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PODCAST, PODCAST!! This week on Generation Justice, we spoke to Rosa Isela Cervantes, Executive Director of UNM’s El Centro de la Raza.

  • Added: Oct 02, 2023
  • Length: 14:40
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Luis Paulino and Angel Gonzalez talk about their shared experiences coming to the US from the Dominican Republic, and overcoming their challenges t...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jan 11, 2022
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Seventeen-year-old Sophia Angelica Delgado Feliciano says for a long time she used emotional distance as a survival tool. Today she's thriving. (Courtesy of Sophia Delgado), Credit: (Courtesy of Sophia Delgado)
In North Philadelphia, some teen girls live by the credo: “cold is cute.” Anger and emotional distance are crucial survival tools. For Sophia Delga...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2019
  • Length: 04:28
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With changes in schooling to add more bilingual education and the fact that the United States is getting more diverse, American future is bilingual.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 05, 2018
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Ricky Rijos, Credit: Lara Solt
Ricky Rijos finished up high school in January, but he waited until June to get his diploma with his classmates from Flower Mound High School. He's...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2017
  • Length: 04:23
Caption: Alex Gutierrez, Credit: Lara Solt
Alex Gutierrez struggled with math — and that kept her from going to her dream school. She just wrapped up her senior year at a Garland charter sch...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2017
  • Length: 06:05
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Going to school in a tough neighborhood has its challenges, even for a high-achiever like Joel Luera. The high school debater is headed to college ...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2017
  • Length: 04:57
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Ms. Pearce talks about her life and career, which led her to Fulmore Middle School.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:42
Caption: Joel Luera, right, and Steve Vasquez, left, study for a biology test at Eastfield College in Mesquite, Credit: Lara Solt
The Class of ’17 — a group of students from across North Texas that KERA started following when they were in eighth grade — are now high school ju...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 11, 2016
  • Length: 05:13
  • Purchases: 1
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In the struggling farmworking town of Parlier, in California’s San Joaquin Valley, the Ramírez family stands out. All four Ramírez siblings attende...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2014
  • Length: 06:18
Caption: Maria and Fabian Ramirez graduated from UC Berkeley on the same day that their older sister Gloria received her master's degree. From left: Angela, Maria, father Filemon, Fabian, mother Lucila, and Gloria. , Credit: Zaidee Stavely / Radio Bilingüe
In the struggling farmworking town of Parlier, California, the Ramirez family stands out. All four Ramirez siblings attended the prestigious Univer...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 1
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The Chicano movement changed California forever in the 1960s and 70s, and its legacy continues in the form of a Sacramento arts center for kids of ...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2014
  • Length: 04:51
Caption: Dianna Valenzuela working on a robot., Credit: Valeria Fernandez / Radio Bilingüe
In Phoenix, Arizona, a robotics club has become a springboard for Latino students to go on to graduate from college with degrees in technology, mat...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2014
  • Length: 05:59
Caption: Dianna Valenzuela y Sergio Corral trabajan juntos en el panel de control de un robot acuático., Credit: Valeria Fernández / Radio Bilingüe
In Phoenix, Arizona, a robotics club is becoming a hotbed for Latino students, many of them low-income and some undocumented, to go on to graduate ...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2014
  • Length: 06:07
Caption: Youth attending Radio Bilingüe's forum in Boyle Heights/Los Angeles, address the panelists., Credit: Radio Bilingüe
Community leaders from Boyle Heights and members of the live audience at a forum on Latino education share views on the challenges ahead for Latino...

Bought by KZYX, KUNM, and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Sep 18, 2014
  • Length: 59:09
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Panelists at Radio Bilingüe forum in Los Angeles- Latino Education: Crisis and Response., Credit: Radio Bilingüe
A live broadcast in Spanish from a community forum in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles on the crisis in the education of Latino students.

  • Added: Sep 18, 2014
  • Length: 59:07
Caption: Dr. Patricia Gándara, co-director of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, during Radio Bilingüe's forum Latino Education: Crisis and Response. Here with panelists photographer Camilo Vergara and Francisco Nuñez, director of the Young People's Chorus of New Y, Credit: Radio Bilingüe
A live broadcast in English from a community forum in Los Angeles on the crisis in the education of Latino students.

Bought by KZYX, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, and KUNM


  • Added: Sep 18, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:13
  • Purchases: 3
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
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On March 24, 2014, Dr. Augustine Romero of the Tucson Unified School District spoke in Albuquerque about his new book "Raza Studies: The Public Opt...

  • Added: May 19, 2014
  • Length: 15:52
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Mayra ranked third in her graduating class at W. H. Adamson High School in Dallas. She was active in several clubs and volunteered at Methodist Hos...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2014
  • Length: 03:41
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Leslie dropped out of high school her freshman year and got pregnant at 15. Three years later, she enrolled in Cassata high, a Catholic school in F...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2014
  • Length: 04:19
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Joel is a smart kid in a tough neighborhood. Sometimes other kids don't get why he's so studious. Joel is a part of KERA's series Class of '17.

  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 03:28
Caption: Dr. Augustine Romero, Jason Fuller, Roberta Rael, Credit: Generation Justice
The well-known and controversial Mexican American studies (MAS) program in Arizona’s Tucson Unified School District set out to create an equitable ...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 19:09
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Pedro Noguera sheds light on resources that could help educators by providing rich examples of authors whose books provide great readings in the ar...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
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Success stories of high performing Latino centers of education are shared as Pedro Noguera lists the five factors that these support systems have i...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1