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Caption: The Apache Reaper, Credit: Edward Curtis
How did we go from more than 50 million wild bison to just 23 free-roaming animals? And how does the decimation of the herds relate to the oppressi...

Bought by KPIP-LP, PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, Prairie Public, Wyoming Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2017
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
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WV examine the life of Sojourner Truth and what she means to us. We talk with Jacqueline Sheehan about her novel about Sojourner Truth, THE COMET’S...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2016
  • Length: 45:28
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Paul Rucker's art education came from working as a janitor at the Seattle Art Museum. Now a gifted cellist, visual artist, and video producer, Paul...

Bought by WCPN and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 20, 2016
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 2
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A one-hour special radio documentary about the resurgence of Iñupiaq drum and dance traditions in Alaska framed with narration, interviews, and liv...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WNMU-FM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
Caption: As soon as the 19th Amendment passed, giving women the right to vote, National Women's Party leader Alice Paul started drafting the Equal Rights Amendment., Credit: Caroline Ballard
Women are only mentioned in the Constitution once: in the Nineteenth Amendment which grants women the right to vote. In 1923, suffragists proposed ...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 29, 2016
  • Length: 05:20
  • Purchases: 2
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Celebrating the life and work of Beatrix Potter

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jul 22, 2016
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Social media is very prevelant in our society today, on this episode of Culture Clique, we delve into it. On Tuesday March 15th, WSU hosted the 2nd...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 51:41
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The Winona Human Rights Commission and Winona State University sponsored a community forum in response to the recent displays of the Confederate Fl...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 47:38
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The Winona Human Rights Commission and Winona State University sponsored a community forum in response to the recent displays of the Confederate Fl...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 34:07
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Join Director Paul Barnes as he takes you through Great River Shakespeare Festival's production of, "Georama". Learn the backstory, details about t...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2016
  • Length: 06:26
Caption: Chris Walter
Beatles 50th Anniversary: Paperback Writer/Rain on Top of the Pops. Guest Photographer Chris Walter

  • Added: Jun 09, 2016
  • Length: 56:00
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Celebrate the Anniversary Release of the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Album

  • Added: Jun 02, 2016
  • Length: 53:00
Caption: Michelangelo's David
Painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and poet - how can one man be so many things? And what did he keep in his basement?

Bought by KVSC and WABE


  • Added: Jun 01, 2016
  • Length: 16:09
  • Purchases: 2
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If there was ever a political strategist who could be consider a transformer of government, it would be David Axelrod. David has accomplished more ...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 24:30
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On Good Friday, thousands of pilgrims walk from across New Mexico to the little church El Santuario de Chimayo. Hear the story of this legendary s...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2016
  • Length: 01:34:59
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A 29-minute special including interviews, sound-rich features and historical clips about the history of Earth Day.

Bought by Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting


  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Poet Mary Jo Bang explores the process of translating Dante Alighieri's Inferno, and professor Jessica Rosenfeld explains the origins of literature.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 20:23
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How well does any nonfiction writer capture "The Truth?" Essayist Edward McPherson explores truth and memory in nonfiction.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 14:17
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Author Kelly Link discusses the archetypes of magical realism and William McKelvy explains the hallmarks and legacy of Gothic literature.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 20:52
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Publisher and fiction writer, Danielle Dutton, discusses the poetics of suburbia and the roadblocks of women in publishing. In the second half Prof...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 20:51
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Bemidji’s grassroots Truth and Reconciliation group has been meeting for months to talk about race. Anton Treuer is one of the founding members of ...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2016
  • Length: 04:24
Caption: Dr. Halle Tanner Dillion Johnson  was the first woman and the first black woman to practice medicine in Alabama.  She was licensed in 1891.
Here's an account of healthcare in the rural Alabama. This account was written in 1894. Listen.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 06:39
Caption: Pamela Spoto
Unspun takes a look at Black History and current Civil Rights and equality issues in America with Pamela Spoto, local educator, activist and host o...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2016
  • Length: 59:56
Caption: Mardi Gras Indian costume at New Orleans' African American Museum., Credit: Tonya Fitzpatrick
World Footprints uncovers the little known stories about African American history in New Orleans from the largest slave rebellion in 1811 to the cu...

Bought by WWFM, WAER Syracuse, NY, and KISA Digital Studios


  • Added: Feb 15, 2016
  • Length: 59:55
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Unmarked graves on Yellow Hill, Credit: Tonya Fitzpatrick
World Footprints travels along one path of the Underground Railroad starting in Norfolk, Virginia and finishing in Buxton, Ontario. We will also s...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2016
  • Length: 59:55