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It takes a special breed to head to a Great Lakes beach during the windiest months of the year. But storm photographers are up for the challenge.
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 09:18
Fifty years after Vietnam, historians debate the influence of Montana's uniquely positioned U.S. senator
- Added: Jun 10, 2024
- Length: 06:09
This is a documentary that commemorates the Fourth of July holiday. Created, produced, and hosted by Shelley M. Johnson, it covers major events of ...
Bought by Prairie Public and WGTE Public Media
- Added: Jun 04, 2024
- Length: 52:31
- Purchases: 2
Reverend Patricia Gould Champ, also known as the Queen Mother or simply Reverend Pat, began her career as a teacher, but ultimately received the ca...
- Added: Jun 03, 2024
- Length: 27:20
A documentary about the decline in bird populations in the Great Lakes region and how the causes also are a warning for humans.
- Added: May 28, 2024
- Length: 55:31
Pulitzer prize-winning poet Rita Dove.
- Added: May 28, 2024
- Length: 24:10
Taking care of ourselves goes hand in hand with taking care of the planet.
Bought by WOJB
- Added: May 19, 2024
- Length: 58:07
- Purchases: 1
Memorial Day began as a way to unite a country deeply divided by the Civil War. This documentary produced and narrated by Shelley M. Johnson talks ...
Bought by WLPR
- Added: May 18, 2024
- Length: 49:09
- Purchases: 1
Reverend Patricia Gould Champ, also known as the Queen Mother or simply Reverend Pat, began her career as a teacher, and later became the youngest ...
- Added: May 06, 2024
- Length: 27:25
Reverend Patricia Gould-Champ, a woman affectionately referred to as the Queen Mother, which, in her case, is not a petty, royal appellation. Rathe...
- Added: Apr 29, 2024
- Length: 26:36
Bill Shanabruch left his job as regional biologist for the Piedmont with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. It was over a boondoggl...
- Added: Apr 23, 2024
- Length: 26:08
As staggeringly complex as the environmental catastrophe is, by tackling one small space at a time, we might be able to bring back entire ecosystem...
- Added: Apr 16, 2024
- Length: 24:26
It’s interesting how every great work of music, literature, visual art is immune to the predilections of time and space. Whether they were crafted ...
- Added: Apr 01, 2024
- Length: 27:38
Nico Cathcart has been an artist practically since birth. From the time her fingers could grip the ferrule of a paintbrush and guide it along a fla...
- Added: Mar 22, 2024
- Length: 25:47
Audio documentaries from the front lines
Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 15, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
John LaFratta didn’t start practicing law until he was in his thirties. He had studied business and English literature as an undergraduate, and wor...
- Added: Jan 19, 2024
- Length: 26:38
The writer John Nichols first achieved national fame at age 24 with 'The Sterile Cuckoo', but went on to a second act when he moved to Taos, New Me...
- Added: Dec 09, 2023
- Length: 27:14
Our guest today, Smithsonian Associate Kevin Dennehy, is someone who can guide us through a journey to Normandy like no other. Smithsonian Associat...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Oct 09, 2023
- Length: 29:05
- Purchases: 1
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
The history of why Black women are more likely to die when giving birth than White women.
Bought by WVTF and WNED Buffalo
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 56:56
- Purchases: 2
"Race correction" is a practice based on the premise that Black bodies are inherently different from White bodies. Medical students are trying to c...
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 48:57
When the plague broke out in San Francisco in 1900, the public health department singled out Chinatown—as if Chinatown were the problem.
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 51:34
If there is no such thing as biological race, why do we have race-specific drugs?
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 54:18
The word “Tuskegee” has become shorthand for the Black community’s mistrust of the medical establishment. But what really happened?
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 59:05
This week on On Story, we’re joined by co-creator, showrunner, and writer Lang Fisher for a conversation on writing the acclaimed Netflix comedy se...
- Added: Apr 05, 2023
- Length: 54:00
