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Your Neighborhood in your Hands: A Model from the South Bronx
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Real estate development conjures up images of gentrification with sleek buildings and polished store fronts often built under the guise of urban re...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN, and WNYE


  • Added: Feb 09, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
AOC & Noam Chomsky: The Way Forward
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this historic, inter-generational meeting of minds, Laura Flanders brings together New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and MIT profe...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KMUN


  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
US Healthcare After Covid: What’s Next & How Could It Be Better?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The Medicare for All Act was reintroduced into the U.S. House in March with a record number of cosponsors and public support. But while the idea of...

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


  • Added: Mar 31, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Not Everyone is a Jerk: Rutger Bregman on Humankind
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Life gives us plenty of reasons for cynicism but best-selling author Rutger Bregman (Utopia for Realists) summons a wealth of evidence that humanki...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Feb 24, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Peter Heller, THE RIVER & Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with Peter Heller about his terrific new novel, a thriller set on a river above the Arctic Circle. It’s called The River. Then, we re-air ...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
One Long Night: Andrea Pitzer on the Global History of Concentration Camps
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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"Honorable people can do terrible things" says Andrea Pitzer in her book "One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps." We talk to Andr...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 17, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Losing the Peace
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Our guest David Blight reminds us that Americans are re-fighting the Civil War 150 years after it ended. Historians, he said, “buried the questions...

Bought by WRPI and KZYX


  • Added: Apr 11, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Interrogators Without Pliers
From: Matt Thompson
Caption: Hanns Scharff "Master Interrogator" of the Luftwaffe, Credit: Scharff Estate
Why torture doesn't work. How to trick the enemy into revealing secrets. Lessons from the Master Interrogator of the Luftwaffe. The British Poli...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WRPI


  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 27:31
  • Purchases: 2
Author David Treuer talks to Charlie Pulkrabek about his new book "Rez Life."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
Caption: "Rez Life" by David Treuer
Leech Lake Indian writer, David Treuer, has a new book, “Rez Life”. The author of three novels and one collection of essays, “Rez Life” is his firs...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 33:40
  • Purchases: 1
State of Siege: Mississippi Whites and the Civil Rights Movement
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History
Caption: White students protest integration at the University of Mississippi in 1962. No state in the South was more resistant to the struggle for black equality. , Credit: Photograph by Flip Schulke/CORBIS
Mississippi occupies a distinct and dramatic place in the history of America’s civil rights movement. No state in the South was more resistant to t...

Bought by WDDE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WKMS, WCMU Michigan, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 32
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -8: American As Apple Pie--How Terrorism Lost (1940-55)
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
Caption: Paul Robeson testifies
Equality under the law became viable for African Americans only after hard, dangerous work turned public opinion and federal policy against the whi...

Bought by WCPN and KSJD


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 2
"WITHOUT COMMENT: THE FIRST 100 DAYS-Week Four"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: "Without Comment:The First 100 Days"
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The series takesa a look at the first 100 days of the Obama administration.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2009
  • Length: 06:27
How European Immigrants Became White
From: Phillip Martin
Series: The Color Initiative
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How some immigrants once considered non-white became white

  • Added: Feb 13, 2008
  • Length: 06:02
In the Spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. in Europe
From: Phillip Martin
Series: Standing Up To Hate in Europe
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A German activist describes how MLK influenced her life and her life-long struggle against right-wing extremism.

Bought by KRCB 104.9, WHFR, Radio Catskill, WGHC-LP 98.3 FM Chicago, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2008
  • Length: 07:20
  • Purchases: 19
In Love with the Mob
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
Caption: PRX default Piece image
One hundred years of mob rule in Youngstown, Ohio.

Bought by Audible


  • Added: May 24, 2005
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 1
Talking About Abortion: A Resurgence in Sound
From: Marian van der Zon
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An experiential history told primarily through women’s voices, spanning six decades.

  • Added: Nov 29, 2004
  • Length: 59:21