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The Apparition of Casey Stengel
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Nicaraguan author Sergio Ramirez has written a poignant and bittersweet baseball story with sporting, political and historical allusions- and the a...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Sep 17, 2014
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1
Brazil. Soccer, Magical Realism and Alternate Reality
From: Richard Stull
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The great nation of Brazil’s ignominious 7-1 defeat by Germany at the World Cup semi-finals in July of 2014 in front of their home crowd was a thun...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2014
  • Length: 02:33
Cuban Baseball and Alternate History
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Cuba has a great baseball tradition going back 150 years - Luque, Dihigo, Minoso, Perez, El Duque, Canseco and many current stars hail from the sto...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Jul 18, 2014
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1
Martín De León
From: KUHF
Series: Texas Originals
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Founder of the city of Victoria and influential early settler of the Texas Coastal Bend.

Bought by KTTZ and KAMU


  • Added: May 22, 2014
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 2
Plácido Benavides
From: KUHF
Series: Texas Originals
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Known as the “Paul Revere of Texas.”

Bought by KTTZ, KTTZ, and KAMU


  • Added: May 22, 2014
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
Cleto Rodriguez
From: KUHF
Series: Texas Originals
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World War II Medal of Honor recipient.

Bought by KTTZ, KTTZ, and KAMU


  • Added: May 22, 2014
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
From: KUHF
Series: Texas Originals
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An adventurer who explored Texas and its earliest inhabitants.

Bought by KTTZ, KTTZ, and KAMU


  • Added: May 22, 2014
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
Hector Garcia
From: KUHF
Series: Texas Originals
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A legendary medical doctor and social reformer

Bought by KTTZ, KTTZ, and KAMU


  • Added: May 22, 2014
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
Jose Antonio Navarro
From: KUHF
Series: Texas Originals
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He fought discrimination faced by Mexican-Americans during the battle of Texas Independence.

Bought by KTTZ, KTTZ, and KAMU


  • Added: May 22, 2014
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
Carlos Castaneda
From: KUHF
Series: Texas Originals
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He was the historian who wrote the definitive portrait of the life along the Texas-Mexico border during the Texas Revolution.

Bought by KTTZ, KTTZ, and KAMU


  • Added: May 22, 2014
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
Juan Seguin
From: KUHF
Series: Texas Originals
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He was an influential political and military figure in the Texas Revolution.

Bought by KTTZ, KTTZ, and KAMU


  • Added: May 22, 2014
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
Lorenzo de Zavala
From: KUHF
Series: Texas Originals
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Fought with the Texians against Mexico for Texas Independence and became the Republic of Texas’ first Vice President

Bought by KTTZ, KTTZ, and KAMU


  • Added: May 22, 2014
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
The Alous: First Dominican/Latino/Baseball Family
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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The fabulous Alou brothers Felipe, Matty and Jesus had more hits that any other brother trio in baseball history (over 5000) and all played in the...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: May 06, 2014
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
The Laundry: Episode 2 -- With Margarita Lopez
From: Kelly Cogswell
Series: The Laundry Podcast
Caption: Margarita today., Credit: Kelly Cogswell
An in-depth interview with former New York City council member and out Latina lesbian, Margarita López.

  • Added: Apr 15, 2014
  • Length: 26:23
La Llorona
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: There's Something Out There
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A look at the changing mythology of Mexican folklore favorite “La Llorona” and what each version reveals about its teller.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2014
  • Length: 09:11
A Conversation with NEA Jazz Master, Eddie Palmieri
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Pianist, bandleader, composer and 2013 NEA Jazz Master, Eddie Palmieri talks about his innovative music which blends Afro-Cuban rhythms with jazz. ...

Bought by Prairie Public, KMUW, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 12, 2014
  • Length: 32:22
  • Purchases: 3
The Fear of "Mexicanization"
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Historian Greg Downs tells host Brian Balogh about an anxiety about “Mexicanization” that ran through Reconstruction-Era politics, as Americans saw...

Bought by Radio Newark and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jan 21, 2014
  • Length: 09:52
  • Purchases: 2
Border Crossings: A History of US-Mexico Relations
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Map of Mexico, 1847, Credit: Library of Congress
Twenty years ago, NAFTA — the North American Free Trade Agreement — removed barriers to trade between the United States and Mexico, marking a more ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WUFT, XRAY.fm, WRPI, KREV-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 17, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
President Kennedy and Immigration Reform
From: Cesar Chavez Foundation
Series: 50th Anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's Death
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John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States was in office form January 20, 1961 to November 22, 1963.

  • Added: Nov 09, 2013
  • Length: 01:44
Remembering President John F. Kennedy
From: Cesar Chavez Foundation
Series: 50th Anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's Death
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John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States was in office form January 20, 1961 to November 22, 1963.

  • Added: Nov 09, 2013
  • Length: 01:55
Gay and Puerto Rican: Three Voices of Change
From: Kelly Cogswell
Series: Activist Voices
Caption: A student ID that Luis Santiago found years later in his police file.
In conversations with Kelly Cogswell, founder of early feminist and gay groups in Puerto Rico, former New York City councilmember Margarita Lopez d...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 29, 2013
  • Length: 05:48
  • Purchases: 1
An Oasis For Date Palms, But Not For Their Workers
From: Lisa Morehouse
Series: After the Gold Rush: The Future of Small Town California
Caption: Palmero Francisco Paniagua., Credit: Lisa Morehouse
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
Life on the Fringes
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Experience Hispanic Heritage
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Although immigration reform seems all but forgotten compared to the crisis in Syria and the debt ceiling, it is still relevant to the 11 million un...

Bought by KUOW and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 26, 2013
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 2
Hispanic or Latino?
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Experience Hispanic Heritage
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Hispanics are the largest and fastest growing minority group in the country. Though many are recent immigrants, Hispanics have been living in Ameri...

Bought by WRFA-LP, KZYX, KRZA, RadioFreePalmer, KZMU Moab Community Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2013
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 9
Fidel Castro 1959: the Lost Interview
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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"If this Revolution falls, what we will have here in Cuba is a hell. Hell itself." - Fidel Castro in 1959. Havana.

Bought by KUOW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 23, 2013
  • Length: 08:55
  • Purchases: 2