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The Belvedere Hotel is in the heart of New York City’s theater district. Many of its guests come to see the sights, take in a show. But there are a...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 07:55
This week we continue delving into community-rooted disaster relief in California. From building mutual aid networks, to translating emergency mess...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Dec 12, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Food is an expression of who we are. Table host and folklorist next door, Yvette Blair-Lavallais, catches up with two generations of two North Texa...
- Added: Mar 25, 2023
- Length: 13:08
African American women have created beautiful works of art with quilting. Are you holding on to a piece of family history? Laura Casmore talks to...
- Added: Mar 25, 2023
- Length: 10:12
Episode 1 of Space Oddities discusses NASA's plans to keep the Earth from being contaminated with lunar germs during the Apollo missions. Unfortuna...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Nov 01, 2022
- Length: 10:47
- Purchases: 1
A deep exploration of the urban-rural divide and how one group is trying to bring both sides together
- Added: Nov 22, 2020
- Length: 28:19
Like many low-wage immigrant workers in Los Angeles, Aleja "Lee" Plaza spends her days taking care of the elderly — emptying bedpans, giving sponge...
- Added: Jul 27, 2019
- Length: 07:35
A rural pocket of Northern California is seeing some of the highest rates of suicide in the state. This project explores the mental health crisis i...
- Added: Sep 21, 2018
- Length: 01:05:14
Our final episode: listen to an American combat veteran recall Iraqi samoon bread, which he refers to as white gold.
- Added: May 27, 2018
- Length: 30:00
We’ll hear about Iraqi monuments kept hostage by US troops, denying access to the Iraqis to whom they belong.
- Added: May 20, 2018
- Length: 30:00
An Iraqi tells us about the absence of certain sounds in the Arabic language, and a veteran reads letters from her former grade school teacher’s cl...
- Added: May 13, 2018
- Length: 29:44
We’ll hear about a soldier’s refusal of tea and how that led him to work toward rediscovering his and Iraq’s humanity.
- Added: May 06, 2018
- Length: 29:54
Gary Hankins is recruited from the air force during the Vietnam War to become a D.C. police officer.
- Added: Apr 30, 2018
- Length: 15:30
- Purchases: 2
An Iraqi activist shares stories about silence as a form of protection in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
- Added: Apr 29, 2018
- Length: 30:30
We’ll explore the sounds that have been evacuated from Iraq, musicians muted by their disappeared audiences and bygone origins.
- Added: Apr 25, 2018
- Length: 30:00
Our debut episode, devoted to the topic of speechlessness, introduces you to our host Bahjat Abdulwahed, the “Walter Cronkite of Iraq” living as a ...
- Added: Apr 25, 2018
- Length: 29:52
- Added: Apr 09, 2018
- Length: :30
On this episode of the California Innocence Project, Guy Miles shares his story about a bad identification leading to wrongful conviction -- and 18...
- Added: Feb 07, 2018
- Length: 04:59
There is no chocolate industry without Africa. African cocoa is bountiful and painful, cyclical and dynamic. In this episode, we get two snapshots ...
- Added: May 19, 2017
- Length: 42:08
“Hey everyone, our chocolate is getting cheaper!” On the surface, that sounds great. But the story behind the low costs is not good news. And a hig...
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 24:00
Black and Proud explores the era when African Americans began to aggressively challenge myths of inferiority. As Martha Bouyer, a participant in th...
Bought by WBST, RadioStPete Florida, KISU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KPIP-LP and more
- Added: Jan 26, 2017
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 6
Harvard Professor Emertus, Psychiatrist Alvin Poussaint discusses the long history of efforts to undermine the self-esteem and well-being of black ...
Bought by WBST, RadioStPete Florida, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KPIP-LP
- Added: Jan 26, 2017
- Length: 03:58
- Purchases: 4
Racial profiling has a little understood yet profound impact on race relations, and remains a source of fear and humiliation for blacks and other p...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KPIP-LP
- Added: Jul 16, 2016
- Length: 05:46
- Purchases: 2
Professors Marva Lewis and Marvin Dunn discuss "stereotype threat" and its effect on African Americans sense of safety when interacting with police...
Bought by WBST, RadioStPete Florida, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KPIP-LP
- Added: Jul 16, 2016
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 4
On this Why We Root, a story of a classic American sports town and the season that started with tragedy but ended with a championship. We’ll recall...
Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge and KMXT
- Added: Apr 12, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
