ALABAMA: VOICES FROM THE SHADOWS. Leaders from the nation’s top civil rights organizations convene in Alabama to advocate a repeal of the state’s immigration law. At the same time, the United States Civil Rights Commission is analyzing whether state immigration enforcement laws, like the one in Alabama, increase discrimination, hate crimes, or racial profiling. The Chairman of the Commission joins this edition to hear testimony directly from Alabama listeners. This edition is simulcast on the Radio Bilingüe network, the three-station network of La Jefa Radio in Alabama, and KIQI in the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento, and marks the anniversary of International Migrants Day.

Guests: Martín Castro, Chairman, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Chicago, IL, www.usccr.gov ; José Antonio Castro, Program Director and Host, Radio La Jefa, Montgomery, AL, www.aquimandalajefa.com ; Gerardo Guzman, News producer, La Jefa Radio, Montgomery, AL.

ALABAMA: VOICES FROM THE SHADOWS - A REPEAT. Leaders from the nation’s top civil rights organizations convene in Alabama to advocate a repeal of the state’s immigration law. At the same time, the United States Civil Rights Commission is analyzing whether state immigration enforcement laws, like the one in Alabama, increase discrimination, hate crimes, or racial profiling. The Chairman of the Commission joins this edition to hear testimony directly from Alabama listeners. This edition originally aired in simulcast on the Radio Bilingüe network, the three-station network of La Jefa Radio in Alabama, and KIQI in the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento, and marks the anniversary of International Migrants Day.

Guests: Martín Castro, Chairman, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Chicago, IL, www.usccr.gov ; José Antonio Castro, Program Director and Host, Radio La Jefa, Montgomery, AL, www.aquimandalajefa.com ; Gerardo Guzman, News producer, La Jefa Radio, Montgomery, AL.

CIVIL RIGHTS TODAY. This special, Holiday edition on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day includes an exclusive interview with Martín Castro, chair of the United States Civil Rights Commission, about the most pressing civil rights issues of our times, including hate crimes, violations of immigrants’ civil rights in Alabama and other states that have passed strict anti-immigration laws, the Latino dropout crisis, and the school-to-prison pipeline.

Guest: Martín Castro, Chairman, United States Civil Rights Commission, Chicago, IL, www.usccr.gov