Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Have Their Say w/ Tony Diaz
Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante, is a writer, activist, and professor who tells it like it is. He co-hosts the #NPRadio Show on 90.1 FM KPFT Houston. He's also a political analyst on "What's Your Point?" on Fox 26 Houston. He's also an author of several books, his latest being "The Tip of The Pyramid: Cultivating Community Cultural Capital".
Episodes
April 22, 2024 • 56 mins
On this Nuestra Palabra Rewind from October 2020, join us as we listen to an early interview Tony Diaz had with Mario Castillo, who at that time made history as the first Latino President for the Lone Star College System being named Interim President at the Kingwood campus for the 2020 to 2021 academic year. It's been a few years since Mario shared his story and demonstrated the power of leaders leading with Latino values, interest...
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March 29, 2024 • 52 mins
Relive the community event celebrating Mario Castillo making history as the first Latino Chancellor for Lone Star College! La gente celebrated Tuesday, March 20th, 2024, at Spanish Flowers to congratulate Chancellor Mario K. Castillo.
We had so many folks join us, including:
Lone Star College Partners
Art Murillo, Lone Star College Board of Trustee
The Latino Cultural Experts Committee
LSC LASO Houston North
Puente LSC - HN
Th...
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February 28, 2024 • 50 mins
Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante, speaks w/ the featured artists for the celebration of poetry, prose, and visual expression w/ a special event: Nuestra Palabra & Tintero Projects Present: Poetry at Torre Latina! The night will feature a Q&A w/ our poets & artists, book signing, visual art exhibits, and a preview of the new Nuestra Palabra offices at Torre Latina are included and the best part is that admission is free.
Tuesday, Marc...
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February 14, 2024 • 58 mins
The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center's Latino Bookstore, as part of the Texas Author Series, welcomes Dr. Carmen Tafolla as she presents and reads from her latest book WARRIOR GIRL! Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante and Literary Curator for the GCAC's Latino Bookstore, hosts the Texas Author Series every second Friday of the month.
Carmen talks about the book, it’s representation, and how this novel is defying the books bans occurring n...
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February 7, 2024 • 45 mins
Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say and the Harris County Public Library invite you to join us for a book giveaway and discussion of Nuestra Palabra's 2024 Big Read selection, INFINITE COUNTRY by Patricia Engel. The first 50 attendees to register will receive a free copy of the book, courtesy of Nuestra Palabra through the Big Read grant.
Tony speaks w/ several guests about the Big Read and the importance of literary ...
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November 14, 2023 • 37 mins
Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante and Political Analyst on What's Your Point on Fox 26 News, welcomes Harris County Commissioner Lesley Briones. Commissioner Briones shares her work in improving Precinct 4, an important gun buyback program taking place this November 18th, and her literacy advocacy, with her recent appearance at NP's & NEA's Big Read event in September as well as the Harris County Proclamation given to Nuestra Palabra a...
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November 3, 2023 • 60 mins
The Houston Cultural Treasures Announcement Event and State of the Network Panel
- Recorded Live on 11.02.2023
- at The DeLUXE Theater.
The BIPOC Arts Network and Fund named the cohort of 11 organizations named as Houston Cultural Treasures. The panel discussion framed learning and hopes from different segments of BANF communities. BANF will invest $5 million over two years (2024-25) in eleven organizations w/ both technical sup...
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October 28, 2023 • 51 mins
Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante & Literary Curator for the Latino Bookstore at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center (GCAC) in San Antonio Texas, welcomes award-winning Seattle writer, teacher, and editor Alma García as she returns to her El Paso roots with her debut novel, ALL THAT RISES (University of Arizona Press, 2023), a story of secrets, lies, border politics, and discovering what it means to belong—within a family, as well as in...
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October 28, 2023 • 50 mins
Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante & Literary Curator for the Latino Bookstore at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center (GCAC) in San Antonio Texas, welcomes professor Dr. Jesús Jesse Esparza, Associate Professor in the Department of History, Geography, and General Studies at Texas Southern University, to discuss his book RAZA SCHOOLS (University of Oklahoma Press, 2023) ahead of his Texas Author Series appearance on November 10th, 2023 at...
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October 26, 2023 • 46 mins
Internationally renowned ceramicist Veronica Castillo alongside Professor Emerita and Independent Publisher Dr. Josie Méndez-Negrete join us in spotlighting their co-authored book, "Rooted in Clay: El Arte de Verónica Castillo."
Tony delves into the book written as a plática in which Castillo shares her life work, inspiration, politics, and history with Méndez-Negrete alongside images of her sculptures and experiences that led her...
