From the OC Register:
“Latino Americans” – PBS’s new three-part, six-hour series documenting the 500-year history of Latinos in America – premiered Tuesday, and the show’s producers reached out to a few Orange County locals to help develop the project. Vicki Ruiz, a professor of Chicano and Latino history at the University of California, Irvine, served as a historical consultant for the series and appears in the show’s first two episodes. Recently, she chatted with the Irvine World News about her involvement.

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