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Sixteen-year-old Arturo spent most of his life in what he considers poverty--living on welfare and supported by the Section 8 housing program--but ...
- Added: May 14, 2013
- Length: 05:46
Alexis Martinez (L) tells her daughter, Lesley Etherly Martinez (R), about being a transgender woman.
- Added: May 03, 2013
- Length: 02:49
At just sixteen Victor left his home in Guadalajara and crossed the river into Texas only to be picked up by immigration agents and returned to Mex...
- Added: Mar 30, 2013
- Length: 28:06
What to do with the 11 million undocumented immigrants already in this country will be a critical component of immigration reform.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jan 28, 2013
- Length: 04:03
- Purchases: 1
The bi-partisan group of Senators who have drafted a proposal for comprehensive immigration reform are led by two from the state that's famous for ...
- Added: Jan 28, 2013
- Length: 03:53
Mmmmm. Tamales! Youth Producer Mariana from Gorzycki Middle School interviews her mother as she shows her how to make Tamales.
- Added: Dec 18, 2012
- Length: 04:30
In Juan’s second audio diary, he travels back to Mexico to visit his dying grandfather. This is his first time back since he immigrated to the Unit...
Bought by KSFR and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Oct 23, 2012
- Length: 25:51
- Purchases: 2
Frank Barela and Frank Maestas talk to their grandson C.J. Maestas about his gymnastics career.
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 01:40
There are approximately 500 homeless families living in Cape Cod. Joanna Solotaroff interviewed Wanda and her three children to find out what it me...
- Added: Jul 14, 2012
- Length: 07:43
When people ask Lita Trejo what it's like to be a foster parent, she explains, "It's like asking a parent 'what do you do as a parent?' It's the sa...
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 03:24
Shayla Torres is a senior at Community Academy in Philadelphia and is going to college next year. But first, she’ll have to leave her grandparents ...
- Added: May 20, 2012
- Length: 03:36
- Purchases: 2
Ricardo Isais Zavala remembers his grandfather, Vicente Domingo Villa, in an interview with his son, Ricardo Javier Zavala.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: May 07, 2012
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 1
Carlos Vigil, from the YouthWorks program in Santa Fe, NM, wrote this poem-rap about growing up poor in New Mexico.
- Added: May 04, 2012
- Length: 01:47
Seguro de salud accesible para niños
- Added: Mar 12, 2012
- Length: 28:02
Henry Flores and his wife, Gwendolyn Diaz, talk about the first time they met.
- Added: Feb 17, 2012
- Length: 02:19
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
Two first-person stories about gentrification and the struggle for home. Maisha Morales and her 10-year-old son Anthony talk about how her successf...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: May 09, 2011
- Length: 08:11
- 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
Poet Sarah Bruno, 18, is a senior at Walter Payton College Prep and competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 as a member of team Youmedia Chicago.
Expl...
- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 02:46
A man talking about how he has a theme song for people in his life. He recalls the qualities of the people and describes them with music.
- Added: Mar 29, 2011
- Length: 03:24
A student at United World College, Nelson Diaz Monterrosa, worked with Youth Media Project's Summer Intensive 2010 to produce this moving piece abo...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 05:17
- Purchases: 1
Carlos Mosqueda tells his daughter, Cindy, about how his father healed people in their East LA home.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Aug 16, 2010
- Length: 01:24
- Purchases: 1
Hilda Chacón and her husband, Pedro Morán-Palma, remember when they first met twenty years ago.
- Added: Jul 30, 2010
- Length: 02:25
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
Richard Anthony Torres talks to his daughter Kathy Namba about his mother, Guadalupe Torres.
- Added: Jun 08, 2010
- Length: 01:13
- Purchases: 2
