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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

Origin Stories

From: Distillations
Series: Innate

How race was invented to support racism.

EP206 Jessie Mae Hemphill

From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack

Jessie Mae Hemphill was a 4th generation Mississippi musician who learned how to play music from her granddaddy (as she called him).

Bought by WLPR

EP205 A.C. Reed

From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack

Aaron Corthen was more commonly known in the Blues music world as A.C. Reed and was heard on countless recordings as a contributing saxophone player.

Bought by WLPR

International Nurses Day

From: Levingston Lewis

Ears Adrift speaks with Navy Nurses that are deployed on the USNS Comfort .

Bringing Back the Tide, Stories of Marshes Restored

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

With a little help, carbon eating, coast protecting marshes are on the mend

Bought by WFHB, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KICI Iowa City, WFHB, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]

Creeping Towards Viruses

From: Sean Haas
Series: Advent of Computing

Computer viruses today pose a very real threat. However, it turns out that their origins are actually very non-threatening. Today, we are going to ...

The Big Pond #46: Black Art, Berlin Stories – Looking for Alain Locke

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

In 1925, the African-American philosopher Alain Locke (1886-1954) launched a revolutionary black arts movement now known as the Harlem Renaissance....

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO

Marc C. Johnson, author of "Political Hell-Raiser: The Life and Times of Burton K. Wheeler"

From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra

Bob Kustra talks with Marc C. Johnson about his book "Political Hell-Raiser"

Episode 104: Witness

From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

We speak to a man who has given thousands of people new names, told them where they would live, and warned them they could never go back home.

Bought by ABC

Across the Tracks: A Route 66 Story Sampler

From: David Dunaway
Series: Across The Tracks: A Route 66 Story

This 6-minute sampler provides a taste of the history, literature, and legacy of Route 66 as discussed in the 3-hour-long radio documentary series ...

Forgotten Voices

From: Leslie Cross

A women's history-month series, highlighting lesser-known historical female figures.

Episode 8: The Deep Origin

From: Slow Melt Productions
Series: The Slow Melt: A Podcast About Chocolate

Cacao was born in a bean-shaped area in the upper Amazon and is believed to have been grown and used—first, as a drink—in countries that now encomp...

The White Elephant

From: Israel Story
Series: Israel Story Podcast

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...

Stop That Bus!

From: Israel Story
Series: Israel Story Podcast

The world's largest bus station, and a bus driver who wanted to be God.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

2013: The Year the Criminal Justice System Changed?

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Solitary Confinement, Credit: Flickr user CHeitz

Years of campaigning for basic human rights for people caught up in America's criminal justice system may finally be paying off. 2013 saw significa...

Winona Women in History

From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique

Did you know that Winona was home to a silent film actress, an opera singer, a beautician to the elite and ladies of the night? Today on Culture Cl...

Bought by KSRQ