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Hispanic Heritage Month is September 15 through October 15. We will continue to update this playlist through September.
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It's Latine Heritage Month and Beat Latino is celebrating with recent releases from the 7 lands that celebrate their independence between Sept. 15-...

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  • Added: Sep 19, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 8
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Every year, an estimated 65,000 undocumented students graduate from American high schools. Raised entirely in American culture, they finish high s...

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 41
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The United States has always been a beacon for those searching for safe haven, for a place to build a better life. Though the barriers are high, an...

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  • Added: Sep 11, 2015
  • Length: 01:51:01
  • Purchases: 81
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A conversational profile of Cesar Chavez featuring his United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta, Chavez scholar Jose-Antonio Orosco and Texas ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KDNK, KGUA, WWNO, KGLP and more


  • Added: Mar 19, 2014
  • Length: 58:45
  • Purchases: 44
Caption: Composer and Conductor Tania León
Music by some of Cuba’s best-known and best-loved composers, all born in Havana.

Bought by KUER, GCR (Global Community Radio), KPIP-LP, KMUN, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 13
Caption: Paquito D'Rivera
A child prodigy, the Cuban-born clarinetist and saxophonist Paquito D’Rivera is well-known equally in both the jazz and classical worlds. We’ll hea...

Bought by KUER, WRGY, GCR (Global Community Radio), KVNO, KRZA and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 51
Caption: Luxembourgian pianist Miguel Baselga
Hear famous Spanish and Mexican composers and their not so famous works. With pianist Miguel Baselga, The State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra, and B...

Bought by KVNO, WRGY, GCR (Global Community Radio), WXXI Rochester, KRZA and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2024
  • Length: 58:26
  • Purchases: 40
Caption: Carlos Chávez
Romantic works by two of Mexico’s great modern masters: the Trio romántico of Manuel María Ponce and the Symphony No. 4 of Carlos Chávez.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), WRTI, KUCO, KMUN and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 39
Caption: Uruguayan Composer Enrique Crespo
20th-century chamber music for winds and small orchestra from Panama and Uruguay.

Bought by KUCO, WRTI, KSJE, GCR (Global Community Radio), Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 31
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Argentinean composers from the 19th and 20th centuries, all born in Argentina’s capital city of Buenos Aires.

Bought by KMUN, KUCO, GCR (Global Community Radio), WRTI, KSJE and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 36
Caption: Composer José Rolón
Melodic contemporary classics from three icons of the classical music of mid-20th century Mexico.

Bought by WFSU, KMUN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., High Plains Public Radio, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 43
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No discussion of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema would be complete without talking about composer Silvestre Revueltas. We’ll hear selections from...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 41
Caption: Alberto Ginastera with pianist Barabara Nissman
Works by Alberto Ginastera, the self-described “man of Latin America” and one of South America’s most important and innovative composers of the twe...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 43
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From Cuba’s Joaquín Nin and Leo Brouwer to Argentina’s Astor Piazzolla and Osvaldo Golijov to Uruguay’s Alfonso Broqua, music by Latin American com...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WRTI, KSJE, WCQS, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 41
Caption: Havana String Quartet
A recital of 20th -century chamber music by Cuban-born composers performed by the Grammy Award-winning Havana String Quartet.

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 37
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20th-century South American classcis from Argentina’s Carlos Guastavino to Chile’s Juan Antonio Sánchez to Venezuela’s Evencio Castellanos.

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 37
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From 17th -century masters Juan García de Zéspedes and Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla to modern-day composers Guillermo Alvarez Navarro and Sergio Cárde...

Bought by WRGY, KUER, KSJE, New Hampshire Public Radio, WRTI and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 35
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Classical and traditional music of Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Paraguay, as well as a work by a North-American composer with Peruvian, Chinese, Lit...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 22
Caption: Ernesto Lecuona postage stamp
Whether making their homes in Spain, the United States, or never venturing from the Pearl of the Antilles, Cuba’s best-known and best-loved compos...

Bought by WRTI, WRGY, KVNO, KRZA, KSJE and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 36
Caption: Mezzo Conchita Supervía
Female greats of classical music, featuring Venezuelan virtuoso pianist and composer Teresa Carreño, Catalan mezzo Conchita Supervía, and Spanish-M...

Bought by KUER, WCQS, WRTI, KMUN, WRGY and more


  • Added: Apr 28, 2024
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 50
Caption: Argentine mezzo Bernarda Fink
The tango may be Argentina's best-known musical export, but it's far from the only musical expression to be discovered. On this edition of The Span...

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  • Added: May 05, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 48
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A guitar potpourri, featuring works from Latin America and Spain by Joaquín Rodrigo, Astor Piazzolla, and Antonio Lauro.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WCQS, KMUN, KUER, WRGY and more


  • Added: May 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 46
Caption: Guitarist Slava Grigoryan
On this edition of The Spanish Hour, we explore the genius of the composer known as the “Sarasate of the guitar.” Francisco Tárrega’s works are cha...

