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SPECIAL ISeeU EPISODE: Someday, Will We Ever Be Free? Juneteenth with Opal Lee
From: I See U with Eddie Robinson
Series: I SEE U with Eddie Robinson Specials
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The grandmother of Juneteenth, Opal Lee, joins a special edition of I SEE U and shares her perspective on the commercialization of this cultural ev...

Bought by KECG


  • Added: Nov 30, 2023
  • Length: 53:31
  • Purchases: 1
SPECIAL ISeeU EPISODE: MLK Day- Seeing (Me) Is Believing with author Tami Charles
From: I See U with Eddie Robinson
Series: I SEE U with Eddie Robinson Specials
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When Tami Charles’ son was in kindergarten, he asked her: “If Dr. King was such a good guy who wanted all these wonderful things for everyone, Momm...

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, WRKF, RadioStPete Florida, Wyoming Public Radio, WUWM and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2023
  • Length: 53:30
  • Purchases: 14
Matthew Shepard – in his mom’s words
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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Matthew Shepard was brutally killed 25 years ago for being gay. His mother Judy founded the Matthew Shepard Foundation 25 years ago this December a...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Open Spaces, October 6, 2023
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Open Spaces
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On today’s show, we remember Mathew Shepard - a gay University of Wyoming student murdered 25 years ago this month.

  • Added: Oct 10, 2023
  • Length: 45:11
StoryCorps: John Vigiano Sr. and Joseph Vigiano
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Joseph Vigiano and John Vigiano Jr. with their father, John Vigiano Sr. circa 1994. Courtesy of Joseph Vigiano.
Retired firefighter John Vigiano, Sr. remembers both sons lost in the World Trade Center on 9/11 – John Vigiano, Jr,. also a firefighter, and Joe V...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2023
  • Length: 06:15
StoryCorps September 11th: Jan Vigiano and John Vigiano Sr.
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Jan Vigiano and John Vigiano Sr.
Retired New York City firefighter John Vigiano Sr. remembers his sons, John Jr., a firefighter, and Joe, a policeman, who both died at the World Tr...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2023
  • Length: 02:57
Independence
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sandip's mother Reba Roy who saw India become independent reads Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's novel Independence set in those years., Credit: Sandip Roy
India celebrated its 77th Independence Day this week. Sandip talks to novelist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni about the turbulent and traumatic years o...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 15, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Almost Astronaut
From: Joe Richman
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The story of how Ed Dwight went from being an Air Force captain to almost becoming the first Black astronaut in the world.

  • Added: May 19, 2023
  • Length: 16:36
Bad Blood, Bad Science
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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The word “Tuskegee” has become shorthand for the Black community’s mistrust of the medical establishment. But what really happened?

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:05
StoryCorps: Margot Moinester and Susan Moinester
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Susan Moinester tells her daughter, Margot, about how her parents met during the liberation of the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1945, and w...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Jan 30, 2023
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 1
Crip Camp and The Disability Justice Movement
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Crip Camp is a Peabody Award-winning documentary from Netflix and Higher Ground Productions that tells the story of Camp Jened, a summer camp in th...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KWMR, KMUN and more


  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
An LGBTQ teenager’s evolving relationship with NYC Pride
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth broadcaster Shoshana
What has she learned along the way?

  • Added: May 27, 2022
  • Length: 04:10
Cartomancy with Gloria Alatorre of Lunaxi (lu-na-shee)
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Today on Culture Clique I talked with cartomancy expert, Gloria Alatorre about the services she offers to others to help with their spiritual journ...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 16:34
Voices of the Past Cemetery Walk 2021: Part 2
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Today on Culture Clique we went to the Winona County History Center to hear the 22nd annual voices from the past cemetery walk. They talked all abo...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 38:58
Remembering Camp: Voices of people of Japanese ancestery on the evacuation
From: Katie Semro
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A non-narrated snapshot of what it was like for people of Japanese ancestry to be evacuated from their homes and taken to incarceration camps.

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA


  • Added: Feb 09, 2022
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Jason Thomas and Jason Christian Thomas
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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For the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Former Marine Sergeant Jason Thomas opens up to his youngest son, Jason Christian Thomas, about the search and re...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 1
GN_3.33_National Freedom Day
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
February 1st is National Freedom Day, made into a holiday due to one man's efforts.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
StoryCorps: Ginger Petrocelli and Albert Petrocelli Sr.
From: StoryCorps
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Retired New York City Fire Chief Albert Petrocelli died from COVID-19 in April, nearly two decades after losing his youngest son, Mark, in the Worl...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2020
  • Length: 02:27
Hispanic Heritage Month
From: Ears Adrift
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Ears Adrift interviews Hispanic Sailors and discusses how Hispanic culture influences America's Navy.

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 06, 2020
  • Length: 10:38
  • Purchases: 1
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Peter Balakian
From: New Letters on the Air
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Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Peter Balakian talks about his 2010 book, ZIGGURAT-- a contemplation on architecture, visual arts, his personal experi...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Sep 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Making Dumplings
From: NANCY GUAN
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I interview my mom about her personal history with this traditional Chinese dish—dumplings.

  • Added: May 23, 2020
  • Length: 04:28
Seabees Women's History Month
From: Levingston Lewis
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Ears Adrift celebrates the Seabee birthday month and Women's History Month. Hoorah, Seabees!

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Mar 05, 2020
  • Length: 08:07
  • Purchases: 1
Fanya and the Forest
From: Katz Laszlo
Caption: Fanya and the Forest, Credit: La Kingsbeer
97-year old Holocaust survivor Fanya tells us her story of messy, human resilience and resistance in Lithuania.

  • Added: Jan 22, 2020
  • Length: 24:09
The Untold Story of Edwin “Bud” Nakasone’s Experience with the Secret Language School During WWII, THE FULL PRESENTATION at the Stearns History Museum
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attends a presentation at the Stearns History Museum b...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2019
  • Length: 01:01:12
The Untold Story of Edwin “Bud” Nakasone’s Experience with the US Army's Secret Language School During WWII at the Stearns History Museum
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attends a presentation at the Stearns History Museum b...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2019
  • Length: 29:20

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