Tracing Latino Roots Via Sound

By NPR

Sonic Trace is a multimedia project that follows Latinos living in Los Angeles travelling back to their families’ native lands. Led by radio producer Anyansi Diaz-Cortes, it examines the link between what some Latinos consider home – before and after they or their families came to the U.S.

Diaz-Cortes told NPR host Michel Martin, that she was always interested in international reporting – even on a local level. “To cover any American city in the year 2013 or in this decade you really have to go beyond U.S. borders.”

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