Meaning of Citizenship

FRIDAY, JULY 10
PROGRAM #11199 12:00 PM PT

Meaning of Citizenship. 

“All persons born or naturalized in the US, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the US.” That’s a sentence in the US Constitution. With the background of recent political and divisive debates, what’s the legal meaning and the ethical foundation of citizenship in the US? What are the shared values that bind the citizens of the nation together? What’s the power and the history of the right to vote?

Guests: Jose Lopez Zamorano, Program Co-Host and Correspondent, Radio Bilingüe; Hector Sanchez Barba, President and CEO, Mi Familia Vota and Chair, National Hispanic Leadership Agenda-NHLA; all from Washington, DC; Martha González, Master Musician, Academic Researcher and Author, Los Angeles, CA; Quetzal Flores, Grammy Award-winning Chicano Musician and Activist, Los Angeles, CA; Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Performance Artist, Writer, Activist, and Artistic Director, La Pocha Nostra, San Francisco, CA.

Photo: National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution/Flickr

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