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Caption: Book cover for "The Trauma of Caste", Credit: Penguin Random House
In this episode we talk to Dalit American activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan about the well and alive issue of caste-based discrimination and her cal...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: May 07, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Candice Millard tells intimate stories of great leaders, digging into their most vulnerable moments to reveal their true character. She is the auth...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 30:42
  • Purchases: 1
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The Endless War, a movie released in late July 2007, written, directed and produced by Charles Ferguson, depicts the blunders and ill-prepared mann...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
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American sign language is the third most commonly used language in the U.S., but for many Deaf folks, it's about so much more than communication. A...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
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In “Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies”, movement lawyer and organizer Andrea J. Ritchie has written a toolkit for organizer...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KWMR and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
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This program was originally broadcast on June 19, 2007. Marijuana, some say, is on the lips of many people here in Mendocino County, California, a...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
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In her new book No Meat Required, food writer Alicia Kennedy looks at vegetarian movements of the past and shares her low-tech vision for the futur...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
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Black Soldiers of Utah was an exhibit on display in Utah showcasing and exploring the often untold history of black soldiers and veterans and how t...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 05:38
  • Purchases: 1
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Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park, a dirty cloth...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2024
  • Length: 25:44
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River of Renewal, Myth & History in the Klamath Basin Since the last Ice Age ended about 12,000 years ago, human beings have traveled along the Kl...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
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"Capital bias" prioritizes wealth over people and the planet. What are the consequences? That question is at the core of “Wealth Supremacy: How the...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer, Radio Catskill, KDNK, KWMR and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
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While peanut butter is one of my favorite foods, I can’t say that I have given much thought to the peanut as a crop, or paid any attention to its r...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, All Souls' book publishing imprint, 2021 , Credit: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, All Souls' book publishing imprint, 2021
Tulsa Tri-City Collective leaders Carlos Moreno and Bracken Klar talk about the history of Greenwood, a Tulsa neighborhood founded by and for Black...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and KALW


  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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French Seduction: An American’s Encounter with France, Her Father, and the Holocaust. In a passionate blend of autobiography and cultural history,...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 23:35
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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. There are many photos from that day — Lyndon B. Johnson being sworn in aboard Air ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and KUCB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 09:29
  • Purchases: 2
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For more than a century, it was almost impossible to find out much about people buried on Hart Island. But in 2008, that all changed — thanks in la...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 17:56
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I SEE U examines the mystique behind the late millionaire, Norris Herndon, as a disappearing family legacy looms and the public knows little about ...

Bought by KUHF


  • Added: Jan 22, 2024
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Alyson Spery
On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we explore political division. Research shows that polarization isn’t just something we see in politics or wi...

Bought by KSJE


  • Added: Jan 17, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Originally Broadcast: January 13, 2007 Revolutionary Heart, The Life of Clarina Nichols and the Pioneering Crusade for Women’s Rights The life of...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jan 12, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Reconstruction has long been taught as a lost cause narrative. We talk about what that narrative leaves out.

  • Added: Jan 09, 2024
  • Length: 51:30
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It's a compendium of highlights from just one season in the long-running award-winning PEACE TALKS RADIO series. You'll hear clips from our series ...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Dec 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Originally Broadcast: November 8, 2006 This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science of a Human Obsession The understanding of how we humans experienc...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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Imagine being caught in an earthquake on Mount Everest!

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Dec 21, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 3
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Originally Broadcast: November 1, 2006 This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science of a Human Obsession The understanding of how we humans experienc...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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Originally Broadcast: November 29, 2006 After District Attorney Norm Vroman died in September, 2006, and his name could not removed from the ballo...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 08, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1