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The Latest with Loren LoRosa
AriZona Ice Tea no longer 99 cent? + Porsha Williams Ex Simone Guobadia Allegedly owes lawyers 200k
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Unknown Host
This is an iHeart podcast.
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Bob Crawford
I'm Bob Crawford, host of American History Hotline, a different type of podcast. You, the listener, ask the questions.
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Unknown Host
Did George Washington really cut down a cherry tree?
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Were JFK and Marilyn Monroe having an affair?
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Bob Crawford
And I find the answers. I am so glad you asked me this question.
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Unknown Host
This is such a ridiculous story.
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Bob Crawford
You can listen to American History Hotline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
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Maria Hinojosa
When I became a journalist, I was the first Latina in the newsrooms where I worked. I'm Maria Hinojosa. I spent my career creating journalism that centers voices who have been historically sidelined. From the most pressing news stories to deep cultural explorations, Latino USA is journalism with heart. Listen to Latino usa, the longest running Latino news and culture show in the United States. Hear it on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get podcasts.
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Unknown Host
What's up, guys? Welcome to the Agustoapa podcast, the go to spot for everything Musa Mexicana. We're proud Mexican Americans who live and breathe this music. We started this podcast to share and discuss our views of music. Whether you like to vibe to Peso, Pluma, los Alas Camacho, or P Coro, when you get in feels, then this podcast is for you. Well, actually, Peso was supposed to be on Chinito's album. The song with Drake was supposed to be with Peso. The listen to agaGustopa on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Will Lucas
It's black business month, and black tech green money is tapping in. I'm Will Lucas spotlighting black founders, investors and innovators building the future one idea at a time. Let's talk legacy tech and generational wealth.
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Unknown Host
I had the skill and I had the talent. I didn't have the opportunity. Yeah, we all know, right? Genius is evenly distributed. Opportunity is not to hear this and.
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Will Lucas
More on the power of black innov and ownership. Listen to black tech green money from the Black Effect podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Unknown Host
I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and everybody. You know, if you don't lie about that, right?
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Lauren LaRosa
Lauren came in hot.
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Unknown Host
Hey, y', all, what's up? It's Lauren LaRosa. And this is the latest with Lauren LaRosa. This is your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment news, and all of the conversations that shake the room, baby. Now today on the podcast to do a behind the scenes of the grind check in because it's been a little minute since I checked in and I am feeling excited. I don't know if I've ever. I feel like I used that before. I feel like I've said excited or anxious or something like that. I have a. A trip coming up this weekend. I'm going to Puerto Rico. My cousin is getting married there. It's my first time being in a destination wedding and my first time at a destination wedding. And it's my cousin. So it's like, you know, it's just my family gonna get together, we gonna have a good time. It's just a weekend away, to be honest. So I'm excited for that as I prepare. You know, like, originally, you. You aren't really excited. Cause the trip is like so far out. We've been talking about this for months, but now that it's here, it's days away. I am ready. Ooh, I'm so ready to just be poolside. But let's get on into the latest. Let's. Let's still stay at work while we are here. So switching on over into the latest, now let's talk Porsha Williams from Real Housewives of Atlanta because I've reported a bit on her separation and then divorce, finally being a divorce from Simon Guobadia. Now, Simon was the guy or the man that Portia was in a relationship with. She remember there was a whole debacle about whether she was dating him or should have been dating him or should not have been dating him because he was married to Fallon, who was another one of the girls on Real Housewives of Atlanta who. The whole storyline happened where it was like, made it seem like her and Portia, all the things, right? This is the Nigerian man that she's been married to. They were together for 15 months back in February. Portia filed for divorce after that 15 months because Portia said she felt like there was just some things that were not adding up for her. Okay. At all. Now when she said that there was some things that were not adding up for her, she was very honest about what it was. She said that money wise and just, you know, different things about his citizenship and that type of stuff was. It just wasn't making sense. The sense wasn't making sense. And Portia was