Friday, May 10, 2013

Studio 13: 'Latin Americans' on PBS - The Miami Herald

author vcard class=”byline fn”> Luis E. Palacios El Nuevo Herald org

Gloria Estefan, Rita Moreno and Maria Elena Salinas are just some of the Hispanic personalities are interviewed in a public television documentary that is part of the programming of the new season of the Public Broadcasting Corporation (PBS). Latin Americans , which features narration by Benjamin Bratt, tells the story of U.S. Hispanic identity.

three-part series, of two hours each, is a chronicle of the rich and varied history of Hispanics, who now make up the largest minority group in the country, with more than 50 million people of that origin.

Bratt, of Peruvian descent through his mother, narrate the series produced by Adriana Bosch Cuban, who has extensive experience in documentaries for public television. The program will follow the evolution of Latino identity from the fourteenth century to the present, with interviews with nearly one hundred personalities from business politics and popular culture.

For the new season, which begins in the fall, PBS also announced a documentary on the history of blacks in America, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross , and a series about family roots, Genealogy Roadshow , and several specials on President John F. Kennedy, whose death occurred 50 years ago.

public television, which in South Florida is transmitted-WPBT Channel 2, gets 15 percent of its funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, while the rest comes from private contributions. •

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