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#metoo, Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Didi Tremblay, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
Five women over a couple of weeks and in a number of different locations shared their stories of micro-aggressions, sexual assault, abuse, molestat...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2022
  • Length: 27:05
Medical Racism Past and Present
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Black Americans are twice as likely to die from COVID as white Americans. Despite this, polls show that African-Americans are less interested in re...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 03:58
StoryCorps: Francine Anderson
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Francine Anderson
Francine Anderson grew up in rural Virginia during the 1950s. It was the Jim Crow South and “Whites Only” signs punctuated the windows of many busi...

Bought by WVBI-LP


  • Added: Aug 22, 2017
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 1
The Best And Worst A Country Has To Offer
From: Virginia Lora
Caption: Building of the former Michael Bianco, Inc. Factory, Credit: Photo by Virginia Lora
In 2007, hundreds of undocumented immigrants working illegally in a leather-goods factory in New Bedford, MA, were arrested by Federal Immigration ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., New Hampshire Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), PRX Remix, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Dec 06, 2016
  • Length: 07:52
  • Purchases: 5
Novelist Jayne Anne Phillips
From: New Letters on the Air
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For Women's History Month, we revisit a novel that's built around real life West Virginia murders of a widow and her three children during the Grea...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Mar 11, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Truths from the 1960's Deep South
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2015
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Another authentic author's voice -- Jo Ivestor reads from her touching book, The Outskirts of Hope: A Memoir of the 1960's Deep South. Her true sto...

  • Added: May 03, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
The Beat: Addie Dauner - "Colors Flash Before Me"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Schoolcraft Learning Community's middle school students read Inge Auerbacher's book 'I am a Star'. Inge Auerbacher was one of the very few childre...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: 01:22
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Michelle Dynes and Anne Purfield
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Epidemiologists Anne Purfield (L) and Michelle Dynes (R) talk about responding to the Ebola outbreak...

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 02:09
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Alex Landau and Patsy Hathaway
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Alex Landau, who is African American, and his adoptive mother, Patsy Hathaway, who is white,...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WEZU, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), WTJU, and KMUD


  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 5
Coming Home: Nick's Story
From: Long Haul Productions
Caption: Lance Corporal Nicholas Rodriguez
Nicholas Rodriguez joined the Marines because he thought he could make a difference. His service changed Nick–and his family–forever. Nick’s mom &...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 19:59
  • Purchases: 1
Cardinal Glass Employs Immigrants: Each One Has a Story
From: Erika Lorentzsen
Series: New American Stories
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A young boy's father is killed in Somalia, as he makes his way to a camp in Kenya. After a long journey, now in the US, he doesn't feel discriminat...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 08:51
Civil Liberties for Sexists: The Purity Ball and Prostitution Laws
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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Recently, a man convicted of aiding the prostitution of a young woman who was exploited by over 150 men, was given a 3 week sentence. This sente...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2013
  • Length: 03:45
StoryCorps: Dawn Maestas
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Dawn Maestas, who removes tattoos for survivors of domestic violence, talks to a client about her work.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WEZU, WMUU-LP, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 02, 2013
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
Chapter 12 - A Time to Live, A Time to Die
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard learns the value of a liberal education at the College of Wooster, where the study of science and religion are complementary. During Easter...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2013
  • Length: 25:00
Everywhere But Here
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Is Maine immune to a deadly bat disease?

Bought by WMPG and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 02, 2011
  • Length: 07:10
  • Purchases: 2
Silent Barks
From: WHJE
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Where are pet stores really getting their dogs from?

  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 05:49
The Rwandan Genocide
From: Arndt Peltner
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In the evening of April 6th 1994 the plane of the Rwandan president was shot down. This sparked the genocide that nearly killed one million people

  • Added: Apr 05, 2010
  • Length: 14:39
Veterans Speak Out: Winter Soldier
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In March 2008, hundreds of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans gathered for "Winter Soldier": to talk about what they saw and did in combat, and diff...

Bought by KGOU


  • Added: Jun 20, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Sad Demise of the Passenger Pigeon
From: Long Haul Productions
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The passenger pigeon was once the most common species in North America - now it's extinct. A look at how the bird disappeared.

Bought by KUOW, PRX Remix, The Nature Podcast, and WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 19, 2007
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 4
My Dad
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Youth Radio Vermont
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For the past couple years, my dad has been in and out of jail. This story is about why. And it's about how my father's troubles have affected me.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jun 14, 2007
  • Length: 05:28
  • Purchases: 1
Teen Vox Pop: Why Teens Are Still Driving Drunk
From: Curie Youth Radio
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A disturbing look at the surprising reasons we still get into cars after drinking.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Apr 23, 2007
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 1
Displaced with her family in northern Iraq, a girl dreams of education
From: UNICEF
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This Story is Free! A young girl living in a displaced persons camp in Iraq, talks about how she has never been able to go to school, and how life ...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2007
  • Length: 05:15
Victim's Families
From: Justin Levy
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Families of murder victims gather to offer each other support during the holiday season.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2007
  • Length: 04:32
Baby Steps
From: Kezia Simister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Parenting and family literacy class for incarcerated parents

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 26, 2006
  • Length: 05:57
  • Purchases: 2
Heroin
From: Radio Rookies
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Janesse reports on her father's herion addiction.

Bought by WITF, New Hampshire Public Radio, SALTcast Podcast, KXOT Public Radio, and WUAL


  • Added: Jun 01, 2006
  • Length: 08:10
  • Purchases: 5