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This episode pays homage to tradition bearers in blues, folk and country music, sharing the stories of the traditional ballad "Barbara Allen", Lead...
- Added: Sep 19, 2024
- Length: 59:02
Lacking any formal training, Billie Holiday is considered among the greatest jazz vocalists of all time, with one of the most tumultuous lives of a...
Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif.
- Added: Aug 31, 2024
- Length: 59:03
- Purchases: 1
Thought to be rooted in the early hymns brought to America, this old-time folk song has shined brightly in the spotlight of the roots music communi...
- Added: Aug 29, 2024
- Length: 08:00
Highly regarded as the “King of the Delta Blues” and a “Father of the Blues”, Son House was a force of nature who’s emotive guitar playing and prea...
- Added: Aug 27, 2024
- Length: 08:00
Highly regarded as the “King of the Delta Blues” and a “Father of the Blues”, Son House was a force of nature who’s emotive guitar playing and prea...
- Added: Aug 27, 2024
- Length: 08:00
North Carolina’s most celebrated guitarists, songwriters, storytellers and preservationists, Doc Watson has influenced over five generations of gui...
- Added: Aug 27, 2024
- Length: 08:00
North Carolina’s most celebrated guitarists, songwriters, storytellers and preservationists, Doc Watson has influenced over five generations of gui...
- Added: Aug 26, 2024
- Length: 08:00
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
'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
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
"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
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
If there is no such thing as biological race, why do we have race-specific drugs?
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 54:18
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
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
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 55:48
- Purchases: 1
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
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
