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Owning a home is the American Dream. How has the decision to prioritize homeownership in the US shaped our communities, for better or worse?
Bought by KSTK, RADIOLEX, KOWS, KMXT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more
- Added: Sep 29, 2023
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 6
Folk Salad celebrates the music of Burt Bacharach, as well as some other sophisticated pop songs from artists like Dionne Warwick, Burt Bacharah an...
- Added: Mar 08, 2023
- Length: 58:59
On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts William Hosea and Natalia Galvan speak with two women of color who are vying for local and national polit...
- Added: Dec 11, 2021
- Length: 59:00
In this episode, we explore how the news media is doing in covering COVID-19 – including the responses of public officials… the data on infections ...
- Added: Apr 23, 2020
- Length: 29:30
A Psychic discusses his belief in extrasensory perception. His belief appears innocuous until we introduce the analogy of illness & vaccines.
This...
- Added: Mar 19, 2020
- Length: 01:00:00
Egypt has the largest film industry in the Arab world. There have been movies produced in Egypt, mostly in Cairo, since the early silent era.
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 04:21
As Congress and the Trump Administration roll back environmental protections, some communities are especially harmed. But Professor David Konisky e...
- Added: Jun 07, 2017
- Length: 25:59
Title IX protects against sexual assault and gender discrimination at universities. Celene Reynolds discusses the state of Title IX today, and how ...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: May 10, 2017
- Length: 21:51
- Purchases: 1
Changing public opinion and high costs have death sentences in decline in America. Professor Frank Baumgartner explains that when they do happen, r...
- Added: Apr 21, 2017
- Length: 28:31
Poverty can persist in the same communities for generations, especially communities of color. Professor Darrick Hamilton walks through the policies...
- Added: Apr 21, 2017
- Length: 27:15
We're getting a jump on the process of picking our favorite albums of 2016. There are many to choose from, and this first part of a 2 part series d...
- Added: Nov 21, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
At first it was a curiosity … then a nuisance that evolved into a phenomenon. Abandoned bicycles scattered across the desert at the US/Mexican boar...
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
This is about our kids, our future generations. Ask any grade school teacher, and they’ll tell you the job is very challenging.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 01, 2016
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
David Harrington, the founding member of the pioneering, genre mixing, multi award winning Kronos Quartet reflects on the remarkable and still ongo...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, KGLT, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 3
A 2015 MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Ellen Bryant Voigt talks with fellow poet and professor, Michelle Boisseau, about her collection HEADWATERS. Voigt...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Jan 21, 2016
- Length: 30:30
- Purchases: 1
Even in good schools racial inequality thrives. Basically, that’s the summary of an extensive study conducted by associate professors Amanda Lewis ...
- Added: Oct 29, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
It’s the rare writer who can pick up where Albert Camus — master of midcentury philosophy and fiction — left off in the modern classic, The Outside...
- Added: Jun 26, 2015
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 2
We're asking the $64,000 question: can we build a more crash-proof, less leveraged, more equitable financial system? Our guest Jeremy Allaire would...
- Added: Mar 31, 2015
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 2
Today, 47-million Americans live in poverty. That places this country at the bottom among industrial nations for the divide between the haves and h...
- Added: Mar 25, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
We’re revisiting the Attica prison revolt in 1971. It began as a civil rights protest and ended in a massacre when Governor Nelson Rockefeller orde...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KZYX
- Added: Mar 15, 2015
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 2
On this Kickstarter-launch week we’re diagnosing America’s healthcare woes with the meta-journalist and heart patient, Steve Brill.
- Added: Jan 25, 2015
- Length: 58:37
Starting last month, the American freeze-out of Communist Cuba, which long outlasted the Cold War, began to come to an end. It may have been a smal...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Jan 12, 2015
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 1
Lauren Joichin Nile introduces her readers to some provocative ideas in her book RACE: My Story and Humanity’s Bottom Line. Her work delves deep in...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 30, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The news from the big-money midterm is: meh!
Democrats are out, the Republicans are in, and the country’s feeling bluer than ever. Six years after...
- Added: Nov 06, 2014
- Length: 58:37
Show biz is center stage next in our higher ed series: Two venerable private art schools in Boston’s Back Bay — Emerson College and the Berklee Col...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 58:35
