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Lupita Espinoza can often be seen pushing a stroller up one of those steep San Francisco hills that many of us try to avoid. She can’t avoid it, th...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 09:01
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NEA Heritage Fellow Harold Burnham keeps the Essex shipbuilding tradition alive and vibrant. [30:47]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 30:47
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Voice for Working People
Reactions to the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership

  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 02:59
Caption: Toby and Jackie, Credit: Molly Haley
Thirteen year old Toby Choyt of Maine meets a retired lobsterman on Portland's historic Widgery Wharf and tells his story.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 06:18
Caption: Recruiters for the U.S. Marines canvass shopping plazas, high schools and job fairs for potential soldiers., Credit: Alexandra Kanik/PublicSource
In robust economic times, America’s armed services have had to hustle to recruit qualified soldiers. But when civilian unemployment is high and th...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Dec 06, 2013
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 1
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Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.

  • Added: Nov 15, 2013
  • Length: 03:08
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Larry Gavin teaches English at Fairibault High School. He's had three collections of poetry published by Red Dragonfly Press. And he's a nationally...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:53
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Don Byles talks to his daughter Mackenzie about their family's funeral home.

Bought by WEZU and Prairie Public


  • Added: Aug 30, 2013
  • Length: 02:09
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Bryan Lindsay (L) and Rowan Allen (R)
Paramedic Rowan Allen talks to Bryan Lindsay about the day he saved his life.

Bought by WEZU and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 26, 2013
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2
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Most of us learned in history class that slavery in the U.S. ended with the Thirteenth Amendment. But the trade in human beings—for sex and labor—i...

Bought by WJCT, Troy Public Radio, WFHB, and KVLU


  • Added: Jul 22, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Most of us learned in history class that slavery in the U.S. ended with the Thirteenth Amendment. But the trade in human beings—for sex and labor—i...

Bought by WCNY, KWIT, and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 22, 2013
  • Length: 53:51
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Sherry Blackman
Author Sherry Blackman bring to life the vivid tale of a young wife and mother who awoke one day unable to feel her own body. Despite Jane Gagliard...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
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Don Fidel, an immigrant to the United States, opened a staple restaurant in Chicago, but for his family, it was more than restaurant.

  • Added: May 09, 2013
  • Length: 16:26
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Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's reigning Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites a poem about her favorite model of farm tractor. The Beat is a dai...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Marie Jeanne, one of Congo's hundreds of thousands of women who are a victim of sexual violence.
Lawmakers in the U.S. want to leverage our consumer power to bring change to the Congo. The question is: do they stand a chance of making a differe...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 19, 2013
  • Length: 14:32
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard looks forward to his studies under Reinhold Niebuhr, one of the most challenging theological thinkers of his generation. In his last summer...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 23:41
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard spends the 1948 fall election season organizing student chapters of the League for Industrial Democracy on college campuses. Though loyal t...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 28:27
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The Federal Writers Project in West Virginia, and the battle to tell the TRUE story of the state's history.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 06:12
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 03:36
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LouAnn Shepard Muhm is a widely published poet and teacher living in northern Minnesota. She has been featured in the mnartists.org series "What Li...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:02
Caption: Gary Bentley with his daughter Lily
Since January, thousands of coal miners have been laid off in Central Appalachia. We’ve heard a lot of opinions about the causes of this decline a...

Bought by WRNC-LP


  • Added: Oct 18, 2012
  • Length: 11:31
  • Purchases: 1
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According to the 2010 census, Marin City is now a median-income community. But a stigma and challenges remain. Marin City still has higher crime an...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2012
  • Length: 05:59
Caption: Entrance to the shop, with volunteer-painted sign. Inside: Kathleen Mills, Steven Hobdy and Morgan Kanninen, Credit: Jen Chien
Bike culture in the Bay Area runs the gamut, from high performance racing to hipster fixies. Keeping a bike can be an expensive hobby, and as with ...

Bought by XRAY.fm, WSLR, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 31, 2012
  • Length: 07:22
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Tony Hsieh, Credit: Jake Chessum
Host Phalana Tiller talks with hotelier Chip Conley and Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh about the notion that work and happiness should be inextricably linke...

  • Added: May 13, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
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Washington's labor, immigrant and faith communities are promising a large and vocal turnout on Tuesday (May 1) for annual May Day marches and ralli...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 04:48