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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
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...
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Every ten years, the Furious Flower Poetry Conference is held at James Madison University. This year, the event was dedicated to renowned poet Rita...
Bought by KENW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 10, 2014
- Length: 02:55
- Purchases: 2
This is the final week for the community to help the Hoosier Hills Food Bank secure a national grant as part of an online challenge.
- Added: Oct 01, 2014
- Length: 08:17
In Phoenix, Arizona, a robotics club has become a springboard for Latino students to go on to graduate from college with degrees in technology, mat...
- Added: Oct 01, 2014
- Length: 05:59
It’s not every day that the small town of Wise, Virginia gets a visit from a major magazine. But two professors from the University of Virginia’s C...
- Added: Sep 26, 2014
- Length: 02:46
- Purchases: 2
Beside soccer fields and running trails, more and more communities are now adding dog parks to their recreation spaces. One scholar has been studyi...
Bought by KENW, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WEZU, and KKRN
- Added: Sep 18, 2014
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 4
Does it matter that we are being watched? This story explores young people's views on social media and government surveillance. Produced at Vocalo ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Sep 16, 2014
- Length: 07:49
- Purchases: 1
College-aged Latinos are the fastest growing population in Northern Virginia, yet these young adults are rarely making it through the education pip...
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 02:33
- Purchases: 3
Charlie Millican and Ronnie Tims have seen plenty in their 40+ years driving for UPS. When Millican started with UPS, the company was so new that ...
- Added: Aug 28, 2014
- Length: 03:38
They’re called disease detectives – the nation’s medical eyes and ears on the lookout for disease outbreaks and bioterror attacks. They’re the Epid...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
- Added: Aug 25, 2014
- Length: 09:04
- Purchases: 3
John Fanta previews Seton Hall Track for the 2014-2015 College season
- Added: Aug 25, 2014
- Length: 03:35
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
From the forest fires in California to child soldiers in Uganda, survivors of disasters are receiving a new kind of aid. Counselors Without Borders...
- Added: Aug 08, 2014
- Length: 02:38
- Purchases: 3
San Franciscans love to garden, but a backyard is hard to come by if you live in an apartment. And the 36 city-operated community gardens have wait...
- Added: Aug 06, 2014
- Length: 07:25
South Louisiana’s Terrebonne Parish has low unemployment — there are lots of jobs in offshore services. So many that there could be a shortage of l...
- Added: Aug 04, 2014
- Length: 04:46
Sunnyvale, California doesn't have a history of violence, so why does the mayor want to make a safe city safer?
- Added: Aug 01, 2014
- Length: 06:15
Americans work 137 more hours per year than the Japanese, and almost 500 more than the French. How can we stay motivated for our long hours at work...
- Added: Jul 25, 2014
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 3
Walking into ‘Vinyl: The Sound and Culture of Records,’ one of the newest exhibits at the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA), feels like hanging o...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Jul 14, 2014
- Length: 09:09
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jun 29, 2014
- Length: 03:36
Reporter Joanne Mar takes us to a middle school in San Francisco that took a chance and moved away from zero-tolerance discipline. The decision has...
Bought by Accessible Media Inc.
- Added: Jun 23, 2014
- Length: 10:19
- Purchases: 1
All around the country, summer reading lists will feature the same familiar authors of the literary canon. In recent decades, that canon has come t...
Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KKRN
- Added: Jun 20, 2014
- Length: 02:33
- Purchases: 3
A mockumentary about an OJ Simpson/Othello mashup musical will be released on iTunes and will play one night in theaters nationwide--June 17, the 2...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 13, 2014
- Length: 05:27
- Purchases: 1
The legendary Hawaiian voyaging canoe, Hokulea, is sailing around the world using the ancient art of wayfinding, navigating without instruments. Th...
- Added: May 23, 2014
- Length: 04:19
There are many ways to handle neighborhood flooding, beyond pumping stations and sewers. Some cities have realized that skate parks, of all places,...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 04:39
