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Dr. Synnika's Topical Poem of the Week is a weekly show that uses poetry to explore the social, political, and racial conditions in America. Each e...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 03:30
Socialism is as close as your closest coop.
- Added: Sep 06, 2018
- Length: 03:30
Patrisse Khan-Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter reflections on humanity, the end of policing and her new book, WHEN THEY CALL YOU A TERRORI...
Bought by KVNF, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRIR, WFHB, and WVAS
- Added: Mar 19, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
“From almost every kind of responsibility and tie from engagement and from faith. So the artist--our task is to move ourselves and the rest of us i...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WRIR
- Added: Oct 10, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
The practice of hunting wild birds with trained birds — for fun — is called falconry. Though it came into its own almost 1,000 years ago in England...
Bought by 'The Sea'
- Added: Feb 03, 2017
- Length: 31:40
- Purchases: 1
"Where are you from? ... No, where are you REALLY from?" Because of her skin tone and features, Milani Chatterji-Len gets asked this question all t...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 05, 2016
- Length: 04:12
- Purchases: 2
We hear from Amer Zahr, a comedian, writer, and activist who resides in Dearborn Michigan in this episode of Palestinians Podcast. Amer shares chil...
- Added: Jan 29, 2016
- Length: 40:27
In the foothills of the Sierra Nevada lies the San Juan Ridge. On the Ridge, tucked away amongst towering pines, flanked by two forks of the Yuba R...
- Added: Oct 03, 2014
- Length: 28:25
- Added: Feb 18, 2014
- Length: 02:06
- Purchases: 1
The recent budget deal had plenty for war contractors, but jobless Americans were left in the cold. For them, it's going to be a very Unhappy New ...
- Added: Dec 26, 2013
- Length: 02:30
What a suicide attack in Tiananmen Square can tell us about the Chinese government's struggle with dissent.
- Added: Oct 30, 2013
- Length: 02:07
Labor Day was created in the 19th century by the unions, to celebrate the economic achievements of American workers. But if we look at the 21st ce...
Bought by KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Aug 28, 2013
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 3
Two and one half minute commentary on why House Republicans took their 40th meaningless vote to repeal Obamacare before getting out of town for a 5...
- Added: Aug 06, 2013
- Length: 02:30
Two and one half minute commentary by series host Martha Burk on what was wrong with the Declaration of Independence.
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 02:30
Two and one-half minute commentary by Equal Time host Martha Burk on how the sequester hurts kids and the elderly while corporations shirk taxes.
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 02:30
Two and one half minute commentary by series host Martha Burk on the gender gap and gun control, and why it will make a difference in the next elec...
- Added: May 02, 2013
- Length: 02:30
Two and one-half minute commentary by Equal Time host Martha Burk on who won, who lost on Tax Day.
- Added: Apr 18, 2013
- Length: 02:30
Two and one-half minute commentary by Equal Time host Martha Burk on the subject of equal pay for women.
- Added: Apr 04, 2013
- Length: 02:30
Dan Sinykin is a writer and frequent contributor of essays and book reviews to Northern Community Radio. I this essay Sinykin presents a contemplat...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 04, 2013
- Length: 07:59
- Purchases: 1
Notes, thoughts and observations from a lifelong NYC biker on the art of cycling ( I have the broken bones to prove it )and what the real lesson is...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 57:53
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School. During the school year she's been checking in with essays reflecting on her experience. In thi...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 03:54
- Purchases: 1
Happy Father's Day!
I'm an adoptive dad....28 years now and counting. And as a lifelong journalist, this program attempts to show...through narrat...
- Added: Jun 14, 2012
- Length: 57:09
Cristel Martinez came to America from the Dominican Republic with a dream to become a music producer. But the only music she hears in school, says ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WGXC, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 10, 2011
- Length: 05:02
- Purchases: 3
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
- Added: Jun 17, 2011
- Length: 07:39
In this 1999 essay, Carmen Delzell talks about smuggling toys and gifts across the US border into Mexico to give to the people in the village where...
Bought by KUT, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 18, 2010
- Length: 04:08
- Purchases: 3
