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HOUR ONE: 'Decolonizing the Mind' - Colonization in Africa was much more than a land grab. It was a project to replace — and even erase — local cul...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: 'Decolonizing the Mind' - Colonization in Africa was much more than a land grab. It was a project to replace — and even erase — local cul...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: "The Year Of Return" - 2019 marked the "year of return" to Ghana – attracting visitors from throughout the African diaspora. Now, scores ...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:01
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HOUR ONE: 'The Year Of Return' - 2019 marked the "year of return" to Ghana – attracting visitors from throughout the African diaspora. Now, scores...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:01
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Join Michael Marsolek for a fun musical trip around the world!

Bought by KAMU


  • Added: Nov 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 1
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HOUR ONE: 'Decolonizing the Mind' - Colonization in Africa was much more than a land grab. It was a project to replace — and even erase — local cul...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
Caption: A Bengali newspaper in Kolkata is excited about Sameer Banerjee's Wimbledon victory., Credit: Sandip Roy
A little reflected glory is probably innocuous enough, but DNA is not sufficient evidence of belonging to a particular culture.

  • Added: Jul 13, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: A masked statue of Gandhi in San Francisco's Ferry Plaza, Credit: Eric Wayne
Oct. 2nd is the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, and in an angry toxic world, we would do well to remember a man who fasted, intermittently, to force us...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
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Social change and systems change go hand-in-hand. Movements for democracy and human rights are most effective when they aim to transform unjust, un...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 20, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The End of Days, Credit: Gustave Doré
The GroundTruth Project and WGBH News go inside the movement of Christian Zionism, its potent political alliances, the hundreds of millions of doll...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Radio Catskill, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 13, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Activists at all levels of the climate justice movement discuss how inter-generational, cross-coalition, and global organizing is taking control of...

Bought by KDNK and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jan 31, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Thousands of Guatemalans are recovering from the eruption of a volcano called Fuego - Spanish for "fire" - which took place in the summer of 2018. ...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
Caption: Orson Welles in production on It’s All True
Orson Welles, following hard upon the tailwind of Walt Disney, was strongly encouraged to travel in Latin America as a Goodwill ambassador at the b...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: Amarildo de Souza, Credit: Facebook
Missing laborer in Brazil highlights disappearances amid police crackdown in favelas

  • Added: Aug 17, 2013
  • Length: 04:58
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For our sixtieth (but far from the last) episode, we speak with Leslye Obiora, PhD, a person committed to community and women’s equality. Law profe...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 28:02
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A short, strange history of marijuana in the U.S., Mexico and everywhere else

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 15:06
  • Purchases: 1
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Refugees coming to the US have just a few months to find a job and a place to live. And they are 10 times as likely as the general population to su...

  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 07:36
Caption: Trudy's Bar, Credit: Alex Stonehill
King County is home to one of the country's largest populations of Somalis. They've been fleeing since the Somali government collapsed in 1991. The...

  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 07:45
Caption: Children's circus participants in Kabul, Credit: Zach Warren
Voices from Afghanistan is an hour long special marking a decade of US troop engagement in Afghanistan. The program offers snapshots of life in Afg...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KZYX, WRNC-LP, and WBEZ


  • Added: Aug 30, 2011
  • Length: 51:29
  • Purchases: 4
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The American consensus on Israel and Palestine is breaking down. And Jewish Americans are playing a major role. But it's not easy. On this edition:...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Gabriela Cubillos prepares tamales in her home. , Credit: Eroyn Franklin
In our final segment, producer Jessica Partnow follows the story of one family living in immigration limbo in Auburn, Washington.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, XRAY.fm, KISU, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 6
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This story follows a day in the life of Nadeem Awan, a child laborer and student in Karachi, Pakistan.

  • Added: Jul 10, 2009
  • Length: 05:22
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In the summer of 1968, students in Mexico began to challenge the country's authoritarian government. But the movement was short-lived, lasting less...

Bought by KVSC, Marfa Public Radio, KUT, KCRW, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jul 10, 2009
  • Length: 22:25
  • Purchases: 8
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Hundreds rallied in West Los Angeles in support of International Women's Day.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 03:42
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Last Thursday, for the first time ever, a clergyman of the Catholic Church faced charges in connection with repression carried out under Argentina?...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2007
  • Length: 04:41