Cliff Collins has run Cliff's Meat Market on Main Street in Carrboro for more than four decades. He has been an open supporter of immigration reform and employs many new Latino immigrants in his store.
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Gerardo (Tolo) Martinez has worked at Cliff's Meat Market for nearly 18 years. He's one of the central characters of the new documentary "Un Buen Carcinero."
Anita Rao is an award-winning journalist, host, creator, and executive editor of "Embodied," a weekly radio show and podcast about sex, relationships & health.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
When Guillermo Nurse was elected mayor of Oxford, North Carolina in November, he became the first Latino mayor in the state. He's also the first Black mayor of Oxford. Nurse ran on a platform of unity in a town that he says has struggled with racial and economic division for decades.
Celebrated Pit Master Ed Mitchell and his son Ryan have published their first cookbook that also tells the story of their family in Wilson, North Carolina and how the African American enslaved way of cooking 'whole hog' stands today.
Since 2004, Vecinos, a community health organization in western NC, has served Latino farmworkers. A new multi-million dollar project and partnership with other organizations will mean all low-income Latinos in the region will soon have easier access to care.