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Reenacting The Last Mass Lynching in the U.S.
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The last mass lynching in the U.S. took place back in 1946 in Monroe, Georgia. The case remains open, but one group stages an annual re-enactment i...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 1
Thwarting Democracy, the Battle for Voting Rights
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Bloody Sunday-Selma, Alabama
It’s election season! But since the 2013 Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act, many states have pushed changes to voter laws that raise di...

Bought by KMUN and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The "Ghost Church"
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Before the great speech maker Patrick Henry died, he credited a Presbyterian minister named Samuel Davies with “teaching me what an orator should b...

Bought by KENW and West Virginia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Aug 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Veterans and Disabilities (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The army is scrambling to recover missing war records from Iraq and Afghanistan, and in the meantime, many veterans struggle to get their disabilit...

Bought by KENW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WXDU


  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 3
Civil War Selfies (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
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A Facebook selfie or Instagrammed lunch is a far cry from what used to be required to take a picture. With expensive, slow technology, most photos ...

Bought by WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 28, 2014
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 3
My Earthquake Story: Nancy Bidwell
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Caption: PRX default Piece image
March 27, 2014 marked the 50th Anniversary of the Good Friday Earthquake in Alaska. What was that day like for teens and young people living in Anc...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 07:41
My Earthquake Story: Mary Fedoroff
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Caption: PRX default Piece image
March 27, 2014 marked the 50th Anniversary of the Good Friday Earthquake in Alaska. What was that day like for teens and young people living in Anc...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 04:09
My Earthquake Story: Jim Curran
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Caption: PRX default Piece image
March 27, 2014 marked the 50th Anniversary of the Good Friday Earthquake in Alaska. What was that day like for teens and young people living in Anc...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:59
The Music of Noise
From: A. Randall Wenner
Caption: Syracuse University Design Professor Zeke Leonard demonstrates his intonarumori noise-making instruments., Credit: A. Randall Wenner
Is it possible to make “music” from “noise”? Is it possible to enjoy it? Randy Wenner reports on an experimental music genre making a comeback of s...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 20, 2014
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 2
50 Year Ago, D.C. Introduced The Beatles On Stage and On Air
From: Rebecca Sheir
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Not only was Washington, D.C., the site of The Beatles' first full North American concert in 1964... It was also the first North American city to a...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2014
  • Length: 09:45
With New Focus, Episcopal Church Of Louisiana Addressing A History Of Racism
From: Laine Kaplan-Levenson
Caption: Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori is the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church., Credit: Laine Kaplan-Levenson
The Episcopal Church of Louisiana spent the past year making plans for a new ministry, aiming to address its history of racism, as well as other fo...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2014
  • Length: 05:23
Maryland Town Celebrates Its 15 Hours Of Fame
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: After fleeing Washington, D.C., during the War of 1812, President James Madison spent the night in this Brookeville home, supposedly making Brookeville “U.S. Capital for a Day.” , Credit: Washington Post
Andy Warhol once said: "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." But in this town, you'll meet people who claim that in the pa...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2013
  • Length: 06:26
Where is the highest point in Chicago?
From: WBEZ
Series: Curious City
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The area’s so flat that every bunny hill seems a candidate. But, no, really — where is it?

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2013
  • Length: 06:53
  • Purchases: 1
The Temperament of FDR
From: With Good Reason
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Scholars gathered recently at a conference in Virginia to explore the legacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The keynote address fell to a Stanford schol...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: May 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 1
Roots Thinning In Rural America
From: Eleanor Boudreau
Series: Roots Thinning In Rural America
Caption: Beverly Johnson is the Program Director at the Alex Haley House and Museum. She is also a relative of Haley.
A century ago more than 60 percent of Americans lived in rural areas. Today 16 percent do. As more and more people flock to cities what used to be ...

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 2
The Sound of Early America
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
Caption: Towns in the southern colonies had many residents who were slaves or free blacks., Credit: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Steven Spielberg’s recent film Lincoln stirred up a lot of talk about what history sounded like. Spielberg even recorded one of President Lincoln’s...

Bought by KENW and Radio Newark


  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Michelangelo: Sacred and Profane
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Twenty-five masterpiece drawings by Renaissance artist Michelangelo are now on a rare, two-stop tour in America. Kelley Libby attended the first le...

Bought by KENW and Radio Newark


  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 2
Michelangelo: Sacred and Profane
From: Kelley Libby
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Twenty-five masterpiece drawings by Renaissance artist Michelangelo are now on a rare, two-stop tour in America. Producer Kelley Libby attended the...

Bought by Listenwise


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 1
Edna the Engineer and National Security
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
Caption: Secretaries, housewives, waitresses, women from all over central Florida are getting into vocational schools to learn war work. Typical are these in the Daytona Beach branch of the Volusia county vocational school., Credit: National Archives and Records Administration
A recent science test showing that American girls are lagging behind boys has brought women in science back into the national conversation. More th...

Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Radio Newark, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 4
American Hipster
From: With Good Reason
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Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs—all names you might recognize as poets of the Beat Generation. But a friend and inspiration to ...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:27
United Germany
From: With Good Reason
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When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 a country that had been divided was reunited. But after the physical wall was torn down, Germany was still l...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2012
  • Length: 02:27
Back to Work
From: War News Radio
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This month on War News Radio, "Back to Work ". First, we examine the problem of youth unemployment in Morocco. Then, we look into the persecution ...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
A New Book on Thomas Jefferson and Slavery
From: With Good Reason
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A recent book critical of Thomas Jefferson as a slaveholder has raised controversial questions about our founding father. Allison Quantz has the st...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 02:47
The First Africans
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Until recently, not much was known about the first Africans who stepped foot on the North American continent. Today, scholars are learning unexpect...

Bought by KENW and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 12, 2012
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 2
After the Blacklist
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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In the early years of the Cold War, a number of Hollywood directors and writers were blacklisted from the motion picture industry. One author says ...

Bought by KENW and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jul 17, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2