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The Whistleblower: Truth, Dissent and the Legacy of Daniel Ellsberg
From: The GroundTruth Project
Caption: The Whistleblower, Credit: The Ground Truth Project
To mark the passing of Daniel Ellsberg of the Pentagon Papers, the GroundTruth Project presents a special one hour program that traces the path o...

Bought by Prairie Public, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, WORT, KOSU and more


  • Added: Jun 16, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 37
Viva Brother Nagi from Kerning Cultures
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Nagi Daifallah was a young farm worker from Yemen who participated in the 1973 Grape Strike along with the UFW until he was murdered by a Sheriff....

  • Added: Sep 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Nixon at War: How Vietnam Led to Watergate
From: Nixon at War
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On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in (June 17th, 1972), writer, historian, and Peabody Award-winning Studio 360 host Kurt A...

Bought by WCMU Michigan, Spokane Public Radio, KRCU Public Radio, KAAD-LP, KUOW and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 40
Operation Boulder from Kerning Cultures
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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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


  • Added: Apr 15, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Bois Forte Veteran Series - Floyd Morrison
From: Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
Series: Bois Forte Veterans Series
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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


  • Added: Nov 10, 2021
  • Length: 05:10
  • Purchases: 1
Last Witness: The Kerner Commission
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
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Decades before our current debate over critical race theory, the 1968 Kerner Commission pointed the finger at structural racism for creating the co...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 05, 2021
  • Length: 08:56
  • Purchases: 2
Online Conspiracies & Virtual Cults: Social Extremes in Our Hyperpartisan Age
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Season 2, Episode 7, "Online Conspiracies & Virtual Cults: Social Extremes in Our Hyperpartisan Age"
Join us for “Online Conspiracies & Virtual Cults” and reflect whether group dynamics have overwhelmed logic and conviction in your life, or that of...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 35:35
Episode 146: Ten Doors
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1978, Tim Jenkin was charged under South Africa’s Terrorism Act for disseminating anti-apartheid material, and sentenced to 12 years in prison. ...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 29:22
WRM01 The Influential Voice of the '30s
From: KRSC
Series: The Will Rogers Minute
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A look at why Rogers was so influential in his time and still talked about today

  • Added: Mar 05, 2020
  • Length: 01:01
50 Years Later: Remembering Fred Hampton
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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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 ...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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


  • Added: Jul 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
I Am Not Your Negro (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
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Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examina...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Free Speech in Schools
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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Four Supreme Court cases that define the 1st Amendment in schools.

Bought by WCNY and WFHB


  • Added: Dec 21, 2018
  • Length: 24:45
  • Purchases: 2
Last Witness: Mission to Hiroshima
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
Caption: Second Lt. Russell Gackenbach
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
She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry – The Personal Is Political
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Film Artwork, Credit: She's Angry When Beautiful
For this edition of Making Contact, we’ll present the documentary, “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,” a reflection on the rise of the women’s libe...

Bought by WVAS, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: May 14, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Forgotten Trailblazer
From: Matt Mitchell
Series: The Forgotten Famous
Caption: www.TheForgottenFamous.com
Cloaked in mythology by the age of 40, this original hero of the Wild West embodied the term "living legend." So why have we forgotten him?

  • Added: Mar 07, 2018
  • Length: 17:16
The Story of Jane
From: Radio Diaries
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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


  • Added: Feb 02, 2018
  • Length: 11:59
  • Purchases: 2
Mrs. Hamer, Echoes
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Fannie Lou Hamer, Credit: Howard University Library Systems
Fannie Lou Hamer's 100th birthday is Oct 6. She's no longer alive, and may not be as widely known as others in the civil rights movement --- but he...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WVAS, WRIR, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Oct 03, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Working Tapes: Police Officer
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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Renault Robinson was an officer in the Chicago Police Department in 1971 when he was first interviewed by radio host and oral historian Studs Terke...

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


  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 05:42
  • Purchases: 4
Episode 65: The Kingfish
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1928, Huey P. Long became the youngest Governor in Louisiana’s history. He bragged that he bought lawmakers like “sacks of potatoes, shuffled ‘e...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 23, 2017
  • Length: 26:14
  • Purchases: 1
Contenders (Hour Special)
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
Caption: William Jennings Bryan
Portraits of some of America’s most groundbreaking and unusual presidential candidates...who never won the white house.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KPIK-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WCQS, KALW and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 53:25
  • Purchases: 22
The White Elephant
From: Israel Story
Series: Israel Story Podcast
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In "The White Elephant,” Yochai Maital walks us through the history of Tel Aviv’s ‘New’ Central Bus Station — a derelict eight-story behemoth and m...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2016
  • Length: 32:00
Chamizal: A Town Between Two Borders
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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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


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 13:25
  • Purchases: 2
The Long Shadow of Forrest Carter
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
Caption: Forrest Carter
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


  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 15:54
  • Purchases: 1
'To Heal A Sick Nation: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and IDEAS'
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Caption: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 1966, Credit: AFP/Getty Images
This program tells the untold story about Dr. Martin Luther King and his appearance on the most prestigious lecture series in Canada, shortly befor...

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 49:57
  • Purchases: 1