they prepare for an energetic show of Spanish dance.
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How the COVID-19 Surge is Impacting Chicago’s Latino Communities
COVID-19 continues to have a disproportionate impact on Latino communities. We discuss the pandemic with Dr. Marina Del Rios, director of social emergency medicine at the University of Illinois hospital in Chicago.
Read more > Black Voices
Purchase of Emmett Till House by Nonprofit ‘More Than a Real Estate Transaction’
The former Woodlawn home of Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, is now in the hands of the nonprofit Blacks in Green. Founder Naomi Davis shares the group’s vision for the historic site.
Read more > Black Voices
CTA Hopes to Start Next Phase of Red Line Extension Planning ‘Very Soon’
Plans to extend the heavily used train line south of its current endpoint at 95th Street have been discussed as far back as the 1950s. But the project has been steadily moving from idea to reality in recent years.
Read more > Black Voices
How the COVID-19 Surge is Impacting Chicago’s Black Communities
The coronavirus has dealt a blow to the Black community, and the numbers are again on the rise. We discuss the surge with Dr. Doriane Miller, director of the Center for Community Health and Vitality at UChicago Medicine.
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Biden and the Black Vote: Record Turnout in Key States for Former VP
Local journalists discuss national and local elections results following a dramatic Election Day that stretched into Election Week.
Read more > Support for CHICAGO TONIGHT: LATINO VOICES is provided by CIBC.
Additional support is provided by The Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation and Judy and John McCarter.
Lead support for CHICAGO TONIGHT: BLACK VOICES is provided by Fifth Third Bank.
Additional support is provided by Gertrude Dyane and James H. Wooten, Jr., The Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation, The Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation, Nicholas Antoine, Judy and John McCarter, and Hiranda and Paul Donoghue.
Join WTTW News every weekend for analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts and life, entrepreneurship and innovation, and equity and justice across the sectors of our society and in the Black and Latino communities in Chicago. Make the VOICES series your definitive source for real conversation and a platform for different voices and perspectives.
Latino Voices
Saturdays at 6 pm
Hugo Balta, Host and News Director for WTTW News
Black Voices
Sundays at 6 pm
Brandis Friedman, Host and co-anchor for Chicago Tonight
Latino Voices
Shoe Repair Dynasty: A Dozen Cobblers Across 3 Generations
A cobbler in his mid-80s inspires a shoe repair dynasty that spans three generations.
Read more > Black Voices
Chicago Tonight: Black Voices, Nov. 15, 2020 - Full Show
What a new presidential administration could mean for communities of color. Making Black and Brown communities the focus of COVID-19 recovery. Extending the Red Line. A new life for Emmett Till’s home.
Read more > Latino Voices
Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices, Nov. 14, 2020 - Full Show
COVID-19 rages across the state. How President Trump made significant gains with Latino voters. Honoring service members on Veterans Day. And inside a Latino shoe dynasty — right here in Chicago.
Read more > Black Voices
Poverty and the Pandemic: Helping Marginalized Communities Weather the Storm
We speak with Audra Wilson, the head of the Shriver Center on Poverty Law, on what the new Biden administration could mean for communities of color.
Read more >
Latino Voices
Chicago Businesses Struggle as COVID-19 Shutdown Appears Imminent
Chicago officials say they’re trying to help small businesses survive what appears will be — as President-elect Joe Biden put it — a very dark winter.
Read more > Black Voices
Purchase of Emmett Till House by Nonprofit ‘More Than a Real Estate Transaction’
The former Woodlawn home of Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, is now in the hands of the nonprofit Blacks in Green. Founder Naomi Davis shares the group’s vision for the historic site.
Read more > Support for CHICAGO TONIGHT: LATINO VOICES is provided by CIBC.
Additional support is provided by The Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation and Judy and John McCarter.
Lead support for CHICAGO TONIGHT: BLACK VOICES is provided by Fifth Third Bank.
Additional support is provided by Gertrude Dyane and James H. Wooten, Jr., The Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation, The Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation, Nicholas Antoine, Judy and John McCarter, and Hiranda and Paul Donoghue.
