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Caption: History Theatre's Kim Loo Sisters Kelsey Angel Baehrens, Suzie Juul, Morgan Kempton and Audrey Mojica photo by Rich Ryan, Credit: Paul Ryan
In the 1930s, the Kim loo Sisters of Minneapolis was a harmony singing force. From May 4 through the 26th, St Paul’s History Theater in co-producti...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2024
  • Length: 08:00
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Noted feminist scholar Bettina Aptheker explores the dawning of her feminist consciousness in waves. Daughter of a communist, Aptheker had to throw...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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Wrongful convictions happen all the time in America, and they could happen to anyone. How do we stop innocent people from going to prison?

Bought by KSTK, KMXT, RadioStPete Florida, KSTK, KOWS and more


  • Added: May 17, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Raycurt Johnson, Credit: Rachel Luhrs Austin
The First Annual Solidarity Harvest features local artists who met at the crossroads that became known as George Floyd Square. They congregated out...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Paul Metsa, Credit: Howard Christopherson
Paul Metsa is a defining Minneapolis musician of this generation. Reflecting on his recording career, Paul believes that a 1992 project called Whis...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2020
  • Length: 08:00
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Mishy Harman talks to Danny Tirza, a jovial retired IDF colonel who, back in 2002, was given an unusual – and logistically nearly impossible – miss...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 08:17
Caption: Dr Dean Alger, Credit: WWOZ Staff
Dr Dean Alger is a political scientist with five books to his credit, he has written about influential bluesman Lonnie Johnson and he sings and pla...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2020
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Citizens celebrate passage of Clear Skies Ordinance, Credit: Dan Wood
Despite millions of dollars of pressure from Shell, Exxon, and the American Petroleum Institute, the small city of South Portland, Maine stops the...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KRZA


  • Added: May 09, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Globally engaged curators introduce IKT, the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art, and talk about themes we'll explore during ...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2019
  • Length: 46:52
Caption: Darian Wyatt., Credit: Charles McGuigan
At High Noon, March 24, there was a showdown of sorts at the State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia. As the bell in the clock tower near ninth and Fra...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KVSC


  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 27:55
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Gina Messina
If Jesus was President, how would his policies measure up against those of the Trump Administration? Would Christians of the Trump Era support a Pr...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Jan 14, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Constellations | Very Quiet, Credit: Flickr
On this edition of Making Contact, we’ll explore how the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival has challenged mainstream cultur...

Bought by WMMT, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WVAS, and WRIR


  • Added: Jan 02, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Never before has a sitting justice on the Kansas Supreme Court not won a retention election. But as we all bear witness, 2016 is a different sort o...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2016
  • Length: 18:42
Caption: Cathy Cresser
Cathy Cresser, local write-in candidate for Shasta County Supervisor District 3, Joins us in the studio to tell us more about herself and her camp...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2016
  • Length: 57:45
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When should a judge step aside? As more and more money floods into judicial elections across the nation, states are grappling with this question. P...

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 30:36
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"It was the summer. And it was hot."

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 26, 2015
  • Length: 08:48
  • Purchases: 1
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No one wants to go to prison, but when the St. Cloud Correctional Facility opened its doors to the press last year during its 125th anniversary, KF...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 03:12
Caption: Ben Riggs, Credit: Paul Nixdorf
Harvey Milk, first gay elected official in San Francisco, was assassinated in 1978. The Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus, which has been performing for...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2014
  • Length: 05:02
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In his first Book former Newark Mayor Sharpe James write about his career as the leader of New Jersey's largest City and has good things to say abo...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
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Lawrence Cumberbatch (R) tells his son, Simeon (L), how he traveled from New York City to Washington DC with Brooklyn CORE for the March on Washing...

Bought by WEZU, WRIR, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and WTJU


  • Added: Aug 23, 2013
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Ziad Doueiri, San Francisco, CA 7/31/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Ziad Doueiri talks facing monsters, freedom of speech, and refusing to play politics.

  • Added: Aug 11, 2013
  • Length: 24:48
Caption: Pablo Larrain, San Francisco, CA 1/22/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Pablo Larrain talks the perspective of time, the metaphor of equality, and why politics are always personal.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2013
  • Length: 17:28
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Since the 1970s, Republicans have controlled Southern politics, but according to one researcher, the Republican Party has reached its peak in the S...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:28
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Director/co-writer Nikolaj Arcel talks human nature, bending genders, and impressing his mother.

  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 16:35
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There are many ways to support your candidates- or propositions-of-choice before voting on November 6. You can obviously give your time, by volunte...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:59