like, look, from what she told us, anyway, she came over to the Breakfast Club and what she told us there was that she tried to talk to him. She says, you know, I didn't want to leave him. I thought that this was gonna Be forever. And to be honest with y', all, I know that housewives get a lot of, like, you know, they get dragged for dating and how fast they, you know, marry and divorce and all the things. Not just the Real Housewives of Atlanta, but all of the girls on those franchise shows because people always feel like they're doing it for a storyline. I don't know Portia personally as personally as, like, a friend in her life or whatever. Just met her through our interview, but I feel like when we interviewed her, it felt sincere to me. Now, Portia is a OG Real Housewife, right? So she's good at what she does, but it felt sincere to me. I felt like she really was in love with him. I felt like she really wanted to be with Simon, and I felt her disdain for, like, look, I can't live my life not knowing what you really got going on. I have a daughter. I have businesses. You know, I have a brand to protect. I need to know. And since I can't know that and, you know, I'm basically living in fear of what I don't know coming back to haunt us. I gotta get on up outta here. And she's been very emotional about it. She was emotional on Real Housewives Atlanta about it. She's been emotional in interviews. She sat down to talk to People magazine and got teared up. Let's take a listen to that. It's lonely. I can't connect with other men. You know, it's like people trying to introduce me, but it's just when it's not the same, it's not the same. I'm gonna do it different this time. I'm gonna be alone until I'm whole. And then when I'm whole, then I will, you know, open myself back up so I don't make the same mistake again. When you go through a bad enough breakup, you're like, I don't like nobody. I was sitting there, I was like, do I like women enough? Can I get with a woman, like, who can come in and fill this void? Like. So I'm saying all this to say I think your girl, I think she really did love this man. I think she really did see, you know, a future with this man, and it just went south. Now, the people have been dragging Portia for a long time about the fact that she decided to step away after these 15 months. They've been trying to make it seem like this is all for a storyline. But there was a story that broke today via Us Weekly. And the story to me, in my Opinion just confirms everything Portia has been saying. Now it's hell, because Portia, I'm sure, was celebrating the fact that the divorce was final. She's now legally single. And all the things. She got her home that, you know, him and her were arguing about the home. Baby girl got her $7 million home. She able to film in the house. Life is good. She's in Atlanta. She's doing the thing. She's Portia Williams. And then, boom, here comes this lien against the house for over $200,000. Because according to Simon's divorce attorney, her name is Anyema Fieri. Please forgive me if I'm pronouncing your name wrong. And I've spoken to her as well. I've spoken to her several times. You know, just reaching out on the reporting of all of this because she was Simon's divorce attorney in the divorce from Portia. Let me tell you how crazy this is, how ironic this is, right? So Simon and Portia get divorced. Simon gets a divorce attorney to go through with the divorce. Simon loses that, like, argument around the divorce. He was trying to make it where the prenup wasn't going to be pursued, like the prenup was gonna be disregarded. He could get his home back. He wouldn't have to pay certain things. The judge said, uh, nope, not too fast. Give that woman what she's asking for. Because you signed this agreement. This was a prenup that you guys both agreed to. So Portia was able to keep the home, basically. She was able to live in the home, and the home is in her possession. But it was two things she had to do. Either she had to buy the home or his portion of it from him outright, or when she sold the home, 50% of the equity would be hers, but the other 50% would go to Simon. So she's in this home. Granted. I mean, even with all of that, what she'll probably do is decide to stay there, give the equity, whatever she decides to do, however that goes. But. But the irony of this is the same attorney that Portia was just battling in court to get away and be disattached from Simon now has a lien on the home that she is in possession of and living in. And basically, the reason why this happened is because, per the report, there's over $200,000 that was owed to Ms. Fieri and Simon's attorney, and she got tired of trying to collect it. She went to. She said, look, he owes me this money. I did my job. Regardless if he's happy with the job I did or not? Because Simon, I was told, was very upset when the judge decided to side with Portia and to uphold their prenup. Regardless, though, that's not your. I mean, I was gonna say that's not your attorney's fault. Some people will argue that it is depending on how the attorney litigated or went about the case. But regardless, the attorney had a job to do. They did the job. You gotta pay your attorney. I don't know what their agreement on the back end was. I did reach out to Ms. Fieri to just try and get some more clarity on how were the payments happening? Was this what you charged for the total, you know, duration of the mediation or the litigation of, you know, the back and forth of the prenup? Was this just a final