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StoryCorps: Jessi Silva and Maggie Marquez
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Jessi Silva (left) and Maggie Marquez (right)
Maggie Marquez and Jessi Silva grew up in the desert town of Marfa, Texas in the 1950s. At the time, segregation of Latino and white students was n...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 02:40
  • 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
I checked the 'Hispanic' box, but I feel like a fraud
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
Caption: Noel Gasca poses for a graduation shot with her father, Rick Gasca, and mother, Kim Chapman., Credit: Courtesy of Noel Gasca
On a sunny morning during her junior year of high school, Noel Gasca was taking the SAT, when she got to a question that left her stumped. It basic...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Sep 18, 2017
  • Length: 05:57
  • Purchases: 1
Even if it smells bad, this researcher loves solving mysteries
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
Caption: Leo S. Morales loves his job as a researcher of minority health at the University of Washington., Credit: KUOW PHOTO/TORI ZIVKOVIC
People sometimes take unlikely paths to get where they're going. This is the story of an unlikely scholar.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1
Support Communities
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This episode, we focus on two individuals who are working to organize support systems for communities that are directly affected or targeted by law...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2017
  • Length: 29:15
“How to Think Philosophically about Black Identity”
From: Prairie Public
Series: Why? Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life
Caption: Tommie Shelby
Host Jack Russell Weinstein visits with Dr. Tommie Shelby, department of philosophy at Harvard University, the Caldwell Titcomb Professor of Africa...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 30, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Vito de la Cruz and Maria Sefchick-Del Paso
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Civil rights lawyer Vito de la Cruz grew up in a family of migrant farmworkers. He describes his childhood and the loving aunt who raised him.

Bought by WMUU-LP, WRIR, WEZU, Blue Mountain Radio , and KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: Apr 26, 2016
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 5
From Dreamers in Arizona to Muslims in Michigan: Immigrant Communities Upholding Democracy
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Viridiana Hernández lobbying at the Arizona State Legislature against the bill that would ban cities from creating their own city ID if that is extended to undocumented immigrants., Credit: Valeria Fernández
This edition of Making Contact is Part I of our special series examining how immigrants are responding and participating in elections and politics ...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Apr 16, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
From the Chronicles of Odisia Sanchez
From: Camino Real Productions, LLC
Caption: Monica Sanchez
A mythological autobiography that is a contemporary odyssey through latitudes of heart and mind.

Bought by KUNM, KUPR low power FM, and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 03, 2016
  • Length: 49:09
  • Purchases: 3
'Hispanic Immigration': What Pops Up In Mind?
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In the latest edition of the RadioActive podcast, Rogelia Sanchez and Gerardo Ramos hear from people about their perspectives on Hispanic immigrati...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 09:32
Fresh Talk: Felipe Dulzaides
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
Caption: Felipe Dulzaides album cover
Cuban artist Felipe Dulzaides talks about the multi-media installation he created in memory of his musician father for the 12th Havana Biennial.

  • Added: Nov 19, 2015
  • Length: 08:09
Don't Mess with Texas History
From: Victoria Davis
Series: Humanities Minutes
Caption: The Alamo, San Antonio, TX USA
This episode could change how you remember the Alamo.

Bought by KFOI Radio and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2015
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 2
Calle 24 - The official Latino Cultural District of San Francisco
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Every place has a history hidden that lives beneath what you can see on the surface. Just take the Mission District.

  • Added: Jan 07, 2015
  • Length: 08:24
Richard Blanco & Fred Arroyo
From: New Letters on the Air
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We continue our celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month with a public reading featuring writers of Cuban and Puerto Rican heritage, Richard...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Carlos Rocha
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Carlos Rocha, an inmate at Danville Correctional Center in Illinois, talks about a murder he committed in 1998.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WEZU, KERA, and WEZU


  • Added: Sep 05, 2014
  • Length: 01:42
  • Purchases: 4
Race Equity: Luna Olavarria Gallegos
From: Generation Justice Admin
Caption: Luna Olavarria Gallegos, Credit: Generation Justice
Do you know what race equity is? Luna Olavarria Gallegos speaks about her experiences in high school and what schools can do to address the needs o...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2013
  • Length: 04:47
The Diverse & Dynamic Latino Writers Collective
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Latino Writers Collective
We kick off National Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept.15-Oct.15) with members from the Kansas City Latino Writers Collective, who discuss the importa...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Sep 18, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Latin-American Philosophy
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How does Latin-American philosophy distinguish itself from European and American philosophy?

Bought by WLRH, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WVTF, KICI Iowa City, KSKQ and more


  • Added: Aug 21, 2013
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 24
StoryCorps Historias: Ruben Aguilar and Bill Luna
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Ruben Aguilar (R) and Bill Luna (L)
Ruben Aguilar tells his friend Bill Luna about his family's deportation as part of the Mexican Repatriation Program in 1933.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 08, 2013
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 17: Dr. Joseph V. Scelsa, Karikatura - Bobby Pickles' Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
Caption: Dr. Joseph V. Scelsa
Bobby speaks with Dr. Joseph V. Scelsa, founder and president of the Italian American Museum in New York City. Dr. Scelsa has a doctorate in sociol...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 01:03:08
Interview with Billy Collins. Sunday, September 12, 2012.
From: Words On A Wire
Series: Words On A Wire (Best Of)
Caption: Billy Collins
Billy Collins talks about seeing poetry come to life through animation, as he works with film-maker Julian Grey. He reads, "Revision" from his late...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
VoiceBox: Swinging the Latin American Songbook
From: VoiceBox
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Venezuelan vocalist Jimmy Kansau takes listeners on a journey through the music of early to mid 20th century Latin America and the Caribbean.

  • Added: Jul 11, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
StoryCorps Historias: Ricardo Ramirez
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Bishop Ricardo Ramirez remembers his grandmother Francisca "Panchita" Espitia.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:57
  • Purchases: 1
Mexico’s Drug War: The Politics of Violence
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Javier Sicilia in 2011, Credit: Flickr user: sarihuella
On this edition, political science professor David Shirk sheds light on the history and politics of the war on drugs in Mexico. And an emerging mov...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KRZA


  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Bullying Culture in Boyle Heights
From: Sara Harris
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Oscar Rodriguez and René Ayala look at how the subtlest forms of bullying serve as cultural cues for peer intervention in a majority-Latino high sc...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Jan 24, 2012
  • Length: 07:50
  • Purchases: 1