José C. Massó III
José C. Massó III Host of “¡Con Salsa!”, the longest-running music show on Boston’s WBUR 90.9FM on National Public Radio (NPR). Massó brings a range of Afro Latin music and interviews to listeners all around the world. For fifty years his weekly bilingual program featuring Afro-Latin music and spoken word has served as a bridge builder between languages, races, cultures, ethnicities and nationalities as a music show, party and community gathering.
José C. Massó III Host of “¡Con Salsa!”, the longest-running music show on Boston’s WBUR 90.9FM on National Public Radio (NPR). Massó brings a range of Afro Latin music and interviews to listeners all around the world. For fifty years his weekly bilingual program featuring Afro-Latin music and spoken word has served as a bridge builder between languages, races, cultures, ethnicities and nationalities as a music show, party and community gathering.
A proud Afro Puerto Rican, his purpose has been to highlight Latino culture, history, traditions, and language, to empower Latinos, especially Afro-Latinos, with a sense of pride, unity, and collective strength.
Massó was inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2010 and is one of the sixty-nine civil rights and social justice leaders honored in the 1965 Freedom Plaza under the Embrace Monument in the Boston Common honoring the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King.