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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
Pilot Episode 1: Soccer and the American Dream
From: WNIN
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Latin America's second major religion and the launch of our river of the American Dream.

  • Added: Nov 19, 2016
  • Length: 09:59
Hispanic Heritage and Emotional Intelligence
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
Caption: Looking out for you
In honoring Hispanic Heritage on my radio show I interviewed a Hispanic leader who I highly respect and who I have worked closely with, Rafael Pinz...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Oct 18, 2016
  • Length: 28:13
  • 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
WorldCanvass: Taking It to the Streets (Part 3)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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We learn about the power of actively-engaged scholarship in this program about the University of Iowa Obermann Center for Advanced Studies and its ...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2016
  • Length: 24:39
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
WorldCanvass: Cuba: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (Part 1)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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On December 17, 2014, U.S. President Obama and Cuban President Castro announced a new era of openness and interaction between their two countries. ...

Bought by KMUD


  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 25:49
  • Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass: Cuba: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (Part 3)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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On December 17, 2014, U.S. President Obama and Cuban President Castro announced a new era of openness and interaction between their two countries. ...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 26:07
WorldCanvass: Cuba: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (Part 2)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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On December 17, 2014, U.S. President Obama and Cuban President Castro announced a new era of openness and interaction between their two countries. ...

Bought by KMUD


  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 21:08
  • Purchases: 1
Gloria and Emilio Estefan
From: Awesome Vegans with Elysabeth Alfano
Series: The Dinner Party with Elysabeth Alfano
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On the red carpet for their broadway musical, "On Your Feet!", Gloria and Emilio Estefan talk about their fight as outsiders in the beginning, thei...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 03:05
Fresh Talk: Cesar Cornejo
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
Caption: Havana Museum of Contemporary Art, Credit: Cesar Cornejo
Peruvian artist Cesar Cornejo talks about his project for the 12th Havana Biennial.

  • Added: Oct 09, 2015
  • Length: 08:18
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
Dr. Vanessa Neumann on Conversations With Allan Wolper
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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Dr. Vanessa Neumann has won an international reputation for investigating the relationship between criminal and terrorist organizations from Colomb...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2014
  • Length: 30:14

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