ColorLines, March 31, 2008
By Michelle Chen

A mother’s voice stretched over the air to a son spending the holidays in a Virginia prison: "Keep your head up. I love you. Just do what you gotta do to survive." The hushed message was one of dozens featured on Calls from Home, a project of Mountain Community Radio in Kentucky.

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