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Caption: Support group meeting for foreign students and their parents at the Biblioteca Benito Juárez in Tijuana., Credit: Joel Medina
In the last two years, more than 205,000 parents of American citizen children were deported from the United States. That means a new influx of Amer...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 03:47
Caption: A drawing by the American child of deported parents in Tijuana., Credit: Beth Caldwell
The majority of the 400,000 people deported from the U.S. in 2012 were adults, many with criminal records, but minors are sometimes caught up in th...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 03:47
Caption: An American boy walks down a street in Guanajuato, Mexico with his father, a deported Mexican national., Credit: Erin Siegal McIntyre
Hundreds, if not thousands, of deported parents are trying to reunite with children left behind in the United States.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 03:46
Caption: Cherubin Bancoult sings Chagossian sega, Credit: Raphaël Krafft
The small island nation, the Republic of Mauritius, marks the 45th anniversary of independence from British rule this week. But one group isn’t cel...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2013
  • Length: 06:11
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Mitch Skinner talks to rapper P.O.S. about his new album and his search for a new kidney.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 05:56
Caption: Paola Gueli is one of a dwindling number of tailors in Italy, a country renowned for its tailoring tradition. , Credit: Luigi Fraboni
Skilled tailoring is a dying art. Many of the best tailors hail from Italy where the tradition is unraveling due to a lack of training opportuniti...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 08:20
  • Purchases: 2
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New one-hour special details the story of the West Memphis Three case – the accused, the victims, the legal battles and the advocates. Will include...

Bought by KSRQ and Prairie Public


  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Tim “T-Mike” Eaton and his Dad, Tim Eaton bowling together at the Trade Center Bowl in Falmouth, MA. , Credit: Andrew Norton
In bowling, a “perfect game” is three hundred points. Lots of good bowlers never get one. But Tim Eaton and his son have over a dozen between them...

Bought by Public Radio Remix, KUT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 29, 2012
  • Length: 06:06
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: An aerial view of North Beach Island where five cottages were demolished by the federal government.
In late 2011. the federal government decided to demolish five old seaside cottages on Cape Cod that were at threat of being washed away due to coas...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: May 29, 2012
  • Length: 08:26
  • Purchases: 1
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A sensitive generational discussion on the issues facing those who are transgendered.

  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Jaheem Herrera
: Public school students and parents are seeing some changes this year in the way their schools handle bullying. That’s because of a law passed by...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jan 24, 2012
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 1
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This is an optional second segment, which can be added to Part 1, for a package nearing 26 mins in length. In the second segment, Tiny Spark host, ...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2011
  • Length: 06:55
Caption: Jennifer Hemsley with daughter, Pearl and Hazel (R), 2007, Credit: Jennifer Hemsley
Tiny Spark takes a look at a seemingly good idea - international adoption - and explores its unintended consequences: corruption, fraud and child t...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Dec 06, 2011
  • Length: 19:35
  • Purchases: 1
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News and features on the conflicts in Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Aug 04, 2011
  • Length: 09:38
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Charlene Schiff discusses her and her mother’s escape in 1942 from the Horochow ghetto in Poland. Soon after their escape, Charlene was separated f...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 09:04
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We bring animals into our lives for companionship. And this newly formed relationship redefines the idea of family. This is a look at pet love and ...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2011
  • Length: 15:11
Caption: Opponets of the new curriculum hold up signs during a recent school board meeting , Credit: Emilie Ritter
A new sex education curriculum is creating a controversy in the Rocky Mountain town of Helena, Montana

Bought by KRUA


  • Added: Jul 16, 2010
  • Length: 04:20
  • Purchases: 1
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This feature profiles a 9-year-old girl named Kihuanna who, at 4 foot one and 139 pounds, has a body mass index twice what it should be. With the h...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC, and Iowa Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 16, 2010
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 3
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One health center in Holyoke, MA addresses the 50 percent rate of overweight and obese children in this predominantly low-income, Puerto Rican comm...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC, and Iowa Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 16, 2010
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Deirdri Fishel, Credit: Penn State Public Broadcasting
WPSU's Emily Reddy interviews the narrator and star of "Telling Amy's Story." The movie documents the signs of domestic violence in the years leadi...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2010
  • Length: 06:43
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This two-part series examines the debate by world-class scientists if a connection between tics, Tourette's, obsessive-compulsive disorder and ext...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2010
  • Length: 20:30
Caption: Former mortgage broker Craig Good is trying to be the good guy, running a downtown Boston fruit stand., Credit: Curt Nickisch
When the housing market crashed, so did the job market for mortgage brokers. Over the last two years, about two-thirds of mortgage brokers, the mid...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Feb 22, 2010
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 2
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Domestic Violence compared between the older, middle and younger generations, with special guest Leslie Morgan Steiner, author of Crazy Love

  • Added: Oct 26, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Montana Supreme Court, Credit: Emilie Ritter
The Montana Supreme Court will weigh in on physician assisted suicide.

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Sep 02, 2009
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Central Pennsylvania residents who lived during the Great Depression share their stories.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2009
  • Length: 29:49