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We bring you stories that are underreported, but that matter to you.

Overlooked by the rest of the media.

And while the country is struggling to deal with these problems,

we listen to the stories of black and Latino students.

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We know La Bamba is a song that's over 400 years old. That song survived because people

sang that song. They didn't know how to read. They didn't know how to write, but they just

passed it on.

How are people going to know our story as Chicano's, mestizos, brown kids, mixed kids, if we don't tell our story, how are we going to survive for 400 years?

In every art form, there's people who hold on to what they believe is tradition, and then

there's people who are trying

to evolve with it. Don't let a conversation or those ideas of what tradition is keep you from

telling who you are. From Futuro Media and PRX, it's Latino USA. I'm Maria Inojosa.

Today, one of our How I Made It segments, this time with East L.A. band Las Cafeteras.

Las Cafeteras made a name for themselves with their politically charged lyrics set to traditional Mexican and Afro-Mexican instrumentation.

The group from East L.A. fused a base of Son Harocho with rock, ska, spoken word, and hip-hop,

telling the stories they grew up with and the realities they still see every day in their communities.

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