Clapping games and tongue twisters in multiple languages turn into rich stories when Judith Sloan records young immigrants in a theatre workshop. (more)

This hour: Children try to survive in, and escape from, a Ghanaian slum called Sodom and Gomorrah. (more)

Much of the Sonoran desert between Tucson and Mexico is a haunting wasteland of discarded shoes, shirts, and empty plastic water jugs, discarded by desparate illegal immigrants who risk their lives as they cross the desert from Mexico into the United States in search of better-paying jobs. (more)

Announcing the winners of this year's Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition! (more)

Guenet Sebsibe shows how she keeps an important Ethiopian cultural tradition alive. (more)

Longtime New Yorkers recall family cooking traditions and foods from home that have been lost to immigration. (more)

This hour: change. Some of us crave it, some of us avoid it at all costs. But whenever and wherever it happens, change creates fallout, intentional or not. (more)

From visceral empathy to intellectual understanding to emotional compassion, find out how you can realize that far-off, poverty-stricken, deathly ill, brown people are your neighbors, too. (more)

Slavery in America still exists. In southwest Florida, for example, women and girls from Central America arrive everyday looking for a better life. (more)

American schools teach students that with hard work, they can realize their dreams. But this isn't the case for everyone. (more)

A personal musing about estrangement and its effects on language, cultural identity, and the meaning of home. (more)

Growing up poor in Mexico City, Pilar dreamed of reuniting with her father who had moved to America years before. (more)

This hour: a story about the vagaries of memory, leaving a legacy, and elevating the personal narrative above the political mire. (more)

This hour: Two stories of people who are far away - physically, emotionally and/or spiritually from the place they call home. (more)

Congratulations to the winners of the 2011 Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition! (more)

Two opposing groups of immigration protestors in Arizona attempt to define the word "wall" without referring to Mexico. (more)

This hour: here, there, and in-between. (more)

Here's a love story that stretches across two decades, thousands of miles, and an international border. Rocio and Francisco are married but have kept their family together by living apart for the past 19 years. (more)

Three neighbors in Fargo, ND, talk about the rapid coloring in of a town in the Great White North. (more)

This hour: a Japanese blues singer, an aging opera fan, and homemade recordings of a rural children's choir. (more)