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Caption: Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake of Arizona are two of the eight lawmakers brainstorming to lay the foundation for comprehensive immigration reform., Credit: flickr
The bi-partisan group of Senators who have drafted a proposal for comprehensive immigration reform are led by two from the state that's famous for ...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 03:53
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Mmmmm. Tamales! Youth Producer Mariana from Gorzycki Middle School interviews her mother as she shows her how to make Tamales.

  • Added: Dec 18, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
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In Juan’s second audio diary, he travels back to Mexico to visit his dying grandfather. This is his first time back since he immigrated to the Unit...

Bought by KSFR and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 25:51
  • Purchases: 2
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Frank Barela and Frank Maestas talk to their grandson C.J. Maestas about his gymnastics career.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Aug 03, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Wanda and her family, Credit: Joanna Solotaroff
There are approximately 500 homeless families living in Cape Cod. Joanna Solotaroff interviewed Wanda and her three children to find out what it me...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 14, 2012
  • Length: 07:43
  • Purchases: 1
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When people ask Lita Trejo what it's like to be a foster parent, she explains, "It's like asking a parent 'what do you do as a parent?' It's the sa...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:24
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Shayla Torres is a senior at Community Academy in Philadelphia and is going to college next year. But first, she’ll have to leave her grandparents ...

Bought by KSFR and WHYY


  • Added: May 20, 2012
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Ricardo Isaias Zavala (L) with his son Ricardo Javier Zavala (R)
Ricardo Isais Zavala remembers his grandfather, Vicente Domingo Villa, in an interview with his son, Ricardo Javier Zavala.

Bought by WEZU, WTJU, and KUOW


  • Added: May 07, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Photo by K W Reinsch, Flickr
Carlos Vigil, from the YouthWorks program in Santa Fe, NM, wrote this poem-rap about growing up poor in New Mexico.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: May 04, 2012
  • Length: 01:47
  • Purchases: 1
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Seguro de salud accesible para niños

Bought by KDNA Radio


  • Added: Mar 12, 2012
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Henry Flores and Gwendolyn Diaz
Henry Flores and his wife, Gwendolyn Diaz, talk about the first time they met.

Bought by WEZU, KERA, and KMUD


  • Added: Feb 17, 2012
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 3
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Rachel Salazar and her husband, Ruben, remember how their romance started with a typo.

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WXPR, WEZU, and KUOW


  • Added: May 17, 2011
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Children playing in Brooklyn, Credit: Michael Premo
Two first-person stories about gentrification and the struggle for home. Maisha Morales and her 10-year-old son Anthony talk about how her successf...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2011
  • Length: 08:11
  • Purchases: 1
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A recent college graduate receives an unexpected job offer from his uncle: teach English in Ciudad Juárez.

  • Added: May 03, 2011
  • Length: 03:25
Caption: Sarah Bruno
Poet Sarah Bruno, 18, is a senior at Walter Payton College Prep and competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 as a member of team Youmedia Chicago. Expl...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 02:46
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A man talking about how he has a theme song for people in his life. He recalls the qualities of the people and describes them with music.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2011
  • Length: 03:24
Caption: Col. Villa
A student at United World College, Nelson Diaz Monterrosa, worked with Youth Media Project's Summer Intensive 2010 to produce this moving piece abo...

Bought by KZYX and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 09, 2011
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 2
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One health center in Holyoke, MA addresses the 50 percent rate of overweight and obese children in this predominantly low-income, Puerto Rican comm...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Iowa Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 16, 2010
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 4
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Bethesda Jewish Congregation traveled to Cuba to help teach and reintroduce Judaism to Cuba's Jewish population.

Bought by Interfaith Voices


  • Added: May 31, 2010
  • Length: 08:51
  • Purchases: 1
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17-years-old Vikky Cruz struggles to cope with her mother's illness, a rare genetic disease called neuroacanthytosis, and the ways it's taken over ...

Bought by Vocalo.org and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 01, 2010
  • Length: 09:37
  • Purchases: 2
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Rookie Reporter Erikka Diaz, like many of her neighbors in South Bronx, has lived in poverty her whole life. Her family knows well the anxiety that...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, The Story, Vocalo.org, PRX Remix, and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 01, 2010
  • Length: 09:17
  • Purchases: 5
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The road to college

  • Added: Feb 23, 2010
  • Length: 28:09
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Cuando un padre o una madre falta en el hogar, quienes más se ven dañados por esta ausencia son los hijos. En este material extraemos las impresion...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2009
  • Length: 07:08
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In a special collaboration between “Feet in Two Worlds,” we hear the story of an immigrant family torn apart after an immigration raid in Phoenix, ...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Oct 13, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
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Son 3 historias enlazadas por su finalidad: encontrar ese ser querido que se marcho en la búsqueda del Sueño Americano, y de quien a la fecha se d...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2009
  • Length: 05:40