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Sociologist Ariela Schachter investigates how Americans think about race, immigration, assimilation, and what it means to be ‘similar.’
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 05, 2018
- Length: 12:15
- Purchases: 1
In an indigenous Mayan community in highland Guatemala, sociocultural anthropologist Kedron Thomas noticed a trend that led her to investigate inte...
- Added: Oct 05, 2018
- Length: 18:47
A sociologist of education breaks down some common myths about charter schools and offers her advice for newly appointed education secretary Betsy ...
- Added: Oct 05, 2018
- Length: 15:08
Sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfeld documents the pervasive and often subtle ways that successful black men – people like doctors, lawyers, and engine...
Bought by WDBM
- Added: Oct 05, 2018
- Length: 12:48
- Purchases: 1
When conducting research for his acclaimed book "Klansville, USA," sociologist David Cunningham encountered the work of a journalist who, in the 19...
- Added: Oct 05, 2018
- Length: 16:45
Sociologist Jake Rosenfeld discusses the growing wealth gap between rich and poor Americans, decreasing labor union membership, and considers what ...
- Added: Oct 05, 2018
- Length: 13:42
On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first time a nuclear weapon had been used in...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Aug 27, 2018
- Length: 04:44
- Purchases: 2
Seattle Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-7th) and Baltimore activist Dominique Stevenson discuss activism, political involvement and why leaders...
- Added: Aug 15, 2018
- Length: 28:00
Hour 8 “Crossroads” (1968-1978)
We follow Bernstein as he leaves the Philharmonic in 1968 to concentrate more on composition. With overtones of S...
Bought by Colorado Public Radio, 'The Sea', KAAD-LP, and WRGY
- Added: Aug 14, 2018
- Length: 58:04
- Purchases: 4
Do people of opposing political parties believe in different facts? The mantra at the moment is that they do, because of media echo chambers, motiv...
- Added: Jul 25, 2018
- Length: 43:49
The men in Zeta’s life. From family to friends to former lovers? You never know—some say Zeta was a constant chameleon in life, love, and the law. ...
- Added: Jun 08, 2018
- Length: 16:59
The women in Zeta’s life. From family to friends to former lovers. The ladies speak up and out about Oscar Zeta Acosta. From his spark-light sister...
- Added: Jun 08, 2018
- Length: 31:40
Nájera travels home to the Southwest to visit Latino scholars from ASU’s Transborder Studies department. The first of its kind in the nation. Chica...
- Added: Jun 08, 2018
- Length: 22:40
The United States and North Korea — two countries that fought a brutal war and never made peace. Last March, the two countries agreed to hold a hi...
- Added: May 25, 2018
- Length: 59:24
From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago to the national stage. Host Jennifer White t...
Bought by KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KRWG, Indie3 Radio and more
- Added: May 23, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 31
From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago to the national stage. Host Jennifer White t...
Bought by KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KRWG, Indie3 Radio and more
- Added: May 23, 2018
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 33
We’ll hear about Iraqi monuments kept hostage by US troops, denying access to the Iraqis to whom they belong.
- Added: May 20, 2018
- Length: 30:00
An Iraqi tells us about the absence of certain sounds in the Arabic language, and a veteran reads letters from her former grade school teacher’s cl...
- Added: May 13, 2018
- Length: 29:44
Gary Hankins is recruited from the air force during the Vietnam War to become a D.C. police officer.
- Added: Apr 30, 2018
- Length: 15:30
- Purchases: 2
An Iraqi activist shares stories about silence as a form of protection in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
- Added: Apr 29, 2018
- Length: 30:30
We’ll explore the sounds that have been evacuated from Iraq, musicians muted by their disappeared audiences and bygone origins.
- Added: Apr 25, 2018
- Length: 30:00
Our debut episode, devoted to the topic of speechlessness, introduces you to our host Bahjat Abdulwahed, the “Walter Cronkite of Iraq” living as a ...
- Added: Apr 25, 2018
- Length: 29:52
- Added: Apr 09, 2018
- Length: :30
On this episode of the California Innocence Project, Guy Miles shares his story about a bad identification leading to wrongful conviction -- and 18...
- Added: Feb 07, 2018
- Length: 04:59
On Wednesday, October 11, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Jesner v. Arab Bank, a case that will determine if corporations can be sue...
- Added: Oct 27, 2017
- Length: 59:04
