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Caption: Anna Paloma Williams and Luz Kenyon at their StoryCorps interview in Columbus, GA on October 30, 2021, Credit: By Sarah Padgett for StoryCorps
Luz Kenyon tells her daughter, Anna Paloma Williams, about the unexpected start of their family and how she navigated raising mixed kids in America.

  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 03:11
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Asylum seekers continue to arrive in New York City. We look at how one faith-based organization is responding to the continuing crisis in the hope ...

  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 24:27
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Este episodio es sobre los solicitantes de asilo en la ciudad de Nueva York. Estamos compartiendo estas narrativas personales con la esperanza de q...

  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 24:56
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Making sense of my father and our estranged relationship with the music he left me.

  • Added: Feb 26, 2021
  • Length: 04:43
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Since 2004, Jorge Muñoz has gathered with his family in their small kitchen in Queens, NY where they cook meals for those in need. Together, they’v...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2020
  • Length: 02:35
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Ears Adrift talks with Sailors about their journey in getting citizenship in the United States.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2020
  • Length: 11:38
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Music and artists from Brazil performing Jobim, Moraes and more.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2020
  • Length: 57:05
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A mother tells her daughter about growing up in California in the late 1960s, and the lesson learned after her mother gave her beloved bed away.

Bought by KZYX, WGUC/ WVXU, WEZU, and KRZA


  • Added: Nov 29, 2016
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 4
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As National Hispanic Heritage Month is concluding, we also mark October's LGBT History Month with Rigoberto Gonzalez, the 2015 winner of The Bill W...

Bought by KFCF FM, WNJR, KRZA, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Oct 12, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Straight ahead sounds start right out of the gate, the great Sarah Vaughan makes a timely statement. Roland Kirk flute goes well in the dead of ju...

Bought by WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KCMJ Community Radio, and WOUB


  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Anny (L) and Jonny (R) Pena
Retired Marines Anny and Jonny Pena talk about the challenges they faced as military spouses, and what it was like when Jonny came home from Afghan...

Bought by WVBI-LP, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 10, 2015
  • Length: 03:13
  • Purchases: 3
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Extreme vintage hour openers, like bebop in a big band with Eckstine, rare Clifford Brown the other. Singers who would normally not mix, Carrie Smi...

Bought by KZUM, WVBI-LP, KPVL, KHNS, and WOUB


  • Added: Apr 01, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 5
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Contemporary and bluesy attitudes stand up well to good old funky Crusaders music. Dave Brubeck hosts Michael Brecker as Bill Evans to Stan Getz. F...

Bought by WOUB, KVRZ, KPVL, and WVBI-LP


  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:59
  • Purchases: 4
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Radio Curious visits with Cuban born singer-songwriter Marcos Pereda, who now lives in Ukiah, California. Pereda shares songs and stories about hi...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2014
  • Length: 29:01
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A Thanksgiving radio show created by English Language Learning students at East Boston High School.

  • Added: Dec 15, 2014
  • Length: 34:13
Caption: Cafe Tacvba's 1994 album Re changed Latin music as we know it. , Credit: Courtesy of Cafe Tacvba
This week is an all around treat: we have some of our favorite new artists releasing new music that is driving us crazy. We also are celebrating th...

Bought by RADIOLEX, WART FM, WKAR, and KMUN


  • Added: Oct 24, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Roger Alvarez (L) and his former teacher Antero Garcia (R).
Antero Garcia (R) talks to his former student Roger Alvarez (L) who dropped out...

Bought by WEZU, KERA, KMUD, and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Producer Erica Hellerstein takes us on a journey to identity through an ancient medicinal practice known as “curanderismo”.

  • Added: Jul 01, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: John Gallegos, left, is interviewed by Antonio Martinez, right, with assistance from Marquell Hicks, center., Credit: Laura Marcus Green
N’MPower participant, Antonio Martinez, interviews Spanish Colonial artist John Gallegos, in a community engagement project between the Museum of I...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 06:34
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We continue our celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month with Linda Rodriguez, author of the poetry collection HEART'S MIGRATION. A winner o...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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Scott Wall and his wife, Isabel Sobozinsky-Wall, talk about their long-distance courtship that began on New Year's Eve.

Bought by Radio Catskill, KUER, WEZU, KRZA, WTJU and more


  • Added: Jan 03, 2012
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Col. Villa
A student at United World College, Nelson Diaz Monterrosa, worked with Youth Media Project's Summer Intensive 2010 to produce this moving piece abo...

Bought by KZYX and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 09, 2011
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Jorge Antonio Renaud, Credit: Jorge Antonio Renaud
Antonio grew up in a poor family of migrant workers who followed the crops all over Texas. As a teenager he got into drugs and then turned to burgl...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2011
  • Length: 26:07
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 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