Journalist Maria Hinojosa Tells Latinos, Silenced Voices: 'We Need You'
The Latino USA host, who's spent a career covering those silenced in the media, now tells her own story in a new memoir. "We all have to work at making the immigrant story much more public," she said.
Maria Hinojosa has dedicated her career to telling the stories of Latinos and other communities often ignored by the media.
The Emmy award-winning journalist and longtime host of Latino USA on NPR is now telling her own story in a raw, very personal memoir, titled Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America.
Hinojosa, who came to the U.S. from Mexico with her family as a child, worked as a reporter at CBS, NPR, she recalled the prejudice she faced in newsrooms as a Latina.
