Fronteras
Texas PR
"Fronteras" is a Texas Public Radio program exploring the changing culture and demographics of the American Southwest. From Texas to New Mexico and California, "Fronteras" provides insight into life along the U.S.- Mexico border. Our stories examine unique regional issues affecting lifestyle, politics, economics and the environment.
Location:
San Antonio, TX
Genres:
World News
Networks:
Texas PR
Description:
"Fronteras" is a Texas Public Radio program exploring the changing culture and demographics of the American Southwest. From Texas to New Mexico and California, "Fronteras" provides insight into life along the U.S.- Mexico border. Our stories examine unique regional issues affecting lifestyle, politics, economics and the environment.
Language:
English
Website:
http://tpr.org/
Episodes
Border Vigil collaborates to ID immigrants in Eagle Pass, pay tribute to lives lost
8/1/2025
Border Vigil in Eagle Pass has been holding monthly vigils to remember the immigrants who have drowned trying to cross the Rio Grande. The group’s members have recently been receiving training in recovering human remains at the border.
Duration:00:23:50
Fronteras: Film ‘Spring of the Vanishing’ sheds lights on dozens of people who disappeared at the hands of Mexican marines
7/25/2025
The documentary tells of the dozens of men and boys who were missing and murdered by Mexican marines during a period of four months in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo.
Duration:00:30:22
Researchers give voice to immigrant families, break down the costs of being undocumented
7/18/2025
Researchers aim to humanize immigrants by sharing their stories.
Duration:00:26:04
Remembering San Antonio’s 1921 flood in the wake of devastation across the Texas Hill Country
7/11/2025
A devastating flood that occurred over a century ago in San Antonio's historic West Side closely mirrors the July 4 tragedy of the Hill Country.
Duration:00:21:49
‘Fighting the good fight’ — Artists confront injustice, inequity through ACLU artist-in-residency program
7/3/2025
Artist Vincent Valdez and writer KB Brookins discuss how they're promoting advocacy through the arts as part of the program's 2025-26 term.
Duration:00:24:23
Border Soundscapes Project captures the aural history and identity of the borderland
6/27/2025
A professor in El Paso who lives in the Mexican city of Juárez aimed to capture and document the everyday sounds that are a part of border experience.
Duration:00:24:49
Fronteras: The road to untold history — Latinos in Heritage Conservation preserves Latinx sites and stories
6/20/2025
The group took a long road trip last month through the Southwestern United States with a goal to visit the places that communities value as a connection to their history and culture—and share the untold stories.
Duration:00:21:50
Fronteras: Death of Jonathan Joss highlights systemic disparities in Native and LGBTQ communities
6/13/2025
Joss, a member of the LGBTQ community, was also of Comanche and White Mountain Apache descent. His death highlights a crisis of underreported mental health disparities.
Duration:00:32:04
Fronteras: Former child detainee shares his harrowing immigrant journey in 'Detained'
6/6/2025
D. Esperanza details his 10-month journey from Honduras to the U.S. through reconstructed and translated journal entries.
Duration:00:31:48
Fronteras: ‘It is not just a Native issue’ — Activists raise awareness of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People
5/30/2025
American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions embarked on a campaign in May to highlight the disproportionate effect of violence against Native women.
Duration:00:26:34
Fronteras: ‘We are Americans’ — Traveling exhibit highlights role of Latinos in WWII
5/23/2025
Images of Valor: U.S. Latinos and Latinas of World War II examines the themes of citizenship and civil rights that emerged from Latino veterans’ experiences.
Duration:00:21:45
‘They are part of the story’ — Texas Tejano marks 25 years of highlighting undertold state history
5/16/2025
Rudi Rodriguez, the president and founder of the San Antonio-based organization, discusses his fascination with Texas history and his own Tejano heritage.
Duration:00:21:45
Fronteras: ‘Language is part of our identities’ — Breaking down language barriers through community partnerships
5/9/2025
Students in A&M San Antonio's Language and Literacy in Latinx Communities class aim to better understand the socio-economic backgrounds of the city’s Latino populations and their experiences with language.
Duration:00:29:55
Migration Policy Institute breaks down immigration actions during Trump’s first 100 days in office
5/2/2025
MPI Policy Analyst Kathleen Bush-Joseph discusses the firehose of executive actions on immigrations.
Duration:00:24:18
Fronteras: ‘Language is an asset, not a threat’ — Award highlights power of bilingual, Spanish-language children’s books
4/25/2025
Local author Carmen Tafolla and UTSA's Patricia Sánchez discuss the Premio Campoy-Ada and how Spanish literature can serve as a tool for young readers.
Duration:00:23:55
Fronteras: ‘Lupita’s Brown Ballet Slippers’ highlights the importance of diversity for young readers
4/18/2025
Steena Hernandez said incorporating her own experiences as a dancer in a children’s book highlights the importance of diversity in dance and beyond.
Duration:00:21:45
‘Be who you are, play who you are’ — Two generations of Los Texmaniacs musicians talk career and influences
4/11/2025
Texmaniacs founder Max Baca and his nephew and accordionist, Josh Baca, share stories from the road and about their mentor and friend, Flaco Jimenez.
Duration:00:35:23
Fronteras: ‘The corrido was my canvas’ — Los Inocentes discuss three generations of musical activism
4/4/2025
The musical group was formed three years before San Antonio’s first César Chávez march and has continued using corridos as a form of activism and protest.
Duration:00:21:45
Fronteras: ‘There were heroes during this time’ — YA book blends history, superheroes to tell the history of La Matanza
3/28/2025
"El Rinche: La Matanza" is the third book in a four-part series inspired by the period of state-sanctioned violence against ethnic Mexicans.
Duration:00:27:27
‘Homeland’ explores the evolving sense of belonging in ethnic Mexicans in the U.S.
3/21/2025
Historian Aaron E. Sánchez detailed the different ways ethnic Mexicans viewed, embraced, or rejected their new identities as American citizens.
Duration:00:29:43