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News and features on the wars in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and more.
- Added: Jun 10, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Producer Dred-Scott Keyes looks at the life and music of poet, musician and composer, Gil Scott-Heron, who passed in New York City on May 27th.
- Added: Jun 05, 2011
- Length: 01:00:03
Activists gathered in Sacramento Monday as part of a weeklong demonstration against budget cuts to schools. Sixty-five protesters were arrested for...
- Added: May 16, 2011
- Length: 06:53
Call-ins bring violent offenders face to face with police and attorneys so they can access services such as education and employment training. Soun...
- Added: Mar 28, 2011
- Length: 10:18
Health problems are one long-term consequence of foreclosure. Another is community stability. Right now the city of Oakland has about 5,000 propert...
- Added: Mar 06, 2011
- Length: 07:48
The Guerrette family copes with unthinkable horror.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WMPG
- Added: Jun 07, 2010
- Length: 11:23
- Purchases: 2
When Wendy Kopp was a college senior she had an idea: what if some of America’s top college students chose teaching over higher-paying professional...
- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 09:49
From the Sudan Radio Project: we hear about the growing humanitarian and political crisis in South Sudan.
- Added: Feb 07, 2010
- Length: 07:43
We go to Postville, Iowa and Laurel, Mississippi--two communities where the largest workplace immigration raids happened in 2008.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Jan 20, 2010
- Length: 14:53
- Purchases: 1
Residents are asking why it's taken so long to clean up the dioxin. Shawn Allee looks for an answer.
- Added: Nov 06, 2009
- Length: 03:17
Shawn Allee meets a man who took the Dow and dioxin issue to Congress years ago and is shocked it hasn't been dealt with.
- Added: Nov 06, 2009
- Length: 03:40
We go to Huron, California--a tiny farming community dubbed the' lettuce capital' of the U.S. This rural region in the fertile, sun-baked Central ...
- Added: Nov 05, 2009
- Length: 15:56
- Purchases: 2
The story of “Kathy”… a 9-year-old whose life was turned upside down after her parents were arrested during a workplace raid.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Oct 15, 2009
- Length: 12:43
- Purchases: 1
Landmark decision in favor of parents -- of any sexual orientation
- Added: Oct 07, 2009
- Length: 02:03
Two one-hour CBC Radio programs about changes to our understanding of 'journalism' now that anyone can create, report and publish news.
Bought by Louisville Public Media, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KQED, Spokane Public Radio, WTIP and more
- Added: Sep 29, 2009
- Length: 53:07
- Purchases: 7
Minneapolis Police try something different to boost with domestic violence convictions.
- Added: Jul 30, 2009
- Length: 05:06
- Added: Jun 19, 2009
- Length: 28:56
Former U.N. chief nuclear weapons inspector is the
"U.N. sleuth slammed by the truth." Ritter was the first high profile public official to tell t...
- Added: Jun 14, 2009
- Length: 13:52
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -1: How the South (or White Supremacy?) Won the War (1865 - 1877)
From: Alan LipkeSeries: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
From the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers, through the defeat of Reconstruction: How history is made and remade, with histor...
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 58:19
- Purchases: 3
In 1898, White Supremacist Democrats in North Carolina overthrew Wilmington's integrated administration. The plotters killed dozens of African Amer...
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 59:25
- Purchases: 2
An exploration of American racism as cultural and commercial mass-phenomenon, covering the "reincarnation" of the Klan as a fraternal movement whic...
Bought by WCPN
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 57:56
- Purchases: 1
It began on New Years Day 1923, when a white woman in a small Florida (saw-)milltown claimed that a black man had attacked her. By the week's end, ...
Bought by WCPN
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 59:31
- Purchases: 1
Three generations discussing the impact sexual assaults have had on each of their generations.
- Added: Apr 13, 2009
- Length: 01:18:35
A modern look at the world's poor and the causes of poverty
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Feb 02, 2009
- Length: 01:00:48
- Purchases: 1
Surviving family members in capital murder cases often endure years of legal appeals.
- Added: Dec 16, 2008
- Length: 07:57