podcast

The regional director of the 2020 census reflects on his journey - and how the census has evolved since his first days as a census leader in Puerto Rico.

The Executive Director of Philadelphia’s newest department visited AL DÍA on July 18 to discuss everything census 2020 in Philly.

In his fourth novel of the series, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, captures the essence of Mexico City while writing the everyday life and loneliness of Detective Belascoarán. 

The CEO of the National Constitution Center visited AL DÍA on July 10 to discuss America’s founding document in the modern, polarized context.

Author Maribel García shares her inspiration for writing her recently published novel– Profound and Perfect Things. 

Witchcraft, cosmetic reconstruction, and a classic love story that ends in tragedy– Fernando de Rojas writes about a century with revolutionary ideas. 

Professor Americo Mendoza Mori shares a poem from Peruvian writer José María Arguedas.

The seventh episode of Literatura Oral explores the controversial family Buendía in Gabriel García Márquez's Cien Años de Soledad.

Celebrating the life and works of one of the most important poets and dramatist of the twentieth century. 

Rhymes, passion and women: the work of one of Spain's most important modernist poets. 

A short story where love can only be found in dreams and the desire for a different life seems unreachable. 

In an exclusive interview with AL DÍA News, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney opens up about his blue-collar upbringing in South Philly, his passionate support for the city’s burgeoning immigrant population, and the transforming local political landscape.

The unspoken effects of the dictatorship in Chile inspired the play by Ariel Dorfman, which contains more than just a historical tale of torture and suffering.

Spanish professor Rogelio Miñana, visits AL DÍA for a conversation that not only questions reality but also the virtue in people, through the mind of Miguel de Cervantes. 

State Representative Angel Cruz recently spoke with AL DÍA about his showdown with rival Councilwoman Maria Quiñones-Sánchez in the Democratic primary election on May 21.

The premiere episode of this new series takes us to the timeless world portrayed in the book Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo. 

On Mar. 25, Gisele Fetterman visited AL DÍA Newsroom to discuss her journey to becoming Second Lady of Pennsylvania, and her plans for using her new platform to advance the work that she has done on immigrant rights, poverty, and the power of “soft” leadership.

AL DÍA will give tribute to the Latin American works of the most prominent authors of the past 500 years.

In the first year of his administration, District Attorney Larry Krasner has fulfilled several of the campaign promises which gained him the support of nearly 75 percent of Philadelphia voters and swept him into office in 2017. But how successful have the changes that Krasner has introduced been in reducing the city's out-sized incarceration rate - and what will be the consequences locally and nationally as he continues in his efforts to reform the criminal justice system?

In her new book, Eileen Truax explores how, contrary to popular perception that the question is still up for debate, the U.S. has already “built the wall,” keeping asylum seekers out through the immigration system itself.