Our 7 Neighbors: Diversifying the Narrative: Immigration and Religion in America

Season 4: Ep.7 Queering Orishas

Our 7 Neighbors, Season 4: Diversifying the Narrative: Immigration and Religion in America, Hosted by Dr. José Francisco Morales Torres. Through an intersectional lens of Latinx voices, this season explores themes of immigration, mass migration and colonization and how diverse faith traditions can and do affect the story we tell. This episode features a conversation with Dr. Aurelis Troncoso, 2024-25 Miriam Jiménez Román Fellow at The Latinx Project NYU and a scholar-practitioner committed to centering Blackness, queerness and spirituality.

Season 4: Ep.6 The Religion of Hip Hop

Our 7 Neighbors, Season 4: Diversifying the Narrative: Immigration and Religion in America, Hosted by Dr. José Francisco Morales Torres. Through an intersectional lens of Latinx voices, this season explores themes of immigration, mass migration and colonization and how diverse faith traditions can and do affect the story we tell. This episode features a conversation with Dr. Daniel White Hodge. With 23 years of academic scholarship and teaching, he is a recognized Hip Hop Studies expert & rhetorical cultural literary scholar and professor of communications and department chair of the Communication Arts Department at North Park University in Chicago.

Season 4: Ep.5 Community as Resistance

Our 7 Neighbors, Season 4: Diversifying the Narrative: Immigration and Religion in America, Hosted by Dr. José Francisco Morales Torres. Through an intersectional lens of Latinx voices, this season explores themes of immigration, mass migration and colonization and how diverse faith traditions can and do affect the story we tell. This episode features a conversation with Amor Craun Reyes, an Indigenous, Latina, Mexican, and Muslim woman, who serves communities across the Americas.

Season 4: Ep. 4 Organic Orbits

Our 7 Neighbors, Season 4: Diversifying the Narrative: Immigration and Religion in America, Hosted by Dr. José Francisco Morales Torres. Through an intersectional lens of Latinx voices, this season explores themes of immigration, mass migration and colonization and how diverse faith traditions can and do affect the story we tell. This episode features a conversation with Dr. Anandi Silva Knuppel who is a Salt Lake City-based independent scholar and the Strategic Initiatives and Projects Specialist for the American Institute of Indian Studies.

Season 4: Ep. 3 Where Do We Belong?

Our 7 Neighbors, Season 4: Diversifying the Narrative: Immigration and Religion in America, Hosted by Dr. José Francisco Morales Torres Through an intersectional lens of Latinx voices, this season explores themes of immigration, mass migration and colonization and how diverse faith traditions can and do affect the story we tell. This episode features a conversation with Dr. Laura Limonic, who discusses Jewishness, race, ethnicity, and immigration through the stories of Latinx Jews in the United States.

Season 4: Ep. 2 The Legal, the Political and the Ethical

Our 7 Neighbors, Season 4: Diversifying the Narrative: Immigration and Religion in America, Hosted by Dr. José Francisco Morales Torres Through an intersectional lens of Latinx voices, this season explores themes of immigration, mass migration and colonization and how diverse faith traditions can and do affect the story we tell. This episode features a conversation with Dr. Nichole M. Flores. Dr. Flores researches the constructive contributions of Catholic and Latinx theologies to notions of justice and aesthetics to the life of democracy.

Season 4: Ep. 1 I'm Trying to Be Nonviolent Here

Our 7 Neighbors, Season 4: Diversifying the Narrative: Immigration and Religion in America, Hosted by Dr. José Francisco Morales Torres. Through an intersectional lens of Latinx voices, this season explores themes of immigration, mass migration and colonization and how diverse faith traditions can and do affect the story we tell. This episode features a conversation with Dr. Miguel A. De La Torre – international scholar, documentarian, novelist, academic author, and scholar activist.

Our 7 Neighbors Season 4 Trailer

Sneak peek into season 4: Diversifying the Narrative: Immigration and Religion in America

Season 3: Episode 6 Legacy

Hosted by Rev. Brian E. Smith, this season centers stories gathered for our Rev. Jesse Jackson oral archive project. Each episode includes segments from our Chicago Civil rights leaders interviews, paired with voices from modern community, faith and social justice movements. This episode features a part of an interview with Rev. Jesse Jackson, leader in the Civil Rights Movement, Rainbow PUSH Coalition and the Chicago Breadbasket Movement. Then our host gets into conversation with the new leader of PUSH, Rev. Dr. Frederick Haynes, pastor, passionate leader and social activist.

Sneak Peek into Episode 6

Take a quick listen to this teaser for our 6th and final episode dropping next week. Producer Kim Schultz and host Rev. Brian Smith discuss favorite parts of the season and the upcoming episode featuring Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Dr. Frederick Haynes.