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Out of Gas, In with Justice
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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NYC Housing Authority is the city's largest landlord. Pilot programs to electrify its decrepit housing stock find successes and stumbling blocks w...

Bought by WFHB and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
60 – Michelle Zamora (Waffles + Mochi, A Black Lady Sketch Show, Viva La Puppet) – Under The Pu
From: Grant Baciocco
Series: Under The Puppet
Caption: Michelle Zamora on the set of Waffles+Mochi, Credit: Michelle Zamora
Michelle Zamora puppeteers Waffles on the hit Netflix series Waffles + Mochi. She’s performed and built puppets for TV shows including A Black Lad...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2023
  • Length: 48:00
A Garment Worker Victory
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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California garment workers organize and win passage of a state law that holds fashion brands responsible for unpaid wages.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WFHB, KZYX, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Maria Dodaro: You Have To Be on Time
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Maria Dodaro, Credit: Shefik
Time - Maria Dodaro is a swim coach and aquatics director. Swimming coaches help swimmers perfect their breathing techniques, swim speed, and may w...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2021
  • Length: 01:46
But Next Time Part 2: From the Ashes
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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As fires ravaged California's world-famous wine country in 2017,a community radio station, emergency dispatcher, and tenant organizers helped the m...

Bought by WXDU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 164: Sanctuary
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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After 32 years in the United States, José Chicas was told he had to leave. He bought a plane ticket to El Salvador, but then a local church offered...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 36:54
Episode 29: The Dancer
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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When Carlos Acosta was a kid, he wanted to be the next Michael Jackson. He spent all his time break-dancing in the streets of Havana. Until one day...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 23:02
Best of the Best 2020: Towards a Better World
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: Best of the Best: The 2020 Third Coast Broadcast
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In this episode, we meet extraordinary people who are fighting the system, working to make transformative change and seeking a better world, for th...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, Prairie Public, WRVO Public Media, New England Public Media, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 37
Tito Puente Jr.: You Have to Find Happiness in Being Grateful
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Tito Puente Jr., Credit: Shefik
Happiness - Tito Puente Jr. is a bandleader. He is the son of legendary mambo musician Tito Puente and the brother of local New York City meteorolo...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:13
EP125 The Paladins
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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This West Coast Band has a rich history in the Blues world mixing a rockabilly feel with some of their pedal-to-the-metal blues while holding a "tr...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:59
Hector Vasquez
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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I was lost in gangs back in Guatemala. We were beating people, robbing them. But after I met God, everything changed. I found a new path.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 23, 2018
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 1
Una Isu: a ​Ñ​uu Savi warrior resisting through hip hop
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
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As indigenous people from Mexico migrate to California, their languages and cultures are threatened. One indigenous trilingual rapper based in Fres...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Feb 07, 2018
  • Length: 21:37
  • Purchases: 1
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu as a Never Quit Way of Life with Brazils' Black Belt Master Wald Bloise
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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Brazilian Jiu Jitsu as a Never Quit Way of Life with Brazils' Black Belt Master Wald Bloise. We explore the physical, emotional, psychological and...

Bought by WCNY and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 27:10
  • Purchases: 2
Ep.15: A $20 Million Comeback Story
From: The Story Exchange
Caption: Angelica Garcia-Dunn
How Angelica Garcia-Dunn went from struggling to feed her kids to building a booming Texas-sized trucking company.

  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 12:45
City Of Dreamers - Part 1
From: Littleglobe
Series: Audio Revolution!
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City of Dreamers explores the lives of young people and immigrant families from Santa Fe’s South Side. First presented live, on stage at the Lensic...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2017
  • Length: 27:54
Not the 'Right' Kind of Gay
From: WNYC
Caption: "When I first met other young gay boys I thought it was going to be easier, that I could just be accepted" - Dakota Salcedo, Credit: (Isaak J. Liptzin/WNYC)
In some ways, being feminine made life harder for Dakota than his sexuality. *Just in time for the end of Pride month*

  • Added: Jun 25, 2015
  • Length: 06:32
Gloria's Secret Cafe
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Destination DIY producer Alex Johnson has the story of a one-woman restaurant where customers can't help but feel like a part of the family.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 1
Old School DIY
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Before it was called DIY or even “do it yourself,” self-sufficiency had value. Our parents and grandparents called it “making do.” This episode exp...

Bought by WYSO, XRAY.fm, KUT, and Oregon Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Crossing Over
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Crossing the Rio Bravo.
At just sixteen Victor left his home in Guadalajara and crossed the river into Texas only to be picked up by immigration agents and returned to Mex...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2013
  • Length: 28:06
Bless Me, Ultima: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima is about pride and assimilation, faith and doubt. This half-hour program includes readings by actor Cheech Marin a...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZYX, KMUN, KUPR low power FM, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 12, 2011
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 8
DIY Economy
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Local currency, bartering on the playground and other ways of looking at money through a DIY lens. ***This show aired on Oregon Public Broadcasting...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, XRAY.fm, WRVO Public Media, WYSO, and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Apr 21, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Child Obesity - Part Three - Spreading the Lifestyle
From: Karen Brown
Series: Child Obesity -- A Community's Response
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Families in the low-income community of Holyoke, MA -- who successfully lost weight through a community clinic program -- are trying to share their...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Iowa Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 16, 2010
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 4
American Dreamer: Sam's Story (half-hour version)
From: Long Haul Productions
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Every year, an estimated 65,000 undocumented students graduate from American high schools. Raised entirely in American culture, they finish high s...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KGLT, KCRW, KFAI Minneapolis, and KSFR


  • Added: Jun 22, 2010
  • Length: 26:09
  • Purchases: 5
American Dreamer: Sam's Story
From: Long Haul Productions
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Every year, an estimated 65,000 undocumented students graduate from American high schools. Raised entirely in American culture, they finish high s...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, High Plains Public Radio, WYPR, WRGY, WKSU and more


  • Added: Mar 30, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 41
Los Reyes de Albuquerque y La Familia Martinez (59:00 / 53:00)
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Roberto Martinez, Sr., Credit: Genevieve Russell
The story of one of the most long-lived and influential traditional New Mexican Hispanic musical groups in the state, Los Reyes de Albuquerque. Th...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUPR low power FM, WVTF, WUFT, KUNM and more


  • Added: Jan 05, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20