Real America with Jorge Ramos
Real America is a weekly news series that explores critical issues facing diverse commuities across the Americas.
- video12:48November 11, 2021 09:08 PMGentefied catapulted to Netflix’s top 10 most-watched list when it first came out in 2020. Now the hit Latino comedy drama is back for a second season to focus on the Morales family’s fight to keep their undocumented patriarch, grandfather Casimiro, from being deported to Mexico.
- video9:10October 21, 2021 04:37 PMMexican feminists are organizing to help Texas women sidestep their state’s abortion ban by using the Mexican model of women helping women. Feminists from both countries will meet on the Mexican border in January to develop an action plan.
- video13:42October 14, 2021 05:54 PMPati Jinich is many things: she is a chef, was a political analyst, has a master's degree in Latin American studies and above all, has a very special sensibility to understand what brings people from different cultures together. In a Spanglish conversation she tells us about her new project exploring the culture and food of "la frontera," and warns which Mexican restaurants we should never go to.
- video9:57October 07, 2021 05:15 PMAs U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken heads to Mexico for high-level security talks on Friday, the Mexican government is setting its sights on the U.S. gun industry. Mexico has filed a lawsuit against 6 leading U.S. gun manufacturers they accuse of “actively facilitating the unlawful trafficking of their guns to drug cartels in Mexico.”
- video7:03September 30, 2021 05:44 PMFor many “Maria” on Sesame Street was the first Latina they remember seeing on television. Sonia Manzano, who played the iconic character for 44 years, joins us to reflect on her role on one of the most successful children’s series of all time and explain what inspired her to return to the small screen with her new kids show “Alma’s Way.”
- video17:27September 24, 2021 10:28 AMWeeks before mounted border patrol agents were pictured aggressively charging Haitian immigrants in Del Rio, Texas, we went to Haiti to document the political and environmental catastrophes that have combined to create one of the most urgent refugee crises in the world.
- video15:08September 16, 2021 06:19 PMVirtual meetings are an everyday part of our lives during the pandemic. But can you imagine making an entire movie on Zoom? Cuban-American actor and director Natalie Morales did exactly that in her latest bilingual film "Language Lessons." The story follows an American man (Mark Duplass) and a Latin American woman (Natalie Morales) who form a bond through online Spanish classes. We met up with Natalie (yes, on Zoom) to discuss finding new ways to innovate production during lockdown, identity, Latina representation in Hollywood, and Cuba's protests for freedom.
- video14:17September 09, 2021 05:10 PMTwenty years after 9/11, we reflect on the immigrants behind the historic Windows on the World, the famous restaurant inside the World Trade Center that once sat above the Manhattan sky. Warning: Sensitive content from 9/11 attacks in this story.
- video6:40September 02, 2021 05:53 PMAfro-Latina actor and singer Mj Rodriguez made TV history with her role as Blanca Evangelista on the hit LGBTQ series Pose. Now she’s ready to do it again at this month’s 2021 Emmy Awards where she’s up for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. Her nomination marks the first for a trans woman in a major acting category.
- video10:28August 26, 2021 06:26 PM"No matter where I go, I will be at home, because I have found that home within me,” Sandra Cisneros tells Jorge Ramos, discussing her legacy as an author, why she left the U.S. for Mexico, and the inspiration behind her latest work, Martita, I Remember You.