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Top of Mind - A Deeper Look at Wrongful Convictions in America
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Wrongful convictions happen all the time in America, and they could happen to anyone. How do we stop innocent people from going to prison?

Bought by KSTK, KMXT, RadioStPete Florida, KSTK, KOWS and more


  • Added: May 17, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 7
Searching for Libertalia—with Shiraz Bayjoo
From: Cathy Byrd
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Our conversation with Shiraz Bayjoo reveals one artist’s approach to Thinking Historically in the Present, the theme of the 2023 Sharjah Biennial. ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 16, 2023
  • Length: 16:02
  • Purchases: 1
Angelic Troublemaker: Bayard Rustin
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On today's program we honor Bayard Rustin, one of the most central figures in the African American struggle for Civil Rights and Freedom. Rustin wa...

Bought by WXDU and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Elizabeth Rusch: You Call THIS Democracy? and how immersive travel inspires her writing
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: You Call THIS Democracy
Elizabeth Rusch has combined her passion for writing, traveling and enjoying cultural immersion experiences with her family. She discusses her Home...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2020
  • Length: 30:32
Let Kids Vote! A special episode of THE FINA MENDOZA MYSTERIES
From: Kitty Felde
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A mysterious break-in, a congressional lobbying effort about voting, and a sneaky way to get kids excited about the upcoming election...without the...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 34:55
Small Town Whups Big Oil: "You don't threaten Mainers"
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Citizens celebrate passage of Clear Skies Ordinance, Credit: Dan Wood
Despite millions of dollars of pressure from Shell, Exxon, and the American Petroleum Institute, the small city of South Portland, Maine stops the...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KRZA


  • Added: May 09, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Time for Ilhan
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of Art Beat we interview Chris Newberry a producer and director of photogrophy for the film Time for Ilhan the story of the first ...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 30:52
Monument to Decay: Israeli Pavilion in Venice
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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At the 57th Venice Art Biennale, Miami-based curator Tami Katz-Freiman guides us through the multi-media installation that artist Gal Weinstein cre...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2018
  • Length: 15:36
Segunda detencion en proceso de deportacion/ Second time detained
From: Cesar Chavez Foundation
Series: LA ESTACION EN GUARDIA
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El abogado Hernandez explica lo que sucede en la segunda detencion/ Lawyer Hernadez explains what happend the second time your are detained.

  • Added: Aug 02, 2018
  • Length: :30
StoryCorps Griot: Dion Diamond
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Dion Diamond talks about the risks he took as a young civil rights activist in the 1950s and 60s.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jan 25, 2018
  • Length: 02:25
  • Purchases: 1
Reclaiming Public Schools: Education in the Trump Era
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In this edition of Making Contact, we look at two major changes to statewide curriculum in California, and where schools nationwide may be headed u...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXDU, XRAY.fm, and WRIR


  • Added: Mar 12, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Life of the Law #95: Judges v. Attack Ads
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Races for seats on state supreme courts have gotten more negative, more partisan, and much more expensive. And that leaves sitting justices in a t...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 13, 2016
  • Length: 17:57
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #94: Courting Voters
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Never before has a sitting justice on the Kansas Supreme Court not won a retention election. But as we all bear witness, 2016 is a different sort o...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2016
  • Length: 18:42
Women Rising 31: Nuclear Weapons Abolitionists
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: 8/9 Nagasaki Day Protest at Livermore Labs, Credit: photo by The Resource Center for Nonviolence rcnv.org via Twitter @RNCV1
Women Rising Radio takes us inside the movement for nuclear disarmament, to meet the women on the frontlines of the fight for a future free of nucl...

Bought by Radio Catskill, WXDU, XRAY.fm, and KSFR


  • Added: Oct 06, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Capitalism in Crisis 14: Living Over The Store
From: Jim Sawyer
Series: Capitalism In Crisis
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Wheeling and dealing like Donald Trump? MBAs, capitalism and society

  • Added: Jun 20, 2016
  • Length: 03:50
Cathy Cresser, Write-in Candidate District 3 Talks Politics on Unspun
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Cathy Cresser
Cathy Cresser, local write-in candidate for Shasta County Supervisor District 3, Joins us in the studio to tell us more about herself and her camp...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2016
  • Length: 57:45
Life of the Law #83: Recuse Yourself
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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When should a judge step aside? As more and more money floods into judicial elections across the nation, states are grappling with this question. P...

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 30:36
A Michigan Mosque, mobilizing civic engagement
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Saber and Muzzamil at Saber’s home. She bought a few American flags after 9/11 and put them around her house, Credit: Renee Gross
As anti-Muslim rhetoric has increased, members of the Muslim Community of Western Suburbs in Canton, Michigan are becoming more politically involve...

Bought by XRAY.fm, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WRIR


  • Added: Apr 17, 2016
  • Length: 09:37
  • Purchases: 3
Life of the Law #77: Harris County USA
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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All over the country, critics argue that ID laws discourage voter participation--particularly among poor and minority voters. This is particularly ...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 24:44
Born to Run: Is Nearly Barefoot Best?
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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As runners gear up for race season, Christopher McDougall's book is timely. He spurred on the barefoot running revolution several years ago with hi...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and Radio Newark


  • Added: May 22, 2015
  • Length: 09:57
  • Purchases: 2
Allusionist 10: Election Lexicon
From: The Allusionist
Series: The Allusionist
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On the eve of the 2015 General Election in the UK, take a jaunt through the etymology of election-related words.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 06, 2015
  • Length: 09:01
  • Purchases: 1
Joseph Kanon and "Leaving Berlin"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Author of seven post-World War II novels, Joe Kanon takes us back to Berlin, a once grand city now 80% destroyed in the late 1940s. In this book e...

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


  • Added: Apr 02, 2015
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 2
Two Chinese Schools
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Caption: PRX default Piece image
How China looks to students in two Chinese Schools near Seattle, WA.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 05:13
Author Charles Mann and Life in the New World
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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In “1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus,” science writer Mann describes what some of the North and South American nations looked ...

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


  • Added: Aug 25, 2014
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 3
What’s it like to manage the Oakland Police Department?
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: OPD Assistant Chief, Paul Figueroa, Credit: Kyung Jin Lee
It’s been almost a year since former Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan -- then, his replacement -- abruptly resigned. “It happened very quickly,...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 06:39