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Hawaiian Awa (Kava)
From: Heidi Chang
Caption: Jason Keoni Verity opened the first awa (kava) bar in Hawaii, Credit: The Honolulu Advertiser
For centuries, the kava plant has played an important role in many Pacific Island cultures, where it's valued for its natural calming effects. In ...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2007
  • Length: 08:06
Being Ourselves & With Our Mothers from India
From: Mahi Palanisami
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Two 2nd generation Indian daughters speak about their mothers

  • Added: Jul 01, 2007
  • Length: 29:24
Jon Jang
From: Dmae Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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Jon Jang, composer and jazz pianist, who paved the way for Asian American jazz musicians.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2007
  • Length: 04:59
Baby Pictures
From: Dmae Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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Vietnamese adoptees from Operation Babylift tell their stories.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: May 01, 2007
  • Length: 05:41
  • Purchases: 1
Pastures of Plenty: Sailing East: Chinese, Japanese and Filipinos in the Fields
From: RGoodman group
Series: Pastures of Plenty: A History of California Farm Workers
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Program 1 in a four part series about farmworker history.

Bought by Northstate Public Radio, KUSP, WCBU, KUOW, KAZU and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2007
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 11
RN Documentary: Cavalry, Caravans and Christians: Genghis Khan and Europe's first global age
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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The lasting impact of the Mongol invasions on Europe, 800 years after Genghis Khan united the Mongols into one nation.

Bought by WRPI


  • Added: Jan 18, 2007
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Crossing East Music Featre: Violinist Aishu Venkataraman
From: Dmae Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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Profile of 13-year-old prodigy and her musician family

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Jan 08, 2007
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: Modern Day Mongolia
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Mongolia in the 21st century must choose which aspects of modernity and tradition will shape its identity in the 21st century.

Bought by WFUV


  • Added: Jan 04, 2007
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Tejidos Culturales 12-Japanese-American Community in the Valley
From: KRZA
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This program looks at the Japanese-American Community in the San Luis Valley and how they arrived.

Bought by KRFC


  • Added: Jan 01, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Forgotten
From: SCAD Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Tim Bui of Gulfport, MS tells his story of Katrina.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Dec 25, 2006
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
Losing Home
From: Radio Rookies
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Wen Ou tells about her struggle to maintain a connection with her homeland in China.

Bought by KUOW, WXLV-FM, KCUR, and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Dec 18, 2006
  • Length: 08:13
  • Purchases: 4
RN Documentary: The Music of Lutes and Harps
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
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The first generation of children born under China?s one-child policy have reached adulthood and have their own, new views of family life.

Bought by WFUV


  • Added: Nov 29, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Crossing East: Jared Rehberg Music Feature
From: Dmae Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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Singer/Songwriter Jared Rehberg is perhaps the only transracial and international adoptee who sings about being an adoptee.

Bought by KCUR


  • Added: Nov 07, 2006
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1
Tell Me Wai
From: Dmae Roberts
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Maori group called 'Wai" blends traditions with a hip hop sound in New Zealand.

Bought by WNJR and KSUT


  • Added: Oct 06, 2006
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 2
Crossing East: Filipino Guitarist Angelo Pizarro
From: Dmae Roberts
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Angelo Pizarro comes from a musical family. Born in the Philippines, he shares Filipino folk, jazz, and blues with the Seattle music scene.

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 17, 2006
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 1
Crossing East: Shasta Taiko
From: Dmae Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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A 1st Person profile of Russel Baba and Jeannie Aiko Mercer of Shasta Taiko

Bought by KCUR


  • Added: Sep 15, 2006
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 1
Crossing East: Jon Jang Music Feature
From: Dmae Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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Profile of Composer and Pianist Jon Jang

  • Added: Sep 14, 2006
  • Length: 04:59
Crossing East: Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar
From: Dmae Roberts
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Slack Key Guitar is a unique art form in Hawaii

Bought by KZYX and KSUT


  • Added: Sep 13, 2006
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 2
Kawthoolei
From: Outer Voices
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Along the Thai-Burma border, we meet the women peace activists working in the midst of the world's longest running civil war.

Bought by WUFT, WGBH Radio Boston, KWIT, KUER, KALW and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2006
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
Kawthoolei with newshole
From: Outer Voices
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Along the Thai-Burma border, we meet the women peace activists working in the midst of the world's longest running civil war.

Bought by KQED, WUFT, KGLT, KUER, WSKG and more


  • Added: Aug 03, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Hop Fu and the Asia-Hip Hop Connection
From: Michael Jones
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Turntablists create new soundtracks to Kung-Fu movies...live!

Bought by KFAI and WAMC


  • Added: Jul 26, 2006
  • Length: 10:55
  • Purchases: 2
Competing for Souls
From: Homelands Productions
Series: Worlds of Difference
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Producer Alan Weisman reports on how evangelical Christianity is spreading rapidly across South Korea, and coming into conflict with the traditiona...

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Jul 07, 2006
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 1
Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest
From: Dmae Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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Early history of Hawaiians settling along the West Coast

Bought by KLCC, KSUT, and KUOW


  • Added: May 01, 2006
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 3
Crossing East: Refuge From War - Program Seven
From: Dmae Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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Refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos had no choice but to flee their homelands and come to America. THE ACTUAL SHOW LENGTH IS 59 MINUTES. THER...

Bought by KQED, KGNU, WNPR, KXOT Public Radio, KFAI and more


  • Added: Apr 24, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
Crossing East: New Waves, New Storms - Program Eight
From: Dmae Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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Recently, Asian Americans have faced discrimination, but remained strong. THE ACTUAL SHOW LENGTH IS 59 MINUTES. THERE ARE SEVERAL VERSIONS OF THIS ...

Bought by KQED, WNPR, KXOT Public Radio, KFAI, KVMR and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18