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  • Added: May 19, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 43
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Chopin wrote that the only thing more beautiful than one guitar is two guitars. On today’s show, we prove him right.

Bought by WCQS, New Hampshire Public Radio, WRTI, WRGY, KVNO and more


  • Added: May 27, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 45
Caption: Soprano Victoria de los Angeles
Spanish art songs inspired by Spanish folk songs. Adaptations, arrangements, and inspirations of Spanish songs from the 15th - 21st centuries.

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  • Added: Jun 03, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 45
Caption: "La jota" by Joaquín Sorolla , Aragón (1914)
Claude Debussy defined the guitar as an expressive harpsicord. Joaquín Rodrigo believed this to be the best definition ever given of the Spanish gu...

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  • Added: Jun 09, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 45
Caption: Jorge Morel
This week, we focus on Argentine guitarist and composer Jorge Morel, with recordings of his works performed by David Starobin, David Russell, Hilar...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 30

  • Added: Jun 23, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 45
Caption: Composer Manuel María Ponce
On this edition of "The Spanish Hour," Mexico’s finest artists are among those heard in this celebration of the genius of Mexico’s Manuel Ponce. En...

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  • Added: Jun 30, 2024
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 46
Caption: A Youthful Xavier Montsalvatge
A tribute to the 20th-century Catalan composer, author, and music critic Xavier Montsalvatge (1912-2002), one of the so-called “Lost Generation” of...

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  • Added: Jul 08, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 49
Caption: Guitarist and Composer Fernando Sor
In the 19th century, the guitar was still thought of as something heard at village fairs, an easy to strum instrument, meant for nothing more than ...

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  • Added: Jul 14, 2024
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 47
Caption: Del Sol String Quartet
Musical colors of Spain by Spain's modern Masters

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  • Added: Jul 21, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 40

  • Added: Jul 28, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 27
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Not to be confused with the popular operettas and lyric operas popular in Spain from the 1850s through the mid-20th century, the zarzuelas on this ...

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  • Added: Aug 03, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 47
Caption: Ara Malikian
An array of some of the great Spanish works written for violin in the second half of the nineteenth century. Works by Sarasate, Monasterio, and Fer...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), KVNO, KSJE, KRZA and more


  • Added: Aug 10, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 50
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From the Five Kingdoms of 13th-century Spain to the polyphony of Spanish Renaissance master Tomás Luis de Victoria, this week’s program explores Sp...

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 51
Caption: Composer José Luis Greco, Credit: Sandra Gallardo
This week’s program comprises two works from opposite ends of the 20th century: the complete music to the 1919 ballet El Sombrero de tres picos (Th...

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 50
Caption: The Spanish Mozart" Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga
Spain's Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga was born 50 years to the day after the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Like Mozart, Arriaga was a prodigy who ...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 51
Caption: Roberto Martinez, Sr., Credit: Genevieve Russell
The story of one of the most long-lived and influential traditional New Mexican Hispanic musical groups in the state, Los Reyes de Albuquerque. Th...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUPR low power FM, WVTF, WUFT, KUNM and more


  • Added: Jan 05, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
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"Divas Latinas" pays homage to the legendary women of Latino Music, whose music affected the social, political and cultural fabric of several gener...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WNMU-FM, Radio Catskill, WNMU-FM, WUFT and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2009
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 14
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Juan "Jan" Rodrigues, the First Free African in the Hudson Valley (1612-1614)

Bought by WRPI and WNYC


  • Added: Jan 25, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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LatinoAltROCK was created with the goal of sharing the music that is part of our cultural experience, with a wider audience.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KZYX, KUOW, KRSC, and KPVL


  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 53:27
  • Purchases: 5
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Stories of being both gay and Latino in the US

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, KUOW, KTSW 89.9, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KZYX and more


  • Added: May 25, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
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This week on Smart City...every city has a unique story: how it came to be, who it's citizens are, and what its future holds. We'll speak with de...

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  • Added: Apr 29, 2009
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Esteban 'Steve' Jordan, Credit: www.estebanjordan.com
Music-Rich Hour-long Radio Documentary on Latino Accordion Legend Esteban 'Steve' Jordan

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, KMUN, WNMU-FM, 90.5 WSNC, KPVL and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Chicano Moratorium march, Aug. 29, 1970., Credit: Courtesy of Joe Razo and the publication La Raza.
Fifty years ago, 30,000 people peacefully protested the disproportionate number of Latinos dying on the frontlines in Vietnam. The August 29th Chic...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WFHB, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU and more


  • Added: Aug 26, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
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A conversational profile of Cesar Chavez featuring his United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta and Chavez scholar Jose-Antonio Orosco. Toget...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KZYX, KVSC and more


  • Added: Mar 20, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
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On this edition we hear the story of La Llorona (the weeping woman)-- a story that's been told since the time of the Spanish conquest, all over Mex...

