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Despite being one of the most frequently banned authors, Toni Morrison’s work has inspired countless others to tell stories outside the mainstream....
- Added: Nov 30, 2023
- Length: 23:18
- Added: Jan 06, 2023
- Length: 49:59
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jul 13, 2022
- Length: 50:30
- Purchases: 1
In 1872, a black school teacher traveled by steamboat from Quincy, IL, to Keokuk, IA, to visit her family. Along the way, she was forcibly removed ...
- Added: Dec 01, 2020
- Length: 05:20
Paris Slim and his Blues
- Added: Sep 01, 2020
- Length: 58:59
My parents, Randy and Vicki, were high school sweethearts in the 1960s, but they broke up when my mom went off to college. Twenty years later their...
- Added: Jul 21, 2020
- Length: 03:48
Fifty years ago, there was a radical plan to completely remake a county sheriff’s department in an iconic western town. It almost worked, they almo...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jun 16, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
"Defund Police. Invest in Black Lives. What just weeks ago was a slogan is fast becoming law."
The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely ...
- Added: Jun 08, 2020
- Length: 03:30
A community garden project at Barrett Brothers Park in north St. Louis prompts memories of the Barrett family, who came to Missouri as Irish famine...
- Added: May 28, 2017
- Length: 03:23
This particular Untold Stories of Central Minnesota is the first in a series of three concerning the Untold Story of Immigration in our area. As ...
- Added: Oct 21, 2016
- Length: 28:35
The real meaning of the Buddhist concept of karma is murky, but the Republican Presidential campaign has become an explanatory sponge for it- fully...
- Added: Jun 29, 2016
- Length: 04:49
Michael Goldfarb tells the story of how the God Intoxicated Man, Benedict Spinoza, seeded the Englightenment and became the philosopher for today.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: May 23, 2016
- Length: 53:38
- Purchases: 2
After the historic ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court on gay marriage, Sandip Roy reflects on... his Facebook feed.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 29, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 2
There weren’t a lot of female directors during the Golden Age of Radio. Nila Mack was one of the few who earned herself an office on the 14th floo...
Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 05, 2015
- Length: 06:37
- Purchases: 4
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has no central "ocean" theme, but many of its myriad studies, project...
- Added: Jan 07, 2014
- Length: 05:23
Free, audio book excerpts. To elevate the decorative arts in the early 20th century, women were encouraged to participate in the creation of beauti...
- Added: Nov 08, 2013
- Length: 08:20
A speck of land in the South Atlantic, Tristan da Cunha is the most remote inhabited island in the world.
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 01:49
- Purchases: 2
Steve Downing reflects on the highly positive nature of the existence and effects of Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: Dec 18, 2012
- Length: 04:29
- Purchases: 2
Despite his best efforts, like the very establishments he excoriated, Studs Terkel became an American institution. A man of the people, he was also...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, XRAY.fm, WZEN.org, KBGA 89.9 FM, WDSE and more
- Added: Dec 12, 2011
- Length: 55:00
- Purchases: 11
Nobleman, soldier, gambler, womanizer, priest, theologian, and founder of the Society of Jesus—and all this of just one man!
- Added: Mar 11, 2011
- Length: 46:50
On the anniversary of his birth, the life and work of the civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His own voice and words make this a mean...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KVSC, WGHC-LP 98.3 FM Chicago, KCNP, KCNP and more
- Added: Dec 07, 2010
- Length: 44:36
- Purchases: 6
An unlikely dinner exchange between two not so different people...after all.
- Added: Sep 06, 2010
- Length: 08:04
The Salvation Army bell ringer, bundled up to stay warm in weather that has turned brutal overnight, stands just beside the front door of the busy ...
- Added: Dec 15, 2009
- Length: 04:01
- Added: Apr 19, 2008
- Length: 03:09
A commentary noting that few women are more deserving of special attention during Women's History Month than farm worker leader Dolores Huerta.
Bought by KGLP and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Mar 03, 2008
- Length: 05:15
- Purchases: 2
