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For more than a century, the Rio Grande has been the border between the U.S. and Mexico. But rivers can move.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 13:25
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Judyth Vary-Baker
Unspun talks with Lee Harvey Oswald's lover and confidant, Judyth Vary-Baker. Judyth is an author, artist, poet, teacher and social scientist. 35...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 59:58
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words features Lori Sturdevant of the Minneapolis Star Tribune reading an excerpt from her book "Her Honor: Rosalie Wahl and the Minne...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 05:46
  • Purchases: 1
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Hosts Doug Storm and Trish Kerle' are joined by historian Jim Madison to discuss the Hoosier through history. Madison has just published a new book...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2014
  • Length: 01:01:02
Caption: Rosalinda Guillen, Ex Dir Community to Community
Labor celebrates with an introduction by Ken Winkes. Interview: Rosalinda, who was raised in a local farm worker family and has worked long hours ...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 28:26
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jim Cullen, Editor of The Progressive Populist
Interview: Jim recalls the beginning of the newsletter and explains the history of the progressive and populist movements.

  • Added: Aug 22, 2014
  • Length: 27:43
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Two and one-half minute commentary on the 1964 Civil Rights Act and its effect on women over the next 50 years.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 26, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
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J.T. Johnson and Al Lingo remember having acid thrown on them after jumping into a whites-only swimming pool in St. Augustine, Florida in June of 1...

Bought by WEZU, KERA, KMUD, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jun 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 4
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(Our first daily reading for June:) A famous, enigmatic personality stood before the King and Queen of England and refused the honor of knighthood....

Bought by KCSM


  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
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Capital is a giant, data-packed tome on income inequality covering three hundred years of history by the French economist Thomas Piketty. Is there ...

  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 58:35

  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 01:09:59
Caption: Malcolm X 1964, Credit: Associate Press
This is the second hour of the documentary 'Harlem In Revolt.' It was made by a young writer called Austin Clarke and looked at the state of Harlem...

Bought by KQED


  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Malcolm X 1964, Credit: Associate Press
A little more than fifty years ago, 1963, was a time of great upheaval in the United States. The fight for civil rights was in full force with peop...

Bought by KQED


  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 1
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This week in history looks back to April 1987 and the Republican race to succeed Ronald Reagan. This week, Jack Kemp, a longtime Congressman and fo...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2014
  • Length: 04:40
Caption: Mayor Marion Barry
For years, powdered cocaine was D.C.'s drug of choice, but when crack hit the streets in the eighties, the city was afflicted by levels of addictio...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2014
  • Length: 51:30
Caption: Leroy Jones, Essex County Democratic Committee Chairmen
Coverage of the Politics that govern the County of Essex, New Jersey.

  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 29:52
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In his first Book former Newark Mayor Sharpe James write about his career as the leader of New Jersey's largest City and has good things to say abo...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Hawaii: A Voice for Sovereignty (Documentary artwork)
Some call it “Paradise”, but Hawaii isn’t just a tourist getaway. Look beyond the resorts, and you’ll find a history of opposition to US occupation...

Bought by WFHB, KVSC, WTJU, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Oct 10, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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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
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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
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Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin were the first same-sex couple to wed in San Francisco City Hall in 2004 and again -- legally -- in 2008, mere months b...

Bought by WORT, KQED, and KVMR


  • Added: Jun 26, 2013
  • Length: 29:05
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Donald Payne Jr on Left
Charmil Davis talking to the US Congress from New Jersey Donald Payne Jr.

  • Added: Jun 09, 2013
  • Length: 09:40
Caption: Alcatraz Prison, where Whitey Bulger was incarcerated from 1959 to 1962., Credit: cliff1066/Flickr
What many people outside Massachusetts don't know is that the brother of reputed Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger, Billy Bulger, was similarly powerfu...

  • Added: May 29, 2013
  • Length: 02:24
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Scholars gathered recently at a conference in Virginia to explore the legacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The keynote address fell to a Stanford schol...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: May 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 1
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Eli, a staff reporter for The Washington Post and author of “Ten Letters: The Stories Americans Tell Their President,” chronicles the personal stor...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 1