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LaMont Dottin
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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Back in 1995, LaMont Dottin was 21 years old and a freshman at Queens College when, one evening, he didn’t come home. His mother went to the local ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 09:00
Cesar Irizarry
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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Angel Irizarry spent years working as a detective, and in 2021 he set out on a personal investigation to track down an uncle who’d been estranged f...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 12:15
Angel Garcia
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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When Annette Vega was seven years old, she found out the man she called “dad” wasn’t her biological father. But all she knew was that her mom had h...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 26:07
Neil Harris Jr.
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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Around 2015, a young man who called himself Stephen showed up in Manhattan's Riverside Park. Locals noticed him sitting on the same park bench day ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 20:54
Episode 3: Added Challenges: Disabilities and the Pandemic
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Speaking Our Truths: The -Ism Youth Files
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Youth with disabilities had learning challenges during the pandemic that still have a lingering effect.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Oct 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Mother Mine: January Edition
From: Katie Semro
Series: Mother Mine
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In this piece we hear people from Mexico, Jamaica, Indonesia, and Nigeria talk about their mothers and who they are because of their mothers.

Bought by WMPG and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jan 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:09
  • Purchases: 2
Mother Mine: July Edition
From: Katie Semro
Series: Mother Mine
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In this piece we hear from 6 people across the globe talking about their mothers and who they are because of their mothers. From a mother who never...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WMPG, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jul 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:36
  • Purchases: 3
Mother Mine: May Edition
From: Katie Semro
Series: Mother Mine
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In this piece six women talk about their mothers, and who they are because of their mothers. From the the secrets they never told their mothers, an...

Bought by WORT, Prairie Public, RadioStPete Florida, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and WMPG


  • Added: Apr 30, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
Night Noises
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Night Noises graphic illustration, Credit: Catherine McGuigan
“Everything can change just like that.” That’s what Jane says. But there is no snap of fingers. This is the preamble to a story she’s retold a hun...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2021
  • Length: 27:43
An Outlier
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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This moment in time is teaching us to find ways to be alone. That's what it's always been like for James.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 1
Music in the time of the Coronavirus: Bellevue Porchella with Brooke Ullman
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Brooke Ullman, author of Bellevue Porchella., Credit: Charles McGuigan
COVID-19 cancelled Richmond's premier music event--the Richmond Folk Festival, which annually attracts a couple hundred thousand people to three da...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2020
  • Length: 26:59
The Untold Story of St. Cloud's First Art Cruise in Response to the Cancellation of this Year's Art Crawls due to COVID-19
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today's Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack gets in his car and drives around St. Cloud exploring ...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
Re:sound - The Family Ties Show
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2020 Re:sound Specials from Third Coast
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This hour, stories about family ties, love and loss.

Bought by KOSU, Troy Public Radio, KCPW Salt Lake City, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Michigan Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
Dem 2 Brothers & a Grill
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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The same people who told me it wouldn't work, they come every day.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 1
Aurora, in the Village
From: Rae Solomon
Caption: The Beloved Community Village at its new home, Credit: Rae Solomon
Aurora has finally found a stable home, after 14 years, at the Beloved Community Village, a tiny home colony for people experiencing homelessness i...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2020
  • Length: 17:12
Teens Take Over
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
Kairi Hollon tried to go to the library when he was a teenager in Brooklyn in the 1980s, but he kept getting kicked out. Years later, he came back ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 22:09
  • Purchases: 1
Chilkat & Ravenstail Weaver Lily Hope
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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One square inch of Chilkat weaving can be up to 3 hours in the making.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 25, 2019
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 1
E's Barbershop Lounge
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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This barbershop built my character. I started off sweeping floors. I own the shop now.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 04:15
  • Purchases: 1
Fishing with Delton
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Born and raised in Compton. It was big to come out here and see something different.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 1
Chris Yun at Eddie's Lunch
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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It has to be fresh. I cut the fish and sell the fish the exact same day.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 1
Up Close And Acoustic with Carlene Carter
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: Up Close And Acoustic
Caption: Carlene Carter, Credit: Marc Hauser
Carlene Carter, proud member of the long celebrated Carter family of music, stops by Up Close And Acoustic to talk about music, legacy, family hist...

Bought by KTNA and KTNA


  • Added: Apr 26, 2019
  • Length: 55:08
  • Purchases: 2
El Merengue Restaurant
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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I started cooking at 9 years old for my mother, my father, and 9 brothers and sisters.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 07, 2018
  • Length: 04:08
  • Purchases: 1
Mister Rogers-All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Fred Rogers
There has never been a better time to visit Mister Rogers Neighborhood and this mix reminds of his mission with clips from the new documentary "Won...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jun 05, 2018
  • Length: 01:57:55
  • Purchases: 1
Ray and Scott at Robert's Key Service
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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He’s my step-father, but he has always treated me like a son… and like one of the guys.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 15, 2018
  • Length: 04:15
  • Purchases: 1
Soul Source
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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I get so much love from the customers in here. It’s better than where I came from.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 1

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