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October 8, 2023 • 49 mins
Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante & Literary Curator for the Latino Bookstore at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center welcomes award winning author and distinguished professor Dr. Norma Cantu to the show to discuss her latest book CHICANA PORTRAITS: CRITICAL BIOGRAPHIES OF TWELVE CHICANA WRITERS (University of Arizona Press 2023) ahead of her Texas Author Series appearance on October 13th 2023 at the Guadalupe.
Join us for a lively disc...
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October 8, 2023 • 52 mins
Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante & Literary Curator for the Latino Bookstore at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio Texas, welcomes award winning author John Olivares Espinoza to the show to discuss his book THE DATE FRUIT ELEGIES (Bilingual Review Press, 2008) ahead of his Texas Author Series appearance on October 13th 2023 at the Guadalupe.
John shares with us his work, reads some of his poems (including unreleased po...
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October 3, 2023 • 44 mins
Tony Diaz welcomes key members of Main Street Theater’s current production of CARMELA, FULL OF WISHES, playing Sept. 24 – Oct. 21 at MST’s Midtown location at 3400 Main Street, 77002 at the MATCH. Adapted by Nuestra Palabra's very own Alvaro Saar Rios from the best selling book by Matt de la Peña, Tony speaks with Alvaro, Laura Moreno, the play’s director, and Jacqueline Vasquez, the actor playing Carmela, about this wonderful play...
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September 28, 2023 • 75 mins
Nuestra Palabra and the National Endowment for the Arts @neaarts celebrated will Latina Leaders with an amazing event, NP & NEA's The Big Read! The event was a huge success but if you missed it no worries, it is now available on our podcast!
Some key moments:
As part of our collaboration with the NEA, we gave away 400 copies of INFINITE COUNTRY (@AvidReaderPress) by Colombian American writer Patricia Engel (@patricia__engel) to a...
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September 19, 2023 • 49 mins
Tony Diaz, el Librotraficante spotlights Dr. Carmen Tafolla’s latest book WARRIOR GIRL! Carmen talks about the book, it’s representation, and how this novel is defying the books bans occurring now and reads several poems from the book. Her book published through Penguin Random House is available through various online stores but also at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center's Latino Bookstore and makes an excellent addition to your fa...
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September 19, 2023 • 38 mins
Nuestra Palabra features the book "The Alton Bus Crash" on our latest podcast episode which you can stream on your favorite platform.
Tony Diaz speaks with Juan P Carmona about his book on the tragic Alton Bus Crash, which claimed the lives of f 21 junior and senior high school students after a bottling truck collided with the school bus, causing the bus to enter a caliche pit filled with water. This terrible incident led to many ...
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September 8, 2023 • 58 mins
Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante & Literary Curator for the Guadalupe Culturalarts Center's Latino Bookstore, spotlights Dr. Mehnaaz Momen's LISTENING TO LAREDO: A BORDER CITY IN A GLOBALIZED AGE. in a lively discussion on place, identity, and the changing conditions of an American border city.
Dr. Mehnaaz Momen is an associate professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Texas A&M International University and the author of THE ...
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August 31, 2023 • 58 mins
Nuestra Palabra's Tony Diaz El Librotraficante, Literary Curator for the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center's Latino Bookstore, welcomes Dr. Ito Romo, who will be one of our our featured authors for the Texas Author Series' September reading at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center on September 8th at 6:00PM. Tony will speak with Dr. Romo re: his book THE BORDER IS BURNING being released on paperback, his next projects, and even have a re...
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The Bard in the Borderlands w/ The Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva & Dr. Brenda Sarmiento-Quezada
August 27, 2023 • 58 mins
Tony Diaz, the Literary Curator for the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center's Latino Bookstore, welcomes The Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva @borderlandsshax (BSC)! Dr. Kathryn Vomero Santos (Trinity University), Dr. Katherine Gillen (Texas A&M University–San Antonio), and Dr. Adrianna M. Santos (Texas A&M University–San Antonio), who will be our featured authors for the Texas Author Series' September reading at the Guadalupe Cultural...
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August 22, 2023 • 45 mins
Nuestra Palabra's Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante, welcomes author of the acclaimed books ZARZAMORA and WHERE THE RECKLESS ONES COME TO DIE Vincent Cooper, who joins us to talk about his latest book from Mouthfeel Press, INFIDELIS.
Tony speaks with Vincent Tuesday on KPFT Houston 90.1 FM on Tuesday August 22nd at 7:00 PM CDT as we discuss Vincent's powerful new book. You can hear it live via KPFT.org if you’re not in the Houston are...
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