payment he owed you? What was the fall off? Like, what exactly happened where you got to a point where. Because, you know, she obviously was still in communication with him. I've been told that because he was going to kind of like attest the prenup situation, like the ruling, like, he wanted a judge to know that he wasn't happy with it, that he thought that it should be taken back and reviewed again. And so there was going to be more work that this attorney had to do for him, is basically my point. So how do we get from that to, you owe me over $200,000, and the only way, the exact amount is $205,884.25 for services provided on his divorce from Portia Williams. And how do you get from your fighting for him and everything he's asking for in court to run my money to where my money at, hand out bigly. Now, I didn't hear back from her, so I don't have the answer to that yet. But what she's doing is the attorney, she says, look, you have this house that's worth over $7 million. Run me my 200k. So basically, they put the lien that's been put on the house. And what normally happens in this situation is they will either wait again until Portia decides to the home, or, you know, any money made from the home on the actual possession or ownership on. On the home. The lien will then be paid off. But it's just ironic because Portia then did all this to separate herself from this man and his business and. Or lack thereof, because he's claiming that he had this business worth over $290,000. And all of a sudden the business just makes no money. The Business just doesn't exist. I mean, not that the business doesn't exist, but what Simon is saying is that when he got locked up by ice, he's been unable to keep the business afloat, he's been unable to make money, and therefore, he shouldn't be responsible for certain things financially. So Simon Guardia has this company, it's called Simcoe, and the company is valued at $296 million. But Simon was basically claiming that because he was detained by ICE for all those months, he was unable to run the business, so they completely lost all of their value. A judge is like, I'm not buying it. It's no way you. You dissolve $296 million in a business over months of you being detained because you were living in a different country. After a while, you were living in a different country, you were able to figure out the business and running the business. You just weren't here in the US So that makes no sense. So, I don't know. Seems to me like what Portia was, you know, saying in the beginning of this that people didn't believe her about, like, you know, there's. There's something going on here with the. With the money, with the numbers, and I just don't want to be a part of it. I know. It's unfortunate. She's probably so annoyed that she's still having to deal with the issues that are attached to her now estranged husband, Simon Guobadia. Right. But does this or does this not prove what she was saying? She told John, y' all didn't believe her. Y' all thought it was all for a storyline. Now, boom. She got lean on a house that she fought so hard to live in and be able to film in. Found Portia. I need to get rid of this house. I need to get out of here. I need new energy. I don't want to unattach to him. Beautiful house, though. 15,000 square feet, five bedrooms, eight bathrooms, gorgeous home, but I don't know. It just for me, moving into a new place, a new job, it's just like a reset. And sometimes you need that after, you know, leaving a situation. And maybe this is the sign. Portia, get out of there, girl.
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Bob Crawford
The summer of 1993 was one of the best of my life. I'm journalist Jeff Pearlman, and this is Rick Jervis.
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Lauren LaRosa
We were interns at the Nashville Tennesse Inn. But the most unforgettable part, our roommate, Reggie Payne from Oakland, sports editor and.
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Bob Crawford
Aspiring rapper, and his stage name, Sexy Sweat. In 2020, I had a simple idea. Let's find Reggie.
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Lauren LaRosa
We searched everywhere, but Reggie was gone. In February 2020, Reggie was having a diabetic episode. His mom called 911. Police cuffed him face down. He slipped into a coma and died.
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Unknown Host
I'm like, thanking you, but then I see my son's not moving.
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Bob Crawford
No headlines, no outrage, just silence.
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Lauren LaRosa
So we started digging and uncovered city officials bent on protecting their own.
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Bob Crawford
Listen to finding sexy Sweat on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Unknown Host
A foot washed up, a shoe with some bones in it. They had no idea who it was. Most everything was burned up pretty good from the fire that not a whole lot was salvageable.
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These are the coldest of cold cases. But everything is about to change.
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Every case that is a cold case that has DNA right now in a backlog will be identified in our lifetime.
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A small lab in Texas is cracking the code on DNA using new scientific tools. They're finding clues in evidence so tiny you might just miss it.
