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Episode 5: A Mental Health Journey
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Speaking Our Truths: The -Ism Youth Files
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Several youth describe their strategies and therapies for mental wellness. Powerful and helpful recovery stories for all ages.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Hour 2: Disability during the pandemic and Two stories of Surviving Trauma
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Speaking Our Truths: The -Ism Youth Files
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(A compilation of Episodes 3 and 4 for stations desiring a 59 minute version.) First half: Youth with disabilities had great challenges with onlin...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Hour 1: The Pandemic and After
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Speaking Our Truths: The -Ism Youth Files
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A compilation of Episodes 1 and 2 for stations desiring a 59 minute version.) 1) Youth experienced challenges on their mental health during the pa...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 2: World On Fire
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Speaking Our Truths: The -Ism Youth Files
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Social activism by youth during and after the pandemic helped their mental wellness.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Oct 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Re:Work Radio: Stranded
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Indian migrant workers flee during the 2020 national lockdown., Credit: Re:Work Radio, a project of the UCLA Labor Center.
When India went into lockdown in 2020, millions of jobs disappeared and tens of millions of migrant workers struggled to get home, often on foot. M...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Dec 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 36: The Magpie of Heart Mountain
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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When Shigeru Yabu was a little boy he made a new friend in an unexpected place. “That bird walked up my arm all the way to my shoulder, and we look...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2021
  • Length: 34:47
The Ghosts of the Gwangju Uprising
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: May 18 Memorial in Gwangju, Korea, Credit: May 18 Memorial Foundation
On May 18, 1980, the people of Gwangju, South Korea rose up for reunification and an end to U.S.-backed military dictatorships. Their actions chan...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRIR, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Sep 10, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Buried memories of China's Cultural Revolution haunt a family
From: Bending Borders
Series: Between Homelands: Hope, Fear and Longing in America
Caption: A young Belinda Cai and her father., Credit: Belinda Cai
Belinda Cai knew only the outline of her father’s childhood in China's Cultural Revolution. Recently, when she asked her father for details, she wa...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 05:41
  • Purchases: 1
From Child Soldier to Stylist
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Lilly Pyle is a skilled hair stylist in Portland, but she's also skilled in combat training. She grew up in Vietnam during the Vietnam War, and as ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 08:06
  • Purchases: 1
The Hang Family
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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How do you pass on the culture of a country you can’t remember? Three generations of the Hang family in Portland, Maine, try to reconcile memories ...

Bought by PRX Remix, WMPG, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 3
Permission to Speak
From: Anna Sussman
Caption: Former Political Prisoner Win Maw plays a guitar he made in prison
As Burma transitions from dictatorship to democracy, hundreds of political prisoners have been freed after decades behind bars. In this story, eigh...

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City, KALW, KUNM, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Vietnam Today
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
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Ted Maloney, Director of Global Initiatives at Skagit Valley College talks with Dave about two recent trips to Vietnam; trips that included crawlin...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 28:12
WINGS #47-11 Muslim Divorce in India
From: WINGS Women's International News Gathering Service
Caption: Kalpana Pradhan, Kolkata, India
A chaotic system of divorce by folk beliefs and text messages may be nearing its end.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2012
  • Length: 28:44
Lessons of Nagasaki
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Hope for peace in Nagasaki. Atomic bomb anniversary, 2004., Credit: creative common flickr user: Marufish
The US dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. Three days later, Nagasaki also fell victim. On this edition, w...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KALW, KSFR, WVTF, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Jul 25, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 8
Daran Kravanh
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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After experiencing the horror of the Khmer Rouge experience, Daran Kravanh credits an accordion that appeared on a stump in a forest with saving hi...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2009
  • Length: 04:59
Being Ourselves & With Our Mothers from India
From: Mahi Palanisami
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Two 2nd generation Indian daughters speak about their mothers

  • Added: Jul 01, 2007
  • Length: 29:24
Baby Pictures
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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Vietnamese adoptees from Operation Babylift tell their stories.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: May 01, 2007
  • Length: 05:41
  • Purchases: 1
Crossing East: Jared Rehberg Music Feature
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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Singer/Songwriter Jared Rehberg is perhaps the only transracial and international adoptee who sings about being an adoptee.

Bought by KCUR


  • Added: Nov 07, 2006
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1
Kawthoolei
From: Outer Voices
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Along the Thai-Burma border, we meet the women peace activists working in the midst of the world's longest running civil war.

Bought by KUER, WUFT, WGBH Radio Boston, KWIT, KUER and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2006
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 12
Kawthoolei with newshole
From: Outer Voices
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Along the Thai-Burma border, we meet the women peace activists working in the midst of the world's longest running civil war.

Bought by KQED, WUFT, KGLT, KUER, WSKG and more


  • Added: Aug 03, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Girls From Cambodia
From: Outer Voices
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An honest look into the sex industry in Cambodia

Bought by KUER, WRPI, KFOK-LPFM, WUFT, KUT-HD and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2006
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 17
Girls from Cambodia with newshole
From: Outer Voices
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Girls From Cambodia - an honest look into sex trafficking in Cambodia

Bought by WUFT, KUT-HD, WOSU, KQED, KUNM and more


  • Added: Jan 10, 2006
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 9
Vietnamese Agent Orange Victims
From: Miae Kim
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30 years after the Vietnam War, the Vietnamese Agent Orange victims are demanding the U.S. pay reparations for damage caused by Agent Orange.

  • Added: Dec 25, 2005
  • Length: 27:17
Mei Mei, A Daughter's Song
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Winner of the Peabody award, MEI MEI, A DAUGHTER'S SONG is the personal story of cross-cultural and cross-generational conflict produced by Dmae Ro...

Bought by Room Tone Selects, PRX Remix, The Story, SALTcast Podcast, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Nov 16, 2005
  • Length: 26:35
  • Purchases: 17
HEART-to-HEART Pgm III: Respecting Diversity
From: Claire Schoen
Series: HEART-to-HEART: Caring for the Dying
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Respecting Diversity looks at the influence of culture, race and religion on dying; how the assumptions behind "good end-of-life care" do not nece...

Bought by KMXT, WETA, Audible, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KALW


  • Added: Jul 28, 2005
  • Length: 01:00:45
  • Purchases: 5