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EE 24-07: Author Jori Lewis on the natural and human history of the peanut , 2/16/2024

From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats

While peanut butter is one of my favorite foods, I can’t say that I have given much thought to the peanut as a crop, or paid any attention to its r...

SPECIAL ISeeU EPISODE: The Gay Black Civil Rights Financier

From: I See U with Eddie Robinson
Series: I SEE U with Eddie Robinson Specials

I SEE U examines the mystique behind the late millionaire, Norris Herndon, as a disappearing family legacy looms and the public knows little about ...

Bought by KUHF

Origin Stories

From: Distillations
Series: Innate

How race was invented to support racism.

EE 23-11: Jori Lewis on the complex story of the peanut, 3/10/2023

From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats

While peanut butter is one of my favorite foods, I can’t say that I have given much thought to the peanut as a crop, or paid any attention to its r...

Episode #31 A Billie Holiday Holiday

From: Rebecca Glotfelty
Series: The Red Jacket Jamboree, an old time radio variety show

Caption: Jennifer Barnett, Credit: Second Sandbar Productions

Join host Lena Dorey, the cast of The Red Jacket Jamboree and guests for a Christmas episode which pays tribute to jazz singer Billie Holiday. In ...

Bought by KBRP Community Radio, WNMU-FM, and Southern Branch Bluegrass

Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for August 3, 2022

From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine

Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991

This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: In Historic Breakthrough, Senate Bill Requires Medicare to Negotiate Price...

Bought by WETS

World in Progress 06/16/2022

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW

This week on the show: The remnants of slavery - June 19th or Juneteenth is the day where the US commemorates the end of slavery. Dealing with...

Bought by WVTF and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)

Women on the Waterfront

From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Building Brooklyn

At the start of World War II, 200 women were employed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. That number ballooned to 7,000 at the height of the war, but after...

Bought by KVNF and KCNP

Martha’s Vineyard: Along the Deaf Heritage Trail and beyond

From: World Footprints LLC

Caption: Aquinnah on Martha's Vineyard is where the Wampanoag Tribe has settled.

Hear the stories few are sharing about Martha’s Vineyard—from the Deaf Heritage Trail, African American Heritage Trail and beyond.

Black Women In History

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

While Black women have played a critical role in the development of the nation, their stories have been mostly overlooked. In the new book, A Black...

Bought by KALW, RadioStPete Florida, KUHF, KUT, High Plains Public Radio and more

Montgomery to East New York

From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library

We dig into the history of a once-unacknowledged African burial ground in East New York, Brooklyn, and ask how a new library branch can honor that ...

Marching Onward

From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library

From Selma, Alabama to Brooklyn, New York — we look at how racial violence and racial memory impacts our country and our libraries.

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio and KFAI Minneapolis

Why We Still Need to Talk About White Supremacy

From: Mateo Schimpf

It’s been three months since George Floyd was killed by a white police officer in Minnesota. The movement prompted an outpouring from lawmakers in ...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WHCP-LP Cambridge

The Rough Draft Diaries Revisit: Peep Game Comix

From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor

This week on The Rough Draft Diaries Revisit, we're checking in with Imani Lateef of Peep Game Comix, a digital comics platform dedicated to the wo...

88-01: Why Rosie the Riveter is "Not My Icon” - Betty Reid Soskin, National Park Service

From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller

For the past decade, now 98-year-old Betty Reid Soskin has served as the nation’s oldest Park Ranger, where she gives talks at the Rosie the Rivete...

Bought by WJCT, RadioStPete Florida, WLRH, KWIT, KKRN and more

White Supremacy, at Home and Abroad

From: Mateo Schimpf

This week on the podcast, we’re looking at what white supremacy means and the role it plays in policing in the Western Hemisphere. Anthropologist C...

Our Garbage, Ourselves

From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library

Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman

We start this episode at Dead Horse Bay, where we ask what trash can tell us about structures of power, and end the episode in 1960s Bed-Stuy, wher...

Bought by PRX Remix

72-01: Inside The Ferguson Uprising - Sabaah Folayan, Director of "Whose Streets"

From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller

On the 5 year anniversary of the uprising in Ferguson, MO, we're re-airing this conversation--with new trax acknowledging the date. When Michael Br...

Bought by KWIT, KCSB-FM, KWIT, KSJD, KUT and more

88: Why Rosie the Riveter is "not my icon" - Betty Reid Soskin, National Park Service

From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller

For the past decade, 96-year-old Betty Reid Soskin has served as the nation’s oldest Park Ranger, where she gives talks at the Rosie the Riveter/WW...

Bought by KWIT, KWMR, KUT, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more

the Black Panthers

From: WIL LAVEIST
Series: The Wil LaVeist Show

A discussion about the groundbreaking PBS documentary about The Black Panthers.

Part 2: Flint water crisis a turning point for Green movement

From: Great Lakes Today
Series: New Faces, New Issues

Caption: WT Stevens replaces a pipe under a Flint street, Credit: Elizabeth Miller/ideastream

Part 2 of series -- Historically, the environmental movement hasn’t always been welcoming to people of color – and issues that are important to the...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, WCPN, WBFO, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more

Part 1: Environmental groups slow to seek out minorities

From: Great Lakes Today
Series: New Faces, New Issues

Caption: Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir at Yosemite in 1903, Credit: Library of Congress

Part 1 of series -- When you think of the environmental movement, what comes to mind. Preserving the wilderness in national parks? Or guaranteeing ...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WCPN, WXXI Rochester, WBFO, North Country Public Radio and more

Life of the Law #114: Inside San Quentin - To Be Heard

From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law

Troy Williams and scholars Rebecca McClennan, Keramet Reiter, Ashley Rubin, and Heather Thompson drove about an hour away to San Quentin State Pris...

RDD: A Man And His Bass (part 1)

From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor

In this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, Haley gets acquainted with one of Toledo's Jazz Icons, Clifford Murphy. Clifford is known for playing i...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

RDD: A Conversation with Pete Culp

From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor

This week on the RDD, Haley meets with Pete Culp, a member of the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority board of directors. Baldemar Velasquez nominat...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

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