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Bernice Reagon & The Freedom Singers
From: David Dunaway
Caption: Freedom Singers with Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, and Joan Baez, Credit: Dave Gahr
This award-winning 57 minute documentary evokes the history of the civil rights movement through its music and actuality. The late Bernice Reagon l...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
Pulitzer on the Road - Episode 3: Jefferson Cowie on Freedom's Dominion in Alabama
From: Pulitzer on the Road
Series: Pulitzer on the Road
Caption: Jefferson Cowie and Kelly Lytle Hernandez examining the Eufaula Tribune archive
Jefferson Cowie’s book Freedom’s Dominion gives the history of white Americans fighting for the freedom to dominate others and won the Pulitzer Pri...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2024
  • Length: 53:25
BETTING AGAINST AMERICA with Smithsonian Associate Harry Yeide
From: Paul VOGELZANG
Series: Smithsonian Associates Interview Series, Not Old Better Show
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series, Credit: Paul Vogelzang
Join us for an eye-opening journey into history with military historian, intelligence officer and Smithsonian Associate, Harry Yeide! 🌍🕰️. Smithson...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2024
  • Length: 30:17
Untold: Stories of a World War II Liberator
From: Dennis Parker
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There are historians within us all. The first-hand accounts in "Untold: Stories of a World War II Liberator" - written by Deborah Levine and direc...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:50
Constant Wonder - 4th of July Special
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Topic 1: America the Beautiful: A Story in Photographs; Topic 2: Legendary Photographer, Steve McCurry

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KETR-FM, KSTK, WPCA-LP, Troy Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 11, 2021
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 8
Minneapolis: Not giving up on police abolition
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In the wake of the police murder of George Floyd, expectations were high that if systems-change around policing were possible anywhere, it might b...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KWMR


  • Added: Jun 03, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Top of Mind - Memorial Day Special
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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In this special episode marking Memorial Day, we learn about an effort to write the stories of every American service member who died in World War ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WLPR , WYPL, KRWG, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2021
  • Length: 51:36
  • Purchases: 18
Indigenous People’s Power
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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2020 was a watershed year for indigenous peoples’ movements. Native American organizers made great strides when it comes to elections, mutual aid a...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Constant Wonder - President's Day
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Our President's Day special puts some focus on a woman who performed some of the functions of President of the United States. We'll learn about Edi...

Bought by KVMR, RadioStPete Florida, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jan 22, 2021
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 3
Thanksgiving Special 2020-Constant Wonder
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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2020 marks 400 long years since the Pilgrims first put ashore from the Mayflower in Plymouth, MA. In this episode, Constant Wonder speaks with two ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KRBD, Allegheny Mountain Radio, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 16, 2020
  • Length: 54:56
  • Purchases: 4
Labor Day
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Labor Day is a great opportunity for all of us to reflect on some of the memories we have from working hard, being with family, or learning somethi...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WNMU-FM, WHFR, WYPL, KTXK and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2020
  • Length: 54:52
  • Purchases: 9
The Apple Seed: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Join us for our Independence Day special. It’s an hour of entertaining stories and songs about this great country.

Bought by KETR-FM, KSTK, WPCA-LP, Troy Public Radio, KSJE and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2020
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 7
OHR Presents: Hard Times
From: Ozark Highlands Radio
Series: Ozark Highlands Radio (Specials)
Caption: April Verch & Joe Newberry
Ozark Highlands Radio explores hard times in 2020. For this special episode, we’ve reached out to various Ozark Highlands Radio featured artists t...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KRSC, Royalton Community Radio, Ohm Radio , RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Jun 17, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
Pandemic Special Episode: Voices From Around The World
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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We talk with people in six different countries, learning how they're coping during the pandemic, and learning about their hopes for the future.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and KOWS


  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 48:16
  • Purchases: 2
Listening to Our Better Angels
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Red, blue, rich, poor, country, city, left or right. Chances are you probably fall into one of those categories. And you may be quite happy where y...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KDNK


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
CESAR CHAVEZ STORY 2
From: Cesar Chavez Foundation
Series: CESAR CHAVEZ ANECDOTES
Caption: resist, Credit: flocabulary
Celebrating the Month of our founder Cesar Chavez through his own words and with the people who were closer to him.

  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 01:01
OHR Presents: Christmas!
From: Ozark Highlands Radio
Series: Ozark Highlands Radio (Specials)
Caption: Joni Bishop
Christmas songs both traditional & rare, performed by an interesting array of folk musicians, recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KNAU, RadioStPete Florida, Ohm Radio , RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 13
A Voicemail Valentine
From: Radio Diaries
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Nowadays we’re very accustomed to recording and hearing the sound of our own voices. But in the 1930s many people were doing it for the first time....

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 11, 2018
  • Length: 10:50
  • Purchases: 4
Anybody but Ranalli?
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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After interviewing his two challengers, Rob MacClanahan questions El Dorado Supervisor Ranalli, even though he's not there...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2018
  • Length: 02:09:21
OHR Presents: Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas
From: Ozark Highlands Radio
Series: Ozark Highlands Radio (Specials)
Caption: Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas
Celebrated Scottish & Oldtime acoustic music explorers Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain...

Bought by Ohm Radio and WEZU


  • Added: Apr 20, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
OHR Presents: Bruce Molsky’s Mountain Drifters
From: Ozark Highlands Radio
Series: Ozark Highlands Radio (Specials)
Caption: Bruce Molsky's Mountain Drifters
Preeminent old time fiddler Bruce Molsky and his Molsky’s Mountain Drifters recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Ark...

Bought by Ohm Radio and WEZU


  • Added: Apr 20, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
A Change of World
From: The Poetry Foundation
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Meryl Streep narrates an hour-long documentary special about how the Women’s Movement changed poetry, and how women poets changed the culture.

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, WGTE Public Media, WNMU-FM, KBIA, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 73
HumaNature: One Hour Special #5: Freedom Stories
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: journeys to freedom, on two legs…and four. Ten years ago, more than 50 pit bulls were discovered...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., New Hampshire Public Radio, KUT, and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Apr 20, 2017
  • Length: 58:28
  • Purchases: 4
Rocking the Boat: the Story of Changing Race Relations in Bemidji, Minnesota
From: Native Voice One
Caption: Paul Bunyan in Bemidji, MN
Predominantly white towns that border large American Indian reservations can be racially charged places. It is difficult for residents to face the ...

Bought by KSFR, WHRV, and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Mar 09, 2017
  • Length: 57:25
  • Purchases: 3
Islam, Immigration, and What It Means to Be French
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Going Global
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Anthropologist John Bowen shares a brief history of Islam in France and offers commentary on the ongoing European migrant crisis.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 09:30
  • Purchases: 2