Maria and Julio sit down with queer Latinx writer Gabby Rivera, who wrote AMERICA featuring Marvel’s first Latina lesbian superhero, America Chavez. They chat about why representation matters, celebrating POC joy and how Maria may just be Gabb…

Maria and Julio are joined by Marcela García, columnist and editorial board member with The Boston Globe, and Betty Francisco, founder of FitNation Ventures and Latina Circle, LIVE from The Podcast Garage. Looking at access to educational, eco…

Maria and Julio check in on the week’s news before the long weekend. They chat about President Trump’s latest “immigration roundtable” on Long Island this week that conflated MS-13 with immigration, and the ACLU’s publishing of government docu…

Maria and Julio catch their breaths from all the incredible live shows and catch up on some major headlines with all-star Terrell Jermaine Starr, senior reporter at The Root, and María Peña, reporter with La Opinión. Terrell explains how Trump…

Maria and Julio chat about two headlines from this week—Trump’s recent derogatory comments about immigrants and the latest fatal school shooting in Texas. Then they dig into the sexual misconduct allegations against author Junot Díaz, breaking…

In part two of In The Thick’s LIVE series at DePaul University, Maria and Julio continue the conversation about Latinos and mass incarceration.

Despite making up 19 percent of the U.S. prison population, mass incarceration is often talked abo…

Maria and Julio find pieces of hope and joy amidst heart-sinking sounds of the latest news, from DACA to undocumented journalists being detained by ICE. Julio raps a little Public Enemy while they breakdown the latest headlines of white people…

Maria and Julio recently hosted an In The Thick LIVE show from DePaul University series on Latinos and Mass Incarceration. For the first conversation, they’re joined by Luis “Suave” Gonzalez, a former juvenile lifer and now a prison reform act…

After a busy week of live shows in Chicago, Maria and Julio catch up on the week’s two biggest headlines: anti-austerity protests in Puerto Rico and former New York City mayor, Rudy Giuliani, exposing President Trump’s lies by saying in a TV i…

Maria and Julio are joined by all-star guest, Wajahat Ali, TV host and contributor to The New York Times, and author/filmmaker Raquel Cepeda. They discuss the latest news from the Michelle Wolf’s roast at the White House Correspondents Dinner …

Maria and Julio are joined by Futuro Media’s Executive Director, Erika Dilday, to process and discuss the Bill Cosby guilty verdict for sexual assault. They talk about Cosby’s complicated (or… not so complicated) legacy and the role of race …

After catching up on the news, Maria and Julio discuss the future of the Latino community and what it means for political movements and democracy. Joining them are Lucy Flores, Vice President of Public Affairs with mitú and a former Nevada ass…

With Maria away traveling, Julio sits down with Futuro Media’s Executive Director, Erika Dilday, for a special In The Thick conversation. As this Friday marks 19 years since the Columbine High School massacre and the second national student wa…

Maria calls up all-star guest, Christina Greer, professor at Fordham University and fellow at NYU’s McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research, to get an In The Thick take on the latest news. Then, Maria and Julio sit down with actor a…

Maria and Julio catch up on the week’s news. They chat about the saucy details from James Comey’s forthcoming memoir; corruption in federal immigration agencies; the fed’s raid of President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen; Republicans w…

In this episode of In The Thick, Maria and Julio are joined by Shelby Chestnut, National Organizing and Policy Strategist with Transgender Law Center, and Verónica Bayetti Flores, freelance writer and co-host of Radio Menea. They discuss the L…

In this ITT Extra, Maria and Julio highlight three stories you may have missed this week because… Trump: the missing migrant voices from the coverage of the Central American refugee caravan; the conviction of former Bolivian president Gonzal…

Julio sits down with Marielena Hincapié, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, and In The Thick All-Star guest Sandra Lilley, editor of NBC News-Latino, to discuss the 2020 Census and the newly added citizenship question. …

Maria and Julio give a little history lesson about the complicated legacy of César Chávez. From the conservative trope that Chávez was anti-immigration to Maria meeting Chávez for the first time at a Halloween parade, they talk about the real …

Maria and Julio are joined by two In The Thick All Star guests, Wajahat Ali, TV host and contributor to The New York Times, and Christina Greer, professor at Fordham University and fellow at NYU’s McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Rese…

Maria and Julio catch up on this week’s news waterfall: President Trump’s last-minute flip-flop on DACA and the spending bill, the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal, why Trump is mad about a leaky White House and Sunday’s tragic Sacramento …

Winter is ending… we think. Julio and Maria do a little spring cleaning and dig into some of the latest news with Terrell Jermaine Starr, senior reporter at The Root, and Justine Calma, fellow at Grist and The Investigative Fund with The Nat…

Julio and Maria kick back this Friday and catch up on the week’s news—from the Pennsylvania special election in a disappearing congressional district to the power of youth walking out of school to protest gun violence. They also chat about cou…

Boston is known as a progressive city, but it’s also notorious for being one of the most racist cities in the United States. Julio, who’s lived in Boston for over 30 years, breaks it down with former mayoral candidate Tito Jackson, Boston Glob…