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877: Decolonizing The Mind / 878: Living In Skin, 3/2/2024

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: 'Decolonizing the Mind' - Colonization in Africa was much more than a land grab. It was a project to replace — and even erase — local cul...

The philosophers who invented the modern self

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: TTBOOK Favorites of the Week for PRX Remix

Just over 200 years ago, a group of renegade German writers and philosophers came together in a small town and forever changed who we think we are....

Bought by PRX Remix

867: Losing Yourself In Fantasy / 868: African Cities Of The Future, 1/27/2024

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Losing Yourself In Fantasy" - When the real world becomes too much, fantasy might be your ticket out. But at what point does fantasy go ...

The Nakba: 75 Years On

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Palestinians fleeing from their villages as Israeli troops approach on October 30, 1948., Credit: David Eldan, National Photo Collection of Israel, Government Press Office, under the digital ID D275-120

This week marks the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, or the "catastrophe" in Arabic. It refers both to the events starting in late 1947 when Zionist ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer

789: Decolonizing The Mind / 790: Living In Skin, 4/29/2023

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: 'Decolonizing the Mind' - Colonization in Africa was much more than a land grab. It was a project to replace — and even erase — local cul...

757: The Hidden Geometry Of Everything / 758: African Cities Of The Future, 1/7/2023

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "The Hidden Geometry Of Everything" - The human brain is naturally mathematical. But there's one particular kind of math that's the secre...

745: Taking Pop Seriously / 746: Forgiving The Unforgivable, 11/26/2022

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: 'Taking Pop Seriously" - Korean pop music has been breaking global charts and hearts, selling millions of records every year. Is is time ...

Viva Brother Nagi from Kerning Cultures

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Nagi Daifallah was a young farm worker from Yemen who participated in the 1973 Grape Strike along with the UFW until he was murdered by a Sheriff....

Last Witness: The Kerner Commission

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness

Decades before our current debate over critical race theory, the 1968 Kerner Commission pointed the finger at structural racism for creating the co...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago

The Electoral College’s Dirty History (Encore)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Given the election, and the difference between popular votes and electoral votes, we revisit our show on the Electoral College. It’s history in the...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle

Roses in December (hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

What did segregation look like in everyday life and culture? We tell the stories of an African American opera singer and a white woman who transf...

Bought by WCPN, WCNY, WTJU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WCMU Michigan and more

Roses in December (half)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

-What did the process of legal desegregation look like in everyday life and culture? Jennifer Ritterhouse shares the story of Sarah Patton “Pattie...

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, WFHB, WLIW, KRDP and more

Why We Believe What We Believe (half)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

-Why do people believe weird things? That’s what Jason Hart wants to find out. He delves into the psychology behind ghost encounters, anti-vaccine ...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, Kansas Public Radio, WLIW, KVSC and more

We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War (half)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

U.S. troops turned to popular music as a way of coping with the war in Vietnam. In this sound-rich show, the authors of “We Gotta Get Out of thi...

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, WLIW, WVAS, KRDP and more

Voices of Vietnam: A Lost Homeland (hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series

The Fall of Saigon marked the loss of a homeland for hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people. This captivating NEH-funded documentary shares st...

Bought by WFAE, WPCA-LP, WCPN, Prairie Public, KVNF and more

Pilgrimage (half)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

-In 1898, a black man named John Henry James was lynched in Charlottesville, Virginia, right across the street from what is now With Good Reason's ...

Bought by WFHB, WNMU-FM, KMUN, and WJCU

AN OUTRAGE: REFLECTIONS ON RACISM, PAST & PRESENT (HALF)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

-“An Outrage’ is a documentary film about lynching in the American South. From the end of the Civil War well into the middle of the twentieth centu...

Bought by WJCT, WVAS, WUGA (part of GPB), KRDP, WYAP and more

“Building a Wall”: Church and State in America (half)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

-When Thomas Jefferson designed the University of Virginia’s central Rotunda, he set out to build a temple to the book, a stunning rebuke to the Ch...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, Harford Community Radio, WUGA (part of GPB), WVAS and more

The Golden Age of Flattery (half)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

-A new book "Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy" investigates how we lose sight on how destructive that behavior can be. -Managers who...

Bought by WJCT, KRDP, Harford Community Radio, WUGA (part of GPB), WVAS and more

Attila the Hun

From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler

Attila and the Huns clash with the gallic forces of Flavius Aetius, the last effective general of the Roman Empire...

Lifting Scores Lowers Learning

From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning

What we actually learn from school and why it might be at risk.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

The Long Shadow of Forrest Carter

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project

Asa Carter was a speechwriter for Alabama Governor George Wallace. He penned one of the most infamous speeches of the era… Wallace’s “Segregation N...

Bought by PRX Remix

The Two Lives of Asa Carter

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project

Asa Carter and Forrest Carter couldn’t have been more different. But they shared a secret.

The Great Moonshine Conspiracy: The true story behind the movie Lawless

From: Big Shed Audio

Franklin County Virginia was once called "The Moonshine Capital of the World”, where corruption and exploitation put working families up against th...

Bought by KISU, KUOW, WMMT, and PRX Remix

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