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Exactly Who We Are: The Portraiture of Jana Marcus
From: Suki Wessling
Series: The Babblery
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What happens when a photographer, a mature woman herself, welcomes older women into her studio to get the full glamour treatment? In this episode o...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
SPECIAL ISeeU EPISODE: The Gay Black Civil Rights Financier
From: I See U with Eddie Robinson
Series: I SEE U with Eddie Robinson Specials
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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


  • Added: Jan 22, 2024
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 1
Illuminating Invisible Women with Historian Carolyn Zola
From: Suki Wessling
Series: The Babblery
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Historian Carolyn Zola's research illuminates the lives of women hucksters of nineteenth century America.

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 26, 2023
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 2
Seen and Obscene
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Borrowed and Banned
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The birth of obscenity laws in the 1870s provides a cautionary tale for the present moment, when far-right conservatives incorrectly label books “s...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Oct 25, 2023
  • Length: 26:15
  • Purchases: 1
S4 EP7: Bearing Witness
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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Psychiatrist Shaili Jain tells the story of a pivotal experience on a road trip with her father, and how it catalyzed her career as a PTSD speciali...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2022
  • Length: 40:19
The Forgotten Story of Clinton Melton
From: Radio Diaries
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On December 3, 1955, a 33-year-old Black gas station attendant named Clinton Melton was shot and killed in Glendora, Mississippi. Two witnesses — i...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 11:44
  • Purchases: 2
Okwui Okpokwasili: Visibility for the Invisible, Centering Black Women's Experiences in Performance
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Can dance and song offer insight into a person’s experience, and provoke curiosity, even empathy across national identity, race and gender? In this...

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


  • Added: Nov 24, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Rough Draft Diaries Revisit: The Bells
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Norman and Ora Bell have been a household name within the Toledo community for more than half a century. Known for working in local county governme...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2020
  • Length: 06:09
Centenarians in Lockdown
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Hunker Down Diaries
Caption: Joe Newman and Anita Sampson, Credit: ABC Action News
Joe Newman is 107 years old. He was 5 during the flu pandemic of 1918. Today, he lives in a senior apartment complex in Sarasota, Florida with his ...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 05:23
RDD: Allowed to Dream
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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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
Southern Sierra Miwuk's struggle for Federal Acknowledgement (Yosemite)
From: Jennifer Robin
Series: Resilience Radio
Caption: Tribal Logo, Credit: Tribal website
Southern Sierra Miwuk's struggle for Federal Acknowledgement (Yosemite). We discuss the 'Scam and sham" with Tribal Chairman, members and Lawyer.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2020
  • Length: 47:28
Free Brooklyn
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
Important stories about the struggle for freedom in Brooklyn, from a young girl “auctioned” at Plymouth Church in 1860 to the story of Crown Height...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 27:37
  • Purchases: 1
Last Witness: Surviving the Tulsa Race Massacre
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
Caption: Olivia Hooker, Age 6 in 1921
On May 31, 1921, Olivia Hooker was six-years-old when white mobs launched an attack on the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In less than 24 ho...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KOSU, KHSU, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 4
The Ghosts of Fire Island
From: Myke Dodge Weiskopf
Caption: The Invasion of the Pines on Fire Island, Credit: Mike Fisher
For most of the 20th Century, New York's Fire Island was virtually the only place on Earth where gay men and lesbians felt safe to live and to love...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KFAI Minneapolis, and Wild Planet Radio


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 25:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Peace of Nature: Our Forest Connection
From: Kevin Boucher
Caption: Autumn's colors give many people peace., Credit: Photo by Kevin Boucher
In our 21st century society we are bombarded by man-made and sometimes not so pleasing sounds. To escape this acoustic overload, many people escap...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jan 02, 2012
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 2
The Illinois Wildlife of John James Audubon
From: Kevin Boucher
Caption: A woodpecker foraging for food in the Cache River basin in southern Illinois, Credit: Photo by Kevin Boucher
When the famous naturalist John James Audubon traveled through southern Illinois in 1811-12 he saw many animals that are no longer in the prairie s...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2011
  • Length: 05:18
Silent and Unseen: Secret Agent in the Warsaw Uprising
From: Dave McGuire
Caption: Stefan Baluk during WWII, Credit: Stefan Baluk
A 97 year-old veteran of the Warsaw Uprising recounts parachuting into occupied Poland and fighting in a last-ditch attempt to re-take his home fro...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 18, 2011
  • Length: 14:19
  • Purchases: 2
Solomon's Wisdom
From: Tim Bugansky
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When he was a teenaged boy scout, Bill Johnson met a girl from Alaska on a westbound train. He only saw her once more. But nearly two decades later...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2010
  • Length: 01:00:20