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Student activists in York, Pennsylvania organized a silent protest when hundreds of books were banned from their classrooms, paving the way for las...
- Added: Dec 13, 2023
- Length: 28:10
Library workers often risk their livelihoods when they speak out against censorship, spurring community members to pick up the fight for intellectu...
Bought by WORT
- Added: Dec 13, 2023
- Length: 25:35
- Purchases: 1
Banning of so-called “classics” grabs public attention, but books like To Kill a Mockingbird and 1984 don't need your defense. It's the more recent...
- Added: Nov 08, 2023
- Length: 19:25
When a high school teacher in Norman, Oklahoma shared a QR code with her students that would grant them access to BPL’s digital collection, she too...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Sep 29, 2023
- Length: 25:47
- Purchases: 1
Who is being represented in new books? We are celebrating and lifting diverse voices in new books, those that have long been silenced but in doing ...
- Added: Mar 07, 2022
- Length: 14:21
We speak with local Bemidji State University professors on recommended books on racism, diversity, and racial justice.
Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
- Added: Jun 24, 2020
- Length: 59:53
- Purchases: 1
Our wars abroad and our wars at home. This week on the show, acclaimed graphic artist Molly Crabapple and Syrian journalist Marwan Hisham join Laur...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Jul 11, 2018
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Recently discovered texts show the peaceful relationship Islam and Christianity enjoyed for centuries.
Bought by WETS
- Added: Jul 03, 2018
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 1
2018 is the 25th anniversary of Angels In America. Author of its oral history, The World Only Spins Forward discusses the influence of the play.
- Added: Jun 22, 2018
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 2
All the origin myths of Rome are rape narratives. Dr. Celene Lillie has found resistance to Rome's culture of rape and domination in Gnostic texts...
- Added: Jun 02, 2017
- Length: 57:57
- Purchases: 2
We talk about National Poetry Month with Nathan Bergstedt of the Uncommon Loons and the Grand Rapids Players. Nathan is a writer, poet, and teacher...
- Added: Apr 22, 2016
- Length: 14:23
Tammy Bobrowsky reviews The Girl on the Train, and No Baggage: a minimalist tale of love & wandering. Listener-readers review The Boys in the Boat:...
- Added: Jan 25, 2016
- Length: 06:06
Tammy Bobrowsky speaks with young adult fantasy author, Marie Lu, about her new book, "The Rose Society," and adds to her To Read list "Girl Waits ...
- Added: Jan 12, 2016
- Length: 08:17
Tammy Bobrowsky talks about The Witches: Salem, 1692; Reclaiming Conversation: The power of talk in a digital age; Church of Marvels; The Martian; ...
- Added: Oct 22, 2015
- Length: 06:15
When I first started working at The Booksmith, the local independent bookstore a couple blocks from my apartment, it was a lot like what I expected...
- Added: Oct 02, 2015
- Length: 07:20
The Name of the Wind, Ana of California, Go Set a Watchman, Within These Woods, and Great Kitchens of the Midwest
Bought by KKRN
- Added: Jul 20, 2015
- Length: 03:18
- Purchases: 1
With our host, Akeisha Johnson, on this episode of Making It Work we will find out how someone becomes a kink educator and trainer while living in ...
- Added: Apr 07, 2015
- Length: 32:17
Alice Sheldon served in the OSS and the CIA. And then she went deep undercover posing as a male science fiction writer. It wasn't an assignment, it...
- Added: Mar 12, 2015
- Length: 23:44
- Purchases: 2
Children's Rights are sometimes completely overlooked in our society. But things are changing Children are slowly getting the respect they deserve ...
- Added: Jun 04, 2010
- Length: 30:00
A documentary poem about DJ Guerin, who’s 32, with 7 kids.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WMNF, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), New Hampshire Public Radio, and Remix Radio
- Added: Nov 03, 2009
- Length: 05:03
- Purchases: 5
A documentary poem about an afternoon spent with Billie Jean Hill at the Flag Day parade in Troy, New York. Billie Jean is a 25-year-old woman with...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WMNF, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), New Hampshire Public Radio, BBC Americana and more
- Added: Nov 03, 2009
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 6
- Added: Feb 19, 2008
- Length: 03:04
Poets from across the country offer up their words on the subject of "peace" at a special reading held at the 2005 National Poetry Slam Chapionship...
Bought by WGBH Radio Boston
- Added: Jan 18, 2006
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
