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Correcting Race

From: Distillations
Series: Innate

"Race correction" is a practice based on the premise that Black bodies are inherently different from White bodies. Medical students are trying to c...

Operation Hulda

From: Israel Story

In the middle of a warzone, in a battle for holy ground, some soldiers heard a pregnant woman in distress and ran to help their enemy. More than ha...

Bought by PRX Remix

A Change of World

From: The Poetry Foundation

Meryl Streep narrates an hour-long documentary special about how the Women’s Movement changed poetry, and how women poets changed the culture.

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, WGTE Public Media, WNMU-FM, KBIA, High Plains Public Radio and more

The Working Tapes: Piano Player

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes

In 1972, Studs Terkel interviewed hotel piano player Norman "Hots" Michels for his book "Working." Hots was the last live entertainment at the Sher...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix

Leonard Cohen: Evolution From Poet to Songwriter and Singer

From: David Tarnow

Leonard Cohen: How a shy, sensitive poet from Canada became a major recording artist. This one-hour radio show documents Leonard Cohen's very firs...

Erika Wright (Growing The Troostwood Garden)

From: Matt Hodapp

Community gardens have been a source of food stability and financial savings for Americans since the 1800’s. One of the first Kansas City gardens t...

The Long Shadow of Forrest Carter

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project

Asa Carter was a speechwriter for Alabama Governor George Wallace. He penned one of the most infamous speeches of the era… Wallace’s “Segregation N...

Bought by PRX Remix

PPW - Louisiana: No Longer Invisible

From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop

Caption: Lead Belly, Credit: Lead Belly Foundation

We take to the streets of New Orleans, Louisiana to ask folks about their connection to the criminal justice system. In the state of Louisiana, ...

Bought by WWNO and KFOK-LPFM

PPW - New York: Voices UnBroken

From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop

Caption: Voices UnBroken, Credit: Voices UnBroken

A poet famous for writing about the civil rights movement and for epitomizing black arts movement feminism, Sonia Sanchez passed through Attica’s g...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM

Alex Not Having a Good One

From: KISL Island Radio
Series: Remember What You Said

Caption: this is alex, Credit: @freakdog

It is late, and things are not going well

JazzStories: Mulgrew Miller

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

“I think of a lot of things when I’m playing the piano and one of the last things I think about is the piano…you try to somehow think and feel li...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP

An Almost Perfect State

From: Traveling 219

The Federal Writers Project in West Virginia, and the battle to tell the TRUE story of the state's history.

Elvis Presley: Young Man With The Big Beat

From: Joyride Media
Series: I Am An Elvis Fan

A look into the year that Elvis became a national star.

Bought by KPSQ-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Prairie Public, Prairie Public, Prairie Public and more

Laika, November 3, 1957

From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today

A true, Russian space hero died today. As a matter of fact, the very first Russian space hero. And as it turns out, she was the first space martyr....

Bought by KPIK-LP