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The Origins of Vaccine Hesitancy
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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More than half of all American adults have received a COVID-19 vaccine. But even though we’ve made great strides in our vaccination efforts, there ...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2021
  • Length: 03:27
Waste dumps a burden for minority neighborhoods
From: Great Lakes Today
Series: Environmental Injustice
Caption: Children playing next to Garden Valley [Bill Nehez/CSU Cleveland Memory Project]
Would you want an industrial waste dump near your house? Probably not. But across the country, environmental hazards like waste dumps tend to be lo...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, WCMU Michigan, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2018
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 10
Replicas of Columbus ships stir protests
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Protest in Oswego, N.Y., Credit: Payne Horning
Two replica Christopher Columbus ships are sailing across the Great Lakes this summer, offering visitors a chance to learn about the famous explore...

Bought by Interlochen Public Radio, WFIU, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2017
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 10
Divers chronicle Great Lakes shipwreck that left 32 dead
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: The Admiral shipwreck, Credit: Marc Duncan
There’s more than just fish and sand in the Great Lakes – there are thousands of ships, airplanes, and other vehicles under the water. A story on ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, WRVO Public Media, WCMU Michigan, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 8
The Lesser of Two Evils
From: Alex Schuman
Series: How to Fix U.S.
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How to Fix U.S. explores the two-party system and a simple change that's gaining traction to end Republican and Democratic dominance.

  • Added: May 11, 2017
  • Length: 07:29
Episode Four: "The Race Beat"
From: Troy Public Radio
Series: Carried Home: Alabama Authors and The Pulitzer Prize
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Take note: On this episode we're following the "Race Beat." We talk with Hank Klibanoff who's book "The Race Beat" tells the story of journalists c...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 25:00
Episode One: "Taxes & Taxonomy"
From: Troy Public Radio
Series: Carried Home: Alabama Authors and The Pulitzer Prize
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A conversation with biologist and naturalist E.O. Wilson on what winning a second Pulitzer Prize meant for him and his Harvard colleagues. A look ...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 24:59
Episode Three: "Stories Someone Told Me"
From: Troy Public Radio
Series: Carried Home: Alabama Authors and The Pulitzer Prize
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This episode's stories come from some of Alabama's Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists: Rick Bragg who wrote about the Susan Smith murders and the O...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 25:00
Episode Two: "The Small Town through the Literary Lens"
From: Troy Public Radio
Series: Carried Home: Alabama Authors and The Pulitzer Prize
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In this episode we're looking at the small town through the literary lens. Hear how Shirley Ann Grau author of "Keepers of the House" hung up on th...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2017
  • Length: 24:59
American side of Niagara Falls to go silent
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: BY ANGELICA A. MORRISON / Pedestrian Bridge to be replaced at Niagara Falls State Park., Credit: BY ANGELICA A. MORRISON / Pedestrian Bridge to be replaced at Niagara Falls State Park.
New York State plans to shut off the American Falls, a major attraction for tourists who flock to Niagara Falls. It's part of a project to replace...

Bought by WCPN, WXXI Rochester, North Country Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WSKG and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2016
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 7
Viking ship Draken leaves Great Lakes, but hard feelings linger
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Draken Harald Harfagre, Credit: courtesy of Draken Harald Harfagre
The replica Viking ship Draken Harald Hårfagre has sailed out of the Great Lakes, wrapping up a summer visit marred by a dispute over pilots fees. ...

Bought by WCPN, WXXI Rochester, WMUK, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2016
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 7
Allan Wolper talk with Martin Garbus
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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Martin Garbus is one of America's fiercest fighters for free speech. He has represented some of the most prominent names in culture media and polit...

Bought by KSKA


  • Added: Nov 26, 2015
  • Length: 29:08
  • Purchases: 1
Allan Wolper talks with Frank Casey
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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Frank Casey was the first investment analyst to blow the whistle on rogue financier Bernard Madoff whose Ponzi scheme looted the savings of thousan...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2015
  • Length: 29:08
The history behind White Castle building #8
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Jess Mador goes behind the scenes of a familiar fast food landmark: White Castle building #8.

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 04:05
Minnesota's state flag
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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The Minnesota state flag has a history that dates back more than 120 years. Throughout that time, the flag has received both praise and criticism f...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 03:28
Stanford considering the fate of century-old dam threatening endangered trout
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Searsville Dam, Credit: Wikimedia commons user Gazebo
The Searsville Dam is causing big trouble on the peninsula. The 122-year-old, 65-foot-tall dam is closed to the public, hidden away on 1,200 acres ...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 06:41
In an old church, the Internet Archive stores our digital history
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: The Internet Archive, San Francisco., Credit: Under CC license from Flickr user Beatrice Murch
In San Francisco’s Richmond District, where Geary Boulevard meets Park Presidio, there stands a bright, white, defunct Christian Science church. Th...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 06:37
  • Purchases: 2
Walk like a Radical: A tour through a century of progressive South Asians in the Bay Area
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: A recreation of protests by South Asian Berkeley students against emergency in India., Credit: Berkeley South Asian Radical Walking Tour
In 2012, Barnali Ghosh began the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour with her husband, Anirvan Chatterjee.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2015
  • Length: 08:08
The Source: Boom time at San Francisco’s Presidio
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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San Francisco is America’s second most densely populated area, after Manhattan. And with new construction all over town, it’s going to get even den...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2015
  • Length: 06:01
Care to join me in a Mint?
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: The Old Mint is currently used for special events. There are also tours on weekends.
The Old Mint was the only financial institution still operational following the 1906 earthquake and fire. At one time, it held a third of the natio...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 07:08
http://kalw.org/post/evolution-affordable-housing
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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To make sense of this new era in low-income housing in San Francisco, we’re going to travel back in time and follow the story as it unfolds into th...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 28, 2014
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 1
North Beach tenants find strength and friendship as they fight to keep their homes
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Theresa Flanderich (r) and Diego Deleo (l) in Deleo's apartment, Credit: Melanie Young
At the Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center, two dozen residents of North Beach come on a recent Tuesday night to hear from neighbors who have experi...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 08:11
With New Focus, Episcopal Church Of Louisiana Addressing A History Of Racism
From: Laine Kaplan-Levenson
Caption: Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori is the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church., Credit: Laine Kaplan-Levenson
The Episcopal Church of Louisiana spent the past year making plans for a new ministry, aiming to address its history of racism, as well as other fo...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2014
  • Length: 05:23
The Hidden History of a One Room School
From: Philip Graitcer
Caption: Harrington School, Credit: PGraitcer
When the tiny African American community on Georgia's St Simon's Island set out to save its one-room schoolhouse, it didn't realize that the buildi...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Oct 09, 2011
  • Length: 05:14
  • Purchases: 1
The Meskhetians
From: Julia Barton
Caption: Faramus Ibrahimov., Credit: Joshua Sarantitis
Many refugees in the United States have complicated stories to tell. The plight of the Meskhetian Turks spans six decades and four countries. Now s...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 15, 2011
  • Length: 04:43
  • Purchases: 1