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Yolanda
From: Media Humboldt
Series: Immigrant Voices
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Yolanda is a DACA student at HSU; she worries about being able to finish her schooling. She also went to Washington DC to lobby with Scholars Witho...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 12, 2019
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
300 E Eager St: The release door of the Baltimore Jail
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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My first experience with Baltimore City Jail, I think I was 17 years of age, and it just seems like it’s been repeatedly ever since. I’ve been in a...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 18, 2019
  • Length: 04:20
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Scott Parker - 360
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Scott Parker discusses his small book of essays, "A Way Home: Oregon Essays." He also reads a few short pieces.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 28, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Antonio McDuffy
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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You have to command your area. This is my area. This is where I make a living.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 07, 2018
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 1
Velma Maia Thomas
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Once you forget the struggle, you won’t appreciate where you are.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2018
  • Length: 04:15
Throwing Shade Not Light on the Youth Vote
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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Millennials and younger people now make up America’s largest group of eligible voters, surpassing Baby Boomers for the first time.

  • Added: Jul 03, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
Choices - Episode 106
From: Lisa Reilly
Series: THE HUSTLER FILES
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Choices - Sounds easy, right? but for many with a criminal background, a choice makes all the difference.

  • Added: May 09, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
Farming and famine in Nigeria (2009 PRI/BBC The World)
From: Hechtech
Series: Nigeria-Niger Food Trilogy
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A generation ago, the African nation of Nigeria launched a plan to embrace modern farming. But today the country is

  • Added: May 03, 2018
  • Length: 08:30
Retrospective: Dave Gardner #223 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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A glimpse of why the Conversation Earth series was created and how guests and topics are chosen. Dave and Kaitlyn also share highlights from the fi...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Indie3 Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: May 01, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
California Innocence Project: Interns - episode 5
From: KHSU
Series: California Innocence Project
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The California Innocence Project relies on interns to go through thousands of requests for assistance. In this episode, interns share some of their...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
Caring for and about People Who Seem Different
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
Caption: Become More Emotionally Intelligent
Build bridges to those who seem different. Topics include black history month, the Patriots Super Bowl loss, and challenges with family and friend ...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2018
  • Length: 51:29
The Write Question - Anahata Meta - 313
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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This episode features a soulful conversation with Anahata Meta about her book, 52 Weeks, 52 Dates. She also reads a brief passage from the book.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
James Aunquoe
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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I finally started connecting the dots about who I was inside.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 24, 2018
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Faces Places
From: KXCI
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The French director Agnès Varda has been making films for over sixty years, in both fiction and non-fiction form, and she has truly become one of t...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 04:08
RDD: Ring The Bell
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we're headed to meet Dr. Crawford Strunk, a pediatric hematologist-oncologist, at ProMedica's Children's Hospi...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 08, 2018
  • Length: 06:07
  • Purchases: 1
Mike Carpenter of Burgee Funeral Home
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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A boom in new, young residents is great for business, unless you’re the neighborhood funeral home.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 25, 2017
  • Length: 04:36
  • Purchases: 1
Levees, Let's Get it Done
From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing
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All of us remember the consequences of Hurricane Katrina and the super storm that hit New York City in 2012. These climatic conditions are likely t...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:35
Retrospective: Dave Gardner #223
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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A glimpse of why the Conversation Earth series was created and how guests and topics are chosen. Dave and Kaitlyn also share highlights from the fi...

Bought by KTRL


  • Added: Jul 25, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Gay voice
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCaster Alex
OutCasting youth participant Alex reflects on his "gay voice"

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 04:21
  • Purchases: 1
Recovery From Above, Recovery From Below- The AIR Dorm
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week, we focus on the closing of a volunteer-run dorm in the Monroe County Jail. The Addicts in Recovery, or AIR Dorm, has been a unique part ...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 29:05
Bresha Meadows, Domestic Violence, and the State
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week, we examine the intersections between domestic violence, along with other forms of gendered violence, the courts, and the prison system. ...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1583 (Hour 1 & 2) - 06/01/2017
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Easy and genuine is a mood that prevails our proceedings this episode, bassist Warren Jones of Grand Rapids bridges our journey to Helena Arkansas ...

Bought by WMOT, WJSU, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WKAR and more


  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 6
The Working Tapes: Taxi Driver
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Studs Terkel
In 1974, author and oral historian Studs Terkel published his seminal book "Working," a portrait of America based on 130 interviews. The raw record...

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


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 3
The Working Tapes: Union Rep
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Gary Bryner, Credit: Detroit Free Press
Gary Bryner tells Studs Terkel about being a union member and working in an auto factory for General Motors. Four decades later, he reflects on how...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, KZYX, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 6
StoryCorps: Jane Vance and Lucinda Roy
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Jane Vance and Lucinda Roy, who taught at Virginia Tech during the shooting that killed 32 people in 2007, talk about the aftermath.

Bought by WMUU-LP and WVBI-LP


  • Added: Apr 17, 2017
  • Length: 01:47
  • Purchases: 2

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