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Minnesota vs. Big Tobacco
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: Anti-smoking ad campaign, Credit: Minnesota Department of Health
Minnesota was the first state to take Big Tobacco to trial in the 1990s. Minnesota was also the first state to take the vaping company Juul to tria...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2024
  • Length: 28:53
But Next Time Part 3: The Fight for Fair Housing in the Face of Climate Change (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: 12 Moms Initiative member Jamie describes water and mold damage to her home at the Coppertree Village Apartments to members of the National Low Income Housing Coalition during a bus tour hosted by Houston's housing justice organizers., Credit: Leah Mahan
Today in Houston, Texas we meet a group of moms who stand up for local housing policies that keep families of color trapped in unsafe homes for yea...

Bought by KMUN and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Dec 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
But Next Time Part 2: Language Justice and the Road to Recovery After Disaster (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: But Next Time hosts Rose and Chrishelle pose for a photo with members of indigenous language radio show, Radio Autóctona Indigenista on KBBF., Credit: Leah Mahan
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
Whistle Stops: The 1948 Presidential Campaigns
From: Lester Graham
Caption: President Harry Truman holds up a copy of the Chicago Tribune with the inaccurate headline: Dewey Defeats Truman., Credit: public domain
2023 is the 75th anniversary of one of the biggest political upsets in American political history (although the documentary does not mention the 75...

Bought by Iowa Public Radio, WRVO Public Media, Michigan Radio, KUOW, and WAMU


  • Added: Jul 30, 2023
  • Length: 55:31
  • Purchases: 5
Why Black San Franciscans Are Fighting for Reparations
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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San Francisco is considering reparations for Black San Franciscans. To understand why advocates are pushing for reparations in the city, we dive de...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and KALW


  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
This Asian American Life
From: Mateo Schimpf
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How are Asian-Americans fighting back against accusations of divided loyalties and the sense of “perpetual foreignness”?

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
A Garment Worker Victory
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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California garment workers organize and win passage of a state law that holds fashion brands responsible for unpaid wages.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WFHB, KZYX, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
New York's Hunter College is falling apart
From: Julian Abraham
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Students at CUNY's Hunter College in New York City are complaining about mice running the halls, broken windows, and leaky ceillings. But, the scho...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2022
  • Length: 02:43
Plessy v Ferguson & Brown v Board of Education
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: Civil Rights
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The Supreme Court case that said racial segregation was constitutional, and the landmark decision that, decades later, overturned it.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, WYAP, WCMU Michigan, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Aug 03, 2021
  • Length: 51:31
  • Purchases: 11
Nicest Troll in Town: On and Offline identity, Extremism, and Polarization
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Episode 10: Nicest Troll in Town, featuring Dr. Chris Bail
Social media is not fundamentally a source of information or a competition of ideas, but a competition of identities. With that and other provoca...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: Jul 21, 2021
  • Length: 26:59
  • Purchases: 1
Vaccines Prevent Viruses; What Combats COVID Vax Skepticism? An Interview with Dr. Jeanine Guidry, Director of VCU’s Health & Media Lab
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Vaccines Prevent Viruses; What Combats COVID Vax Skepticism? An Interview with Dr. Jeanine Guidry, Director of VCU’s Health & Media Lab
In this episode, the Purple Principle speaks with Dr. Jeanine Guidry, Director of the Media and Health Lab at Virginia Commonwealth University, on ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KSFR, and KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 31:52
  • Purchases: 3
The Complicated Debate Around New York City's Specialized High Schools
From: Katie Anastas
Caption: Teens Take Charge press officers Ayana Smith and Sophie Mode at a press conference on May 17, 2019., Credit: Teens Take Charge Instagram
New York City has been trying to improve diversity in its schools for years. But lawmakers, parents, teachers and students disagree about how to do...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2021
  • Length: 26:40
The Outlook from Dead Center: Former U.S. Representative Jason Altmire on the Rise of Congressional Partisanship
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Episode 7
Did you hear the one about bipartisanship? Two opposing congressmen walk into a town hall…and civil discussion breaks out.

  • Added: Aug 27, 2020
  • Length: 26:08
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
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Bob Kustra talks with Marc C. Johnson about his book "Political Hell-Raiser"

  • Added: Jun 24, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
Episode 1 - All Rise
From: Shannon Thomas
Series: Mothers of Invention - Series 1
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Mary and Maeve are laying down the law. Three years ago, 886 ordinary Dutch citizens sued their government over climate change... and won. Tessa Kh...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Mar 20, 2019
  • Length: 43:44
  • Purchases: 1
Riding into the Future
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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Want a bike lane? Then go out and paint one on the road. Citizens in Macon redesigned downtown streets to show their city what the future can be....

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRGY, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 10, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
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
The Cost of War: A Reflection on the United States and Iraq Conflict
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War present at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, GA. , Credit: Photo by flickr user Brooke Anderson.
Almost 4,500 American soldiers and more than 100,000 Iraqis have died since the start of the Shock and Awe campaign. Fourteen years later, we asses...

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


  • Added: Mar 21, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Life of the Law #87: Bail or Bust
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Bail is supposed to allow a person accused of a crime to put some money up as a type of collateral - a promise they will return for their court dat...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2016
  • Length: 27:06
Life of the Law #84: Liberité & Securité
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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France has been under a “state of emergency” since November, raising questions about the appropriate balance between security and civil liberties.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2016
  • Length: 25:50
Life of the Law #82: The Hold Up
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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There are 28 judicial emergencies on federal courts throughout the country. A judicial emergency is when there's been a vacancy on the court for to...

  • Added: May 03, 2016
  • Length: 22:00
Life of the Law #81: Rig the System
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Domestic oil drilling offers private landowners the promise of riches in their own backyard. But what if you don’t want to live next door to an oil...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 22:39
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
Life of the Law #78: A Revolution in a Cornfield
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Mrs. Montini’s class reads Pete the Cat together., Credit: Ashley Cleek
In Kansas, public schools are at the heart of a debate about how much money the state should budget for education -- a debate that comes down to a ...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2016
  • Length: 32:54
Life of the Law #74: Overruled
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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In the U.S., juries are often seen as democracy in action. Twelve men and women are asked to hear an entire case, and ultimately, decide another pe...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2016
  • Length: 23:13