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2017-03-26 Climate Equity
From: Climate One
Caption: Miya Yoshitani, Executive Director, Asia Pacific Environmental Network, Credit: Ed Ritger
The environmental movement has convinced us that everyone has a right to clean air. But will the emerging green economy will be more equitable and ...

Bought by KRZA, KCMJ Community Radio, KMUD, and KZYX


  • Added: Mar 20, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Future Seems Bright for the Twin Cities Latin Jazz Orchestra
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: Twin Cities Latin Jazz Orchestra, Credit: Diego Ramallo
The Twin Cities Latin Jazz orchestra is a 19-piece group playing in the 21st century. The size of the band might seem incongruous in an era of stri...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2017
  • Length: 06:59
Twin Cities Latin Jazz Orchestra Plays a Twin Cities Listening Room
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Twin Cities Latin Jazz Orchestra, Credit: Diego Ramallo
A few years ago, Jeff Senn and Mac Santiago, experienced Minnesota jazz players, noticed a lack of a Latin Jazz Orchestra locally. So they recruite...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2017
  • Length: 05:00
2017-02-05 Green Latinos
From: Climate One
Caption: From L to R: Adrianna Quintero, Senior Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council; Orson Aguilar, Executive Director, The Greenlining Institute; Catherine Sandoval, Commissioner, California Public Utilities Commission; Greg Dalton, Founder, Climate One, Credit: Rikki Ward
Latinos make up the largest ethnic group in California. What environmental concerns do they have for their communities and their families? How can ...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jan 30, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
RDD: Baldemar and the FLOC (part 1)
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, The RDD meets the FLOC, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee. An organization created by Baldemar Velásquez to...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 06:17
  • Purchases: 1
The Coyote’s Bicycle
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kimball Taylor
At first it was a curiosity … then a nuisance that evolved into a phenomenon. Abandoned bicycles scattered across the desert at the US/Mexican boar...

Bought by KCBX and KVSC


  • Added: Oct 17, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Alex Lacamoire—orchestrator and music director
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Alex Lacamoire Hamilton rehearsal, Credit: Joan Marcus
Alex Lacamoire talks about bringing Hamilton and In the Heights to life on the stage.

Bought by WCPN, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Oct 01, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Adriana Sananes--acting in Spanish and in English
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Adriana Sananes
Actor Adriana Sananes moves between Spanish and English on stage and on the page as an audiobook narrator.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WRIR, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Oct 01, 2016
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 4
54: Margarita Quihuis, Stanford Peace Innovation Lab
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Margarita Quihuis
Using behavior design techniques and persuasive technology (like the kind that keeps you scrolling through your social feed), Margarita Quihuis and...

Bought by Public Radio for All, KSJD, KUT, WRIR, KWMR and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 6
Pulitzer 100: The Wondrous Junot Diaz (half hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz talks about love, loss, and his New Jersey childhood.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
Pulitzer 100: The Wondrous Junot Diaz (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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-Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz talks about love, loss, and his New Jersey childhood. -Jon Pineda's memoir "Sleep in Me" chronicles his s...

Bought by KZYX and KEDT


  • Added: Sep 15, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 2
Nation of Nations (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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With immigration rising, the United States will soon no longer have a white, Anglo ethnic profile. Plus: A Cuban's love for Mayberry. (And more...)

Bought by WCNY, KQED, WMUU-LP, KRDP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 30, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 9
Lives in Limbo
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Roberto Gonzales
Children of undocumented workers frequently don’t find out about their illegal status until they’ve graduated from high school. What happens to the...

Bought by KCBX and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 2
Meet the new Poet Laureate of the United States, Juan Felipe Herrera
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Juan Felipe Herrera Unity Poem Fiesta. , Credit: Courtesy University of California-Riverside
The new poet laureate of the United States and two-time National Endowment for the Arts fellow calls for everyone’s heart to speak out.

Bought by KPIP-LP, KFCF FM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WLPR , KPVL and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 7
Meet Dan Sheehy who has spent his life in folk and traditional arts.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dan Sheehy, Credit: Ashlee Duncan
He helped develop the Folk Arts program at the National Endowment for the Arts and he's been head of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Now, Dan Shee...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WABE, KPVL, and WNJR


  • Added: Sep 11, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Poet, Translator, and Educator Xánath Caraza
From: New Letters on the Air
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Xanath Caraza likes to use poetry to showcase some of Mexico's linguistic and cultural diversity, drawing inspiration from Afro-Mexican history, La...

Bought by KRZA and WNJR


  • Added: Jun 12, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Poet Dan Vera translates the immigrant experience
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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In his recent book, Speaking Wiri Wiri, poet Dan Vera brings light and often laughter to the immigrant experience.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: May 05, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
The Fight of Their Lives (pledge drive special)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Book cover, Credit: Lyon Press
One Sunday afternoon in August 1965, on a day when baseball’s most storied rivals, the Giants and Dodgers, vied for the pennant, the national pasti...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 21:01
  • Purchases: 1
A conversation with award-winning Indie filmmaker Nicole Gomez Fisher
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Gina Rodriguez and Ana Ortiz in "Sleeping with the Fishes", Credit: Breaking Glass Pictures
Nicole Gomez Fisher brings it all back home in her film, Sleeping with the Fishes... and goes on to win the award for Best New Director at the Broo...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 17, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Horror in the Hills (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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For decades, the rural South seen in books was a safe place of innocence and nostalgia. But in the last 15 years or so, movies have flipped that im...

Bought by WJCT, KRDP, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WLIW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Horror in the Hills (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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For decades, the rural South seen in books was a safe place of innocence and nostalgia. But in the last 15 years or so, movies have flipped that im...

Bought by WCNY, WABE, Accessible Media Inc., WTJU, Accessible Media Inc. Station Account and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2014
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 6
'Midnight In Mexico': The Alt.Latino Interview With Journalist Alfredo Corchado
From: NPR Music
Series: Alt.Latino
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Midnight In Mexico is Alfred Corchado’s reflections on his reporting from mexico for various US based newspapers, including a step by step retellin...

Bought by WART FM, WKAR, KMUN, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 4
The Non-Violent Path of Cesar Chavez
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Peacetalks radio takes us down ‘The Non-Violent path of Cesar Chavez’, through conversations with Chavez’ colleague and friend Delores Huerta, and ...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Nachito Herrera plays Ernesto Lecuona Feb 15 2014 at the Dakota
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Nachito Herrera at the piano, Credit: Phil Nusbaum
Saint Paul, MN-based International artist Nachito Herrera tackles the solo piano repertoire of Cuban piano player and composer Ernesto Lecuona. The...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 07, 2014
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Get Better Show (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Turmeric root
We're looking at the power of curcumin, found in turmeric, in fighting deadly diseases. Plus a new method of treating melanoma. And a simple, cost ...

Bought by WCNY and WTJU


  • Added: Jan 24, 2014
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 2