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My great grandfather started the business in 1917. He came from China. This was the built-in childcare/daycare for me. My parents would come to w...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 13, 2018
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Taylor Holliday and Fong Chong
What happens when a white family in the American South adopts an 11-year-old Chinese girl who’s never eaten a meal other than Chinese in her entire...

Bought by WMMT, KVSC, KVLU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 16, 2017
  • Length: 27:30
  • Purchases: 4
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As many as 5,000 Nepali people have made their way to Akron during the last decade. It’s been a dramatic change for people who had held onto their ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
Caption: Maya and her parents., Credit: Courtesy of Maya Konz
The first thing you say to someone you just met is most likely a polite greeting: "Hello! What's your name?" But not everyone is that thoughtful.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 18, 2017
  • Length: 06:29
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: April Reyes (far left) with the family who took her in. From left to right: Mariya Manuel, Tanya Kim, Tamar Manuel and Alan Lee., Credit: Courtesy of April Reyes
For most people, family will always be family because you're blood. But in April Reyes' case, it doesn’t quite work that way. / This story won the ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and Cards Against Humanity: The Good News Podcast


  • Added: Sep 18, 2017
  • Length: 06:39
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Kamna Shastri with her dad on her fifth birthday. Now, Kamna is coming to terms with her albinism., Credit: COURTESY OF KAMNA SHASTRI
RadioActive producer Kamna Shastri tries to understand where she fits into conversations about race and identity as an Indian-American with albinism.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 03:52
Caption: Shina William's mother worked for many years in factories. When she was working she felt a pain, tingling over her hands., Credit: KUOW PHOTO/SHINA WILLIAMS
Look at your hands, and think of all the things you do with them: hold an ice cream cone, drive your car, scroll through Facebook. What if all of t...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 05:26
  • Purchases: 2
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Scott Gerson MD choses The Ancient Indian Healing Art of Ayurvedic Medicine as a Way to help Cancer Patients Naturally. Currently, Dr. Gerson is t...

Bought by WCNY and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Aug 30, 2017
  • Length: 27:54
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: MHL Talk Radio
Host Sonya Dunn Interviews Guamanian American Air Force Officer Lt. Col. Kathryn Palozzi in commemoration of Asian and Pacific Islander American He...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2017
  • Length: 47:00
Caption: The Kim Loo Sisters
The Kim Loo Sisters was a jazz vocal band born in South Minneapolis in the twenties, thirties and forties. Today, the daughter of one of musicians ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 27, 2017
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Wine Fellers
We discuss why Millennials demand Inventive Names for their Wine, Beer & Marijuana. We also discuss Cuban Wine (i.e., Rum) and Impulse Buy Fried C...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:00
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Chitra, an American Book Award winner, is known for creating tales of vivid women characters who live in either India or America. She is the author...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2016
  • Length: 09:54
Caption: Tariq Sheikh (left) and Tabinda Sheikh (right)
Married for 25 years, Tabinda and Tariq were recent immigrants when they first met, and even without a common language, their love blossomed.

  • Added: Oct 24, 2016
  • Length: 02:23
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Mable introduces us to 2Redbeans founder, Qinghua Zhao

  • Added: Sep 06, 2016
  • Length: 09:52
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Host Mable Chan speaks with photojournalist Muyi Xiao.

  • Added: Aug 07, 2016
  • Length: 10:51
Caption: Alexis Diao's Father's Family in the Philippines.
When Alexis Diao’s father arrived in Tallahassee, Florida, he couldn’t even find coconut milk—let alone many other ingredients to make the Filipino...

Bought by KVLU, WJCT, and WABE


  • Added: May 05, 2016
  • Length: 26:13
  • Purchases: 3
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Geeta and Ravi Patel talk avoiding cultural bias, listening to the world, and making everyone happy.

  • Added: Sep 11, 2015
  • Length: 24:01
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Stereotypes about Asian-Americans abound - their kids get perfect scores on standardized testing and head off to Ivy League colleges to become doct...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 06:36
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How China looks to students in two Chinese Schools near Seattle, WA.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 05:13
Caption:  (From left) Maria's father, mother, grandmother, and grandfather at their home in Manila - the same home where they once encountered a supernatural creature. Maria learned about many traditional Filipino beliefs from her grandmother, Conchita Carpio., Credit: Courtesy of the Caoagdan family
In the Philippines superstitions and the existence of supernatural creatures are firmly believed. RadioActive Youth Media reporter Maria Delmar Cao...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 06:44
Caption: Quang Adam Nguyen, Angela's dad, holding the South Vietnamese and American flags. , Credit: Credit Courtesy of Quang Adam Nguyen
Angela Nguyen is going away to college and leaving behind everything she loves. Her dad did the same when he left Vietnam. But unlike her, he left ...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 06:49
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A mother & daughter recollect moving to Austin from Vietnam. This story was produced by Ana Kolendo, Linda O’Neal, and Lindsey Shirack during the ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 05:46
  • Purchases: 1
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How do you pass on the culture of a country you can’t remember? Three generations of the Hang family in Portland, Maine, try to reconcile memories ...

Bought by PRX Remix, WMPG, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Sayon Soeun, once a child soldier kidnapped by Cambodia's Khmer Rouge government which killed over two million people, returns to his homeland to s...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
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Amanda and her husband were eager to start a family. They turned to foreign adoption, and couldn’t imagine the heartbreak, surprises and love that...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 05:35