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When Oklahoma passed a law limiting discussion of race in classrooms, Tulsa activist Kristi Williams rallied the community to create Black History ...
Bought by KMUN, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Feb 06, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Memorial Day is when we honor those who died while serving in the armed forces. It dates from 1866, when women decorated graves from both sides of ...
- Added: May 25, 2023
- Length: 06:00
150 years after Congress established Yellowstone National Park, it remains the jewel of a system that comprises some 400 national parks. But for In...
Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN and more
- Added: Jul 06, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 7
This week at MTPR, we’re celebrating music and stories from 1971 to commemorate 50 years of National Public Radio. To celebrate this history, we’re...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Oct 08, 2021
- Length: 28:25
- Purchases: 3
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Pro-Trump Insurrectionists Demonstrating on 9/18 Continue to Threaten Demo...
- Added: Sep 15, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Minneapolis, MN - May 25 marks the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Floyd's ...
- Added: Jun 25, 2021
- Length: 29:59
This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we celebrate the 100th birthday of the League of Women Voters, the LWV. The League is a nonpartisan political ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2020
- Length: 06:02
Interview by Gary Kanter: Hillary revisits the 20-year anniversary of the 1999 Seattle World Trade Organization protests, sometimes referred to as ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Nov 29, 2019
- Length: 28:02
- Purchases: 1
This week the People’s Republic of China celebrates its 70th anniversary as months of pro-democracy demonstrations continue in Hong Kong. Demonstra...
Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Oct 09, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
The docks of San Francisco and Durban, South Africa – two essential locations where a commitment to black internationalism and leftist politics spa...
- Added: Jul 16, 2019
- Length: 59:01
We talk with John McCutcheon about his album: To Everyone in All the World: A Celebration of Pete Seeger.
- Added: Mar 15, 2019
- Length: 59:00
Across the globe it was a year of countless uprisings. In the US it was the year of police violence against protesters at the Chicago Democratic Co...
- Added: Jan 31, 2018
- Length: 58:56
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, t...
- Added: Jun 26, 2017
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 2
In 1942, the government rounded up more than one hundred thousand Japanese living in the U.S. They were incarcerated for the duration of the war.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 26, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
I speak to Kat Norris Indigenous activist and founder of the Indigenous Action Movement about her experiences in residential school, how she has tu...
- Added: Jun 24, 2015
- Length: 27:42
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: FBI 9/11 Whistle-blower Coleen Rowley: Post-Charlie Hebdo Massacre Rush to...
- Added: Jan 21, 2015
- Length: 29:00
Before 2001, there was another 9/11. In 1973, a military coup backed by the United States, overthrew the Chilean government and ushered in seventee...
- Added: Aug 20, 2013
- Length: 29:00
The historic 1963 March on Washington with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech featured a number of other speakers -- all male. Or...
- Added: Aug 19, 2013
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
It’s been 20 years since four white police officers were cleared of unlawfully beating Rodney King in Los Angeles. But we might never have heard of...
Bought by WCSU-FM and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Apr 18, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
What was happening in the world thirty-three years and half a life-time ago?
- Added: Mar 30, 2009
- Length: 09:39
Four social activists talk about why a day of service is the wrong way to honor Martin Luther King.
Bought by PRX Remix, WSLR, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KVMR
- Added: Feb 08, 2007
- Length: 03:27
- Purchases: 4