Bought by KVNF, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KVNF, KZYX and more


  • Added: Oct 09, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 25
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We take a look on why is the domestic violence a growing problem within Hispanics.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jul 14, 2009
  • Length: 27:41
  • Purchases: 1
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We explore what Islam is and what is like to be a Latino muslim

Bought by KALW and KDNA Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2009
  • Length: 27:53
  • Purchases: 2
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During the early and mid-twentieth century, many Latin American writers engaged with international literary and cultural movements.

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  • Added: Aug 05, 2008
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Gabriela Cubillos prepares tamales in her home. , Credit: Eroyn Franklin
In our final segment, producer Jessica Partnow follows the story of one family living in immigration limbo in Auburn, Washington.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, XRAY.fm, KISU, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 6
Caption:  Maricruz Jaramillo (standing) and Samoa Asigau wait for their ride back to the Charles Darwin Research Station after an early morning of catching birds in an agricultural area on Santa Cruz Island., Credit: Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio
What motivates young people to become scientists? Meet Maricruz Jaramillo and Samoa Asigau, two young women scientists from opposite sides of the P...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KMUN, Cards Against Humanity: The Good News Podcast, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 26, 2013
  • Length: 06:34
  • Purchases: 15
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On January 21st 2011, a newspaper in the Boston neighborhood of Jamaica Plain broke the story. The 47-year old Hi Lo Hispanic grocery store would ...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, TurnStyle, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUT and more


  • Added: Aug 12, 2011
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 6
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While some of the rural Midwest is hollowing out, regions like Sioux County, Iowa, are actually growing, thanks largely to immigrant populations mo...

Bought by WRFA-LP, KUER, KRZA, KVNO, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 22, 2012
  • Length: 05:26
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: The Girl From Empanada working it on a Friday night, Credit: Photo by Myleen Hollero
Street food is hot! But why are entrepreneurs turning to this option? For the owner of Chile Lindo, an empanada storefront, the answer is simple: i...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 19, 2009
  • Length: 05:07
  • Purchases: 2
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Hispanics are the largest and fastest growing minority group in the country. Though many are recent immigrants, Hispanics have been living in Ameri...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, WRFA-LP, KZYX, KRZA, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2013
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 10
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This story explores what life is like in the US working without papers

Bought by KUOW, KRUA, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 14, 2008
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 3
From: WAMU
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When Josue arrived in the US he was surprised to find that some of the Latino students in his school weren't as welcoming as he thought they'd be.

Bought by WMNF and YouthCast


  • Added: Sep 08, 2005
  • Length: 03:22
  • Purchases: 2
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Business owners in OKC's Hispanic neighborhood describe the impact of strict, new measures cracking down on illegal immigration

Bought by KRUA and KCUR


  • Added: Feb 29, 2008
  • Length: 04:16
  • Purchases: 2
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California, Arizona, and Massachusetts have all replaced bilingual education with an English immersion model. This was supposed to help close the a...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 04:01
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The story of one family and many generations of women in Conjunto music. Produced by Stories Summer Institute youth reporters Arlette Flores, Jenni...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KALW, PRX Remix, and KSFR


  • Added: Aug 23, 2012
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 4
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María Elena Salinas, Periodista y Presentadora de Televisión.

Bought by WVAS and Delta College Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 22, 2013
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 2
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Miguel Ángel Montero, Beisbolista de Las Grandes Ligas

Bought by WVAS and Delta College Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 22, 2013
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Vikky Carr, Cantante México Americana.

Bought by WVAS and Delta College Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 22, 2013
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 2
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Los Tigres del Norte, Grupo Regional Mexicano.

Bought by WVAS and Delta College Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 22, 2013
  • Length: 01:01
  • Purchases: 2
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Dulce Matuz, Arizona Dream Act Coalition President.

Bought by WVAS and Delta College Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 22, 2013
  • Length: 01:01
  • Purchases: 2
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Henry Cejudo, Medallista Olímpico – Beijing 2008.

Bought by WVAS and Delta College Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 22, 2013
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 2
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Dolores Huerta, Líder del Movimiento de Derechos Civiles.

Bought by WVAS and Delta College Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 22, 2013
  • Length: 01:01
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: Aug 22, 2013
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Hilda Solis, 25th US Secretary of Labor

Bought by WVAS and Delta College Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 22, 2013
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: Aug 22, 2013
  • Length: 01:01
  • Purchases: 2
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This program travels from New Orleans to Detroit to Philadelphia, celebrating the exuberant cross-pollination between R&B and Latin music styles su...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
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Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian musical giants have long enjoyed the spotlight, yet throughout Latin America, there are other Black enclaves producin...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WSLR, and KECG


  • Added: Sep 12, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Central America, a narrow, mountainous, and largely impoverished stretch of land spanning seven countries, is a surprising and underexposed Latin A...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and KECG


  • Added: Sep 12, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Dr Ben Lapidus, Credit: Ned Sublette
New York City has long been a major incubator for Latin music with its large populations of Puerto Rican, Dominican, Panamanian, Cuban, and Colombi...

Bought by KECG, WGTE Public Media, and KMXT


  • Added: Aug 27, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3