In the fall of 2001, while Americans were still grappling with the horror of September 11th,

envelopes started showing up at media outlets and government buildings, filled with a white,

lethal powder, anthrax. But what's strange is if you ask people now what happened with that story,

almost no one knows. It's like the whole thing just disappeared. Who mailed those letters?

Do you know?

From Wolf Entertainment, USG Audio, and CBC podcasts, this is Aftermath, the hunt for the anthrax killer.

Available now on CBC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts.

Dear listener, before we start, just a warning that suicide is going to come up in this piece.

Take care.

I do think that Latinos should be considered a race.

And I do think that we should hold on to this marker because even with all of the

diversity that exists within Latinidad, the way that I think of it is like a chain and each link

is different and we are stronger when we stand together. What I agree with is the idea that we are

stronger together. But I don't know how much I agree with the idea that Latinos should be a race.

This homogenous concept of Latinidad is the problem

because it enables Democrats to treat us as a monolith,

to obscure these distinctions that exist within our communities that are important.

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

Today we look at what it means to claim the identity of Latino or Latina in 2025.

And we ask the question, should Latino be a racial category?

Or is Latinidad simply a fiction?

And how do we answer these questions when simply existing as a Latino today can make you a target.

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