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The Work that Makes All Work Possible
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Immigration and Labor: Stories from the Texas Workforce (2018 Summer Institute)
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As a domestic worker, Gloria felt helpless and isolated until she was rescued by Domesticas Unidas in San Antonio. We sit down with Irasema Cavazos...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 02, 2018
  • Length: 05:52
  • Purchases: 1
The Beehive Amapolay Crafting Memory
From: sarah parker
Series: The Beehive
Caption: Fernando Castro and Carol Fernandez from Amapolay, Credit: AMapolay Facebook
This is an interview with artists Carol Fernandez and Fernando Castro of Amapolay Manufacturas Autonomas who are currently being featured in an exh...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
Episode #4: "A Vandalized Voice"
From: Marcos Nájera
Series: ZETA PODCAST SERIES
Caption: Rolling Stone book publisher Alan Rinzler at home in Berkeley., Credit: Marcos Nájera
The men in Zeta’s life. From family to friends to former lovers? You never know—some say Zeta was a constant chameleon in life, love, and the law. ...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 16:59
Episode #3: "The Ladies in His Life"
From: Marcos Nájera
Series: ZETA PODCAST SERIES
Caption: Betty Dowd, Marco Acosta & Anita Acosta at the SF Latino Film Festival , Credit: Marcos Nájera
The women in Zeta’s life. From family to friends to former lovers. The ladies speak up and out about Oscar Zeta Acosta. From his spark-light sister...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 31:40
Episode #2: "Hunting for Buffalo in Arizona"
From: Marcos Nájera
Series: ZETA PODCAST SERIES
Caption: ASU Professor Luis Mendoza holds up an original copy of Acosta's book., Credit: Marcos Nájera
Nájera travels home to the Southwest to visit Latino scholars from ASU’s Transborder Studies department. The first of its kind in the nation. Chica...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 22:40
Episode #1: "Who the F is that?"
From: Marcos Nájera
Series: ZETA PODCAST SERIES
Caption: Anita Acosta & daughter Stephanie at home in Northern California., Credit: Marcos Nájera
Host Marcos Nájera introduces us to the Zeta podcast series. Who is Oscar Zeta Acosta? If you know, you are way ahead of Nájera who admits the US p...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 13:29
180526 Southern Soul
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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It wasn't until the 1980s that music featured anger. Some would say that introduction was liberating and progressive. That the anti-war music was...

  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 03:39:09
Panquetzaliztli: An Aztec Celebration Of The Season
From: Generation Justice Admin
Caption: Panquetzalitlzli Performance , Credit: Alden Bruce
Experience Panquetzaliztli, a traditional Mesoamerican winter solstice performance by the Ehecatl Aztec Dancers, through their drums and the tellin...

  • Added: May 17, 2018
  • Length: 43:39
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
The late Puerto Rican Poet & Fiction Writer Judith Ortiz Cofer
From: New Letters on the Air
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National Hispanic Heritage Month continues with a look at Puerto Rico’s culture and stories through the eyes of the late Judith Ortiz Cofer. In the...

Bought by New England Public Media


  • Added: Oct 12, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Past American Voice of Judith Ortiz Cofer
From: New Letters on the Air
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We begin National Hispanic Heritage month with the Past American Voice of Judith Ortiz Cofer, who influenced and mentored Latina writers around the...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Sep 20, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Amherst on Appropriation
From: Tomal Hossain
Caption: Downtown amherst farmer's market
Vox Pop on the appropriateness of musical appropriation. Interviews taken in Spring 2017 in downtown Amherst, MA.

  • Added: Jul 25, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
Uncle Lolo, Who Goes to Hell
From: Donald Whalen
Caption: Basswood Shoes (digital painting), Credit: Donald Whalen
A group of children worry about their Hispanic grandmother after the death of her only sibling, Uncle Lolo. Written by Michael Fidel Marquez, Narr...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 25:31
Does Greening the Economy Leave Some People Behind?
From: Climate One
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Cities are leading the way in the greening of America’s economy. From urban parks and farms to microgrids and living buildings, dynamic urban plann...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, NPR Now, and KMUD


  • Added: Apr 25, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
170408 The Bert Berns Sound ... Louie Louie!
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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The musician, song writer and music producer, Bert Berns, was another Brill Building character. Not loveable nor a scamp, he was more of a garden ...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Apr 11, 2017
  • Length: 01:41:01
  • Purchases: 1
2017-03-26 Climate Equity
From: Climate One
Caption: Miya Yoshitani, Executive Director, Asia Pacific Environmental Network, Credit: Ed Ritger
The environmental movement has convinced us that everyone has a right to clean air. But will the emerging green economy will be more equitable and ...

Bought by KRZA, KCMJ Community Radio, KMUD, and KZYX


  • Added: Mar 20, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Texas Standard: The Wall
From: KUT
Caption: The border wall at Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua and El Paso, Texas as seen from the Mexican side., Credit: Lorne Matalon/Marfa Public Radio
Building a wall between the United States and Mexico was a signature plank of Donald Trump's presidential campaign. His win in November is bringing...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2017
  • Length: 01:01:42
161210 Mexican Rocanarol And A Radio Musical
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Tonight's show, Mexican rocanrol from the 1950s and 60s plus a radio musical. You know, in a theatrical musical, a song springs up interrupting ...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 22, 2016
  • Length: 02:52:43
  • Purchases: 1
Hispanic Heritage and Emotional Intelligence
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
Caption: Looking out for you
In honoring Hispanic Heritage on my radio show I interviewed a Hispanic leader who I highly respect and who I have worked closely with, Rafael Pinz...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Oct 18, 2016
  • Length: 28:13
  • Purchases: 1
Wolf Boys - Mexican Cartel Assassins
From: W F Strong
Series: GOOD BOOKS RADIO
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An interview with Dan Slater about his best-selling nonfiction work about American teenagers who worked as assassins for the Las Zetas cartel in La...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Oct 01, 2016
  • Length: 30:02
  • Purchases: 1
The Life and Times of Saxophonist Chico Freeman
From: Reese Erlich
Caption: Chico Freeman
Jazz saxophonist Chico Freeman talks about his famous father, Von Freeman, and about his experiences living in Europe. Freeman has now returned to ...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
Superstitions are Real
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions
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What she calls “real,” others may call superstition. Sarah Levai, a Romanian immigrant to the United States, came with hopes and dreams, but also w...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 02, 2016
  • Length: 01:08
  • Purchases: 1
A Latin Jazz tribute to Dizzy Gillespie (A-5)
From: Tony Vasquez
Series: Latin Perspective - Latin Jazz Hour (weekly)
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Latin Perspective, Latin Jazz weekly show.

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WICR, WJAB, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 14, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
150919 Gulf Coast Sound and Ponderosa Stomp 2015
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Music from San Antonio to New Orleans as the "Gulf Coast Sound." Often coming from Huey Meaux's Crazy Cajun record label but there is a audio conn...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KRZA


  • Added: Sep 20, 2015
  • Length: 02:50:03
  • Purchases: 2
Immigration Uncovered
From: Round Earth Media
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The United States has always been a beacon for those searching for safe haven, for a place to build a better life. Though the barriers are high, an...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, Baltimore Public Media, WRGY, High Plains Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 11, 2015
  • Length: 01:51:01
  • Purchases: 80

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