Trump Cuts To AmeriCorps

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Trump Cuts to AmeriCorps | Latino Center of Art & Culture | Fantastic Negrito

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The Trump Administration shuts down AmeriCorps volunteer agency. Also, the new executive director of the Latino Center of Art & Culture. Finally, Fantastic Negrito to perform in Sacramento.

Since 1993, AmeriCorps has offered thousands of young adults the opportunity to help their communities through public service and volunteerism. However, last week the Trump administration placed most of the agency’s staff on administrative leave as it looks to slash the federal workforce. Thousands of volunteers with AmeriCorps’ National Civilian Community Corps were also released from their projects and sent home. Griff Ryan-Roberts is a former AmeriCorps volunteer and staff member. He joins Insight to talk about the mission of AmeriCorps, and how the agency’s sudden shuttering could impact members and communities across the country.

Latino Center of Art & Culture

Many people are probably familiar with the Latino Center of Art and Culture through their annual events such as “El Panteón de Sacramento” and “El Dia del Nino,” happening this weekend. Dedicated to fostering the artistic, economic and cultural development of the region's Latino (and Latinx) community, the Center has a new executive director. Bridgett Rangel-Rexford joins us to talk about her vision for the future.

Fantastic Negrito

He is a three-time GRAMMY award winning artist. But before that was NPR’s first-ever Tiny Desk Contest winner. Xavier Dphrepaulezz - better known as Fantastic Negrito - is on tour with a new album. He joins us ahead of his show at Goldfield Trading Post in Sacramento on Fri. April 25 at 7pm.

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