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The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the “University of Idaho Murders,” offering a memorable, tho...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2023
  • Length: 30:13
Caption: Frank transporting his first group of Ukrainian passengers. , Credit: Frank Pichel
In the first part of this story we heard from Uliana Bazar who, with her husband, Matthew Propert, left their home in Ukraine five hours before th...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2023
  • Length: 24:18
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series
My guest today, Dr. Noah Whiteman, tells us to scratch beneath the surface of a coffee bean, a red pepper flake, a poppy seed, a mold spore, a foxg...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2023
  • Length: 35:16
Caption: Self portrait., Credit: Uliana Bazar
Four years ago, Uliana Bazar, along with her spouse, Matthew Propert, left their home in the United States and flew to Ukraine, the land of her bir...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 27:20
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series
It is rare for life to change Earth, yet three organisms have profoundly transformed our planet over the long course of its history. Elemental reve...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2023
  • Length: 41:55
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In this fall special from from Things That Go Boom, Inkstick Media, and PRX: how Indigenous knowledge is challenging the military industrial complex.

Bought by KCBX, KUOW, WXXI Rochester, Northwest Public Broadcasting, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
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As the media portrays 2023's Burning Man as a hellscape, THE INTERSECTION at Burning Man revists the work of a group of Burners at the 2019 event. ...

Bought by KFCF FM, WVTF, Nevada Public Radio, KUNM, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:37
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Thien Tran, Credit: Orlando Gili
'A Seat in Soho: Thien Tran' is a firsthand profile of long-time Soho, London resident Thien Tran. In this poignant piece, Thien discusses the chal...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 10:00
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The history of why Black women are more likely to die when giving birth than White women.

Bought by WVTF and WNED Buffalo


  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 56:56
  • Purchases: 2
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"Race correction" is a practice based on the premise that Black bodies are inherently different from White bodies. Medical students are trying to c...

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 48:57
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When the plague broke out in San Francisco in 1900, the public health department singled out Chinatown—as if Chinatown were the problem.

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 51:34
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If there is no such thing as biological race, why do we have race-specific drugs?

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 54:18
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The word “Tuskegee” has become shorthand for the Black community’s mistrust of the medical establishment. But what really happened?

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:05
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Activists were angry that a museum held the skulls of enslaved people. Then they discovered it also had remains of Black children killed in 1985.

  • Added: May 14, 2023
  • Length: 56:58
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Can anti-racist scientists create racist science?

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 55:48
  • Purchases: 1
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Follow the money that props up racist science, and you'll find it all leads back to one man.

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 01:03:24

  • Added: Sep 09, 2022
  • Length: 50:44
  • Purchases: 1
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Learn about the basics of the ballot initiative, the history of how it caught on in the United States, and the pros and cons that she will explore ...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 32:45
Caption: Healing Garden, Credit: Amy Gastelum
What does food mean to identities struggling against colonialism and displacement? First, we visit the Blackfeet Nation in Montana as members of In...

Bought by WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WFHB


  • Added: Aug 15, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Whelp Fire: The Whelp and John Ek fires lead, in part, to the closure of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in 2021. , Credit: Courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service
Minnesota's Boundary Waters is the most visited wilderness area in the country. Last summer, the entire Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness was s...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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Students at CUNY's Hunter College in New York City are complaining about mice running the halls, broken windows, and leaky ceillings. But, the scho...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2022
  • Length: 02:43
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Three hundred years ago this Easter, Europeans landed on what they called "Easter Island," and ever since, the statues there have been a mystery. B...

Bought by WKSU, KWIT, WYAP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2022
  • Length: 51:58
  • Purchases: 18
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We present the documentary, She's Beautiful When She's Angry, a reflection on the rise of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, bet...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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In early January, Medicare took an unprecedented step to restrict patients’ access to the first new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease in nearly 20 ...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2022
  • Length: 22:47
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DEC 26TH IS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE OCCUPATION OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY BY VIETNAM VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR. THIS IS THE DOCUMENTARY PRODUCED E...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2021
  • Length: 57:50