HBO will broadcast for second consecutive year the series "The Latino List," a selection of characters that embody the community's progress and with which the United States network celebrates the Hispanic Heritage Month.
"The Latino List. Volume Two" is the continuation of a project started in 2011 that picks up the testimonies of a number of Hispanic personalities of journalism, politics, sports, entertainment and the business world.
Among the ones chosen by the network are New York Giants player, Victor Cruz, activist Raul Yzaguirre, comedian George López and journalist Soledad O'Brien.
The series, also to be broadcasted by the channel HBO Latino on Monday 24 at 9pm (ET), features people like Univision's president, Cesar Conde, stating that in his childhood home "if I didn't speak Spanish, I didn't eat" or Cruz himself admitting that whenever his mother got angry at him as a kid, she would scold him in Spanish.
The production is under the direction of Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, the interviews where conducted by journalists Sandra Guzmán and María Hinojosa, who just last week was awarded the prestigious John Chancellor Award by the University of Columbia.
The series also gathers childhood anecdotes or the success story of people like model Christy Turlington Burns (whose mother is from El Salvador), the politician and businessman Henry Cisneros, AT&T executive Ralph de la Vega, journalist Giselle Fernández, producer Nely Galán, activists Dolores Huerta and Janet Murguia as well as actor Jon Seda.
As an introduction to the series premiere, HBO will host a red carpet reception today at the New York Museo del Barrio.
