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Caption: Alondra Garza creates art with hot cheetos, Credit: Sheila Regan
Minneapolis-based artist Alondra Garza has been adding a little crunch to her recent body of work. And that crunch comes in the form of hot cheetos.

  • Added: Apr 30, 2024
  • Length: 06:13
Caption: Joshua Davis, San Francisco, 10/23/23, Credit: Andrea Chase
Josh Davis talks creative decisions, testing as a cage, and choosing trouble.

  • Added: Nov 03, 2023
  • Length: 15:54
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Kevin Casanova Abrams talks honesty, polarization, and avoiding the obvious tropes.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 15:51
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Last year, New York City began to see an increase in the number of migrants seeking asylum. The library is a small part of the city-wide response t...

  • Added: May 03, 2023
  • Length: 17:18
Caption: Minneapolis-based recording artist Tufawon, Credit: Tufawon
Recording artist, singer/songwriter and producer Tufawon has gained notoriety In Minnesota and internationally for his powerful songs of protest an...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 05:05
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Luis Paulino and Angel Gonzalez talk about their shared experiences coming to the US from the Dominican Republic, and overcoming their challenges t...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jan 11, 2022
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Miguel Encinias crouched beneath a F105 aircraft in 1967., Credit: Courtesy of the Encinias family
Isabel and Juan Pablo Encinias remember their father, Lt. Col. Miguel Encinias, a Hispanic combat pilot that served in the U.S. Air Force during Wo...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2021
  • Length: 02:15
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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
Caption: Queer comic writer Gabby Rivera and artist Luciano Vecchio, Credit: Collage by Porfirio Rangel. Rivera photo courtesy of Giselle Flores; Vecchio photo courtesy of Luciano Vecchio
It's important for children and young adults to see images like themselves in media. Comics are increasingly popular and LGBTQ characters are poppi...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Jul 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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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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In this episode we profile Helen Hernandez, CEO of the North American Travel Journalist Association. We start from her humble beginnings and labor...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2020
  • Length: 23:58
Caption: Tomás Ybarra-Frausto at his StoryCorps interview in San Antonio, Texas on March 23, 2012., Credit: Anaid Reyes for StoryCorps.
In a conversation with his long-time friend, Tomás Ybarra-Frausto reminisces on his childhood in San Antonio and the lessons he learned about land,...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KZYX, and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 03, 2020
  • Length: 03:05
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Vivian Garcia Leonard (left), Baby Liana, Marissa Ochs, and Vivian J Leonard. , Credit: Marissa Ochs.
Three generations of hospital pharmacists discuss staying safe during the COVID-19 pandemic and what carrying on their family legacy means to them.

Bought by WERA-LP and KVNF


  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 2
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How was the largest student immigrant movement in the US built? What are the deep-rooted issues and adversity that immigrants face in the USA today...

  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 44:40
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Where can the youth of color find stories relevant to their lives in YA novels? This author has a book that captures the experiences of a Chicanx ...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 12:18
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In 2018, Puerto Rico based actor, composer and filmmaker Juan Botta left job security behind to center on his creative life. That’s when he launche...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2019
  • Length: 12:52
Caption: Pedro Lopez (left) stands beside his mother, Consuelo Lopez (right) in May of 2011 at St. Bridget Catholic Church on the 10th anniversary of the Postville raid. Consuelo is carrying the Book of Names — a record of those arrested and detained. , Credit: Photo by Jim Slosiarek of The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, IA.
Pedro Lopez remembers the day his mother was detained and deported in the largest single-site, single-day immigration raid in U.S. history.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WHRV, and WOUB


  • Added: Sep 13, 2019
  • Length: 03:05
  • Purchases: 4
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With changes in schooling to add more bilingual education and the fact that the United States is getting more diverse, American future is bilingual.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 05, 2018
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 2
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50 years after arriving in the United States from Honduras, Roy Daley sat down with his daughter Lucy and wife Ana to reminisce about his first Tha...

Bought by WVBI-LP


  • Added: Nov 30, 2018
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Still from "The Rest I Make Up"
Today, we invite three women writers to talk about Cuba as a character in newly released films. Our portal to the Cuban psyche is the 35th Miami Fi...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2018
  • Length: 50:38
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Unless Congress acts to save the DACA program, the last permit will expire on March 5, 2020. This week on Life of the Law… we share Luis’s story an...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2017
  • Length: 33:45
Caption: Charanga Tropical, Credit: Walter Horishnyk
Charanga Tropical is led by Twin Cities sax and flute player, Doug Little. Doug began studying Cuban music in 2002, and founded Charanga Tropical i...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2017
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Charanga Tropical, Credit: Walter Horishnyk
Charanga Tropical is led by Twin Cities sax and flute player, Doug Little. Doug began studying Cuban music in 2002, and founded Charanga Tropical i...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2017
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Leo S. Morales loves his job as a researcher of minority health at the University of Washington., Credit: KUOW PHOTO/TORI ZIVKOVIC
People sometimes take unlikely paths to get where they're going. This is the story of an unlikely scholar.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1
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With the immigration debate heating up once again, two Virginia professors are taking their students to ICE detention centers in an effort to bust ...

Bought by KENW, KRZA, WOUB, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 03:39
  • Purchases: 4