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Mental Health Breakthroughs
From: Aspen Public Radio
Series: Aspen Psychedelic Symposium 2023
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This special broadcast from Aspen Public Radio was recorded live at the 2023 Aspen Psychedelic Symposium earlier this year. “Mental Health Breakthr...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
What is Healing, What is Ceremony?
From: Aspen Public Radio
Series: Aspen Psychedelic Symposium 2023
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This special broadcast from Aspen Public Radio was recorded live at the 2023 Aspen Psychedelic Symposium earlier this year. “What is Healing, What ...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
All for a Library Card
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Borrowed and Banned
Caption: Borrowed and Banned logo, Credit: John Snowden
When a high school teacher in Norman, Oklahoma shared a QR code with her students that would grant them access to BPL’s digital collection, she too...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 25:47
  • Purchases: 1
The Chief Standing Bear Story
From: KWIT
Series: Small Wonders
Caption: Chief Standing Bear
As the United States spread west, indigenous people were displaced without being given the most basic recognition under law: being "people." When t...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2021
  • Length: 46:34
Would You Be My Neighbor?
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Inequality
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Sociologist Ariela Schachter investigates how Americans think about race, immigration, assimilation, and what it means to be ‘similar.’

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 12:15
  • Purchases: 1
Creators and Copycats: The Business of Fashion in Guatemala
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Inequality
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In an indigenous Mayan community in highland Guatemala, sociocultural anthropologist Kedron Thomas noticed a trend that led her to investigate inte...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 18:47
Charter School Myths
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Inequality
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A sociologist of education breaks down some common myths about charter schools and offers her advice for newly appointed education secretary Betsy ...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 15:08
Inequality at Work
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Inequality
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Sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfeld documents the pervasive and often subtle ways that successful black men – people like doctors, lawyers, and engine...

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 12:48
  • Purchases: 1
Making Sense of Klansville
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Inequality
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When conducting research for his acclaimed book "Klansville, USA," sociologist David Cunningham encountered the work of a journalist who, in the 19...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 16:45
Right to Work? Unions & Income Inequality
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Inequality
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Sociologist Jake Rosenfeld discusses the growing wealth gap between rich and poor Americans, decreasing labor union membership, and considers what ...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 13:42
Episode #4: "A Vandalized Voice"
From: Marcos Nájera
Series: ZETA PODCAST SERIES
Caption: Rolling Stone book publisher Alan Rinzler at home in Berkeley., Credit: Marcos Nájera
The men in Zeta’s life. From family to friends to former lovers? You never know—some say Zeta was a constant chameleon in life, love, and the law. ...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 16:59
Episode #3: "The Ladies in His Life"
From: Marcos Nájera
Series: ZETA PODCAST SERIES
Caption: Betty Dowd, Marco Acosta & Anita Acosta at the SF Latino Film Festival , Credit: Marcos Nájera
The women in Zeta’s life. From family to friends to former lovers. The ladies speak up and out about Oscar Zeta Acosta. From his spark-light sister...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 31:40
Episode #2: "Hunting for Buffalo in Arizona"
From: Marcos Nájera
Series: ZETA PODCAST SERIES
Caption: ASU Professor Luis Mendoza holds up an original copy of Acosta's book., Credit: Marcos Nájera
Nájera travels home to the Southwest to visit Latino scholars from ASU’s Transborder Studies department. The first of its kind in the nation. Chica...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 22:40
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
In a Global Economy, What Happens to Elections?
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Going Global
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Two political scientists explain how globalization is changing political parties and elections in the European Union and beyond.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 08:25
  • Purchases: 1
Anarchism and Dissent in Medieval Islam
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Religion & Politics
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Professor Hayrettin Yucesoy explores the turbulent political and religious climate of the medieval Islamic world.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 09:29
  • Purchases: 1
The Mormon Citizen
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Religion & Politics
Caption: Mitt Romney speaking to supporters at a grassroots early voting rally in Mesa, Arizona, Credit: Flickr: Gage Skidmore
Laurie Mafflly-Kipp discusses how the Mormon faith and politics have intertwined throughout American history.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 11:00
1971 Powell Memo
From: Action Speaks Radio
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A call to arms to protect business from the anti-capitalist rhetoric of the 1960s.

Bought by WRIR, Spokane Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, and WRPI


  • Added: Dec 04, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 4
1992 Invasion of the Body Scanner
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Surveillance in America—needed or nightmare?

Bought by KREV-LP, Spokane Public Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Nov 15, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 3
1965 Griswold v. Connecticut
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Contraception as a right of privacy? The Supreme Court say, ‘Yes’!

Bought by KZYX, Spokane Public Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Nov 06, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 3
1992 First Critical Mass Ride
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Bicyclists take to the streets en mass in a fight over the ‘right to the city’.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KTSW 89.9, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WXDU and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 53:31
  • Purchases: 13
Action Speaks! What's Eating Us? 1998 - The Sonny Bono Act (Copywright Extension)
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Action Speaks! Underappreciated Dates that Changed America and its panelists -- including famed author Shepard Fairey and scholar and attorney Lawr...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, WFSU, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Oct 15, 2010
  • Length: 58:50
  • Purchases: 7
Action Speaks! - What Now? 1933: The Creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Action Speaks! - Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial a...

Bought by KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WRPI, KWIT, WRNC-LP, WPTC and more


  • Added: May 04, 2009
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
Without Comment: The First 100 Days-Week Six"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: "Without Comment:The First 100 Days"
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Without Comment is a 13 week series looking at the first 100 days of the Barack presidency.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: 09:45
Crossing East: New Waves, New Storms - Program Eight
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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Recently, Asian Americans have faced discrimination, but remained strong. THE ACTUAL SHOW LENGTH IS 59 MINUTES. THERE ARE SEVERAL VERSIONS OF THIS ...

Bought by KRCB 104.9, WCPN, WCPN, KQED, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21