Ray Suarez as more than 25 years of varied experience in the news business. He came to The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer from National Public Radio where he had been host of the nationwide call-in news program Talk of the Nation since 1993. Suarez was also a Los Angeles correspondent for CNN, a producer for the ABC Radio Network in New York, a reporter for CBS Radio in Rome, and a reporter for various American and British news services in London. He has been honored with the 1996 Ruben Salazar Award from the National Council of La Raza, Current History Magazine’s 1995 Global Awareness Award and a Chicago Emmy Award.  Suarez holds a bachelor’s degree in African History from New York University and a master’s degree in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago.

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