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Visiting Poet Series Features L.A. Poet Laureate Luis J. Rodriguez
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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The Verse Like Water program started by Central Lakes College instructor Jeff Johnson has been bringing world class American poets to the Brainerd ...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 07:36
Nation of Immigrants: Crossing Over
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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BLEEP loved the city of his birth, the pearl of the west, Guadalajara, second largest city in Mexico. He wandered its streets as a boy visited the...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: 28:07
  • Purchases: 1
City Of Dreamers - Part 1
From: Littleglobe
Series: Audio Revolution!
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City of Dreamers explores the lives of young people and immigrant families from Santa Fe’s South Side. First presented live, on stage at the Lensic...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2017
  • Length: 27:54
54: Margarita Quihuis, Stanford Peace Innovation Lab
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Margarita Quihuis
Using behavior design techniques and persuasive technology (like the kind that keeps you scrolling through your social feed), Margarita Quihuis and...

Bought by Public Radio for All, KSJD, KUT, WRIR, KWMR and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 6
Latin Jazz plays Herbie Hancock (N-7)
From: Tony Vasquez
Series: Latin Perspective - Latin Jazz Hour (weekly)
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As part of the Latin plays jazz series, this particular show features latin jazz renditions of legendary pianist Herbie Hancock performed by Latin ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KMUW, WJAB, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WICR and more


  • Added: May 18, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 8
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
FST 15-45: More New New Music, 2/7/2016
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Fiesta!
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21st century music has broken away from the cage imposed by the 100-year-old tradition of “experimental”, “contemporary”, “new music” and/or “avant...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 58:30
FST 15-40: Music from Catalonia, 1/3/2016
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Fiesta!
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This hour we will feature three 20th century composers from Catalonia: Xavier Montsalvatge, Federico Mompou and Leonardo Balada.

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 58:30
Gloria and Emilio Estefan
From: Awesome Vegans with Elysabeth Alfano
Series: The Dinner Party with Elysabeth Alfano
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On the red carpet for their broadway musical, "On Your Feet!", Gloria and Emilio Estefan talk about their fight as outsiders in the beginning, thei...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 03:05
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
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
Susan Alan, Interim Director of the National Farm Worker Ministry, Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Susan Alan, NFWM
Interview: Susan gives the history, mission, and actions of the National Farm Worker Ministry, a faith-based organization committed to justice for...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Aug 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:14
  • Purchases: 1
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
Not the 'Right' Kind of Gay
From: WNYC
Caption: "When I first met other young gay boys I thought it was going to be easier, that I could just be accepted" - Dakota Salcedo, Credit: (Isaak J. Liptzin/WNYC)
In some ways, being feminine made life harder for Dakota than his sexuality. *Just in time for the end of Pride month*

  • Added: Jun 25, 2015
  • Length: 06:32
Fresh Talk: Cuban Art Awards
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
Caption: Cuban artist Alexandre Arrechea, Credit: Ladyrene Perez
We celebrate the inaugural Cuban Art Awards at the 12th Havana Biennial.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2015
  • Length: 07:35
Maternal Matters: Indigenous Women in the Yucatan Challenge Violence and Indifference
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Emiliano rests in Neyi's kitchen., Credit: Jasmin Lopez
In Mexico an indigenous woman is three times more likely to die during childbirth or postpartum than a non indigenous woman. Both culture and gover...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KZYX


  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 09:38
  • Purchases: 2
The Fight of Their Lives (pledge drive special)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Book cover, Credit: Lyon Press
One Sunday afternoon in August 1965, on a day when baseball’s most storied rivals, the Giants and Dodgers, vied for the pennant, the national pasti...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 21:01
  • Purchases: 1
07-09: Fair Food: Ending Slavery in the Fields, 5/20/2015
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Lucas Benitez
Would you believe, here at the beginning of the 21st century, that every order of fast-food served with a slice of tomato is part of a system of sl...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
StoryCorps: Maurice Rowland and Miguel Alvarez
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Miguel Alvarez (L) and Maurice Rowland (R) remember caring for residents at an assisted living home, where they were a janitor and a cook, when it ...

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


  • Added: Nov 21, 2014
  • Length: 01:35
  • Purchases: 4

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