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The Declaration Revisited: Native Americans
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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The anti-Native American sentiments within the Declaration of Independence, and where those same sentiments can be found today.

Bought by WRFA-LP and Boise State Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 17:43
  • Purchases: 2
This New Cooperative Business Model Could Change Everything
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Many of the world’s most successful businesses began as someone’s good idea. But the path from startup to conventional financial success typically ...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN, and WNYE


  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
How We Got Here, Part 3: The Fight For Meaningful Work
From: Sam Harnett
Series: How We Got Here
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The final section of a 3-hour radio documentary about why Americans are so precarious and acceptable to crisis like the current pandemic. Part 3 lo...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Stay for the Trees (episode 6)
From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy
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Meet five native Seattle trees and plants through the eyes of humans that care for them: The Western Red Cedar, Dougfir, Madrone, White Pine, and F...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 36:58
  • Purchases: 2
Women100 Gloria Steinem
From: WHYY
Series: Women100
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Women like Gloria Steinem, the voice of the feminist movement in the 1960s and 70s. She used her skills as a journalist and organizer to inform and...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WITF, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KGHI


  • Added: Feb 24, 2020
  • Length: :58
  • Purchases: 5
Special: Cooperation vs Authoritarianism in Spain
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Social change and systems change go hand-in-hand. Movements for democracy and human rights are most effective when they aim to transform unjust, un...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 20, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Democracy: Past, Present... and Future?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Don't remember the past? Does that mean you're condemned to repeat it? What does our country's past tell us about our present— and how can it help ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 26, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Multimedia Artist Paul Rucker Shines Light on America's Dark History
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: NEA Audio Miscellany
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Paul Rucker's art education came from working as a janitor at the Seattle Art Museum. Now a gifted cellist, visual artist, and video producer, Paul...

Bought by WCPN and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 20, 2016
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 2
"Whats Race Got to do With It ?" part 3
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we bring you part 3 of “What’s Race Got to do With It?” Media Management of Minority Images”. previously, Bryant...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2015
  • Length: 31:24
Why Schools Were Never About Knowledge
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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Schools were not created with the intention of making geniuses and filling its pupils with knowledge. Hear three historians explain the surprising ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 27, 2015
  • Length: 11:41
  • Purchases: 2
Michelle Alexander on the New Jim Crow (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Michelle Alexander, Associate Law Professor at Moritz School of Law and Author of "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." , Credit: http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/
Professor Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ makes the case that the US’ criminal ju...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Road to Valor
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Gino Bartali
A new book, Road to Valor, by Aili and Andres McConnon is the inspiring, against-the-odds story of Gino Bartali, the cyclist who made the greatest ...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Aug 14, 2012
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
Why Has America Stopped Inventing?
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Leonardo da Vinci's flying machine
America loves innovation and the can-do spirit that made this country what it is-a world leader in self-government, industry and technology, and po...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 14:41
The Aleppo Codex
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Matti Friedman
In an age when physical books matter less and less, here is a THRILLING story about a book that meant everything. A thousand years ago the most per...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
On a String
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Lonnie Johnson 1920s
Blues, jazz and folk music of the 1920s and '30s featuring the guitar, piano, violin and more.

  • Added: Feb 14, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
Pakistan Aslant (1) - "The country that could kill the world"
From: Open Source
Caption: “MOHAMED ALI JINNAH: His Moslem tiger wants to eat the Hindu cow” [April 1946]
Christopher Lydon on the road in South Asia, in a compilation of conversations and reflections on Pakistan's past and dynamic present. Featuring no...

Bought by WCPN, KUOW, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Chris Hedges on the Myth of Human Progress
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Renowned author Chris Hedges paints a bleak picture of our world today, in rapid economic, environmental, and religious decline-but we still have a...

  • Added: May 31, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
COINTELPRO 101 (Part 1)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Over the next two weeks, we broadcast the documentary film “COINTELPRO 101,” about the secret FBI program which ran from 1956-1971, and disrupted m...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: May 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
"Breaking the Psychological Chains of Slavery"
From: Making Contact
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African-Americans have endured more than 246 years of slavery, 100 years of racism and segregation. The trauma from that experience continues to im...

  • Added: May 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:59
Carpenters of Nazareth: Joseph & Jesus
From: Loyola Productions, Inc.
Series: Kaleidoscope
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Jesus, in this narrative, emerges from the shadows to walk in a world peopled by simple hard-working men in a town called Nazareth. A town where a ...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 48:58
The Chieftains: San Patricio
From: Joyride Media
Caption: The Chieftains and Ry Cooder, Credit: Judith Burrows
The Chieftains and Ry Cooder present the history behind their collaboration inspired by The St Patrick's Battalion of Irish-born soldiers in the Me...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPSQ-LP, Harford Community Radio, KTSW 89.9, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Mar 02, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 50
“.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO FAITH, FEMINISM AND HIP HOP.”
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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IN IT’S THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN;S DAY PROGRAM, CASA ATABEX ACHE & MOMMAS HIP HOP KITCHEN PRESENT “.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 54:15
House of the Lord
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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The history of a black church on an antebellum plantation and how it was saved from destruction.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KVNF, KUT, KDUR, WJAB and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2006
  • Length: 29:33
  • Purchases: 7
Uncommon Courage: The Viola Liuzzo story
From: David Person
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This is the story of the only white woman martyred in the Civil Rights movement.

Bought by WJAB, WJAB, WEKU, Audible, WFDD and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2005
  • Length: 57:45
  • Purchases: 8