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This is part 1 of A Monumental Change about how the brutal murder of George Floyd has propelled the entire country forward toward a more perfect Un...
- Added: Apr 14, 2023
- Length: 26:48
Canada's nationwide ban on conversion therapy took effect January 7. Why no national ban in the US? Despite clear evidence that conversion therapy ...
- Added: Jan 07, 2022
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 2
Despite massive evacuations after the Taliban takeover in August, tens of thousands of LGBTQ people remain in Afghanistan fearing for their lives, ...
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- Added: Nov 09, 2021
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
Following decades researching cults, Robert Jay Lifton concludes “that the psychological relationship between extremist political movements and fan...
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- Added: Oct 20, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
“The Good Cop.” MAGA hat wearing, right-wing immigrant Primo is tormented by his racist fears, and haunted by his hate when he’s as caught in a pro...
- Added: Aug 01, 2020
- Length: 29:03
How the murder of George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers led to an ever-expanding ripple of protests across the country and...
- Added: Jul 01, 2020
- Length: 27:51
History Repeats as our country once again brings Impeachment charges against the President- we revisit earlier trials and listen to climate activis...
- Added: Oct 02, 2019
- Length: 01:58:02
The Virginia State Penitentiary in its early years
was considered an extremely progressive prison. That didn't last long. Not long after it opened...
- Added: Oct 01, 2019
- Length: 27:05
How we deal with the possibilities of tomorrow are very dependent on how we handle those possibilities today. Sounds simple, however, even when we ...
- Added: Sep 03, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Although American Indians in Virginia now enjoy both state and federal recognition--that came fairly recently. For many years American Indians didn...
- Added: Aug 27, 2018
- Length: 27:52
A new beast is on the scene, and it just may be part of the information age. The multi-headed monster is known as Post-Factual Democracy.
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- Added: Nov 01, 2016
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
This is a difficult story to tell. Most Americans are sickened that it’s even part of our heritage: The practice of lynching. It’s so distant, most...
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- Added: Aug 31, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In the winter of 2009, a social worker with the Iowa Department of Human Services, received an anonymous tip:
A couple dozen disabled men were liv...
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- Added: Aug 15, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
A controversy involving United Nations Peacekeeping forces, the World Health Organization, and scientists --- not to mention the people of Haiti -...
- Added: May 02, 2016
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
The Holocaust during World War II -- Horrifying images and stories that have come to symbolize an international conflict.
What the story doesn’t t...
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- Added: Mar 17, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Shortly after World War One, the Ottoman Empire was in its fiinal days.
The last desperate act of the Turkish nationalist army was to destroy the...
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- Added: May 07, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The first of a three-part sound collage that memorializes African American men and women who were tortured by Chicago Police officers in the 1970s ...
- Added: Feb 18, 2015
- Length: 01:45
In her new book, award winner journalist Nell Bernstein takes us behind the scenes into the hidden lives of incarcerated children. She has spent mo...
- Added: Jul 02, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Hurricane Sandy was nearly one year ago. Days after the storm, one woman described seeing the storm surge cause a flood of the extremely toxic wate...
- Added: Oct 03, 2013
- Length: 03:22
From: Ms. Pinky Stanseski
Ms. Pinky's book:"The History of Juvenile System and Civil Corruption in Pennsylvania"
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 02:14
The CIGARETTE is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. Few discoveries have been so consequential. So begins the work by his...
- Added: Aug 19, 2012
- Length: 28:54
Jay Ipson, the youngest Holocaust survivor living in Virginia today, lived in an underground lair for six months during the Nazi occupation of his ...
- Added: Oct 14, 2011
- Length: 59:14
The Conceptual artist Mr. Ai Wei Wei, was detained by the Chinese authorities on Sunday April 3. Where has he been taken and why?
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 09:25
From: Jenny Attiyeh
Contrarian historian Niall Ferguson says the US is an empire -- in denial! And that we'd better get our act together!!
- Added: Mar 16, 2009
- Length: 19:21
The story behind a documentary made in Tibet that landed the filmmakers in prison.
- Added: Sep 22, 2008
- Length: 09:06