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From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious

This program was originally broadcast on June 19, 2007. Marijuana, some say, is on the lips of many people here in Mendocino County, California, a...

Dr. Steven Miles: "A Blind Eye to Torture"

From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious

This interview with Dr. Steven H. Miles was recorded in mid July 2006. The silence of doctors, nurses and medics in cases of torture and physical ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida

Sam Totten – "Genocide in Darfur"

From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious

Genocide is the intent to exterminate in whole or in part a specific group of people often based on nationality, ethnicity, race or religion. For t...

MOVE Demands Justice for Children and The Return of Stolen Remains

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: On April 28, 2021, MOVE and community members gathered in front of Penn Museum to protest and demand the remains be returned., Credit: Joe Piette

On Making Contact - Members of MOVE, a Black radical liberation group, demand that the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University return t...

Bought by WXDU

Wagner, Sally Roesch — Suffragist, Matilda Gage, Almost Jailed for Voting

From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious

This program is about Matilda Joslyn Gage, who lived from 1826 to 1892 and was a vibrant and leading figure in the suffragist movement of that cent...

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

Wilkerson, Isabel — America’s Great Migration: 1915-1970 Part One

From: Barry Vogel

In the years between 1915 and 1970 almost six million black American citizens from the south migrated to northern and western cities seeking freedo...

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

Trumbo: Offstage with Academy Award Nominated Best Actor Bryan Cranston & Director Jay Roach

From: Donna Granata

Caption: Bryan Cranston and Jay Roach, Credit: Donna Granata

The feature film Trumbo (2015), staring Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston, is based on the true story of blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo. The followin...

Wellesley Commencement Address: Hillary Rodham Clinton

From: Wellesley College

This is the full audio from the 1969 Wellesley College commencement speech delivered by Hillary Rodham Clinton, then Hillary Rodham, the first ever...

Bought by KZYX, WHQR, Wisconsin Public Radio, MPR News Stations, and PRX Remix

Rethinking Cuba Libre

From: History Talk from Origins
Series: History Talk Shorts

How two neighbors do and don't get along. A history of U.S.-Cuba relations.

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

This Week in History: Jack Kemp Announces Bid for President in 1988

From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie

This week in history looks back to April 1987 and the Republican race to succeed Ronald Reagan. This week, Jack Kemp, a longtime Congressman and fo...

Tribute to Dr. Cal Ledbetter and his wife Brownie

From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow

Dr. Cal Ledbetter and his wife Brownie are heard here in the rebroadcast of their program appearances prior to their passing away.

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

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

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

Steven Culp

From: Tony Tellado
Series: Best Of Sci-Fi Talk

Talented actor looks back on his roles in Desperate Housewives and Star Trek Enterprise. We also chat about his movie role in Thirteen Days and Fro...

Interview with Catholic Worker James Douglass on: JFK and the Unspeakable

From: Chris Goldstein

Chris Goldstein interviews Catholic Worker James Douglass on his book JFK and the Unspeakable. The book reveals a President at odds with the milita...