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Calamity in Philadelphia
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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The faulty—and fatal—race logic of an 18th century yellow fever epidemic.

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 40:50
Origin Stories
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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How race was invented to support racism.

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 33:44
Out of Gas, In with Justice
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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NYC Housing Authority is the city's largest landlord. Pilot programs to electrify its decrepit housing stock find successes and stumbling blocks w...

Bought by WFHB and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Homegrown Community Owned Solar
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Olympia Community Solar's millennial solar powerhouse, Credit: Olympia Community Solar
We don't have to wait for utilities or for-profit solar developers to expand solar power in our communities and, if we do it right, we can keep the...

Bought by KZYX, KMUN, KICI Iowa City, and WFHB


  • Added: Jan 10, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
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 WFHB, KICI Iowa City, WFHB, KZYX, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
EP206 Jessie Mae Hemphill
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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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


  • Added: Sep 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:49
  • Purchases: 1
EP205 A.C. Reed
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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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


  • Added: Sep 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:21
  • Purchases: 1
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
Medicare’s Unprecedented Alzheimer’s Drug Decision
From: Tradeoffs
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In early January, Medicare took an unprecedented step to restrict patients’ access to the first new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease in nearly 20 ...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2022
  • Length: 22:47
Unnatural: How Humans Start Most of Colorado’s Big Fires, and Get Away With It
From: Colorado Public Radio
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The biggest wildfires in Colorado, which have cost lives and millions of dollars, have unexplained origins. As the number and size of wildfires ris...

Bought by KSUT


  • Added: Nov 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Kiss Your Gas Goodbye
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Induction cooktop demonstration at Sonoma Clean Power's Advanced Energy Center
To reach zero carbon in 2050, we must electrify 5 million buildings each year. How are we going to do that and what does it mean for your home?

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


  • Added: Oct 12, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
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
Up Close And Acoustic Warren Zevon Special Audio Documentary
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: Up Close And Acoustic
Caption: Warren Zevon, Credit: George Gruel
Welcome to Up Close And Acoustic's complete Warren Zevon audio Documentary. I am of the opinion that Warren Zevon should be recognized as one of Am...

  • Added: May 19, 2021
  • Length: 02:54:04
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 Universal Title
From: America Abroad Media
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There may be no other actor on the world’s stage whose life has been as heavily documented as Muhammad Ali's. Yet for all the ways the legendary at...

Bought by KOSU, WSKG, WKMS, WCPN, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Mar 29, 2021
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 39
Top of Mind - Harriet Tubman, Global Warming, Library Fines
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 - Harriet Tubman; Topic 2 - Global Warming; Topic 3 - Library Fines

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KSTK, WYAP, RadioStPete Florida, KOWS and more


  • Added: Feb 24, 2021
  • Length: 51:42
  • Purchases: 6
Stories from The Big New Jersey Plastic Ban
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Troop 19 addressing Teaneck City Council
Small town environmentalists and a dozen girl scouts won the first local bag ordinances in New Jersey, sparking the strongest state plastic ban in ...

Bought by WFHB and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Jan 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 154: The Night of the Party
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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When Nathan Myers and Clifford Williams were charged with murder, neither of them were worried they would be convicted. They had dozens of witnesse...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 30:34
Episode 150: 76th and Yates
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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On May 8, 2013, a man named Timothy Jones was arrested in Chicago. He says it wasn’t until he got to the police station that he found out that he w...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 31:41
Declaration of Independents, Alaska Style: Ballot Question Two Takes on Political Partisanship
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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The great state of Alaska is different in many ways – its vast size, low population, and great distance from “the lower 48” (states). Politics in A...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 25:10
  • Purchases: 1
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
Racial Inequality in New York's Foster Care System
From: Anya Schultz
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An audio documentary about the parent-led fight to reform New York City's child welfare system.

  • Added: Jul 21, 2020
  • Length: 39:13
Breaking Point
From: Broken Ground
Series: Season 3: Sea Level Rise
Caption: Charleston, SC
With waters rising in Charleston, South Carolina we explore what, if any, breaking point there is for people living and working in this city. And w...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:56

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