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StoryCorps Griot: Luz Kenyon and Anna Paloma Williams
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Anna Paloma Williams and Luz Kenyon at their StoryCorps interview in Columbus, GA on October 30, 2021, Credit: By Sarah Padgett for StoryCorps
Luz Kenyon tells her daughter, Anna Paloma Williams, about the unexpected start of their family and how she navigated raising mixed kids in America.

  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 03:11
StoryCorps Historias and Military Voices Initiative: Connie Doria Rocha
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Connie Doria Rocha talks about her experience as a civilian mechanic during WWII, and how that taste of independence changed her life.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Historias and American Pathways: Mario García and Maximilian García
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Max García and his grandfather, Mario, in early July., Credit: Mario García
Dr. Mario García sits down with his grandson, Maximilian, to reflect on the acting career he left behind when he immigrated from Cuba in the 1960s.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Muñoz
From: StoryCorps
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Since 2004, Jorge Muñoz has gathered with his family in their small kitchen in Queens, NY where they cook meals for those in need. Together, they’v...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2020
  • Length: 02:35
StoryCorps: Martha Escutia and Marina Jimenez
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Martha Escutia and her cousin Marina Jimenez remember their grandfather, nicknamed Papu, who came to the U.S. as a Bracero worker in the 1940s.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 03:04
  • Purchases: 1
United We Dream and the Fight for Immigration Justice
From: When We Fight, We Win!
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How was the largest student immigrant movement in the US built? What are the deep-rooted issues and adversity that immigrants face in the USA today...

  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 44:40
StoryCorps: Arianna Hermosillo and Irakere Picon
From: StoryCorps
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Irakere Picon is an immigration lawyer who often defends undocumented immigrants. He happens to be an undocumented immigrant himself. He came to St...

Bought by WVBI-LP


  • Added: Oct 25, 2018
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: George Rincon and Yolanda Reyes
From: StoryCorps
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At the beginning of the Iraq War, nearly 40,000 members of the United States military were not citizens. Army Private First Class Diego Rincon was ...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 1
The Future Seems Bright for the Twin Cities Latin Jazz Orchestra
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: Twin Cities Latin Jazz Orchestra, Credit: Diego Ramallo
The Twin Cities Latin Jazz orchestra is a 19-piece group playing in the 21st century. The size of the band might seem incongruous in an era of stri...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2017
  • Length: 06:59
StoryCorps: Alicia Beltrán-Castañeda and Serena Castañeda
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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A mother tells her daughter about growing up in California in the late 1960s, and the lesson learned after her mother gave her beloved bed away.

Bought by KZYX, WGUC/ WVXU, WEZU, and KRZA


  • Added: Nov 29, 2016
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Vito de la Cruz and Maria Sefchick-Del Paso
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Civil rights lawyer Vito de la Cruz grew up in a family of migrant farmworkers. He describes his childhood and the loving aunt who raised him.

Bought by WMUU-LP, WRIR, WEZU, Blue Mountain Radio , and KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: Apr 26, 2016
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 5
StoryCorps MVI: Anny Pena and Jonny Pena
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Anny (L) and Jonny (R) Pena
Retired Marines Anny and Jonny Pena talk about the challenges they faced as military spouses, and what it was like when Jonny came home from Afghan...

Bought by WVBI-LP, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 10, 2015
  • Length: 03:13
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Yvette Benavidez Garcia and Rene Garcia
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Yvette Benavidez Garcia (L) and Rene Garcia (R)
Yvette Benavidez Garcia and her husband, Rene, remember her father, Army Master Sgt. Roy P. Benavidez, a Medal of Honor recipient.

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Jul 10, 2015
  • Length: 02:18
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Antero Garcia and Roger Alvarez
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Roger Alvarez (L) and his former teacher Antero Garcia (R).
Antero Garcia (R) talks to his former student Roger Alvarez (L) who dropped out...

Bought by WEZU, KERA, KMUD, and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
Nachito Herrera plays Ernesto Lecuona Feb 15 2014 at the Dakota
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Nachito Herrera at the piano, Credit: Phil Nusbaum
Saint Paul, MN-based International artist Nachito Herrera tackles the solo piano repertoire of Cuban piano player and composer Ernesto Lecuona. The...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 07, 2014
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Linda Ronstadt & Ann Savoy: Adieu False Heart
From: D. Christine
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Explore the world of Cajun music and beyond with the Zozo Sisters. Grammy-winning vocalist Linda Ronstadt and Cajun folk traditionalist Ann Savoy t...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
StoryCorps: Maria Vasquez-Rojas and Francisco Vasquez
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Maria Vasquez-Rojas talks with her brother, Francisco Vasquez, about being diagnosed with ovarian cancer shortly after finding out she was pregnant.

Bought by WEZU and KMUD


  • Added: Dec 13, 2013
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 2
How He Did It
From: Trevor Keaton Pogue
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Tony Lucero is a Mexican American professor at The University of Washington. In this piece, Professor Lucero tells us how he came to be an educato...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2013
  • Length: 08:28
StoryCorps: Rogelio Martinez and Lisa Moya King
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Rogelio Martinez talks to his former dance teacher, Lisa Moya King, about how she helped him through abuse at home.

Bought by WEZU and KMUD


  • Added: Dec 02, 2013
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps Historias: Ruben Aguilar and Bill Luna
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Ruben Aguilar (R) and Bill Luna (L)
Ruben Aguilar tells his friend Bill Luna about his family's deportation as part of the Mexican Repatriation Program in 1933.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 08, 2013
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Linda Hernandez
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Linda Hernandez remembers growing up as one of the few Latinos in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WEZU, and WTJU


  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: C.J. Maestas, Frank Maestas and Frank Barela
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Frank Barela and Frank Maestas talk to their grandson C.J. Maestas about his gymnastics career.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Aug 03, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Ricardo Isaias Zavala and Ricardo Javier Zavala
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Ricardo Isaias Zavala (L) with his son Ricardo Javier Zavala (R)
Ricardo Isais Zavala remembers his grandfather, Vicente Domingo Villa, in an interview with his son, Ricardo Javier Zavala.

Bought by WEZU, WTJU, and KUOW


  • Added: May 07, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps NTI: Kate Musick and Harleé Patrick, Jose Catalan and Carlos Vizcarra
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Kate Musick (L) with her former student Harleé Patrick (R)
Two stories about teachers who went beyond the classroom to help their kids.

Bought by WEZU, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WTJU, and KUOW


  • Added: May 01, 2012
  • Length: 02:50
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Scott Wall and Isabel Sobozinsky-Wall
From: StoryCorps
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Scott Wall and his wife, Isabel Sobozinsky-Wall, talk about their long-distance courtship that began on New Year's Eve.

Bought by Radio Catskill, KUER, WEZU, KRZA, WTJU and more


  • Added: Jan 03, 2012
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 10