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This is Fresh Air, I'm Tanya Mosley,

and today my guest is John Liquezamo.

For the last four decades, we've watched him go from a one-man show in stand-up comedian

to television and TV actor, activist, and now educator.

His latest project, an ambitious docu series on the history of Latinos, feels like an inflection

point for a man who has spent his career asserting himself as a Latino

American while also discovering his place in this country.

The new docuaries now airing on PBS PBS is called Voeses American Historia the Untold History of Latinos which he

co-created with director Ben de Jesus.

It's like a textbook on screen with Lake Wasammo at the head of the class,

exploring Latino contributions to the Americas over thousands of years.

If this sounds familiar, that's because this series is an evolution of Lake Wasammo's 2018 one-man show called Latin History for Morons, which aired on Netflix.

John Lakewazamo is an Emmy and Tony Award-winning performer who began doing stand-up in the 80s

and gained critical acclaim for his one-man semi-autobiographical shows about growing up in Queens,

including Mambo Mouth and Freak, where Lake

wasamo portrayed dozens of characters from his life growing up in Queens,

including friends, relatives, and neighbors. He's performed in over 100 films and television shows,

including his breakthrough roles in 93

as Luigi and Super Mario Brothers,

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