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Tulsa's Black History Saturday School
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Ribbon cutting at Tulsa's EduRec Youth Center for Black History Saturdays. , Credit: Credit: Black History Saturdays
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
Whistle Stops: The 1948 Presidential Campaigns
From: Lester Graham
Caption: President Harry Truman holds up a copy of the Chicago Tribune with the inaccurate headline: Dewey Defeats Truman., Credit: public domain
2023 is the 75th anniversary of one of the biggest political upsets in American political history (although the documentary does not mention the 75...

Bought by Iowa Public Radio, WRVO Public Media, Michigan Radio, KUOW, and WAMU


  • Added: Jul 30, 2023
  • Length: 55:31
  • Purchases: 5
Would the Founding Fathers Have Given You the Freedom to Vote?
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
Would the Founding Fathers Have Given You the Freedom to Vote?

  • Added: Jul 03, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
State of the Union -- Will the President Address the Majority?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Last year's State of the Union Speech was pretty short on details for the majority of Americans -- women. Will he pass them by again this year?

  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 02:37
Jeff Brandt on the music of 1971
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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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
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for September 15, 2021
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Pro-Trump Insurrectionists Demonstrating on 9/18 Continue to Threaten Demo...

Bought by RADIOLEX and WKPW


  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
George Floyd Anniversary & Reimagining Public Safety: Special YES!/PNS Report
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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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
The Second Coming Turns 100 (Part II): A Discussion of W.B. Yeats’ Classic Poem of Polarization with Briona Nic Dhiarmada, documentary filmmaker & Concurrent Professor of Film & Irish Studies (University of Notre Dame)
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: From Episode 15: The Centennial of W.B. Yeats’ The Second Coming (Part 2): Things Fall Apart Today (Much Like A Century Ago). Featuring our discussion with Briona Nic Dhiarmada, Prize-winning documentary filmmaker & Concurrent Professor of Film & Irish
Exactly one hundred years ago this month, at a time of political polarization and the Spanish Flu pandemic, William Butler Yeats published “The Sec...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2020
  • Length: 27:15
Hillary Haden, Executive Director of the WA Fair Trade Coalition, WTO Protest
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: WTO Protest: 20th Anniversary
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
Fighting for the Future of Hong Kong
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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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
John McCutcheon Celebrating Pete Seeger's 100th Birthday
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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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
Why is Deerfield (Still) So White?
From: Amy Roost
Caption: Deerfield, 1963 , Credit: ART SHAY / @ART SHAY ARCHIVE, 2018
A North Shore Suburb of Chicago skirts fair housing laws that require affordable housing and struggles to come to terms with segregation and a trou...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2018
  • Length: 14:55
1968: 50 Years Later - Part 3: The Voters Have Their Say
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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Part 3 of a special series from Ken Rudin's Political Junkie -- 1968: 50 Years Later. Richard Nixon stages a political comeback. Segregationist Gov...

Bought by KJZZ, Interlochen Public Radio, KGOU, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: May 24, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 10
1968: 50 Years Later - Part 2: A Party Divided
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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Part 2 of a special series from Ken Rudin's Political Junkie -- 1968: 50 Years Later. The Democratic National Convention gets underway in Chicago, ...

Bought by KJZZ, WAMU, Interlochen Public Radio, KGOU, WITF and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 14
1968: 50 Years Later - Part 1: Turbulence and Tragedy
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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Part 1 of a special series from Ken Rudin's Political Junkie -- 1968: 50 Years Later. After a disappointing result in the New Hampshire Primary, Pr...

Bought by KJZZ, Interlochen Public Radio, WITF, KGOU, WHFR and more


  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 15
Political Junkie - 1968: 50 Years Later (PROMOS)
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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Join Ken Rudin for 1968: 50 Years Later, a special three-part series looking back on the dramatic political events of 1968. Ken speaks with journal...

Bought by KGOU, WHFR, and WFAE


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 01:56
  • Purchases: 3
The Spirit of Viet Nam Is Stronger Than U.S. Bombs
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Colonialists, International Traitors, Think Carefully Before You Take Vietnam, Credit: To Lien (1978), Courtesy of Vietnam Victory Coalition
Fifty years ago, the Vietnamese Liberation Front inspired people of color around the world who were building movements for self-determination. Tod...

Bought by WVAS, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WRIR


  • Added: Mar 11, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Whole World Is Watching: The Legacy of 1968
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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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
Christopher Trumbo: Growing Up with the Blacklist
From: Donna Granata
Caption: Christopher and Dalton Trumbo, Credit: Focus on the Masters Archive, Christopher Trumbo Papers
The feature film Trumbo (2015), staring Bryan Cranston, is based on the true story of blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo. The Trumbo children, Nikola...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2016
  • Length: 05:33
The Treason of Images
From: Nathan Callahan
Series: The SoCal Byte
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In Defense of a National Flag Burning Day

  • Added: Apr 03, 2015
  • Length: 06:26
John Nance Garner
From: KUHF
Series: Texas Originals
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John Nance Garner was a powerful politician, who served 15 terms in the House of Representatives and became Speaker of the House. He was also sele...

Bought by KTTZ and KAMU


  • Added: Feb 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 2
Playing by the Rules
From: Nathan Callahan
Series: The SoCal Byte
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Presidents Obama and Johnson at UCI

  • Added: Jun 12, 2014
  • Length: 07:56
Political Junkie 4-23-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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In most cases, we know the difference between a good president and a bad one. But how do historians see them? Robert Merry, a longtime journalist w...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and WRKF


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 5
Political Junkie 4-16-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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With the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, comparisons between LBJ and Barack Obama are being made. Johnson, who left office in 1969 ...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRKF and more


  • Added: Apr 17, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 6
This Week in History: Jack Kemp Announces Bid for President in 1988
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
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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