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Ilan Stavans, The United States of Mestizo
From: Joseph Sr Dobzynski
Series: We All Live Here For What It's Worth
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Ilan Stavans is a Mexican-American essayist, lexicographer, cultural commentator, translator, short-story author, TV personality, and teacher known...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2015
  • Length: 23:33
Gary Segura, Latino America: How America's Most Dynamic Population will Transform the Politics of the Nation
From: Joseph Sr Dobzynski
Series: We All Live Here For What It's Worth
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Gary Segura, Latino America: How America's Most Dynamic Population Is Poised to Transform the Politics of the Nation Gary M. Segura is a Professor...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Mar 03, 2015
  • Length: 25:35
  • Purchases: 1
Historian Ray Arsenault explores the legacy of Marian Anderson
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: marian-anderson-the-lincoln-memorial-concert-1939, Credit: courtesy of national film preservation foundation
Raymond Arsenault's book The Sound of Freedom examines the 30 minute concert that helped move a nation forward.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 27, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Truth and Fiction (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A new online archive of Grimm’s fairy tales reveals the evolution of these iconic stories, whose earlier versions were often violent and sexually s...

Bought by WJCT, WABE, KRDP, WYAP, KENW and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6
Truth and Fiction (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A new online archive of Grimm’s fairy tales reveals the evolution of these iconic stories, whose earlier versions were often violent and sexually s...

Bought by WCNY, KKRN, KREV-LP, WTJU, and KUNV


  • Added: Feb 27, 2015
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 5
The Beat: Danielle Cheri - "Changes"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Danielle Cheri is a writer, musician and hip hop artist from Minneapolis. She's recorded her work and published a collection of short stories and p...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Jon Dallas - "Emptying the Scrip"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Jon Dallas is a poet living in Chisholm, Minnesota. Jon's poetry has appeared in the New Orleans Review, Green Mountain Review, Antigonish Review, ...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:19
Ben Miller Band Interview
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
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Don't let the washboard and spoons fool you: Ben Miller Band is here to rock your world.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WLPR , KRPS, WYAP, WSLR and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2015
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Cookbook Author Anne Byrn: "Unbelievably Gluten-Free"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Anne’s particular talent with her cookbooks is creating well written and easy-to-follow recipes. And as many readers know, this is not always true ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 09:48
  • Purchases: 1
Steve Almond on the Post-Jon Stewart Era
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Steve Almond
When Jon Stewart recently announced his plan to leave the Daily Show – the fake news show that has steadily become the go-to news-source for millio...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
South Minneapolis home to inspiring Russian Art Museum
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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The Spanish Colonial-Revival building at 55th Street and Stevens Avenue in south Minneapolis was originally home to the Mayflower Church. In 2005 t...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 05:30
Enchantment Lake: Margi Preus
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words features Margi Preus of Duluth reading an excerpt (the second of two) from her book, "Enchantment Lake."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 23, 2015
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 1
First Novel to TV Series: Author Jason Mott and “The Returned"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Jason’s first novel was inspired by a dream in which his late mother visited him. He goes on to describe his day job while he was writing the book ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Feb 19, 2015
  • Length: 09:55
  • Purchases: 2
Filmmaker Sam Pollard celebrates August Wilson.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: August Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" Playbill., Credit: Photofest, Inc.
Filmmaker Sam Pollard talks about his new documentary August Wilson: The Ground on which I Stand

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 18, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 4
Steve Earle Interview
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Terraplane by Steve Earle, Credit: Official Album Cover
Steve Earle's new album, Terraplane, takes the noted singer-songwriter back to his Texas roots.

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WLPR , WSLR, KRPS and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2015
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 6
6 String Drag Interview
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Roots Rock N Roll, Credit: Official Album Cover Art by Skillet Gilmore of Crawlspace Press
6 String Drag disappeared in the mid-1990s, just when they seemed on the verge of national recognition. With their first new album in nearly 18 y...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WSLR, WLPR , KRPS, WYAP and more


  • Added: Feb 12, 2015
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Black Theater, Black Lives
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Bernadine Mitchell in Bessie's Blues, wirtten and directed by Thomas W. Jones II, Credit: Courtesy of Metro Stage
Writer, director, and actor, Thomas W. Jones II makes sense of the world through theater

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 11, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Climate Change Is Tough on Penguins: Author Fen Montaigne
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Fen’s book, “Fraser’s Penguins: A Journey to the Future in Antarctica,” shows his passion for this otherworldly place and many of its two-footed in...

Bought by Radio Newark, KCMJ Community Radio, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 3
Troubled Coastlines From Louisiana To Maine, Pt. II
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Bob Marshall
Last week on Sea Change Radio, we spoke with Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Bob Marshall about Louisiana’s shrinking coastline. And this week we...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
Pine Siskins
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Tamarac Whispers
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Join Ranger Kelly as she explored the sounds of the Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 01:59
Story of an African childhood: Author Robyn Scott
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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The author of “Twenty Chickens for a Saddle” is a social entrepreneur who works in southern Africa. But back when she was 7 she moved from England ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Feb 08, 2015
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 2
Telling Black History with needle and thread, National Heritage Fellow Carolyn Mazloomi
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Carolyn Mazloomi, Credit: Gale Zucker
Carolyn Mazloomi shines a powerful light on the African American community through narrative quilts.

Bought by KDNK, KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 06, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
I am... in love (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Sonali Gulati's film I Am chronicles her personal journey to Delhi, India, where she confronts the loss of her mother whom she never came out to as...

Bought by WCNY, KKRN, WTJU, and KPVL


  • Added: Feb 05, 2015
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 4
I am... in love
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Sonali Gulati’s film, I Am, chronicles her personal journey to Delhi, India, where she confronts the loss of her mother whom she never came out to ...

Bought by WJCT, WABE, KVSC, WLIW, KENW and more


  • Added: Feb 05, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6

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