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From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

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

Too Soon? The First Family 60 Years On

From: Mike Flanagan

Caption: The First Family, Credit: Courtesy Cadence Records

A 60th Anniversary review of the funniest album of the Kennedy era. The Grammy Award winning Album of the Year that was ultimately withdrawn from c...

‘That Rotten Spot’

From: Distillations
Series: Innate

When the plague broke out in San Francisco in 1900, the public health department singled out Chinatown—as if Chinatown were the problem.

Return, Rebury, Repatriate

From: Distillations
Series: Innate

Activists were angry that a museum held the skulls of enslaved people. Then they discovered it also had remains of Black children killed in 1985.

Operation Boulder from Kerning Cultures

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Since 9/11, US governmental agencies have poured millions of dollars into spying on Arabs, Muslims and Arab Americans. Their surveillance has chang...

Bought by WXDU and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle

Bois Forte Veteran Series - Gene Goodsky

From: Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
Series: Bois Forte Veterans Series

KBFT Bois Forte Veterans Day Series featuring Anishinaabe Men and Women of the Bois Forte Nation of Chippewa in Minnesota. In this episode, we hea...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle

Bois Forte Veteran Series - Dianna Goodsky

From: Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
Series: Bois Forte Veterans Series

KBFT Bois Forte Veterans Day Series featuring Anishinaabe Men and Women of the Bois Forte Nation of Chippewa in Minnesota. In this episode, we hear...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle

Bois Forte Veteran Series - Gary Donald

From: Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
Series: Bois Forte Veterans Series

KBFT Bois Forte Veterans Day Series featuring Anishinaabe Men and Women of the Bois Forte Nation of Chippewa in Minnesota. In this episode, we hear...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle

Episode 4: On The Death Penalty - The Unexpected Messenger

From: Will Coley
Series: Shifting the Narrative

Over the past decade, support for the death penalty has plummeted. In this episode, we look at why this happened and how one unexpected messenger, ...

Episode 2: On Poverty - The Power of The Camera

From: Will Coley
Series: Shifting the Narrative

Fifty years ago, the Poor People’s Campaign took over a portion of the National Mall in Washington, DC. Their aim: change how Americans understand ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

50 Years Later: Remembering Fred Hampton

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Our radio adaptation of the film, The Murder of Fred Hampton, produced by filmmakers Mike Gray and Howard Alk, provides a glimpse into the life of ...

1989 - The Fall of the Berlin Wall

From: Arndt Peltner

30 years ago, 1989 was a historic year, that changed Europe. The highlight was the fall of the Berlin wall on November 9th, 1989 This three part se...

The Port Chicago Sailors: Separate and Unequal

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Freddie Meeks, sailor in the disaster at weapons shipping depot in Port Chicago, Calif., holds a picture of himself as a young seaman July 14, 1994. He died in 2003. , Credit: (AP Photo/Chris Pizzelo)

Wartime. Disaster. Trauma. Charges of mutiny for 50 Black sailors in a Jim Crow courtroom. Discrimination and a battle for civil rights. Listen to ...

Bought by KSFR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KVSC

The Story of Jane

From: Radio Diaries

In 1965, an underground network formed in Chicago to help pregnant women get abortions. At first, they connected women with doctors willing to brea...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix

I Am Not Your Negro: James Baldwin

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is ...

Bought by WVAS, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KCMJ Community Radio, WXDU, and WRIR

Crossing East: Relations

From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series

Caption: Ellen Choy-Asians4BlackLives, Credit: Brooke Anderson Photography

Crossing East: Relations is one-hour documentary special produced by Dmae Roberts, executive producer of MediaRites’ Crossing East series with Roby...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and Georgia Public Broadcasting

Poland

From: Let's Travel! Radio

The topic of this month's episode is Poland. Let's Travel Radio discusses, with special guests, the key differences between Western and Eastern Eur...

Chamizal: A Town Between Two Borders

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project

For more than a century, the Rio Grande has been the border between the U.S. and Mexico. But rivers can move.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and PRX Remix

Marriage Poster Gals Del & Phyllis: A Love Story

From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco

Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin were the first same-sex couple to wed in San Francisco City Hall in 2004 and again -- legally -- in 2008, mere months b...

Bought by WORT, KQED, and KVMR

Idle No More

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

In the winter of 2012, flash mob round dances, demonstrations, hunger strikes, and blockades swept Canada. What began as a protest against new law...

Bought by XRAY.fm

Fannie Lou Hamer

From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women

Older, overworked, frustrated and unwell, Hamer's famous line "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired" appears on her tombstone. But she mainta...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio

Segregation Now, Segregation Forever: The Infamous Words of George Wallace

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project

On the 50th anniversary of Wallace’s inaugural speech as the Governor of Alabama, Radio Diaries tells the story behind those infamous words, and th...

Bought by The Story and PRX Remix

Strange Fruit: Voices of a Lynching

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project

Poet and songwriter Abel Meeropol wrote that lament after seeing a photograph of two black teenagers hanging from a tree.

Bought by PRX Remix, Marfa Public Radio, KUER, WMMT, KFAI Minneapolis and more

March of the Bonus Army

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project

In the summer of 1932, a group of World War I veterans in Portland, Oregon hopped a freight train and started riding the rails to Washington DC.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KPIK-LP, PRX Remix, WRPI, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago

Raphaël Krafft - "Le Journaliste à Vélo"

From: Kieron Yates

A profile of Raphaël Krafft "Le Journaliste à Vélo" who, over the course of a decade, has documented his travels on a bicycle for French public radio.

PRX - Pieces for Format: Archival

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