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He never thought he was going to get caught.
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Bob Crawford
And I just looked at my computer screen and I was just like, ah, gotcha.
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Unknown Host
On America's Crime Lab, we'll learn about victims and survivors, and you'll meet the team behind the scenes at othram, the Houston lab that takes on the most hopeless cases to finally solve the unsolvable. Listen to America's Crime Lab on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Dr. Lea Trittate
Sometimes it's hard to remember, but going.
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Lauren LaRosa
Through something like that is a traumatic experience.
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Unknown Host
But it's also not the end of your life.
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Dr. Lea Trittate
That was my dad reminding me and so many others who need to hear it that our trauma is not our shame to carry and that we have big, bold and beautiful lives to live after what happened to us. I'm your host and co president of this organization, Dr. Lea Trittate. On my new podcast, the Unwanted Sorority, we wade through transformation to peel back healing and reveal what it actually looks like and sounds like in real time. Each week, I sit down with people who've lived through harm and carried silence and are now reshaping the systems that failed us. We're going to talk about the adultification of black girls mothering as resistance and the tools we use for healing. The Unwanted Sorority is a safe space, not a quiet space. So let's lock in. We're moving towards liberation together. Listen to the Unwanted Sorority. New episodes every Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.
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Unknown Host
What would you do if one bad decision forced you to choose between a maximum security prison or the most brutal boot camp designed to be hell on earth? Unfortunately for Mark Lombardo, this was the choice he faced.
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He said, you are a number, a New York state number, and we own you.
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Shock incarceration, also known as boot camps, are short term, highly regimented correctional programs that mimic military basic training. These programs aim to provide a shock of prison life, emphasizing strict discipline, physical training, hard labor, and rehabilitation programs. Mark had one chance to complete this program and had no idea of the hell awaiting him the next six months.
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The first night was overwhelming and you.
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Will Lucas
Don'T know who's next to you and.
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Lauren LaRosa
We didn't know what to expect in the morning. Nobody tells you anything.
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Unknown Host
Listen to shock incarceration on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Now, in other news in the latest, we have Arizona iced tea. Now, y' all are probably wondering how Arizona iced tea ended up on the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. Because it is a can. It is not a person. Well, baby, the way that the world is set up right now, even aluminum cans can make the news because what is happening right now is Arizona iced tea. You guys know, I hope you guys know if you do not know, you need to go and try one. They've religiously always been 99 cents, to the point where the branding of the can has 99 cents on the can. Like it's just synonymous with Arizona iced teas. So they were. They've been 99 cents. But now the owner of the company is having to consider whether or not the cans might increase in price. Now, if they were to increase, it's estimated that they would go to about a dollar and 99 cents. But for over 30 years, they've been around since 1990. For over 30 years, the cans have been 99 cents. And now because Trump and his tariffs, the owner of the can is having to do some rethinking. Now, nothing has been officially done yet. This story came out a few days ago, but it's starting to make the rounds because I don't know, I think Arizona iced tea, y' all drink Arizona ic Anybody in here? Yeah, everybody in here said yes. Arizona iced teas, I think have become such a staple and we didn't even know it. I'm trying to think like, what else is like a. Oh, sunflower seeds. I feel like sunflower seeds were a staple, too. It was like a corner store gas station staple. They were 25 cents y' all remember when David sunflower seeds used to be 25 cents? Wow, I sound old. Y' all remember when the sunflower seeds used to be 25 cents? You know how your mom be like. Cause I remember when we used to pay $4 for cable. That's how we sound right now. But, I mean, it's just what we're going through, to be honest with y'. All. Like, sunflower seeds used to be 25 cents. That is no longer. The Arizona iced teas are still, at this time, as of today, 99 cents. But the way Trump is set up, things may increase because Arizona iced tea cans are made with aluminum, and a lot of the aluminum that they're made with are imported from Canada. So Trump back in June announced that he would be doubling tariffs on imported steel and aluminum to 50% from the 25% rate that was announced in February. Now, Arizona, the brand uses more than 100 