Annotations for People: Reynoso-cruz 1931-2021

There have been a number of recent Latino appointments to the Clinton administration. They include demographer Leo Estrada as director of the Census Bureau; former California State Supreme Court Judge Cruz Reynoso, named to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission; Suzanna Valdez, a former aid to Vice President Gore, has been named White House liaison to the Hispanic community; and Alfonso Diaz was named Deputy Associated Administrator for NASA. You're listening to Latino USA.

Hispanics, Latinos, Chicanos, Central Americanos were pictured and represented in a negative rather than positive way.

What does the media have to do with civil rights? And I must say that in my view, it has everything to do with civil rights, because the media is an important element in our country in setting the national agenda for issues to be discussed, issues to be debated, what makes America, who represents America, who are we.

More often than not, particularly not in the news reporting but in the general programming, Latinos were reported not at all.