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On this episode, we explore the story of Plymouth Freeman, a black Patriot who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, and d...
- Added: Jan 02, 2024
- Length: 29:30
Yurok fisherman and tribal leader Sammy Gensaw and environmental scientist-turned-activist Craig Tucker share the epic story of how Indigenous lead...
- Added: Oct 16, 2023
- Length: 28:30
For Women’s History Month, Devin and Lauren tell the story of Dr. Mary Walker: physician, heroine of the Civil War, and the only woman in history e...
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- Added: Mar 30, 2023
- Length: 30:00
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In the first episode of our new season, Devin and Lauren look to a William G. Pomeroy marker in Westchester County to learn about American patriot ...
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- Added: Feb 07, 2022
- Length: 30:00
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While Black women have played a critical role in the development of the nation, their stories have been mostly overlooked. In the new book, A Black...
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- Added: Sep 22, 2021
- Length: 29:00
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![Caption: Por América [José Martí], Juan Francisco Elso, 1986, From the collection of: The Bronx Museum of the Arts](https://s3.amazonaws.com/production.mediajoint.prx.org/public/piece_images/741418/por_america_juan_francisco_elso_square.jpeg)
Philosopher, Poet, and Revolutionary, Jose Marti, believed that knowledge and understanding do not originate within us, but come to us through our ...
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- Added: Jul 20, 2021
- Length: 59:00
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The Lincoln-Douglas debates come alive, courtesy of David Strathairn and Paul Giamatti.
- Added: Oct 07, 2020
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 31
Fifty years ago, there was a radical plan to completely remake a county sheriff’s department in an iconic western town. It almost worked, they almo...
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- Added: Jun 16, 2020
- Length: 28:00
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Today we highlight exemplars: A. J. Muste, Mister Rogers, and Benjamin Lay. These were men who lived lives that challenged the expectations of thei...
- Added: Dec 24, 2019
- Length: 59:01
Love Invents Us
Amy Bloom is a Connecticut-based author and psychotherapist and the author of a novel entitled “Love Invents Us.” This book, the e...
- Added: Nov 07, 2019
- Length: 29:00
A 19-year-old Australian arrives in San Francisco and changes the American labor movement. This is the story of a visionary man who fought for demo...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Sep 19, 2019
- Length: 59:11
- Purchases: 1
400 years since the first enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown, many people agree reparations are due, but what would they look like? How about a...
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- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 28:00
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On this episode of Art Beat we interview Chris Newberry a producer and director of photogrophy for the film Time for Ilhan the story of
the first ...
- Added: Nov 16, 2018
- Length: 30:52
Scholars and religious leaders explore the impact of Husayn and the devotion of the 15-20 million pilgrims who visit his shrine each year. Part 1 o...
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- Added: Oct 08, 2018
- Length: 53:58
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Today, capitalism, aka the free market, is linked to trade wars, suffocating student debt, entire countries gone bankrupt, burgeoning virtual curre...
- Added: Aug 06, 2018
- Length: 01:00:36
I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is ...
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- Added: Nov 07, 2017
- Length: 29:00
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The Legacy of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and A Sermon to White America
- Added: Apr 14, 2017
- Length: 57:58
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It was November 9, 2016. Amy was worried about the new political landscape. But some unusual encounters at work gave her fresh perspective.
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- Added: Feb 08, 2017
- Length: 11:36
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Throughout the summer of 2016, this country has been reeling in the wake of profound injustice. As racial tensions swell, is it possible that somet...
- Added: Jul 25, 2016
- Length: 06:45
The Freedom Riders of 1961 were upholding the law. So why were they being arrested as soon as they got off the buses in Jackson, Mississippi? KFAI'...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 04:44
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Dr. Cal Ledbetter and his wife Brownie are heard here in the rebroadcast of their program appearances prior to their passing away.
- Added: Aug 30, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Bobby speaks, on this “National Marijuana Day” (April 20, 2013), with Alexander Portelli, mayoral candidate for the city of Albany, NY. They discus...
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 44:31
Older, overworked, frustrated and unwell, Hamer's famous line "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired" appears on her tombstone. But she mainta...
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- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:41
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On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview author and political activist David George Ball about his book, A Marked Heart, and the historic day he...
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 27:30
NEH Chairman Jim Leach discusses "civility in a fractured society" and the value of studying the humanities in order to understand an increasingly ...
- Added: Jun 05, 2012
- Length: 44:59
