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Caption: The "Little Manila" Mabuhay mural, represents welcome, best wishes and life. It greets you in bright yellow on a sky-blue field on the wall of Amazing Grace Restaurant, evoking the taste and fragrance of the Filipines. Calamansi fruits and sampaguita blos, Credit: Jake Hofileña
This episode is from the Queens Memory Podcast, a project archiving stories from Queens, New York. “Little Manila” is a Filipino enclave dating ba...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KMUN


  • Added: May 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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We revisit a 2021 interview with filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña about her documentary, “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” and then speak with her and activist...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Ray Suarez talks with The Washington Post’s Gerry Shih and Asanga Abeyagoonasekera, a Sri Lankan geopolitical analyst, to understand why-and-how Sr...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Is race real? Two researchers say biological race is a myth, but that racism is very real.

Bought by KSTK, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 7
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On today's program we honor the life and legacy of civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs through the lens of the documentary film, American Revolut...

Bought by WXDU and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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On this WorldCanvass, concerns about the present and future danger of the 2019 novel coronavirus are addressed by an expert panel.

  • Added: Feb 27, 2020
  • Length: 32:19
Caption: A bedcover made by sisters Wei Guoer and Wei Guofeng of Guangxi Province. (Courtesy of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures)
The exhibition, The Quilts of Southwest China, was organized by a bi-national consortium of Chinese and American museums, including the Mathers Mus...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 58:05
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The Philippines is America's oldest treaty ally in Asia. Its bases and ports are key building blocks in the United States attempt to encircle China...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2016
  • Length: 04:49
Caption: Bruce Lee and his family, Credit: TM & © Bruce Lee Enterprises, LLC
Seattle’s most famous son may be the martial artist and movie star, Bruce Lee. He grew up in Hong Kong and settled in the Northwest at the age of ...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 1
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You may know Bruce Lee as a martial artist legend who died at the young age of 32 but there is much more to his story. Lee’s daughter, Shannon, cha...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2014
  • Length: 04:05
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You're listening to Culture Clique, and our series on the Winona State University Winona Works Project. With interviews conducted by students from ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 12:12
  • Purchases: 1
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What India's latest space mission to Mars can tell us about the difficulties in reconciling the aspirations of the "haves" and the "have nots."

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 02:23
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In the wake of the 2010 BP oil spill, Vietnamese fisher folk on the Gulf Coast found themselves doubly affected. The disaster made it impossible fo...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2013
  • Length: 09:48
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On this edition, we visit Thailand and the Asian Muslim Action Network's School of Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution.

  • Added: May 17, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
The threat of Chinese predatory pricing on the agricultural industry--specifically how it has hurt California-grown garlic sales--as a precursor to...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 04:07
Caption: "I Hotel" by Karen Tei Yamashita
The eviction of the residents of San Francisco’s International Hotel took place the night of August 4th, 1977, but the drama played out throughout ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2011
  • Length: 07:15
Caption: Photo courtesy of www.acupuncturewinona.com/
On this edition of Culture Clique, we continue our coverage of Acupuncture with Jade Fang of Winona Minnesota. We will learn what acupuncture is li...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 22:22
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Five experts discuss race relations in the U.S.

  • Added: Oct 09, 2008
  • Length: 03:00
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An interview with leading Tibet Scholar Robert Thurman on why the Dalai Lama matters

  • Added: Jun 29, 2008
  • Length: 11:13
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Japan confronts unprecedented decline in its population

  • Added: Dec 26, 2005
  • Length: 04:59
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U.N. independent investors raps Japan for deep-rooted discrimination

  • Added: Jul 11, 2005
  • Length: 03:18
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The story of one man's discovery that resulted in saving a historic landmark from demolition, and keeping an important part of the American story f...

Bought by Listenwise, Vocalo.org, Here and Now, and KCUR


  • Added: Jun 08, 2005
  • Length: 07:28
  • Purchases: 4
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After being relocated from their west coast homes on suspicion of being disloyal Americans, some Japanese Americans stood up to the hipocracy when ...

Bought by KPIK-LP and WETA


  • Added: May 25, 2004
  • Length: 08:14
  • Purchases: 2