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Junot Diaz
Junot Diaz
Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One
Dominican-born novelist Junot Diaz is the author of the national bestseller Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize.
30 min.
Salsa Legend Willie Colon
Salsa Legend Willie Colon
Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One
Musician, composer, trombonist Willie Colon.
Journalist Alfredo Corchado
Journalist Alfredo Corchado
Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One
Alfredo Corchado, the Mexican bureau chief for the Dallas Morning News, discusses the violent drug war in Mexico.
30 min.
Mercedes Doretti
Mercedes Doretti
Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One
Mercedes Doretti is a world leader in using forensic anthropology and archeology to investigate human rights violations.
Franklin Chang Diaz
Franklin Chang Diaz
Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One
26 min.
Chef and restauranteur Ming Tsai
Chef and restauranteur Ming Tsai
Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One
Chef and restaurateur Ming Tsai is the host of public television’s Emmy-nominated series Simply Ming.
30 min.
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Franklin Chang-Diaz, NASA's first Latino astronaut, reflects on the significance of April 12th. The Era of human spaceflight began on April 12th, 1961 when Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarian became the first man to orbit the earth. Twenty years later, on April 12th, 1981, NASA sent the first Space Shuttle to orbit.
Chang Diaz is a veteran of seven space flights, STS 61-C (1986), STS-34 (1989), STS-46 (1992), STS-60 (1994), STS-75 (1996), STS-91 (1998) and STS-111 (2002), he has logged over 1,601 hours in space, including 19 hours and 31 minutes in three spacewalks.
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