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From: Dan Gediman
Series: The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America

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

How We Got Here, Part 3: The Fight For Meaningful Work

From: Sam Harnett
Series: How We Got Here

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

The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America, Demo

From: Dan Gediman
Series: The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America

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

Stay for the Trees (episode 6)

From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy

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.

Special: Cooperation vs Authoritarianism in Spain

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

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

Brendan Koerner, author of "The Skies Belong To Us"

From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra

Bob Kustra Interviews Brendan Koerner about his book "The Skies Belong To Us"

Bought by KRZA

Black History Matters: Racial Propaganda

From: c j armentano
Series: Black History Matters

Harvard Professor Emertus, Psychiatrist Alvin Poussaint discusses the long history of efforts to undermine the self-esteem and well-being of black ...

Bought by WBST, RadioStPete Florida, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KPIP-LP

Cultural Genocide in America: Capitalistic Experts' Self-Egos

From: Teosson Wells

Things we learn from Woody Guthrie and Native Americans ... and Donald Trump's dad?

One Nation Under Commerce: Marketing God and Country. The Middle Edges #104

From: Teosson Wells

The U.S. chose to link God, money, business, and government. But it’s important to remember that America was originally established to keep God ind...

Black History Matters: Profiling (Long Version)

From: c j armentano
Series: Black History Matters

Caption: Harvard Professor Emeritus Alvin Poussaint MD

Racial profiling has a little understood yet profound impact on race relations, and remains a source of fear and humiliation for blacks and other p...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KPIP-LP

South Minneapolis home to inspiring Russian Art Museum

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices

The Spanish Colonial-Revival building at 55th Street and Stevens Avenue in south Minneapolis was originally home to the Mayflower Church. In 2005 t...

Pakistan Aslant (1) - "The country that could kill the world"

From: Open Source

Caption: “MOHAMED ALI JINNAH: His Moslem tiger wants to eat the Hindu cow” [April 1946]

Christopher Lydon on the road in South Asia, in a compilation of conversations and reflections on Pakistan's past and dynamic present. Featuring no...

Bought by WCPN, KUOW, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Meriwether Lewis, October 11, 1809

From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today

Explorer, naturalist, writer ... in his too-short life, Lewis helped to make this country ... literally ... what it is today. From sea to shining s...

COINTELPRO 101 (Part 2)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Over the next two weeks, we broadcast the documentary film “COINTELPRO 101,” about the secret FBI program which ran from 1956-1971, and disrupted m...

Bought by WXDU

COINTELPRO 101 (Part 1)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Over the next two weeks, we broadcast the documentary film “COINTELPRO 101,” about the secret FBI program which ran from 1956-1971, and disrupted m...

Bought by WXDU

Say it Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity

From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History

"Say It Loud" traces the last 50 years of black history through stirring, historically important speeches by African Americans from across the poli...

Bought by WDDE, WAMU, New Hampshire Public Radio, WGTE Public Media, Nevada Public Radio and more

The Chieftains: San Patricio

From: Joyride Media

Caption: The Chieftains and Ry Cooder, Credit: Judith Burrows

The Chieftains and Ry Cooder present the history behind their collaboration inspired by The St Patrick's Battalion of Irish-born soldiers in the Me...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPSQ-LP, Harford Community Radio, KTSW 89.9, Prairie Public and more

Remembering Jim Crow

From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History

For much of the 20th Century, African Americans in the South were barred from the voting booth, sent to the back of the bus, and walled off from ma...

Bought by Nevada Public Radio, WFAE, WGTE Public Media, RadioFreePalmer, WBHM and more

Undark

From: Jenna Hammerich

Glow. Green. Light. Radium. Even the words are beautiful.

Bought by Remix Radio and CKMO

Independent Minds: Winston Churchill -- Into the Storm

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: Independent Minds

Winston Churchill -- known for powerful prose, undaunted persistence, and uncompromising ideals -- led Britain against all odds, to overcome the Na...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WNIN, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WRIR, WGBH Radio Boston and more

Ernesto Che Guevara, the myth

From: Anton Foek

How a myth destroys the truth in ourselves

Tejidos Culturales #8: Culture and La Sierra...Taylor Ranch part 2

From: KRZA

Eight in a 13 part series focussing on culture in the San Luis Valley, this is part 2 in looking at La Sierra or Taylor Ranch which was illegaly cl...

Bought by KCEI 90.1 FM Red River/Taos, NM and KWCW