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Alexis Martinez (L) tells her daughter, Lesley Etherly Martinez (R), about being a transgender woman.
- Added: May 03, 2013
- Length: 02:49
Bobby speaks with Wendy Oliveras, author of “Let’s Play SHESS: Succeed in your game of life and business by playing chess: from Pawn to Queen”. The...
- Added: Apr 03, 2013
- Length: 01:08:15
In 2011 and 2012, the small New Mexico border community of Sunland Park made regional headlines and national news for its political scandals. Delvi...
- Added: Sep 24, 2012
- Length: 28:59
Bike culture in the Bay Area runs the gamut, from high performance racing to hipster fixies. Keeping a bike can be an expensive hobby, and as with ...
Bought by WSLR and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 31, 2012
- Length: 07:22
- Purchases: 2
20 years ago today (August 24th) Hurricane Andrew turned South Florida upside down. In this hour-long documentary, WLRN uses home videos, archival ...
- Added: Aug 24, 2012
- Length: 58:31
- Purchases: 3
A fascinating look at a new and sometimes controversial folk spiritual tradition to cross over the border from Mexico to Texas. Produced by student...
- Added: May 22, 2012
- Length: 04:59
Youth producer Tania Martinez describes punta, a type of music and dance, and how it connects and reminds her of her culture and homeland of Hondur...
- Added: Sep 23, 2011
- Length: 05:48
A half-hour radio documentary that examines the history and culture of a New Mexico border town. The piece explores issues of inter-ethnic relation...
- Added: Sep 21, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Today we hear stories by two giants of Mexican literature, Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes. The former is read by actor Tony Plana; the latter by th...
Bought by KQED
- Added: Aug 17, 2011
- Length: 52:59
- Purchases: 1
Writer Julia Alvarez discusses how her life as a reader led to her life as a writer and the rich source material she finds in her family's immigran...
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 22:05
Washington D.C. hadn’t seen a disturbance like this since the day Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and there hasn’t been anything like it si...
- Added: May 18, 2011
- Length: 07:04
Rachel Salazar and her husband, Ruben, remember how their romance started with a typo.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: May 17, 2011
- Length: 02:22
- Purchases: 1
A recent college graduate receives an unexpected job offer from his uncle: teach English in Ciudad Juárez.
- Added: May 03, 2011
- Length: 03:25
Anthropologist Margaret Willson witnessed harrowing violence and poverty while living in Brazil. She describes how violence and dance are often int...
- Added: Feb 25, 2011
- Length: 12:11
This story takes us to Washington state's border with Canada, where the Border Patrol arrests hundreds of people each year. Producer Jessica Partno...
- Added: Jun 16, 2010
- Length: 08:40
Claritza Abreu, who is originally from the Dominican Republic, tells her friend Gerardo Villacres about one of her first jobs in the United States.
Bought by KFOK-LP, Public Radio Remix, KCUR, and KUOW
- Added: May 21, 2010
- Length: 01:29
- Purchases: 4
Sylvia Mendez, 73, talks to her sister Sandra Mendez Duran, 59, about Mendez v. Westminster, their family's 1945 lawsuit that won Mexican-American ...
- Added: Mar 29, 2010
- Length: 02:13
- Purchases: 2
Graciela Kavulla tells her husband, Timothy, about her grandmother, who was a midwife.
- Added: Mar 23, 2010
- Length: 01:47
- Purchases: 2
Rob Sanchez and his friend Felix Aponte, who both served time at Sing Sing Penitentiary, talk about Rob's diagnosis with an aggressive form of kidn...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio, KFOK-LP, and KCUR
- Added: Mar 12, 2010
- Length: 01:52
- Purchases: 3
Author Joanna Dreby explored the impact of work migration through intimate interviews with extended Mexican families and children in New Jersey and...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 29:32
- Purchases: 1
Sandra Cisneros, author of the now-classic novel THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET, reflects on the 25th anniversary of the book's publication, as well as ...
Bought by KHNS, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KRZA
- Added: Sep 23, 2009
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Life on the Duwamish, Segment 1
- Added: Jul 04, 2008
- Length: 09:01
At 72, a Spanish-descended Catholic discovers the real reason she's never liked eating pork.
- Added: May 24, 2007
- Length: 03:50
- Added: Mar 14, 2007
- Length: 02:23
- Purchases: 2
Bolivian migrant workers fight against slave like conditions in Argentina's sweatshops
- Added: Feb 17, 2007
- Length: 03:11
