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In the world of audio recording, sound is visually represented in what’s called a wave form. They often look like tall ovals with vertical spikes. ...
- Added: Nov 15, 2021
- Length: 06:42
Tejano is a word that means “Texan” in Spanish. Tejano is also the name of a music genre fusing US American and Mexican musical traditions, plus a ...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: May 31, 2021
- Length: 04:23
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Oct 23, 2019
- Length: 04:18
- Purchases: 1
Making neighborhoods sustainable makes them desirable and rising prices push old residents out. Community land trusts in Denver CO and Burlington ...
Bought by WFHB, KGNU Community Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Jan 10, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
It's hard to come here as an immigrant. You leave everything behind.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 07, 2018
- Length: 04:14
- Purchases: 1
I started cooking at 9 years old for my mother, my father, and 9 brothers and sisters.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 07, 2018
- Length: 04:08
- Purchases: 1
I was lost in gangs back in Guatemala. We were beating people, robbing them. But after I met God, everything changed. I found a new path.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 23, 2018
- Length: 04:25
- Purchases: 1
How Angelica Garcia-Dunn went from struggling to feed her kids to building a booming Texas-sized trucking company.
- Added: May 25, 2017
- Length: 12:45
In this personal exploration with radio-drama elements, a group of students tries to understand how such an enormous city, with such a large popula...
- Added: May 21, 2017
- Length: 17:13
Corn is a ubiquitous part of Southern food—from bread to whiskey. But how did it get to be that way? In this episode of Gravy, we go on a hunt for ...
Bought by KVLU and West Virginia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Nov 03, 2016
- Length: 25:21
- Purchases: 2
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Tuning an accordion isn't just a matter of intonation. The sculpting of the reeds makes all the difference between those classic sounds, from Texas...
- Added: Jul 27, 2016
- Length: 07:22
The Schwinn bicycle has a rich history in New York’s Nuyorican communities. In many of these enclaves, you’ll find members of riding clubs showing ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Apr 25, 2016
- Length: 05:30
- Purchases: 2
From civil disobedience to civic accountability, youth that can’t vote are making the voice of the Latino community heard in local politics and at ...
Bought by WDBM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WRIR
- Added: Apr 17, 2016
- Length: 10:06
- Purchases: 3
This edition of Making Contact is Part I of our special series examining how immigrants are responding and participating in elections and politics ...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Apr 16, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
All over the country, critics argue that ID laws discourage voter participation--particularly among poor and minority voters. This is particularly ...
- Added: Feb 23, 2016
- Length: 24:44
In 2012 President Obama took matters into his own hands. His administration signed a memo addressing all branches of the Department of Homeland Sec...
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: 23:50
This is the story of Springdale, Arkansas, and how chicken transformed a once-sleepy rural town into the most ethnically diverse city in the state—...
- Added: Feb 02, 2016
- Length: 21:15
- Purchases: 2
Black-eyed peas and collards. Fried chicken and peach cobbler. Customers at Delicious Southern Cuisine in Los Angeles come for these soul food sta...
- Added: Nov 19, 2015
- Length: 27:08
- Purchases: 2
When he was just a boy, Victor Ayala whose family was struggling in Guadalajara crossed the Rio Bravo on his own, only to be taken back to Mexico. ...
- Added: Jul 17, 2015
- Length: 28:06
Margarita Monsalve operates a sewing circle in Torrance, California, where unaccompanied migrant girls from Central America find a strong community...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 05:13
- Purchases: 1
In some ways, being feminine made life harder for Dakota than his sexuality.
*Just in time for the end of Pride month*
- Added: Jun 25, 2015
- Length: 06:32
Cuban-born pianist Nachito Herrera moved to Minnesota in 2001, and quickly made a name for himself as a jazz player, composing and performing and w...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 05:38
- Purchases: 1
Thanks to a quirk of history — and a love of bananas — New Orleans has had a Honduran population for more than a century. But that population explo...
- Added: Nov 07, 2014
- Length: 12:42
Comedian Carlos Mencia is notorious for stealing other comics’ jokes. But he’s never been sued—in fact, there are almost no lawsuits in comedy. On ...
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 18:43
- Purchases: 2
Eva fled to the U.S. from El Salvador’s civil war more than 20 years ago. Since then, she’s cared for 11 kids – and mastered emotional calculus of ...
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 02:59
