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A spate of lynchings in India has Sandip thinking that the U.S. and his home country are not so different.
- Added: Jun 27, 2017
- Length: 06:00
The Scripps National Spelling Bee has a new winner. 12 year old Ananya Vinay. Another Indian American. That’s not news anymore.
But Ananya Vinay’s ...
- Added: Jun 06, 2017
- Length: 06:00
The Poetic Address to the Nation, brought together poets to speak
powerfully against the current administration. Featuring Cam Awkward, Guillermo G...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WRIR
- Added: Apr 28, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
There have been other mob attacks in India before thre Nigerians were beaten in a mall in Delhi on March 27. Each time the government promises stri...
- Added: Apr 03, 2017
- Length: 06:00
Perhaps an unwelcoming America is not such a bad thing for the rest of the world. It’s as if the American Dream itself is being outsourced back to ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 2
An audio postcard highlighting the amazing migration of Allen's Hummingbirds along the pacific flyway. Best aired late winter through spring and su...
Bought by WNED Buffalo and Radio Newark
- Added: Feb 15, 2017
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 2
Whether you tweet, snap, like, or share social media is the way to communicate; but can it be used for more then just a home for dog memes? Report...
- Added: Nov 17, 2016
- Length: 05:48
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2016 Documentaries
Jeremiah Williams, better known as Flag Boy Twin, may have left New Orleans, but he brought his rich heritage as a Mardi Gras Indian with him. Part...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Jul 27, 2016
- Length: 08:50
- Purchases: 1
Mycologist Terry Henkel discusses the diversity of fungi, loosely called mushrooms, and their importance to ecosystem health and the Klamath bioreg...
Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio
- Added: Jul 15, 2016
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 3
A discussion of the unparalleled conifer biodiversity in the Klamath mountain region. Taking the long view through geologic time, this segment of ...
Bought by WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio
- Added: Jul 14, 2016
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 3
This week, we discuss the economics and ethics of hedge fund bets on life-saving medication. What’s wrong with companies like Turing Pharmaceutical...
- Added: Jul 10, 2016
- Length: 03:45
The Je Suis slogan, once a stirring call for a moment of coming together in protest and solidarity, is well-meaning but has a long lost its meaning.
- Added: Jul 06, 2016
- Length: 05:59
That most basic of human gestures of intimacy, a kiss, can still be deadly.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jun 14, 2016
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 1
Every week, Cracker Barrel provides 4 million Americans with a studied version of down-home Southern food and hospitality. The dumplins and the chi...
- Added: Apr 21, 2016
- Length: 26:03
- Purchases: 2
In my state, this week, leaping off the lower right hand corner of the Front Page of the state’s largest newspaper was this “Educator who won one...
- Added: Apr 09, 2016
- Length: 05:42
Kardava was doing what is her job as a journalist. The media is doing what they think is their job. The only person who has no choice in this is th...
- Added: Mar 28, 2016
- Length: 06:00
What do the restaurants of your childhood say about the place you grew up? In Jack Hitt’s case, the Oysters Mornay and Escargots Bourguignonne of h...
- Added: Dec 17, 2015
- Length: 28:02
- Purchases: 3
Justice has finally come for Suzette Jordan.Though she was not there to witness it.
In 2013 she became the face of rape in Kolkata, India. Her att...
- Added: Dec 14, 2015
- Length: 05:59
I will not overlay my Facebook profile picture with the French tricolor.
- Added: Nov 16, 2015
- Length: 06:00
After it was posted on WhatsApp that Aklhaq Mohmamad's family was eating beef a mob beat and stoned him to death.
But what was the mob being fed?
- Added: Oct 06, 2015
- Length: 06:00
“I was born a girl, I was born black, and I was born to two alcoholic parents. I knew I was doomed.”
- Added: Aug 24, 2015
- Length: 22:40
The 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership has been causing conflict of late, with a broad range of disagreements over key provisions and debates inte...
- Added: Jun 02, 2015
- Length: 05:45
Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza tells the story of how that phrase, and the movement came to be.
- Added: Apr 29, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Competing essayists Jennifer Nelson and Jason Steck debate the question "Love or Fear: Which Motivates Us More?" at the 2014 "Great American Think ...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM
- Added: Apr 17, 2015
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 3
In Defense of a National Flag Burning Day
- Added: Apr 03, 2015
- Length: 06:26
