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StoryCorps MVI: Ernesto Rodriguez and Sebastian Rodriguez
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Ernesto Rodriguez and his son, Sebastian, when Sebastian was 2 years old, Credit: Ernesto Rodriguez
For Father’s Day, retired Marine Lieutenant Ernesto Rodriguez answers tough questions about war and family from his 11-year-old son Sebastian.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 04:24
  • Purchases: 1
For undocumented immigrants, driver's licenses secure a sense of freedom
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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It’s been over a year since undocumented immigrants in California have been able to get driver’s licenses through the AB 60 law. The first week the...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 05:31
  • Purchases: 1
Starting over: Resettling in the U.S and the after-effects of migration
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Concepción Caballero Antonio at her workplace., Credit: Leila Day
Since 1989, San Francisco has been a sanctuary city -- a place that offers undocumented migrants a chance to start a new life, without the threat o...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 11:40
StoryCorps: Francisco and Frankie Preciado
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Frankie Preciado talks with his father, Francisco, a groundskeeper at Stanford University, about the time they shared together on campus.

Bought by WEZU and Blue Mountain Radio


  • Added: May 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:06
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Chris López and Gabe López
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Gabe López, assigned female at birth, always felt like he was a boy. He came to StoryCorps with his mom to talk about growing up transgender.

Bought by KALW, KRVS, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WMUU-LP, WRIR and more


  • Added: May 06, 2016
  • Length: 02:25
  • Purchases: 8
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
Puerto Rican Americana: Nuyorican Bicycle Clubs in Brooklyn
From: Jack D'Isidoro
Caption: Roberto proudly shows off his bike in front of the original headquarters of the Puerto Rican Schwinn Club near Knickerbocker Ave. in Bushwick., Credit: Jack D'Isidoro
The Schwinn bicycle has a rich history in New York’s Nuyorican communities. In many of these enclaves, you’ll find members of riding clubs showing ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 25, 2016
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 2
Vote-less, not voiceless: Dreamers reshape Arizona politics
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Elizabeth Perez working at City Hall, Credit: Valeria Fernandez
From civil disobedience to civic accountability, youth that can’t vote are making the voice of the Latino community heard in local politics and at ...

Bought by WDBM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WRIR


  • Added: Apr 17, 2016
  • Length: 10:06
  • Purchases: 3
From Dreamers in Arizona to Muslims in Michigan: Immigrant Communities Upholding Democracy
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Viridiana Hernández lobbying at the Arizona State Legislature against the bill that would ban cities from creating their own city ID if that is extended to undocumented immigrants., Credit: Valeria Fernández
This edition of Making Contact is Part I of our special series examining how immigrants are responding and participating in elections and politics ...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Apr 16, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Legacy: Eva Vega-Olds and Leonardo Vega
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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After Leonardo Vega was diagnosed with cancer, his daughter, Eva Vega-Olds, used the StoryCorps app to record her father days before he passed.

Bought by KLCC, WRIR, WEZU, and Blue Mountain Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 4
Life of the Law #77: Harris County USA
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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All over the country, critics argue that ID laws discourage voter participation--particularly among poor and minority voters. This is particularly ...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 24:44
EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT -- Ciro Guerra Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Ciro Guerra talks understanding cultures, respect for knowledge, and letting the audience use its imagination.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 08:28
Life of the Law #75: UnDACAmented
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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In 2012 President Obama took matters into his own hands. His administration signed a memo addressing all branches of the Department of Homeland Sec...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2016
  • Length: 23:50
The Pull of Pollo: How the Chicken Industry Transformed One Arkansas Town (Gravy Ep. 30)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
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This is the story of Springdale, Arkansas, and how chicken transformed a once-sleepy rural town into the most ethnically diverse city in the state—...

Bought by KVLU and WABE


  • Added: Feb 02, 2016
  • Length: 21:15
  • Purchases: 2
'Helping My People': 17-Year-Old Farmworker Becomes A Labor Activist
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive: Summer 2015
Caption: Alicia Santos, 17, leads marchers in a protest targeting Sakuma Brothers Farm., Credit: Courtesy of Alicia Santos
Alicia Santos started picking strawberries when she was 7 years old. Her mother was working at Hayton Farms in Skagit County, so Alicia went along....

Bought by XRAY.fm and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 2
Syracuse Community Leaders Fight to End Poverty
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism - 2
Caption: These are the six components of the Anti Poverty Initiative. Each component is designed to help people in the community more efficiently by targeting their specific needs.
This is a story about how leaders of charities and organizations that help people in poverty, are joining together to help lower poverty. A couple ...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 03:42
South by South of the Border Soul Food (Gravy Ep. 26)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
Caption: Food at Delicious Southern Cuisine, Los Angeles, CA. , Credit: Photo by Lena Nozizwe, copyright 2015.
Black-eyed peas and collards. Fried chicken and peach cobbler. Customers at Delicious Southern Cuisine in Los Angeles come for these soul food sta...

Bought by KVLU and WABE


  • Added: Nov 19, 2015
  • Length: 27:08
  • Purchases: 2
Bay Area Beats: Marco Polo Santiago
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - Bay Area Beats
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Musician Marco Polo Santiago was raised in L.A., in a big Mexican-American family, with the sound of cumbia always in the background. He grew up to...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2015
  • Length: 09:13
Bay Area Beats: Diana Gameros
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - Bay Area Beats
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Berkeley-based singer songwriter Diana Gameros comes from Ciudad Juárez -- a Mexican border town ripped apart by violent drug cartels. Gameros hasn...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2015
  • Length: 03:44
StoryCorps Historias: Noramay Cadena and Chassitty Saldana
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Chassitty (L) and Noramay Cadena
Noramay Cadena, a mechanical engineer with several degrees from MIT, tells her teenage daughter, Chassitty Saldana, about the summer her parents to...

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


  • Added: Sep 25, 2015
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 5
Nurse Family Partnership brings first-time moms and nurses together
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Jasmine Jurado (left) and Nurse Lopez, with baby Anais., Credit: Liz Mak
Nurse Family Partnership, or NFP, found that limited access to good parenting information, or role models, can present an even greater challenge to...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 1
New Orleans Reconstruction Workers Fight to Remain
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Immigrants and supporters march down Poydras Street in New Orleans on July 10., Credit: Jasmin Mara Lopez
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Southern Gulf Coast. Reconstruction after Katrina drew thousands of people from India, Bra...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Aug 07, 2015
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 1
Crossing Over
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Master mason Victor Ayala, Credit: CharlesMcGuigan
When he was just a boy, Victor Ayala whose family was struggling in Guadalajara crossed the Rio Bravo on his own, only to be taken back to Mexico. ...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2015
  • Length: 28:06
CARTEL LAND -- Matthew Heineman Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Matthew Heineman talks murky waters, staying safe, and riding over bumpy roads with a loaded gun.

  • Added: Jul 13, 2015
  • Length: 11:33
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

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