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Despite being one of the most frequently banned authors, Toni Morrison’s work has inspired countless others to tell stories outside the mainstream....
- Added: Nov 30, 2023
- Length: 23:18
In the late 1880s, a young journalist named Eva Valesh went undercover in Minneapolis to report on the lives of working women for the St. Paul Glo...
- Added: Feb 16, 2023
- Length: 18:19
From defunct recording technology to vinyl’s comeback, we've been through a lot of media changes over the last 125 years. And we're still changing!...
Bought by KVNF, KGNU Community Radio, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio
- Added: Apr 27, 2022
- Length: 25:47
- Purchases: 3
On October 5th, 2021, all three public library systems in New York City eliminated late fines. The change was 125 years in the making, and it made ...
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio
- Added: Dec 21, 2021
- Length: 24:18
- Purchases: 1
Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts this week's mix of tunes from his eclectic personal collection. It's a show where deep tracks a...
- Added: Dec 08, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts this week's mix of tunes from his eclectic personal collection. It's a show where deep tracks a...
- Added: Dec 08, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts this week's mix of tunes from his eclectic personal collection. It's a show where deep tracks a...
- Added: Dec 08, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
The story of Canarsie in reverse, from the racial unrest in the 1990s, to the anti-integration school boycotts in the 1960s, the community of Canar...
- Added: Oct 28, 2021
- Length: 26:41
Brooklyn is constantly changing. This episode takes a look at the changes on just one street in one neighborhood: Eighth Avenue in Sunset Park, whi...
- Added: Oct 15, 2021
- Length: 27:02
30 years ago, 1989 was a historic year, that changed Europe. The highlight was the fall of the Berlin wall on November 9th, 1989 This three part se...
- Added: Oct 21, 2019
- Length: 21:05
Today, women outnumber men on college campuses, but that wasn't always the case. Before the 1960s, colleges routinely used gender quotas to suppres...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Apr 13, 2018
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Nov 16, 2017
- Length: 20:52
- Purchases: 1
The Triangle Seagals, WAVES national unit #144 is a North Carolina based women’s organization for active, former active, retired, and reservists. F...
- Added: Jul 17, 2016
- Length: 36:27
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
The famous duo of radio, television and film – George Burns and Gracie Allen – were married for 38 years. We look back at how their relationship a...
Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 09, 2015
- Length: 11:51
- Purchases: 3
Legendary blues kick into hard funk. Experience freedom in dance, musing and introspection. We'll pay tribute to a recently departed clarinet mas...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 01:59:53
- Purchases: 5
A innovative technology to preserve endangered sound recordings without playing them (which would further damage them) is bringing the voices of po...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, KALW, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 05, 2014
- Length: 06:24
- Purchases: 4
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Off-Ramp's Chris Greenspon tells the fabulous and tragic story of Jim Tully, famous in the Thirties, forgotten in the Forties.
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 14:18
A Tribute to the late Cosimo Matassa who's J&M Studio and engineering skills recorded history and defined the way rock and roll would sound.
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 04:28
The microphone has changed the entire world into everything we know and love today, so it only makes sense that there's a museum for it.
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 04:29
Before the Internet, before television, there was the radio. That's how people heard the news and enjoyed their favorite shows. This story is part ...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Feb 16, 2014
- Length: 28:01
- Purchases: 1
This is a dramatic, sound-rich recreation of the wartime diary of Barbara Jean Roberts. As a young woman, a newly trained nurse, she left her home ...
- Added: Feb 13, 2014
- Length: 26:31
Look around your daily life. There's a little piece of Thomas Edison almost everywhere.
Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, XRAY.fm, KMUZ, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more
- Added: Feb 05, 2014
- Length: 23:26
- Purchases: 7
Record label executive Joe McEwen was one of the many white kids listening to Black radio in Philadelphia in the 50s and 60s. Here, McEwen talks ab...
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, and KUOW
- Added: Jan 07, 2014
- Length: 04:27
- Purchases: 3
Dyana Williams started her broadcasting career in 1973 as one of the few African-American women on the air. Her radio handle? Ebony Moonbeams. Sinc...
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, WABE, and KUOW
- Added: Jan 07, 2014
- Length: 04:55
- Purchases: 4
