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Episode 4: On The Death Penalty - The Unexpected Messenger

From: Will Coley
Series: Shifting the Narrative

Over the past decade, support for the death penalty has plummeted. In this episode, we look at why this happened and how one unexpected messenger, ...

Episode 2: On Poverty - The Power of The Camera

From: Will Coley
Series: Shifting the Narrative

Fifty years ago, the Poor People’s Campaign took over a portion of the National Mall in Washington, DC. Their aim: change how Americans understand ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Spotlight on "Jimmy Carter-Rock 'n' Roll President" Documentary

From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes

We talk with music documentary director Mary Wharton and writer Bill Flanagan. They’ve collaborated with others to create the documentary we’re sp...

The Port Chicago Sailors: Separate and Unequal

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Freddie Meeks, sailor in the disaster at weapons shipping depot in Port Chicago, Calif., holds a picture of himself as a young seaman July 14, 1994. He died in 2003. , Credit: (AP Photo/Chris Pizzelo)

Wartime. Disaster. Trauma. Charges of mutiny for 50 Black sailors in a Jim Crow courtroom. Discrimination and a battle for civil rights. Listen to ...

Bought by KSFR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KVSC

Episode 1: A Radical Approach to Disaster Relief

From: Tom Llewellyn
Series: The Response

In the first episode of The Response, we ask the question: how do communities come together in the aftermath of disasters—often in the face of ina...

Bought by KVSC

I Am Not Your Negro: James Baldwin

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is ...

Bought by WVAS, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KCMJ Community Radio, WXDU, and WRIR

Program 2 ~ The Soundtrack in Vietnam

From: WPSU
Series: Time to Lay it Down ~ The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War

The second hour of the two-part series, Time to Lay it Down ~ The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War. Listen to the soundtrack of the Vietnam War as ...

Bought by KWSO, Radio Bristol, WQLN, Prairie Public, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more

Program 1 ~ The Battle of the Airwaves

From: WPSU
Series: Time to Lay it Down ~ The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War

The first hour of the two-part series, Time to Lay It Down ~ The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War that explores the music created during the Vietnam W...

Bought by KPIK-LP, KWSO, Radio Bristol, WQLN, Prairie Public and more

Episode 16: Liberty's Pitchman - Robert LeFevre & The Freedom School

From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here

In the mid-20th Century, a man named Robert LeFevre (pronounced Luh-FAVE) created a small mountain academy just north of Colorado Springs called Th...

Bought by KVNF

Inside the St. Cloud Correctional Facility

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices

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...

Harlem In Revolt - Part #3 (Malcolm X unedited interview)

From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Harlem In Revolt (3 Parts)

Caption: Malcolm X (1964), Credit: Associate Press

Malcolm X 1963: The uncut interview.

Harlem In Revolt - Part #2

From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Harlem In Revolt (3 Parts)

This is the second hour of the documentary 'Harlem In Revolt.' It was made by a young writer called Austin Clarke and looked at the state of Harlem...

Bought by KQED

Harlem In Revolt - Part #1

From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Harlem In Revolt (3 Parts)

A little more than fifty years ago, 1963, was a time of great upheaval in the United States. The fight for civil rights was in full force with peop...

Bought by KQED

Chapter 23 - On the Line

From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York

On the job in the steel mills, the Ministers-in-Industry participants continue to shield their identities as seminarians to keep the situation real...

William Jennings Bryan: The Speech That Changed Politics

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders

At the 1896 Democratic Convention, Bryan gave a speech that electrified his party and won him the nomination. His “Cross of Gold” speech is known t...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, The Story, PRX Remix, KUT and more

Adlai Stevenson: A Candidate in the Age of Television

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders

The 1952 presidential campaign pitted the immensely popular General Dwight D. Eisenhower against the ferociously intellectual and intensely private...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, XRAY.fm, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more

Never On Sunday: The Hidden World Of Elena Fonseca

From: Samuel Robinson

The story of Elena Fonseca, a remarkable women from Montevideo, Uruguay. Elena was a diplomats wife who lived in a number of countries before retur...

Bought by PRX Remix

Calexico Episode V: The Star Spanglished Barrier

From: James McKee
Series: Calexico: The True Story of Life in the California Borderlands

Caption: at the border, Credit: Peter Laufer

Washington Monthly's Peter Laufer and Markos Kounalakis report on the Mexican-American Borderlands in this five-part series.

Bought by KALW

Thurgood Marshall: Before the Court

From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History

In 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. But Marshall had already earned a place in histor...

Bought by Nevada Public Radio, WGTE Public Media, WMUU-LP, WFAE, KALW and more

Calexico Episode I: Bordering on a State of Mind

From: James McKee
Series: Calexico: The True Story of Life in the California Borderlands

Caption: Calexico - Mexicali, Credit: Peter Laufer

Washington Monthly's Peter Laufer and Markos Kounalakis report on the Mexican-American Borderlands in this five-part series.

Bought by WABE, XRAY.fm, KQED, and KALW

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

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