Toñita's Club Fights Erasure
Latino USA
My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | FUTURTA. |
| 0:02.0 | This is Latino USA, the Radio Journal of News and Cultura. |
| 0:11.0 | It's Latino USA. |
| 0:12.0 | It's Latino USA. I'm Maria Inu Hosa. |
| 0:15.8 | We bring you stories that are underreported, but that mattered to you overlooked by the rest of the media. |
| 0:21.2 | And while the country is struggling to deal with these problems. |
| 0:23.3 | We listen to the stories of black and Latino students. A united Latino front, a cultural renaissance, |
| 0:29.2 | organizing at the forefront of the movement. I'm Maria Inohosa, no sebayenne. |
| 0:35.0 | It's May 22nd and the world is raving about the release of Badbani's new album |
| 0:44.4 | Omerano Senti. During his promotion in New York City, the King of Regaton, or pop music in general, basically, chose to celebrate the lunch in a quite unexpected place. |
| 1:00.0 | He's in this modest Puerto Rican bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, decorated with LED Christmas lights, flowery table cloths, and walls full of family photos, baseball posters and framed newspaper clips. |
| 1:15.3 | It could be your grandma's living room. But Bunny is next to this tiny old woman with frizzy white blonde hair who's always smiling. |
| 1:28.0 | All of her fingers are taken over by these giant colorful rings. |
| 1:34.0 | She exposes them in front of her chest for the photos, |
| 1:37.3 | like a peacock opening its tail. |
| 1:40.3 | And Bad Bunny imitates her. People shout, La Reina, the Queen. |
| 1:47.0 | But Bunny describes her as the real flow. |
| 1:50.0 | Her name is Marie Antonia Kaye, but everyone in New York City knows her as Tohita. |
| 1:59.0 | She's the owner of the Caribbean Social Club, a gathering for Puerto Ricans and other Latino communities since the 1970s. |
| 2:07.5 | And it's also the last Latino Social Club, standing in Brooklyn. |
| 2:20.0 | But Bunny is behind a bar next to Tonita, drinking a medaya beer, the Puerto Rican label, |
| 2:21.0 | and serving cocktails in plastic cups. |
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