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The Spanish Hour 2410: Paseo Latinoamericano
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
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Classical and traditional music of Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Paraguay, as well as a work by a North-American composer with Peruvian, Chinese, Lit...

Bought by WRTI, New Hampshire Public Radio, KSJE, KRZA, KVNO and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 21
Art and Repair on Lake Street
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Dona Pepa performing on the Lake Street Truth Collective stage, Credit: Photo by Sheila Regan
The empty lot where the former Roberts Shoes Building once stood has become a lively art space connected to the community around Lake Street. KFAI'...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Sep 12, 2021
  • Length: 05:44
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Historias and Military Voices Initiative: Connie Doria Rocha
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Connie Doria Rocha talks about her experience as a civilian mechanic during WWII, and how that taste of independence changed her life.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 1
¿Cómo componía Beethoven estando sordo?
From: Colorado Public Radio
Series: Beethoven 250
Caption: Evelyn Glennie, Credit: James Callaghan/Courtesy of the Artist
La multipercusionista escocesa Evelyn Glennie ha estado completamente sorda desde los 12 años. Compartió con CPR Classical cómo una persona sorda p...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2020
  • Length: 03:07
English for Detainees (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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With the immigration debate heating up once again, two Virginia professors are taking their students to ICE detention centers in an effort to bust ...

Bought by KENW, KRZA, WOUB, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 03:39
  • Purchases: 4
Vote-less, not voiceless: Dreamers reshape Arizona politics
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Elizabeth Perez working at City Hall, Credit: Valeria Fernandez
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
Not the 'Right' Kind of Gay
From: WNYC
Caption: "When I first met other young gay boys I thought it was going to be easier, that I could just be accepted" - Dakota Salcedo, Credit: (Isaak J. Liptzin/WNYC)
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
Day Job 6: The Mind Reader
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How Musicians Pay The Rent (2014 Series)
Caption: Ivan Galvez of Picoso, Credit: Joshua McNichols / Day Job
Ivan Gálvez plays timbales with the Seattle band Picoso. He also scans my brainwaves with an electroencephalogram machine at the hospital where he ...

Bought by KZYX, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 11, 2014
  • Length: 11:16
  • Purchases: 3
The Soul of Guatemala Part I Miracle Town
From: Jesse Dukes
Series: The Soul of Guatemala
Caption: A woman in Almolonga, Guatemala, selling carrots and potatos wholesale., Credit: Jesse Dukes
Part I in a series of three short features about Latin America's Evangelical Frontier.

Bought by KUOW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 2
The Sharing Economy: Bilingual Bike Repair in Oakland
From: KALW
Caption: Entrance to the shop, with volunteer-painted sign. Inside: Kathleen Mills, Steven Hobdy and Morgan Kanninen, Credit: Jen Chien
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 XRAY.fm, WSLR, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 31, 2012
  • Length: 07:22
  • Purchases: 3
Saint Death
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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For the past ten years, drug cartels in Mexico have been worshiping a sort of grim repress, a robed skeleton lady known as Santa Muerte, or Saint D...

Bought by KENW, KUOW, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 3
Indie on Demand Reviews THE INTERRUPTERS
From: Daniel Persons
Series: The Indie on Demand Movie Review
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A Review of the Latest Documentary from HOOP DREAMS' Steve James

  • Added: Mar 21, 2012
  • Length: 02:00
Conrad Herwig
From: Reese Erlich
Series: Jazz Perspectives
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World class trombonist Conrad Herwig explains how he gets inspired to put a Latin rhythm under jazz classics.

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY


  • Added: Apr 03, 2009
  • Length: 06:01
  • Purchases: 1
Eliades Ochoa
From: Reese Erlich
Series: Jazz Perspectives
Caption: Eliades Ochoa in Havana, Credit: (c) 2008 Reese Erlich
An intimate profile of the cowboy hat wearing singer and guitarist who starred in the original Buena Vista Social Club CD.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2009
  • Length: 06:31
Cuando la Fuerza Abandona para Uno (When strength abandons you)
From: Megan Martin
Series: Llegando de los Pueblos (Arriving from the Villages)
Caption: Irineo Sánchez Hernández
A migration Story told by Irineo Sánchez Hernández; recorded in Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca

  • Added: Dec 01, 2008
  • Length: 08:33
Laredo: The River Runs Through
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
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Crossing the Border: a story or two

  • Added: Nov 13, 2008
  • Length: 03:49
Cortez, Montezuma & Abraham: Discovering Jewish Roots
From: Rebecca Sheir
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At 72, a Spanish-descended Catholic discovers the real reason she's never liked eating pork.

  • Added: May 24, 2007
  • Length: 03:50
"Take That Stuff Off Your Nails": Being Goth in a Traditional Family
From: Curie Youth Radio
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A confrontation between father and son over hair, nails, and being Goth.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: May 16, 2007
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 1
Curandera
From: Western Folklife Center Media
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Eva Castellanos, a curandero in Nyssa, Oregon, employs massage, herbs, and prayer to help those who seek her healing.

Bought by KLCC


  • Added: Dec 19, 2005
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 1
La Llorona
From: Western Folklife Center Media
Series: What's in a Song
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Musician Cipriano Vigil describes the myth that inspired the song "La Llorona".

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, KZYX, KZYX, and KRCC-FM


  • Added: Dec 15, 2005
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
La Llorona
From: KCUR
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The Story of La Llarona

Bought by KZYX, KDNK, WXLV-FM, and PRX Administrator


  • Added: Oct 30, 2005
  • Length: 05:38
  • Purchases: 4
Chucho Valdes
From: Reese Erlich
Series: Jazz Perspectives
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Cuban pianist Chucho Valdes excells in playing Latin, jazz and even classical

Bought by 90.5 WSNC and KGOU


  • Added: Oct 06, 2005
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 2