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Dolores Huerta
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Dolores Huerta left her teaching job as a young woman to commit herself to working in the struggle for equal rights

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:14
Anne Hutchinson
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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A profile of Anne Hutchinson - a maverick spiritual leader in Massachusetts during the early 1600's.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:08
The Punk Patriot Goes to Augusta
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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A profile of Occupy's first politician

  • Added: Sep 21, 2012
  • Length: 07:06
The Hustler (Film Review, 1961)
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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The poolroom and the cruel physics of the green felt serves as metaphor for life itself.

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Sep 18, 2012
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 1
Moody's rates drugs
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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In the news: Moody's and Standard & Poor's to be responsible for rating new drugs.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2012
  • Length: 06:07
This Week in Texas Music History: Herb Ellis
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the first week of August (8/5): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a jazz legend who got his start because of an out o...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
Life Without Parole: The Case of Charles Lewis, Jr
From: Long Haul Productions
Caption: Charles Lewis, Jr and his mother during his sentencing hearing, Credit: mlive.com
The anatomy of a sentencing hearing for a juvenile in Michigan facing life in prison without the possibility of parole. Charles Lewis, Jr was 13 wh...

Bought by PRX Remix and KUT


  • Added: Jun 13, 2012
  • Length: 17:14
  • Purchases: 2
Little Mogadishu
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Refugees in Puget Sound
Caption: Trudy's Bar, Credit: Alex Stonehill
King County is home to one of the country's largest populations of Somalis. They've been fleeing since the Somali government collapsed in 1991. The...

  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 07:45
Pro-Slavery Constitution
From: Zach Miller
Series: BeyondtheBlackLetter
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The greatest re-write in American constitutional history, on this episode of BeyondtheBlackLetter.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 20:25
  • Purchases: 3
UnFictional: Welcome to the Metal
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
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On this episode... two surprising, funny and spellbinding stories on the subject of prison.

Bought by WCNY, KUOW, Aspen Public Radio, KOSU, WKMS and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 7
Big Collage
From: Erin Cisewski
Caption: Greta in her studio
Director of the Big Collage Art Collective, and industrial/punk musician Greta Ribb is a Cape Cod artist down to her core. Her work is as emotional...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2011
  • Length: 04:50
Pizza Time by Alex Malmude for the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
From: YouthCast
Caption: So much pizza!, Credit: Flickr User rj3
Ah, the mysterious life of a pizza delivery man, finally captured in his natural habitat. This documentary takes a smooth non-narrated path to tel...

Bought by WGXC


  • Added: Nov 03, 2011
  • Length: 08:43
  • Purchases: 1
People in a Beer Tent
From: Louisville Public Media
Caption: A Beer Tent in Louisville, Kentucky, Credit: Gabe Bullard
A vox pop of people hanging out in a state fair beer tent. They share their dating tips, advice for people watching and explain what they'd be doin...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2011
  • Length: 04:14
The Poetry of Emily Dickinson: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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“‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers –,” “Because I could not stop for Death –”, and “I dwell in Possibility –” are some of most memorable opening li...

Bought by WKMS, KPIP-LP, KQED, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KRZA


  • Added: Aug 17, 2011
  • Length: 22:33
  • Purchases: 5
The Maltese Falcon - A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Meet Sam Spade, detective, lady-killer. Before it became a classic film, it was first an incredible moral tale of crime and deception. Find out why.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Prairie Public, KZYX, KMUN, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 12, 2011
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 9
COINTELPRO 101 (Part 1)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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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


  • Added: May 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Is That My Imagination?
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2008 Third Coast ShortDocs: Radio Ephemera
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The story of a mind on strike.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Representing Yourself
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Representing Yourself is a DIY project we do in all kinds of ways — in job interviews, on stage, in court and through visual art such as self-portr...

Bought by WMMT, XRAY.fm, WRVO Public Media, KUT, WYSO and more


  • Added: Apr 21, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
DIY Economy
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Local currency, bartering on the playground and other ways of looking at money through a DIY lens. ***This show aired on Oregon Public Broadcasting...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, XRAY.fm, WRVO Public Media, WYSO, and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Apr 21, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
I Made That!
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
Caption: One of Emily Martin's paintings, Credit: Emily Martin/The Black Apple
Inventors, builders, butchers, artists talk about the projects that inspire them to point and say with pride, “I made that!” ***This show aired on...

Bought by XRAY.fm, WRVO Public Media, WYSO, KUT, and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Apr 21, 2011
  • Length: 59:09
  • Purchases: 5
All You Need is a (Separation Barrier)
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2010 Third Coast ShortDocs: Book Odds
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From Baghdad to Western Sahara, an alphabetic listing of the world’s prominent separation barriers builds a wall of its own.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 1
Mark Our Vessel
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The art of tattooing was not fully legalized in all fifty states until the second half of the twentieth century. One of the last states was Maine. ...

Bought by WMPG and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 10, 2011
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 2
Revolutionary NorthWest: The George Jackson Brigade
From: Amber Cortes
Caption: The George Jackson Brigade, Credit: Courtesy of The George Jackson Brigade Information Project
Not your hipster’s Seattle: the political bombings of the George Jackson Brigade, an underground revolutionary collective active in the Seattle area.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Oct 13, 2010
  • Length: 05:26
  • Purchases: 1
History of Hip-Hop In Minnesota
From: KMOJ-FM
Series: Music History of Minnesota
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History of Hip-Hop In Minnesota

  • Added: Sep 20, 2010
  • Length: 02:44:21
Miles Davis: Bitches Brew
From: Joyride Media
Series: Black History Month Specials
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One hour special follows the creation and influence of Miles Davis' heaviest album.

Bought by WICR, WOMR, KPSQ-LP, WSKG, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: Aug 20, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 27

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