From NPR's Latino USA: Tipping Point

From NPR's Latino USA: Tipping Point
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Images courtesy of the Facebook page of Carlos Calbillo’s documentary “Jose Campos Torres, The Case of”
Images courtesy of the Facebook page of Carlos Calbillo’s documentary “Jose Campos Torres, The Case of”

This week, stories about high-pressure situations where something builds and builds and eventually boils over, leaving the world a slightly different place. In 1977, the killing of a Mexican-American veteran by three Houston police officers sparked a violent rebellion in the Latino community that altered the conversation on community-police relations in the city. And we revisit an iconic moment in activism and sports when Cuban-American John Carlos raised a black-gloved fist on the Olympic podium in 1968. Plus, the protests at Standing Rock and an interview with singer-composer Xenia Rubinos.

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