Featured This Week:
Eva Longoria explores her heritage in new series.
How your screen time is affecting your brain.
Celebrating Black History Month with CNN.
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WATCH: The official trailer for Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico |
Eva Longoria explores her Mexican heritage in new CNN Original Series |
"I don't know the secret to happiness. All I know is every time I eat Mexican food, I'm happy," says Eva Longoria, host of the new CNN series Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico.
Executive produced by Stanley Tucci, the six-part series journeys across the country exploring how Mexico’s rich culture, landscape and history have helped shape its unique and colorful cuisine.
Longoria surveys the cutting-edge gastronomic fare of Mexico City; discovers Mayan influences in Yucatan cuisine, including the slow-cooked cochinita pibil; and ventures to the home of Latin America’s chocolate trade, Oaxaca, where she samples the velvety chocolate mole. She also enjoys a festive carne asada in Nuevo Leon and a traditional birria stew in Jalisco. She follows her ancestor, Lorenzo Longoria, footsteps who arrived in Veracruz 400 years ago.
“I am so excited for viewers to tune in and see firsthand what I love about Mexico – the food, the people, the cultures,” says Longoria. “This journey allowed me to further appreciate and fall in love with my roots, and I feel honored that CNN entrusted me with this unforgettable, once-in-a-lifetime experience."
Born and bred in Texas with Mexican-American roots, Longoria calls herself a Texican.
"We’ve been in Texas for thirteen generations. We never crossed the border; the border crossed us," she explains in the series. "And I think that’s why I have so much in common with Nuevo Leon and the North. It’s so similar to how I grew up."
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New season on Dr. Sanjay Gupta's podcast |
If you’re reading this, you’re probably looking at a phone or a computer screen. These days we spend most of our lives looking at screens – whether for work, school, or fun – but how is it shaping us? On season six of the CNN podcast Chasing Life, Dr. Sanjay Gupta takes us on his most personal journey yet, diving into the science behind how technology use impacts our brains.
As a dad of three teenage girls, he explores how worried we should be about the effects of screen time on kids’ health. Each Tuesday, the host brings new experts and guests to the table – from members of the Gupta family to content creators and medical professionals – for guidance on navigating a world surrounded by screens.
For more about the podcast, check out these links:
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LISTEN: How to raise kids in the digital age
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READ: Dr. Sanjay Gupta is on a mission to understand my daughters’ digital lives
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WATCH: Crossword puzzles won't make your brain sharper, but here's what will
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Celebrating Black History Month with CNN Films & Original Series |
In honor of Black History Month, our Keep Watching team has curated a weekly highlight of our favorite CNN Films and Original Series showcasing Black voices and perspectives.
This week’s highlight is The People v. The Klan. The four-part CNN Original Series is about the little-known true story of Beulah Mae Donald, a Black mother in Alabama who took down the Ku Klux Klan after the brutal 1981 murder of her son, Michael.
He was just nineteen years old when he was found hanging from a tree. Black community leaders immediately suspected it was a Klan lynching, but local law enforcement was slow to acknowledge the murder was racially motivated. When the investigation stalled, Beulah Mae and local Black leaders refused to back down until Michael’s killers were brought to justice.
This series explores the systems that allowed the Klan to operate unfettered for so long, the activists of the Civil Rights movement who dismantled the Klan’s hold on the nation, and the groundbreaking legal battle that destroyed the entire Klan organization. It also confronts the past and the inextricable link to the present-day discord in America while shining a light on the too-often marginalized agents of change in our society: the Black mothers of the movement, activists, and attorneys who fight for equality in America.
CNN will re-air
The People v. The Klan this Saturday at 10 p.m. ET/PT. The series is also available to stream on
CNNgo and Discovery
Plus.
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This edition was written by Janelle Davis and edited by Alexis Garfield. |
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