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Caption: Israel Hernandez with host Abigail Mahnke, Credit: Lisa S
Israel grew up surrounded by drugs, alcohol and violence. At age 13, he started to sell drugs himself, forming a crew of 9 "business associates" wh...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 26:52
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Mongo Santamaria
Mongo Santamaria was best known for "Watermelon Man" and "Afro Blue". He was a percussionist and Cuban. He will most likely be remembered as the be...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., Spokane Public Radio, Radio New Zealand, and KVMR


  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 55:55
  • Purchases: 4
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Local currency, bartering on the playground and other ways of looking at money through a DIY lens. ***This show aired on Oregon Public Broadcasting...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, XRAY.fm, WRVO Public Media, WYSO, and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Apr 21, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: DJ/Rupture
DJ Rupture talked to Daniel Hernandez, author of new book Down and Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century about...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 59:06
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Que pasaria si la poblacion mundial llegara a los 7 billones de personas. What will happen when we reach the global population of 7 billion.

Bought by KDNA Radio


  • Added: Mar 22, 2011
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Mar 22, 2011
  • Length: 27:49
Caption: Students on their graduation day from Montgomery College, a community college in Maryland. Most young Latinos looking for a way up through higher education choose community college, but a lot of them never make it to graduation day. , Credit: Emily Hanford
Young Latinos are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population, and they are among the least likely to graduate from college. (11/5/2009)

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM, KPIP-LP, KQED, KZYX, Nevada Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Análisis de la situación política en Egipto y su similitud en algunos países latinoamericanos. A closer look to the social and political situation...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2011
  • Length: 28:01
Caption: Rita Conceicao and Margaret Willson
Anthropologist Margaret Willson witnessed harrowing violence and poverty while living in Brazil. She describes how violence and dance are often int...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2011
  • Length: 12:11
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La vida de jóvenes refugiados en Estados Unidos. Stories of Refugee Youth in America.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2011
  • Length: 28:04
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Contemporary music from all over the Americas, that takes African roots into an electronic future!

Bought by WNYE, WKAR, WNMU-FM, and KMXT


  • Added: Feb 07, 2011
  • Length: 58:35
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: in stores Feb 1
Singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Carrie Rodriguez and Ben Kyle (Romantica) join together for a new EP of duets. Includes originals and cove...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 03, 2011
  • Length: 14:05
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Zona arqueologica Maya. Palenque, Chiapas - Mexico
La verdad y mitos del 2012. The truth and the myth about 2012.

  • Added: Dec 29, 2010
  • Length: 29:05
Caption: Carmen Delzell c.2000
Carmen Delzell tells about Michoacan and the Day of the Dead and the monarch butterflies. Like all Carmen's pieces, it's very personal, but reache...

Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, and KUT


  • Added: Dec 23, 2010
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Carmen Delzell c. 2000
Carmen Delzell writes about her travels in Mexico and one of her favorite enchanted cheap hotels, the Hotel Isabel "on the edge of time." This pie...

Bought by PRX Remix and KUT


  • Added: Dec 23, 2010
  • Length: 04:33
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Carmen Delzell c. 2000
Carmen Delzell with another lovely meditation on the mysteries of travel and her semi-magical, melancholy life in Mexico. Like all these pieces it...

Bought by PRX Remix and KUT


  • Added: Dec 23, 2010
  • Length: 05:57
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Carmen Delzell c. 2000
In this essay, Carmen Delzell tells how she initially left Texas and moved down to Mexico with no ability to speak Spanish and $600 cash from used ...

Bought by KUT, PRX Remix, and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 18, 2010
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Carmen Delzell c. 2000
Carmen Delzell tells about how her boyfriend left her Saltillo, the town where she's living in Mexico. She looks for him, but can't find him, even...

Bought by KUOW, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 18, 2010
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Carmen in Mexico
In this 1999 essay, Carmen Delzell talks about smuggling toys and gifts across the US border into Mexico to give to the people in the village where...

Bought by KUT, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 18, 2010
  • Length: 04:08
  • Purchases: 3
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El verdadero significado de la época navideña. The true meaning of the Christmas season.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 29:15
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Un programa especial con ricas recetas para las fiestas de fin de año. A special show with recipes for this holiday season.

Bought by KDNA Radio


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Brenda, 19, walks through her Minneapolis neighborhood. She's been living as an illegal immigrant in Minnesota since she was 7 years old., Credit: MPR Photo/Jeff Thompson
When Brenda was 7, she was carried across the border from Mexico. Now 19, the Minneapolis teen wishes she could live and work legally in the countr...

Bought by WTIP, WGXC, KUNM, Radijojo World Children's Radio Network, and KSFR


  • Added: Dec 08, 2010
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Carmen Delzell, c. 2000
Carmen Delzell talks about what her life is like living in Mexico, how she's happier than ever, but in ways she never imagined. This essay was rec...

Bought by KUT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 24, 2010
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Carmen Delzell, c. 2000
Carmen Delzell gets of a bus in Texas at 4am. She's coming back from Mexico with $5.00 in her pocket. She puts her bags in a shopping cart and re...

Bought by KUT, PRX Remix, and KCRW


  • Added: Nov 24, 2010
  • Length: 05:23
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Producciones Lujan
Como la radio da voz a comunidades margindas. How radio gives a voice to marginalized communities.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2010
  • Length: 28:00