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UNDISTRACTED With Brittany Packnett Cunningham

“It’s Worse Than We Know”: Maria Hinojosa on Cesar Chavez

UNDISTRACTED With Brittany Packnett Cunningham

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4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

It’s been a month of devastating violence against women and children—from femicide cases making headlines to the mass killing in Shreveport, Louisiana. To understand it, Brittany Packnett Cunningham sits down with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa for a powerful conversation about the shocking allegations against farmworkers leader César Chávez, and Maria’s interview with Chávez’s co-leader (and victim) Dolores Huerta. Plus, they get into covering politics in the age of Trump, and how Maria got her Mexican passport back. And at the top of the show, group chat fave Dr. Brittney Cooper joins our UNtrending news segment on understanding all this violence—and, also, Beyoncé’s Lemonade turning 10!

Transcript

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if they shut down Caesar Chavez Boulevard, what's going to happen?

0:03.6

Will they rename it?

0:04.6

Or is it just gone?

0:05.6

So the movement is gone.

0:06.7

So I worry that the movement disappearing, it could be more dangerous for Dolores's mental

0:13.2

and emotional health than having to go public about the fact that she was assaulted in the 1960s.

0:23.3

Hey, y'all.

0:24.3

If you are watching on YouTube, don't forget to like and subscribe.

0:27.5

We're trying to do a little something over here,

0:29.4

and we appreciate you staying undistracted with us.

0:32.2

Now, I'm not going to lie to you,

0:33.9

this week has been some heavy stuff.

0:37.2

It's been serious. We need to talk about

0:41.2

famicide. Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax killed his wife, Dr. Serena Fairfax,

0:48.1

and then killed himself. People were quick to point out the former lieutenant governor's

0:53.6

mental health struggles as a result of him being credibly accused by two black women of sexual assault that derailed his aspirations to be governor.

1:03.9

Former vice mayor of Coral Springs, Florida, Democrat rising star Nancy Mateer was found dead in her home and her husband is being charged

1:13.4

with her murder. And lastly, a father in Shreveport, Louisiana killed eight children, seven of his own

1:21.8

children, shot his wife and shot another woman in a divorce-fueled rampage this weekend.

1:29.7

We need to talk about famicide.

1:38.6

On the show today, we have the iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and host of Latino USA, Maria Hinajosa,

1:47.1

on Cesar Chavez, Dolores Suerta, and how she thinks the media is really doing.

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