million pounds of aluminum a year for its cans, and about 20% of that comes from Canada. Now, the owner, his name is Mr. Volteggio. I am horrible with names. I hope I said that right. Mr. Volte says that he's hopeful that, you know, the tariffs dispute in the back and forth will settle and. And it'll be resolved so he won't have to up anything. But he did say that if not, unfortunately, his customers are just going to have to pay the price. They're going to have to fill the price in their pockets. Now, this is like, you know, it made me begin to think, of course, we know the price of eggs have went up. We know just groceries in general have went up. My grandmother was complaining to me the other day just about the utility bills, you know, being different prices and, you know, different things. And I think a lot of people and a lot of businesses are seeing exactly what e Arizona iced tea is seeing right now. It costs more to do what you normally do, so you have to charge more to be able to sustain. Now, a brand like Coca Cola, who also faced this issue because of the aluminum, they've done something really smart. So Coca Cola actually just decided to start relying more on plastic packaging when everything was announced with the tariffs because they didn't want to raise their prices. A quote from the company is that they wanted to continue to compete as affordable, so they leaned more into plastic packaging versus other resources that would have been affected by the tariffs, I think. And it's so crazy that forget the nuclear bombs, forget everything else we'd have been through. Trump just called the, you know, the national guard in D.C. for no reason at all. Besides, he woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Forget all of that, right? It's so much happening. It takes Arizona iced tea to get to the people to make us understand it's real outside. Y' all stay safe in these streets. Now, at the end of the day, I tell y' all every single episode. My lowriders it is. Look, there's a lot of places and a lot of things to talk about. Cause y' all could be anywhere with anybody talking about all of this stuff. But y' all choose to be right here with me every single episode. And I appreciate you guys for doing so. Find me in the streets and in the tweets.
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You for the tweets.
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We outside. We outside. We outside. Outside in the tweets. Every other page are gold. Look, talk to me. I'm Aurenlarosa everywhere. I wanna know how y' all feel. Number one, Arizona iced tea. Is it so hard? I wish we could put Boyzam in it. So hard to say goodbye under my voice and not be copyright stricken. Is it so hard to say Goodbye to the 99 cent or. Y' all good with that. Y' all still gonna buy. And Portia Williams, she was telling the truth the whole time. Y' all owe Portia Williams an apology. She was telling the truth the whole time. I'll see you guys in my next episode.
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Bob Crawford
I'm Bob Crawford, host of American History Hotline, a different type of podcast. You, the listener, ask the questions.
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Unknown Host
Did George Washington really cut down a cherry tree?
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Were JFK and Marilyn Monroe having an affair?
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Bob Crawford
And I find the answers. I am so glad you asked me this question.
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Unknown Host
This is such a ridiculous story.
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Bob Crawford
You can listen to American History Hotline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Unknown Host
What's up, guys? Welcome to the Agusto Papa podcast. The go to spot for everything musica Mexicana. We're proud Mexican Americans who live and breathe this music. We started this podcast to share and discuss our views of musica mexicana. Whether you like to vibe to Peso Pluma, Los Alegres del Barranco, Ariel Camacho, or per Ivan Cornejo. When you get in feels, then this podcast is for you. Well, actually, Peso was supposed to be on Chinito's album. The song with Drake was supposed to be with Peso. Listen to Agusto Pa on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
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Maria Hinojosa
When I became a journalist, I was the first Latina in the newsrooms where I worked. I'm Maria Hinojosa. I spent my career creating journalism that centers voices who have been historically sidelined. From the most pressing news stories to deep cultural explorations, Latino USA is journalism with heart. Listen to Latino usa, the longest running Latino news and culture show in the United States. Hear it on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Will Lucas
It's Black Business Month and Black Tech green money is tapping in. I'm Will Lucas, spotlighting black founders, investors and innovators building the future one idea at a time. Let's talk legacy tech and gener.
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Unknown Host
I had the skill and I had the talent. I didn't have the opportunity. Yeah, we all know, right? Genius is evenly distributed. Opportunity is not.
- [24:35]
Will Lucas
To hear this and more on the power of black innovation and ownership, listen to Black Tech Green Money from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Unknown Host
This is an iHeart podcast.