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More: https://radio.azpm.org/p/dimelo/2016/2/12/81923-she-cant-vote-but-this-years-election-helped-tucsonan-find-a-voice/
Roberto Nava speaks about his experience as a Mexican immigrant working as an auto mechanic in Durham at a Storymakers story circle. More: http://storymakersdurham.org/
"What do you do when a member of your family is locked up for a crime you are sure he didn’t commit? Sheila Phipps paints."
More: http://wwno.org/post/louisiana-mother-waits-and-paints-and-strives-free-her-son
Colleen Cruze Bhatti grew up serving customers at her family's farmer's market stall. Now she runs Cruze Farm, in East Knox County, milking cows and making milk, ice cream and buttermilk every day with her husband, parents, and a small crew of "Farm Girls." With sustainable techniques and social media savvy, Colleen is carrying on a multigenerational family tradition on her land, which she hopes will remain a farm forever.
Eddie started working at Garcia Cleaners when he was 10, picking up cigarette butts in the parking lot for $4 a week. He tried to get out of the dry-cleaning business when he went to college, but it just pulled him back in.
“It’s like the Godfather, the mafia. Just when I think I'm out, they bring me back in.”
https://radio.azpm.org/p/dimelo/2016/3/21/84290-garcia-cleaners-loads-of-history-after-107-years/
Dawonta White, along with a dozen other boys, leaves his 9th Ward charter school three times a week to walk a block and half to Dancing Grounds. Their classroom there looks exactly how you’d picture a dance studio: parallel bar, wood floors, a wall of mirrors. The boys almost always start class in a circle, where they talk about what’s going on in their lives. Their teacher, Randall Rosenberg, wants his students to have a voice, to make decisions for themselves, together.
From Unprisoned, Eve Abrams, and WWNO: http://wwno.org/post/these-young-new-orleans-dancers-want-police-know-they-are-not-threat
What do you do when a member of your family is locked up for a crime you are sure he didn’t commit? Sheila Phipps paints.
From Unprisoned, Eve Abrams, and WWNO: http://wwno.org/post/louisiana-mother-waits-and-paints-and-strives-free-her-son
“If you grew up struggling, then you my audience,” says Jahi Salaam, an 18-year-old rapper and a poet. Jahi is from New Orleans. His first name, Jahi, means dignity in Swahili. His last name means peace. When Jahi talks about poverty, school, and prison, he says: they’re all intertwined.
From Unprisoned: Stories from the System, Eve Abrams, and WWNO: http://wwno.org/post/jahi-salaam-young-new-orleans-poet-raps-about-prison-school-and-poverty
The Richmond Slave Trial, known also as the Trail of Enslaved Africans, begins at Manchester Docks in Richmond, Virginia. UnMonumental Lead Producer Kelley Libby met Melvin Coleman on the banks of the James River at Manchester Docks, a popular fishing spot not far from Richmond’s downtown. Melvin was fishing for perch.
An example of wind buffeting and mic-handling noise reduced by a high-pass filter. to accompany Rob Byers' "Ask the Engineer: Don't Fear the Filter" column for public media producers. airmediaworks.org/blog/ask-enginee…dont-fear-filter
An example of a high-pass filter used on voice in a studio setting to accompany Rob Byers' "Ask the Engineer: Don't Fear the Filter" column for public media producers. airmediaworks.org/blog/ask-engineer-dont-fear-filter
Come along with indie producer Nadia Wilson as she walks through AIR's July 2014 Full Spectrum storytelling intensive at UnionDocs in Brooklyn. (8 minutes)
AIR's Localore producers are helping take All Things Considered "outside" with short audio snapshots to accompany NPR's 2012 summer series "Urban Life in the 21st Century." We listen here to an portion of an ATC feature by Franklin Cater from the streets of DC segueing into a salesman from AJ Auto Accessories in Chicago's Little Village. The snapshot producer is AIR's Jennifer Brandel who is creating her "Curious City" project with WBEZ in Chicago.