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The Black Panther Party’s founding in 1966 was inspired by the prevalent issues of police brutality, poverty, and lack of access to healthcare face...
- Added: Feb 09, 2024
- Length: 09:58
Jack Kerouac’s influence on American literature cannot be overstated, particularly as a leader of the Beat movement and his connection to the post...
- Added: Jan 23, 2024
- Length: 10:26
Herman Wouk, a literary giant renowned for his profound engagement with historical themes, is influential in World War II literature. His magnum op...
- Added: Jan 19, 2024
- Length: 08:38
thel and Julius Rosenberg grew up in New York City, a melting pot of cultural diversity, and faced economic challenges during the early 20th centur...
- Added: Jan 17, 2024
- Length: 09:05
In the aftermath of World War II, Europe lay in ruins. Cities were devastated, economies shattered, and the continent faced a crisis of unprecedent...
- Added: Jan 13, 2024
- Length: 03:18
Andrew Wyeth, an American artistic luminary, transcended the canvas to become a masterful chronicler of the human condition and the natural world. ...
- Added: Jan 07, 2024
- Length: 10:27
The worst U.S. mass murder of homosexuals in the 20th century was by a gruesome fire in a New Orleans French Quarter nightclub. Yet, the Upstairs L...
- Added: Jun 27, 2023
- Length: 19:45
Why is a Nazi resistance fighter famous in Brazil yet unheard of in Germany? How did an African American musician become a hero in East Germany? Di...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: May 26, 2022
- Length: 29:35
- Purchases: 1
By the 1920s, people had begun using coin-operated record booths to create audio souvenirs — immortalizing their thoughts and feelings on a disc. C...
Bought by HowSound and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jul 15, 2021
- Length: 28:54
- Purchases: 2
Why is the cowboy, the most iconic of American settlers, so central to white masculine identity when Latinx vaqueros and Diasporic formerly enslave...
- Added: May 18, 2021
- Length: 14:06
Books on conveyor belts, book vacuums and books in the mail. This episode of “Borrowed” will take you behind the scenes to see how books travel aro...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 16:48
- Purchases: 1
It turns out that libraries weren’t always so friendly toward children. That started to change around the turn of the 20th century, thanks to a lib...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 20:41
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, we tell the story of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood through the lives of three women who set down roots there in diffe...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 26:22
- Purchases: 1
We start this episode at Dead Horse Bay, where we ask what trash can tell us about structures of power, and end the episode in 1960s Bed-Stuy, wher...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 20:50
- Purchases: 1
North Carolina’s Outer Banks offers everything from open-sea beaches, theatre, wildlife preserves and popular shipwreck diving sites to down home c...
- Added: Aug 21, 2018
- Length: 59:55
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of US involvement in World War I by accompanying Walter Price and the 314th Engineers on their tour of duty.
- Added: Jun 03, 2017
- Length: 08:19
This week the United States Senate voted to overrule the intention of the Founding Fathers and disregard the process that give minority membership ...
- Added: Apr 07, 2017
- Length: 03:08
Speaking out about unjust events and atrocities that others passively accept segregates the outspoken, often. In their own time, they are often ...
- Added: Jul 04, 2016
- Length: 04:34
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
Philip Armand accidentally falls into a vortex of Bliss, then the bliss hangs up.
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 05:43
History is written by the Big and the Small. "The Vietnam War" documentary has reminded us that. The Moving Wall, a half scale version of the smoot...
- Added: May 27, 2016
- Length: 07:06
Philip Armand tries to figure out the correlation between commitment and risk-taking and discovers Einstein's mistakes, and what they mean for his ...
- Added: Mar 21, 2016
- Length: 06:54
Rabin is a symbol. An icon. But in Israel of 2015, twenty years after the Prime Minister's murder, it isn't so simple to understand what the reall...
- Added: Nov 04, 2015
- Length: 01:05:56
Tattoo artist Ron White goes through several generations to tell us how he got to where he is today. It's not what you're expecting. Part one of th...
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 12:21
CAFÉ ACOUSMATIC: the finest blend of electroacoustic music, sound art, and 3D binaural audio.
- Added: Feb 27, 2015
- Length: 59:07
