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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
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
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
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
Sixty years after the Supreme Court banned school segregation, a report found that schools are still segregated, and New York City schools more tha...
- Added: Sep 22, 2014
- Length: 07:16
Most English learners in secondary school are considered Long Term English learners, meaning students who have been English learners for six-years ...
- Added: Aug 18, 2014
- Length: 08:18
Spanish-Speaking Kids Benefit from Oklahoma Pre-K - Children from low-income families, immigrant families, or who are English learners often come ...
- Added: Aug 15, 2014
- Length: 05:55
In Arizona, there is some support for dual immersion schools, but mostly for those that serve a majority Anglo population. The schools with more La...
- Added: Jun 10, 2014
- Length: 06:10
In Arizona, dual language immersion programs are gaining momentum and demand among Anglo families in wealthier school districts, while dual immersi...
Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 07:25
- Purchases: 1
Charlotte, North Carolina-based historian Tom Hanchett speaks about the ever-evolving South, especially as it relates to food, from a booth in El P...
Bought by Troy Public Radio and Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Mar 09, 2014
- Length: 17:54
- Purchases: 2
The name Andy Lopez probably didn’t ring a bell before October 22, 2013. On that afternoon, the 13-year-old Lopez was just a kid playing with a BB ...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 07:35
Charles Hodgkins and I are walking with several other burrito-eaters through the Mission District. He’s clearly the boss, though. It’s not just the...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 05:03
If you walk down Mission Street this weekend you’ll see family members holding pictures of loved ones in one hand and candles in another. You may s...
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 13:35
Agricultural explorers, Arabian fantasy agri-tourism, and dangerous work: all about date palms in California's Coachella Valley.
Bought by KWMR
- Added: Oct 26, 2013
- Length: 07:02
- Purchases: 1
It’s just 40 miles from Palm Springs, but the Eastern Coachella Valley is home to a host of environmental concerns, ranging from arsenic in the wel...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KWMR
- Added: Oct 26, 2013
- Length: 05:02
- Purchases: 2
This piece features a couple who's served a small farming town for 30 years, and a program working to train Central Valley natives to be doctors he...
Bought by KWMR
- Added: Oct 02, 2013
- Length: 06:13
- Purchases: 1
Missing laborer in Brazil highlights disappearances amid police crackdown in favelas
- Added: Aug 17, 2013
- Length: 04:58
California was the first state to adopt heat illness regulations for outdoor workers, but there are still violations, and there are still fatalities.
Bought by KWMR, PRX Remix, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Aug 13, 2013
- Length: 05:03
- Purchases: 3
On the eve of a vote in Uruguay's House of Representatives on the legalisation of Marijuana, Ben Weisz reports from Montevideo on a country yet to ...
- Added: Jul 30, 2013
- Length: 06:51
Will renewable energy save the county with one of the nation's highest unemployment rates?
Bought by KWMR, KUOW, and Radio Newark
- Added: Jul 08, 2013
- Length: 07:34
- Purchases: 3
A hospital works to provide interpreters for all in its farm worker community.
- Added: Jul 08, 2013
- Length: 05:15
- Purchases: 2
A cemetery near the California/Mexico border is the last resting place for some immigrants who die crossing the border.
- Added: Jul 08, 2013
- Length: 02:39
- Purchases: 2
Mobile home parks -- often in terrible conditions -- have become the defacto solution for a farm worker housing shortage in the Eastern Coachella V...
- Added: Jul 08, 2013
- Length: 06:50
- Purchases: 2
Throughout the West, historic discriminatory laws have excluded people of color from settling and owning property. Because of that, many Western st...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and XRAY.fm
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 06:18
- Purchases: 2
One in four deportees have a U.S. citizen child left behind. As they struggle to prove to U.S. social workers and the courts that they can take car...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jun 11, 2013
- Length: 04:05
- Purchases: 1
