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Welcome to melodically challenged, where this week’s show is She’s a Maneater!—a collection of poems featuring history’s most dangerous and misunde...
- Added: Sep 26, 2023
- Length: 01:00:06
Jess speaks with Oppenheimer biographer Kai Bird about one of Earth's most influential humans and his scientific and political legacies.
- Added: Jul 25, 2023
- Length: 29:00
The role of women, particularly Indigenous women, during the legendary fur trade in Minnesota is often overlooked. KFAI contributor Joe Friedrichs ...
- Added: May 18, 2023
- Length: 21:58
A Pulitzer Prize-winner for Black History Month.
Bought by KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, WPCA-LP, KMUN, KUOW and more
- Added: Feb 16, 2022
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 18
Decades before our current debate over critical race theory, the 1968 Kerner Commission pointed the finger at structural racism for creating the co...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Oct 05, 2021
- Length: 08:56
- Purchases: 2
Today we're talking to one of the oldest glass artist in Ohio, Jack Schmidt. He received a B.S. degree from Bowling Green State University at a tim...
- Added: May 25, 2021
- Length: 06:08
A caring black musician is dedicated to convincing Ku Klux Klansmen to leave the organization through the power of music and conversation.
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Since the first rail line was completed in Minnesota in 1862, the railroad has had a storied existence in the state. Fire is part of that story. KF...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Apr 25, 2021
- Length: 07:09
- Purchases: 1
This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, we're talking to Kelly Savino. Before she was a teacher of fine art at the local botanical garden, Kelly was ...
- Added: Mar 30, 2021
- Length: 06:10
Even starting a piece that's 639 years long is an act of incredible optimism.
- Added: Aug 04, 2020
- Length: 07:54
On March 5, 1978 in subzero temperatures, about 10,000 farmers marched across Pope County, Minn. in a staged funeral procession to mourn the death ...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 23, 2020
- Length: 07:15
- Purchases: 2
We're continuing to catch up with previous guests of The Rough Draft Diaries to see how their doing. This week we check in with Midstory, a nonprof...
- Added: Jun 30, 2020
- Length: 06:12
Unveiled in 2004, the African American Legacy Project (AALP) of Northwest Ohio, has been documenting and preserving the history of Northwest Ohio's...
- Added: Jun 08, 2020
- Length: 05:59
Jennifer Brouwer lost her mother to Pancreatic Cancer in 2001, in wanting to honor her mother’s memory she created the Janet Phleger Foundation, a...
Bought by WOUB
- Added: Mar 23, 2020
- Length: 06:23
- Purchases: 1
After years in an internment camp, a Japanese-American family struggles to adjust to their new lives.
Bought by KUNM, KUNM, Spokane Public Radio, KMUN, KWMR and more
- Added: Feb 26, 2019
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 10
“From almost every kind of responsibility and tie from engagement and from faith. So the artist--our task is to move ourselves and the rest of us i...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WRIR
- Added: Oct 10, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Anyone can do history. And anyone who does has an obligation to do it well. This episode is about how in the US we do our best to avoid the history...
- Added: Sep 22, 2017
- Length: 25:35
This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, you'll meet Megan Yasu Davis. Megan is the founder of The Kitchen Salon, a natural and locked hair resource f...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: May 15, 2017
- Length: 06:41
- Purchases: 1
Gary Bryner tells Studs Terkel about being a union member and working in an auto factory for General Motors. Four decades later, he reflects on how...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, KZYX, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KICI Iowa City and more
- Added: May 09, 2017
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 6
Chess Records' first release was a disastrous Tibbs Brother song expressing displeasure with the then recently deceased racist Mississippi Governor...
- Added: May 01, 2017
- Length: 01:08:20
Music & Mans Self Discovery with Dj Spooky aka That Subliminal Kid aka Paul Miller explores the ways in which music documents, inspires, heals and ...
- Added: Mar 23, 2017
- Length: 27:41
Where do we come from? And where do we go when we die? Paul Taylor shares one of the oldest answers to those questions.
- Added: May 18, 2016
- Length: 11:51
- Purchases: 3
Airplanes in department stores? There was a time in U.S. History when people experienced this reality. But are we any closer today to realizing the...
- Added: Nov 14, 2015
- Length: 13:22
In this episode we break down the factors that will influence the fate of football in the United States. Is football doomed or is it immune to the ...
- Added: Nov 04, 2015
- Length: 34:39
Rabin is a symbol. An icon. But in Israel of 2015, twenty years after the Prime Minister's murder, it isn't so simple to understand what the reall...
- Added: Nov 04, 2015
- Length: 01:05:56
