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'Sissy' as in Sister
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: A meeting at A Woman's Coffee House, Credit: Janet Dahlem
In the 1970s and 1980s, feminists redefined what it meant to be a woman in the United States. These activists didn’t always agree on how to reach t...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 46:02
Return, Rebury, Repatriate
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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Activists were angry that a museum held the skulls of enslaved people. Then they discovered it also had remains of Black children killed in 1985.

  • Added: May 14, 2023
  • Length: 56:58
Remembering Emmett Till
From: World Footprints LLC
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Join World Footprints as we remember Emmett Till, recount the bravery of Mamie Till-Mobley and learn about a connection with Rosa Parks.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2022
  • Length: 21:04
Soledad O’Brien on Rosa Parks: The Untold Story
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Rosa Parks is best known to Americans as a national treasure — the little old lady who sat down on a bus and “ended racism.” What we lose in that d...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Viva Brother Nagi from Kerning Cultures
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Nagi Daifallah was a young farm worker from Yemen who participated in the 1973 Grape Strike along with the UFW until he was murdered by a Sheriff....

  • Added: Sep 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Ep 5: Teddy Meets the Soviet People
From: Sean Guillory
Series: Teddy Goes to the USSR
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American tourists expected few chances to meet Soviet people. You’d only see what Soviet officials wanted to show you. Touring the USSR, many assum...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2022
  • Length: 58:17
Episode Three: Aftermath
From: Dan Gediman
Series: The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America
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Kentuckians fought on both sides of the Civil War but came together at war’s end to oppose a common foe—newly emancipated African Americans yearnin...

Bought by KRSC, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUOW, KGOU, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Oct 01, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 22
Episode Two: Recovering History
From: Dan Gediman
Series: The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America
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Due to prohibitions against enslaved people learning to read and write, there are only a few written records left behind by formerly enslaved Kentu...

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUOW, KGOU, WKMS and more


  • Added: Oct 01, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 22
How We Got Here, Part 3: The Fight For Meaningful Work
From: Sam Harnett
Series: How We Got Here
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The final section of a 3-hour radio documentary about why Americans are so precarious and acceptable to crisis like the current pandemic. Part 3 lo...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Uncomfortable Truth About Race in America
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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“The Uncomfortable Truth” is a film produced by Loki Mulholland. It is a journey to understand how being white has benefited his family across gene...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KSTK, KMUN, KOWS, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jul 14, 2020
  • Length: 50:07
  • Purchases: 5
The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America, Demo
From: Dan Gediman
Series: The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America
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The Reckoning traces the history and lasting impact of slavery in America by looking at the experience of Kentucky, a slave state which stayed in t...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Morehead State Public Radio, KTEP, WCPN, Tri States Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 08, 2020
  • Length: 10:44
  • Purchases: 9
Stay for the Trees (episode 6)
From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy
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Meet five native Seattle trees and plants through the eyes of humans that care for them: The Western Red Cedar, Dougfir, Madrone, White Pine, and F...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 36:58
  • Purchases: 2
The United States of America v. Billie Holiday
From: Drew Darling
Series: Adagio
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A look into Billie Holiday's last year, and those whose mission it was to silence her.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
I Spy: Real Life Spy Stories
From: Rob Sachs
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Espionage was once a mostly male pursuit but these days the top three officials at the CIA are women. On this program we hear from Jonna Mendez, th...

Bought by WWNO, KSPB Pebble Beach, WVTF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KECG and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 58
Explosive Confession
From: Israel Story
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An innocent nerdy-boy-turned-soldier visits his pot-smoking friend in the Muslim quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem in the late 1980s. Tensions r...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 21:47
Special: Cooperation vs Authoritarianism in Spain
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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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
Episode 5: Our Future With Fire
From: North State Public Radio
Series: California Burning
Caption: Brennan Byrd holding a piece of Cob building material
On the fifth and final episode of California Burning, we look for solutions that address the many different factors associated with the wildfires p...

Bought by Capital Public Radio, KVCR, WMRA, KSKA, KALW and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Uncivil War on Richmond's Monument Avenue
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Protesters and counter protesters, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Pro-Confederates and white supremacists faced off with counter-demonstrators on America's largest outdoor Civil War museum on Monument Avenue in Ri...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2019
  • Length: 26:39
A Fiery Unrest: Why Plymouth Avenue Burned
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: Silver's Grocery on Plymouth Avenue in North Minneapolis in 1967., Credit: Minneapolis Star & Tribune Negatives, July 1, 1967-August 31, 1967: Box 263. Minneapolis and St Paul Newspaper Negatives Collection. Minnesota Historical Society.
During the summer of 1967, Plymouth Avenue in North Minneapolis went up in flames. This was during a period known as the Long, Hot Summer when frus...

Bought by KVSC and MPR News Stations


  • Added: Jul 18, 2019
  • Length: 52:58
  • Purchases: 2
Generation AIDS: Minnesota's HIV/AIDS Crisis
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: Bruce Brockway and Rene Valdes, 1980., Credit: Alan Lessik
In July 1981, the New York Times published an article about a mysterious illness plaguing gay men in New York City. After reading the article, Bruc...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 01:31:39
BPP 115 | ROGER STONE — BOBBY PICKLES’ PODCAST™️
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
Caption: BOBBY PICKLES, ROGER STONE, MATTHEW PIAZZA
Pickles and Pizza conduct this 115th Episode of Bobby Pickles’ Podcast with Full Stomachs ON-LOCATION from the Sunny South Florida Home of Infamous...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2019
  • Length: 01:13:07
Brendan Koerner, author of "The Skies Belong To Us"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Bob Kustra Interviews Brendan Koerner about his book "The Skies Belong To Us"

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jan 12, 2019
  • Length: 30:10
  • Purchases: 1
Daze of Justice
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Daze of Justice is the story of trailblazing Cambodian-American women who break decades of silence, abandoning the security of their American homes...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KQED, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: Apr 17, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Chasing Love (Clean)
From: Miguel Macias
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Chasing Love profanity edited version. A poetic exploration of the notion of romantic love, and the way it drives lives and societies.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Feb 09, 2018
  • Length: 59:42
  • Purchases: 1
The Story of Jane
From: Radio Diaries
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In 1965, an underground network formed in Chicago to help pregnant women get abortions. At first, they connected women with doctors willing to brea...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 02, 2018
  • Length: 11:59
  • Purchases: 2

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