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Jul 2024
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New Generation Of Mexican Singers Embrac...

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Peso Pluma’s new album Éxodo just dropped and it hit the Billboard 200. The artist sings corridos, a type of Mexican traditional music that was once relegated to Spanish language radio. But today, a younger generation of artists like Peso Pluma and Xavi are bringing the music into the mainstream. And California's demographic change is helping to fuel this movement.

Reporter: Aisha Natalia Wallace-Palomares, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism


The U.S. Postal Service has until Friday to put forward a plan to reopen two rural California post offices. For over two years, the town of Niland in Northern Imperial County has been cut off from daily access to the mail, after the local post office burned down in 2022.

Reporter: Kori Suzuki, KPBS

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