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National Hispanic Heritage Month continues with the first Chicano U.S. Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera who served from 2015-17. With the recent...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WETS, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, and WNJR


  • Added: Sep 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Sleepy LaBeef in his movie role as a monster
It's topical theme night with songs about laughing and cigarettes. I've been playing with country and western songs that are swing jazz or boogie ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Oct 07, 2019
  • Length: 03:32:42
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: women power, Credit: npr
In Viva La Mujer we speak to different Latinas creating spaces and power in different platforms around the country.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: :59
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In one of the most complex ecosystems on the planet, a vicious battle for resources in underway.

Bought by KKRN, WCPN, KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 27
Caption: Rolling Stone book publisher Alan Rinzler at home in Berkeley., Credit: Marcos Nájera
The men in Zeta’s life. From family to friends to former lovers? You never know—some say Zeta was a constant chameleon in life, love, and the law. ...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 16:59
Caption: Betty Dowd, Marco Acosta & Anita Acosta at the SF Latino Film Festival , Credit: Marcos Nájera
The women in Zeta’s life. From family to friends to former lovers. The ladies speak up and out about Oscar Zeta Acosta. From his spark-light sister...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 31:40
Caption: ASU Professor Luis Mendoza holds up an original copy of Acosta's book., Credit: Marcos Nájera
Nájera travels home to the Southwest to visit Latino scholars from ASU’s Transborder Studies department. The first of its kind in the nation. Chica...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 22:40
Caption: Agustin Barrios Mangoré
In honor of the 133rd anniversary of his birth, this week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features a tribute to singularly extraordinary Parag...

Bought by KXIQ , WICR, WEKU, WSKG, Public Radio East and more


  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 40
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"Hoofprints On The Heart" A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: This is the story of a love that spans continents. Jon Dunham set out...

Bought by KSTK


  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jessi Silva (left) and Maggie Marquez (right)
Maggie Marquez and Jessi Silva grew up in the desert town of Marfa, Texas in the 1950s. At the time, segregation of Latino and white students was n...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 1
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"What Blood, What Earth", is a documentary on the life of Puerto Rican black metal artist MQ. His story leads the listener on a journey from pre-co...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2017
  • Length: 27:20
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This is the story of a love that spans continents. Jon Dunham set out on the longest, toughest walk of his life. But along the way, he met someone ...

Bought by KUER, KRZA, New Hampshire Public Radio, Marfa Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 21:12
  • Purchases: 5
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Music from San Antonio to New Orleans as the "Gulf Coast Sound." Often coming from Huey Meaux's Crazy Cajun record label but there is a audio conn...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KRZA


  • Added: Sep 20, 2015
  • Length: 02:50:03
  • Purchases: 2
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Within these two power-packed Hacksaw hours hear a continuing tribute to the late blues guitarist Johnny Winter, jazz violinists, great lyrical alt...

Bought by WVBI-LP and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 20, 2014
  • Length: 01:59:55
  • Purchases: 2
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Eilen is the Jewell of these two hours, a great new voice on the scene. Plus those who paid their dues: Dinah Washington, Dakota Staton, and relati...

Bought by WVBI-LP and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:59:48
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Child with tambor
Ben Weisz discovers the vibrant street tradition of Candombe drumming, and explores its origins among Montevideo's Afro-Uruguayan community.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 08:28
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Bishop Ricardo Ramirez remembers his grandmother Francisca "Panchita" Espitia.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:57
  • Purchases: 1
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A fascinating look at a new and sometimes controversial folk spiritual tradition to cross over the border from Mexico to Texas. Produced by student...

  • Added: May 22, 2012
  • Length: 04:59
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