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From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Martin Middle School Fall 2014
Series: Martin Middle School Fall 2014
In this short piece, students decide to talk about their neighborhood and interview folks at a nearby flea market, where they run into other studen...
- Added: Dec 18, 2014
- Length: 04:14
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Martin Middle School Fall 2014
Series: Martin Middle School Fall 2014
Students explore Martin Middle School urban legend Emily. Asking classmates and staff they get some pretty surprising answers as to who she was and...
- Added: Dec 18, 2014
- Length: 05:40
A Thanksgiving radio show created by English Language Learning students at East Boston High School.
- Added: Dec 15, 2014
- Length: 34:13
Cuban-born pianist Nachito Herrera moved to Minnesota in 2001, and quickly made a name for himself as a jazz player, composing and performing and w...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 05:38
- Purchases: 1
Thanks to a quirk of history — and a love of bananas — New Orleans has had a Honduran population for more than a century. But that population explo...
- Added: Nov 07, 2014
- Length: 12:42
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
Warning: Do not listen on an empty stomach! In this story Amanda and her mom talk about you guessed it! Enchiladas! Amanda's mom, learned to make t...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 04:50
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
In this short piece, Miguel reminisces about watching the 2010 soccer world cup on a day that his mom was off from work-something that doesn't happ...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 02:21
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
Rio, faces a big identity question. "Am I Mexican? If so how Mexican am I?" Let's just say Rio was raised a bit differently than prior generations ...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 04:44
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: Summer Institute Edition
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: Summer Institute Edition
Listen to SONNY FALCON a.k.a “The Fajita King,” produced by the talented team of teachers at the STORIES FROM DEEP IN THE HEART’s SUMMER INSTITUTE.
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 04:25
Comedian Carlos Mencia is notorious for stealing other comics’ jokes. But he’s never been sued—in fact, there are almost no lawsuits in comedy. On ...
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 18:43
- Purchases: 2
Today's college students are more likely to be older, working class, and ethnically diverse than in the past. Colleges must figure out how to serve...
Bought by WUFT, WMUU-LP, KQED, WESM 91.3 FM, 90.5 WESA and more
- Added: Sep 08, 2014
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 17
Three Peace Corps Volunteers in rural Paraguay struggle to get work done, be themselves and most importantly, keep from going insane.
Bought by KUER
- Added: Sep 03, 2014
- Length: 15:59
- Purchases: 1
Andres Jaimes grew up near the US/Mexico border in Baja California. At 17 years old, Andres is acutely aware of how negatively Mexico and Mexican p...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Sep 01, 2014
- Length: 17:21
- Purchases: 1
How safe your children are might depend on where you live. Today we hear about how one pesticide has been banned for household use, but affects the...
Bought by KMUN
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
20 years after the founding of The Zapatistas, the group’s influence has spread far beyond Mexico’s border through music and art. Producer Alejand...
Bought by KQED
- Added: Aug 04, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Eva fled to the U.S. from El Salvador’s civil war more than 20 years ago. Since then, she’s cared for 11 kids – and mastered emotional calculus of ...
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 02:59
At USA Recycling in East LA, a two-story yellow crane smashes cars, refrigerators and stoves into neat piles of wreckage all day. The mistress of t...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 03:17
- Purchases: 1
In car-choked LA, riding the bus is a sign that you can’t afford your own wheels. But Joshua Salazar's overnight routes are often full of people be...
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 03:58
There is less research on adolescent fathers than on mothers — much less — and most of it focuses on the impact to the child if a dad is not in hi...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 23, 2014
- Length: 10:28
- Purchases: 2
Producer Erica Hellerstein takes us on a journey to identity through an ancient medicinal practice known as “curanderismo”.
- Added: Jul 01, 2014
- Length: 29:00
Four very different Crises appear at four very different scales in this episode, affecting a person, a species, a city, and a human body.
Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9
- Added: Jun 25, 2014
- Length: 58:24
- Purchases: 2
Journalist Gianluca Tramontana takes you through the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, introduces you to their people, examines their history and explores...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 01:00:13
- Purchases: 1
Santa Marta residents say Alabama-based coal company Drummond is trashing their water and air.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 05:58
- Purchases: 1
A look at the changing mythology of Mexican folklore favorite “La Llorona” and what each version reveals about its teller.
- Added: Apr 14, 2014
- Length: 09:11
Not just great music -- Silvia Pérez Cruz & Raúl Fernández Miró (Refree) — with their tour "Cruzmiró" unlocks some reflections by Dave Ellwand
- Added: Mar 14, 2014
- Length: 29:00
