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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
Uranium mining in Niger: a filthy, toxic business. Fifty years after the end of America’s war on Vietnam, traces of US chemical weapons linger. And...
- Added: Aug 20, 2023
- Length: 58:38
After 32 years in the United States, José Chicas was told he had to leave. He bought a plane ticket to El Salvador, but then a local church offered...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 36:54
“What I recall most is the way that she grabbed my wrist and, shaking a bit, she said over and over again, ‘If it happens, run. Don’t let that happ...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 33:08
Today on Making Contact, we present the film Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible. The film takes us on the transformational journey of w...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Feb 01, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 03, 2020
- Length: 09:10
- Purchases: 1
This show highlights the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi. I had the opportunity to interview the Active Executive Director, Shelley R...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 58:40
Just before midnight on October 15, 1990, police arrived at 527 Lime Street in Jacksonville, Florida to find the small wood-frame house on fire. Th...
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 29:24
In the summer of 1922, in a town in southern Illinois, 23 people were murdered over two days. Men, women, and children came out of their houses to ...
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 24:23
In 1995, two men filmed an episode of daytime talk show, The Jenny Jones Show. A few days later, one of the men was dead. The shooter later claimed...
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 37:18
In 1977, a man named Robert Burns went to a funeral and shot someone, in the head, in front of 300 people. He didn’t deny it, and his lawyer didn’t...
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 34:28
Dan Stevenson has lived in Oakland’s Eastlake neighborhood for 40 years. He says crime has been an issue for as long as he can remember, but he isn...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KSFR
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 32:34
- Purchases: 2
It’s one thing to get into an argument with a stranger on Facebook. It’s another thing to try to ruin that stranger’s life. In 2015, Re/Max realtor...
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 23:08
When Fannie Davis and her family moved to Detroit in the mid-1950s, they hadn’t prepared themselves for how hard it would be. They had trouble find...
Bought by ABC
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 31:50
- Purchases: 1
When Sarah Winchester’s husband died, she inherited millions from the family business: the manufacture of the famous Winchester Rifle. A medium rep...
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 22:25
We spend the day in a police car in Austin, Texas.
- Added: Jul 23, 2019
- Length: 30:50
We speak to a man who has given thousands of people new names, told them where they would live, and warned them they could never go back home.
Bought by ABC
- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 25:54
- Purchases: 1
Rents in San Francisco have exploded in recent years; by now, the metropolis in Northern California has overtaken New York as the most expensive ci...
- Added: May 15, 2019
- Length: 31:54
Celebrating the Month of our founder Cesar Chavez through his own words and with the people who were closer to him.
- Added: Apr 24, 2019
- Length: 01:01
For some US students, escalating costs are putting college out of reach – whereas in Germany higher education is considered a right, tuition is nor...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Apr 24, 2019
- Length: 19:24
- Purchases: 1
Most of the Western world has a waste problem, and recycling has been pushed by policymakers as one of the best ways to combat it. In Baltimore and...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Apr 10, 2019
- Length: 16:41
- Purchases: 1
Germany’s beer influence has spread around the world, and one of the epicenters of this trend is New York City. There are now more than two dozen b...
- Added: Nov 22, 2018
- Length: 18:35
Producer Dred-Scott Keyes interviews film maker Dagmar Schultz about her film "Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984-1992"
- Added: Mar 27, 2016
- Length: 01:00:01
Every October 16th hundreds of people gather in Dublin for a walk from Dunsink Observatory to Broom Bridge that celebrates Ireland's greatest mathe...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 20, 2015
- Length: 09:53
- Purchases: 1
Thirty years ago an HIV diagnosis was a death sentence. Today, sophisticated drug cocktails known as highly active antiretroviral therapy, or HAART...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Dec 17, 2014
- Length: 38:57
- Purchases: 1
