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Joanna Wright and her friend Tara Cummings talk about surviving years of abuse at a religious reform school in Louisiana.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Mar 02, 2018
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Anna Freeman and her daughter, Brianna, discuss how bullies have impacted their lives.

Bought by WEZU and WVBI-LP


  • Added: Jan 25, 2018
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 2
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Meet hustler La’Kia Young. She could be anyone, anywhere with a past paved in rubble and pain but her perseverance proves that failure isn't final.

  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 21:12
Caption: Carmen Jimenez Smith
Carmen Giménez Smith reads a poem in response to a photograph by the 1970s East Los Angeles art collective Asco.

Bought by KALW, KVNO, KALW, KENW, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Barbara Jane Reyes, poet, Credit: Oscar Bermeo
Barbara Jane Reyes remembers and praises the life of Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina domestic worker who was swindled into becoming a drug mule.

Bought by KENW and KALW


  • Added: Oct 10, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Alyssa started using heroin when she was 14. She’s now 20 and works as a daycare teacher., Credit: FLICKR PHOTO / B.A.D. HTTPS://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/BRADADOZIER/
"My own family didn't even know who I was anymore. I didn't even know who I was anymore."

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KSFR


  • Added: Sep 18, 2017
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 2
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This series is about individuals in China. Episode one is about Single ladies and the pressures put on them by society.

  • Added: Apr 21, 2017
  • Length: 19:46
Caption: Hannah Brooks-Motl, poet, Credit: CS Ward
Hannah Brooks-Motl reflects on the course of a life and its future

Bought by PRX Remix, KENW, and KALW


  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
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This episode is the second installment exploring women within prisons. First, we get updates on struggles in Bulgaria and Turkey, hear about propos...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2016
  • Length: 28:43
Caption: Taiwanese American Hairol Ma struggles with finding her place in upstate New York., Credit: Anjani Iman
Westernized Asian-Americans across the United States struggle with finding their place in a seemingly divided country between white people and fore...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 17, 2016
  • Length: 03:15
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jasmine Pacheco (left) and Carmen Pacheco-Jones (right)
A mother talks to her daughter about what it was like to reconnect with her children after her years of drug and alcohol abuse tore their family ap...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Oct 31, 2016
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Widow of highly decorated Navy Seal Chris Kyle unveils her husband's amazing story of service.

  • Added: May 13, 2015
  • Length: 16:12
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Trista Matascastillo speaks with her husband, Army 1st Sergeant Hector Matascastillo, about being sexually assaulted...

Bought by WEZU and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 17, 2014
  • Length: 05:14
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Diana Moya Lujan's piece at the Museum of International Folk Art
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 05:57
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
Caption: The Terry Project
In many ways, Emilie is your average twenty-something. But living with borderline personality disorder isn’t easy, and neither is getting the neces...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2013
  • Length: 32:06
Caption: Pina Maisano Grassi is a fabrics store owner and dedicated activist in the fight against the Mafia.  Her husband was murdered in 1991 for refusing to pay the Mafia’s extortion tax., Credit: Nancy Greenleese
An 84-year-old grandmother and business owner is taking on the mob in Sicily. Organized criminals demand that business owners pay protection money...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2013
  • Length: 04:21
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As the Syrian revolution unfolded over the last year, Syrian-Americans have been glued to YouTube - the primary source of information from the war ...

Bought by Listenwise


  • Added: Apr 24, 2012
  • Length: 05:29
  • Purchases: 1
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"I Gave My Heart To Know This" illuminates the lives of three female shipbuilder's during World War Two who are coping with the absence of their me...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 16:29
  • Purchases: 1
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Director Debra Granik discusses her award-winning film, Winter's Bone.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 08, 2011
  • Length: 24:25
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Cherlyn and her mom
A woman becomes a mom at the precise moment that her own mother decides to stop being a mother.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 20, 2011
  • Length: 12:03
  • Purchases: 1
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Love, sometimes doesn't work out the way that we want it to. But, as Ashley describes in this interview with the Love Story Thief, it doesn't make ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2010
  • Length: 12:42
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What do you do when they tell you your child is in a persistive vegetative state, tell you to put her in a nursing home and go on with your life? Y...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:30
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Three women share their life stories, memories and what it is like to live at the YWCA of Central Virginia.

Bought by KUGS Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Dec 05, 2006
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 1
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Profiles of poet George Evans, a veteran medic, and Lynda Van Devanter, whose experiences as Vietnam nurse inspired China Beach. Warning: Graphic D...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, WKMS, WRGY, KBYS 88.3 FM, NPR Illinois and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18