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As Fort Bragg becomes Fort Liberty, Army leaders promise the base won't forget its history

From: American Homefront Project

Caption: Days before Fort Bragg was officially renamed Fort Liberty, crews erect new signs at the base's main gate., Credit: Jay Price / American Homefront

A newly constructed historic march route will remember the base's former name and the soldiers who served there.

Bought by WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, and KUT

Keepers of the Flame

From: Distillations
Series: Innate

Follow the money that props up racist science, and you'll find it all leads back to one man.

81 years after it was founded, the USO is making changes to remain relevant to today's troops

From: American Homefront Project

Caption: Army soldiers help themselves to free food in the USO lounge at Fort Bragg, N.C. The organization plans to close about 40 of its lesser-used lounges while opening 28 in places where it says troops are especially isolated or face high stress., Credit: Jay Price / American Homefront

The service organization is closing some of its centers, opening new ones, and expanding its online programs to respond to funding reductions and t...

Bought by KWMU St. Louis, KUT, North Country Public Radio, WRFA-LP, KRPS and more

The Pseudo-Science of Whiteness: Biology as a Social Weapon

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

This week, filmmaker Stephanie Welch explores the role that racist, unscientific propaganda has played in promoting white supremacy in the U.S. She...

The Uncomfortable Truth About Race in America

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose

“The Uncomfortable Truth” is a film produced by Loki Mulholland. It is a journey to understand how being white has benefited his family across gene...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KSTK, KMUN, KOWS, and RadioStPete Florida

If the military renames southern bases, whose names should replace the Confederate generals?

From: American Homefront Project

Caption: Soldiers gather for a 2019 awards ceremony at Fort Bragg, N.C. The base is one of 10 that Pentagon leaders say they are open to renaming., Credit: Joshua Cowden / U.S Army

With the call for changing the names of 10 Southern military bases gaining momentum in Washington, the question is starting to arise in Washington ...

Bought by KRZA, WUSF, KPBS, Colorado Public Radio, KMXT and more

Veterans say it's not too soon to build a national memorial for the Afghanistan and Iraq wars

From: American Homefront Project

Caption: Michael Rodriguez, left foreground, president of a group that wants to build a 'Global War on Terrorism' memorial, shows the proposed site to several supporters after a Nov. 2019 sunrise run on the National Mall., Credit: Caitlin Kim / Colorado Public Radio

Normally, Congress waits at least ten years after a war ends to authorize a monument. But supporters say a proposed "Global War on Terrorism" memor...

Bought by Texas Public Radio, WUSF, and KPCC

S2 Ep 8: Needle exchanges and harm reduction

From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two

Caption: David Venes (right) poses at the Tacoma Needle Exchange van with his dog, Ethel, and outreach worker, Laura Reynolds., Credit: Amber Cortes

In this episode we look at the idea of harm reduction and focus specifically on needle exchanges. Those are hundreds of places across the US that h...

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction Part 3

From: Distillations
Series: Distillations

Searching for Meaning in Kensington

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction: Part 1

From: Distillations
Series: Distillations

The Narcotic Farm and the Promise of Salvation

Hepatitis C is more common in Vietnam vets, but nobody is sure why

From: American Homefront Project

Caption: In this 1971 Army photo, a service member is vaccinated with a jet injection gun. The Army at the time called the gun "a fast, safe method for giving mass inoculations to troops.", Credit: U.S. Army Medical Department

Some veterans say they contracted hepatitis from the "jet gun" that was used to immunize them in the Vietnam era, but researchers haven't proved th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WUSF, Texas Public Radio, KPBS, KRZA and more

Cultural Genocide in America: Capitalistic Experts' Self-Egos

From: Teosson Wells

Things we learn from Woody Guthrie and Native Americans ... and Donald Trump's dad?

NEXT Episode 2: A Roof Over Your Head

From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)

A new, regional news program from The New England News Collaborative, hosted by John Dankosky.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and Vermont Public

Community Forum: Confederate Flag Part Two

From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique

The Winona Human Rights Commission and Winona State University sponsored a community forum in response to the recent displays of the Confederate Fl...

Community Forum: Confederate Flag Part One

From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique

The Winona Human Rights Commission and Winona State University sponsored a community forum in response to the recent displays of the Confederate Fl...

The Heart and Soul Of Community

From: Steven Scher
Series: On The Bus

For all the ways we devise to pull communities apart, people find ways to rebuild.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Above the Law

From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites

Caption: The police in Gary, Ind., 1908, Credit: Library of Congress

Producer Nina Earnest explores how the professionalization of the Los Angeles Police Department -intended to free the police from municipal corrupt...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix

Rewriting Fillmore’s redevelopment history

From: KALW

Caption: Some formerly displaced residents of redevelopment in the '60s and '70s will have an opportunity to move into Fillmore Park., Credit: Adelaide Chen

It’s no secret that San Francisco is an expensive place to live. Take renting an apartment, for instance. On average, a San Francisco tenant pays ...

Dick Armey at National Press Club

From: National Press Club

Dick Armey, the former House Majority Leader, speaks about conservatism at the National Press Club.

Between Civil War and Civil Rights -1: How the South (or White Supremacy?) Won the War (1865 - 1877)

From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights

From the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers, through the defeat of Reconstruction: How history is made and remade, with histor...

Bought by WCPN, WRPI, and KUNM

Between Civil War and Civil Rights - 5: White Protestant Nation (1915-25)

From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights

An exploration of American racism as cultural and commercial mass-phenomenon, covering the "reincarnation" of the Klan as a fraternal movement whic...

Bought by WCPN