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Mike Sawyer is on a mission to uncover the roots of Upper Midwest folk music and keep it alive for future generations.
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 30:20
Back in 1995, LaMont Dottin was 21 years old and a freshman at Queens College when, one evening, he didn’t come home. His mother went to the local ...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 09:00
The Belvedere Hotel is in the heart of New York City’s theater district. Many of its guests come to see the sights, take in a show. But there are a...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 07:55
Angel Irizarry spent years working as a detective, and in 2021 he set out on a personal investigation to track down an uncle who’d been estranged f...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 12:15
Dawn Powell wrote novels about people like herself: outsiders who’d come to New York City in the early twentieth century to make a name for themsel...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 22:02
- Purchases: 1
On this week's Making Contact, we feature an extended interview with Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso, a queer Diné filmmaker and director of the award-w...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMUN, WFHB, and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jun 16, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
Over the decades that Bill has conducted orchestras and hosted radio programs, he feels very fortunate to have worked with and become friends with ...
- Added: Apr 18, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Nagi Daifallah was a young farm worker from Yemen who participated in the 1973 Grape Strike along with the UFW until he was murdered by a Sheriff....
- Added: Sep 12, 2022
- Length: 29:00
What does food mean to identities struggling against colonialism and displacement? First, we visit the Blackfeet Nation in Montana as members of In...
Bought by WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WFHB
- Added: Aug 15, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
A trip back in time to 1991 and the 8th Annual Chicago Blues Fest.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 59:46
- Purchases: 1
Since 9/11, US governmental agencies have poured millions of dollars into spying on Arabs, Muslims and Arab Americans. Their surveillance has chang...
Bought by WXDU and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Apr 15, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Thelonious Monk: The Jazz Giant! is a one hour program highlighting some of the best works of composer Thelonious Monk.
- Added: Dec 27, 2021
- Length: 01:06:56
In 1969, a white journalist named Grace Halsell, published a book called Soul Sister. It was her account of living as a “black woman” in the United...
- Added: Oct 15, 2021
- Length: 12:18
Decades before our current debate over critical race theory, the 1968 Kerner Commission pointed the finger at structural racism for creating the co...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Oct 05, 2021
- Length: 08:56
- Purchases: 2
The song “I Fought the Law” by the Bobby Fuller Four reached number 9 on the Billboard Charts in the week of March 12, 1966. Just months later, Bob...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 42:01
When Joan Borsten married actor Oleg Vidov, also known as “the Soviet Robert Redford,” he introduced her to beautiful Soviet animations created in ...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 34:29
In 2010, a $16.5 million Hot Lotto ticket was sold at a gas station in Des Moines, Iowa. At first, no one showed up to claim the prize. And then, a...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 28:57
One Sunday afternoon, a man named William Mumler decided to take a self portrait. He said he was alone in the photography studio, but as the photog...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 36:51
On August 10th, 2014, one day after 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, Edward Crawford w...
- Added: Jun 24, 2020
- Length: 16:42
On May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls took command of a Confederate ship and liberated himself and his family from enslavement. His great-great-grandson, ...
- Added: Jun 24, 2020
- Length: 29:27
In today's Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack gets in his car and drives around St. Cloud exploring ...
- Added: Jun 11, 2020
- Length: 30:00
In May 1991, a bank robber walked into a bank in Irving, Texas, and without speaking handed the teller a note that read, “This is a bank robbery. G...
- Added: May 19, 2020
- Length: 31:54
“The question becomes, when is enough enough?” Today, we’re talking about forgiveness.
- Added: May 19, 2020
- Length: 33:35
In January 2000, two bodies were found frozen in a remote area of Saskatoon, Canada. It was a place where nobody walked, especially in the winter. ...
- Added: May 19, 2020
- Length: 35:06
In April of 1995, wildlife biologists flew small airplanes over Yellowstone National Park, looking for two missing wolves. “They’re just gone. And ...
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 31:55
