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When the plague broke out in San Francisco in 1900, the public health department singled out Chinatown—as if Chinatown were the problem.
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 51:34
Violence against Asian Americans in the United States have been on the rise over the last few years. In response to this trend, the non-profit Taik...
- Added: Nov 08, 2022
- Length: 06:31
We look at the history of the Cameron House in San Francisco's Chinatown. The women who founded the organization worked to rescue Chinese women and...
- Added: Jan 03, 2022
- Length: 29:30
During World War II, more than a quarter million Filipinos fought alongside American soldiers. Many are still awaiting the recognition promised to ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KPBS, Texas Public Radio, and KPCC
- Added: Jul 30, 2018
- Length: 07:44
- Purchases: 4
On May 18, 1980, the people of Gwangju, South Korea rose up for reunification and an end to U.S.-backed military dictatorships. Their actions chan...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRIR, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]
- Added: Sep 10, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
An environmental group in Western New York is trying to help area refugees and others learn about the danger of eating contaminated fish from the G...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, WCPN, WSKG, North Country Public Radio and more
- Added: Sep 09, 2016
- Length: 03:47
- Purchases: 6
In 2012, Barnali Ghosh began the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour with her husband, Anirvan Chatterjee.
- Added: Feb 03, 2015
- Length: 08:08
We are no strangers to earthquakes here in the Bay Area. But there’s been nothing in recent memory to match the 9.0 quake that shook Japan on March...
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 16:21
Ai WeiWei has been under house arrest in Beijing since 2011, but that has not stopped him from making work internationally. He just opened a massiv...
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 06:31
- Purchases: 2
Winner of a Silver Trophy at the New York Festival 'World's Best Radio Awards' 2014, this startling but ultimately uplifting documentary is about t...
- Added: Sep 01, 2014
- Length: 27:55
San Francisco has some of the country’s highest reports of human trafficking. It’s one of the top 10 cities in the U.S where trafficking is the worst.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 09:55
- Purchases: 2
From the 1940s until the 1960s, San Francisco’s Chinatown was home to a thriving Chinese American nightclub scene. The scene died out in the 60s, a...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 08:00
New refugees have to juggle a lot. There's finding housing, getting kids enrolled in school; often there's learning English. And there's finding a ...
- Added: May 23, 2012
- Length: 08:10
Desperation leads to dramatic self-immolations in Tibet. Tibetan reporter Lhakpa Kyizom reports from Dharamsala, India.
- Added: Mar 02, 2012
- Length: 06:40
From: Richard Ziglar
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
For many of Louisiana's oyster shuckers, shrimp peelers, and deckhands, survival after the BP oil spill meant accepting one-time payments of $5,000...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jul 17, 2011
- Length: 06:14
- Purchases: 1
From: Richard Ziglar
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Kenneth Feinberg, the Boston attorney in charge of reviewing claims for the BP oil spill, says he expects to start paying interim and final claims ...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jul 06, 2011
- Length: 05:45
- Purchases: 1
Four months after violence against immigrants, Kyrgyzstan is forming a new government. How will this contribute to stability? Crisis Group’s Centr...
- Added: Nov 02, 2010
- Length: 03:33
On 7 November, Myanmar will hold its first elections in 20 years. This could tear the border regions between Myanmar and China in ethnic conflict. ...
- Added: Oct 29, 2010
- Length: 02:57
In Boston's densest neighborhood, the Chinatown Storefront Library converted a vacant commercial space into a thriving community center. And then i...
- Added: Feb 17, 2010
- Length: 13:44
- Purchases: 2
Features the work of a South Asian Women domestic violence shelter in New York
- Added: Mar 27, 2008
- Length: 05:03
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visits Novato, California, where he visited his former host family mother, Ms. Libba Patterson.
- Added: Aug 06, 2007
- Length: 03:13
This piece explores the high rate of suicide amongst Asian American women
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 29, 2007
- Length: 05:55
- Purchases: 1
- Added: May 15, 2007
- Length: 16:41
Will North Korea's nuclear test spark a NE Asia arms race?
- Added: Oct 08, 2006
- Length: 05:04
- Added: Sep 09, 2006
- Length: 05:49
