Radio Bilingüe
Where the National Latino Conversation Starts
Sacramento, California
Dr.Charles Briggs, Hugo Morales y Neyda Pacheco
Where we are working now
Today, Radio Bilingüe owns and operates 26 non-commercial stations in California, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, with an additional 75 affiliates across the U.S., airing our national Spanish news on health, immigration, worker rights, climate resilience, voting, racial justice and more.
Why Radio Bilingüe?
We serve as a voice to empower Latinos, Indigenous Mexicans and other underserved communities. Our programming centers Latino arts, culture and languages as the fabric of our communities, and puts critical information in the hands of audiences ignored by other media.
Farmworkers, activists, artists and teachers in California’s San Joaquin Valley brought Radio Bilingüe to the public airwaves in 1980. They called it “La Voz que Rompió el Silencio/The Voice that Broke the Silence.”
Maria Eraña, Chuya Gomez y Dr.Charles Briggs / Field Trip to Radio Bilingüe Sacramento
Credits
Field work carried out by undergraduate research assistant: Nancy Garcia
Principal Investigator: Dr. Clara Mantini-Briggs