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The Winona Art Walk 2022 Part 2
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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From paintings to prints, from wood work to writing, there is no limit to what you can find at the Winona Art Walk. Hosted across the city of Winon...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 24:33
StoryCorps Historias: Casimiro "Cas" Torres
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Casimiro “Cas” Torres reflects on how his childhood led him to incarceration at New York City’s Hart Island, where he buried the poor and unclaimed...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Historias: Maria Ochoa
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Alma Schlor and Maria Ochoa at their StoryCorps interview in Tucson, Arizona on April 20, 2016. By Camila Kerwin for StoryCorps.
Maria Ochoa, a 70-year-old grandmother, speaks with her friend Alma Schlor about the over 100 times she’s walked the Arizona desert providing water...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 25, 2019
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps Historias: Maria Rivas and Emily
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Maria Rivas and her teenage daughter, Emily, talk about the possibility of Maria returning to El Salvador if she loses her status to live and work ...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2019
  • Length: 02:33
After the Storm
From: Aviva DeKornfeld
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In the weeks after Hurricane Maria, Cynthia and Vanessa Melendez were trapped in their village in Humacao, Puerto Rico. They had no water, and were...

Bought by HowSound


  • Added: Dec 01, 2017
  • Length: 07:50
  • Purchases: 1
NC Students Miss School To Avoid Deportation
From: WUNC
Series: American Graduate
Caption: Wildin David Guillen Acosta, Credit: Courtesy of the Acosta family
Wildin David Guillen Acosta, 19, was detained by ICE on his way to school.

  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 03:37
StoryCorps: George Rincon and Yolanda Reyes
From: StoryCorps
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At the beginning of the Iraq War, nearly 40,000 members of the United States military were not citizens. Army Private First Class Diego Rincon was ...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 1
The Best And Worst A Country Has To Offer
From: Virginia Lora
Caption: Building of the former Michael Bianco, Inc. Factory, Credit: Photo by Virginia Lora
In 2007, hundreds of undocumented immigrants working illegally in a leather-goods factory in New Bedford, MA, were arrested by Federal Immigration ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., New Hampshire Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), PRX Remix, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Dec 06, 2016
  • Length: 07:52
  • Purchases: 5
Deadly Divide: Migrant death on the Border
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: One of the few remaining unknown markers left in the county cemetery in Falfurrias, Texas, Credit: Brandon Thibodeaux
Over 6,000 migrant deaths were recorded on the U.S. side of the border with Mexico between 1998 and 2013. This documentary travels to the desert ra...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Nov 24, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Eva, Nanny
From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life
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Eva fled to the U.S. from El Salvador’s civil war more than 20 years ago. Since then, she’s cared for 11 kids – and mastered emotional calculus of ...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 02:59
Antonio and John
From: Littleglobe
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
StoryCorps: Dawn Maestas
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Dawn Maestas, who removes tattoos for survivors of domestic violence, talks to a client about her work.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WEZU, WMUU-LP, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 02, 2013
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
In The Time of The Butterflies: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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A radio program featuring author Julia Alvarez along with Neko Case, Edwidge Danticat, and Junot Diaz, among others.

Bought by KMUN, Kansas Public Radio, KPIP-LP, KQED, and KRZA


  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 29:55
  • Purchases: 5
las mujeres de Juarez
From: Pulse of Portland Music Project
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The murders of young Women in Juarez Mexico.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2009
  • Length: 05:59
My Plate Full, Yours Empty
From: Curie Youth Radio
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What one family makes for dinner when the cabinets are empty.

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., PRX Remix, Michigan Radio Economy Special, Remix Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 15, 2008
  • Length: 02:05
  • Purchases: 6
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