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La Amistad
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History
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In honor of Black History Month, this episode of A New York Minute In History tells the story of the 1839 La Amistad Rebellion, in which 53 illegal...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2024
  • Length: 29:29
Constant Wonder - Our Team
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Cleveland cheered on the Indians as the team integrated and began winning big.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., GCR (Global Community Radio), KNCT FM, RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Mar 22, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
Episode 146: Ten Doors
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1978, Tim Jenkin was charged under South Africa’s Terrorism Act for disseminating anti-apartheid material, and sentenced to 12 years in prison. ...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 29:22
Engulfed in Flames (Radio Race 2020)
From: Alex Lewis
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Rodney Ford was 9 years old when he was forced to evacuate his home. What happened next was broadcast live on television. This piece was produced ...

Bought by WFHB and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 18, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
Esi Edugyan, author of "Washington Black"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Bob Kustra interviews Esi Edugyan about her novel "Washington Black"

  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 30:16
Episode 111: Silvon Simmons
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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“My first instinct, to be honest, was they shot this guy and now there’s a coverup.” -Liz Riley, Special Assistant Public Defender, Monroe County P...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 31:22
It's Been So Long
From: Rhon Manigault-Bryant
Caption: cedar grove overexposed, Credit: DoctorRMB
There are stories. And then, there are STORIES. The kind that stick with you because they are bare and true. And because they make the world look a...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 09, 2019
  • Length: 05:48
  • Purchases: 2
Why We Will Never Forget April 1994
From: WPLN - Nashville Public Radio
Series: Versify (shorts)
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Ebralie Mwizerwa is a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 26, 2018
  • Length: 05:37
  • Purchases: 4
Assignment: Memphis
From: Drew Darling
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The plot that killed the dream. The Who, What, Where, How and Why Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was assassinated.

Bought by WLPR and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Mar 03, 2018
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 59: In Plain Sight
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1849, abolitionist and attorney Wendell Phillips wrote: “We should look in vain through the most trying times of our revolutionary history for a...

Bought by WFAE


  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 29:37
  • Purchases: 1
Cake and Pie
From: Lauren Barnes
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Little girl journeys all over New Orleans to find her role model.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2015
  • Length: 04:15
StoryCorps: Kai Leigh Harriott and Aja David
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Aja (left), Kai (middle) and their mother Tonya David.
Aja David and her younger sister, Kai Leigh Harriott, remember the night Kai was hit...

Bought by WEZU and KMUD


  • Added: Jul 25, 2014
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 2
Gilbert King reads from his Pulitzer-winner, Devil In The Grove: Thurgood Marshall, The Groveland Boys, and The Dawn of A New America (5/20)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
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100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. Before becoming the first African American on The Supreme Court, Marshall risked his life in ...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
Willie McGee and the Traveling Electric Chair (30 Min Special)
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Radio Diaries Podcast
Caption: Bridgette McGee holds a photo of her grandfather., Credit: Teri Havens
In 1951, Willie McGee was executed in Mississippi's traveling electric chair for raping a white woman. Six decades later, his granddaughter is on a...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Feb 13, 2014
  • Length: 28:11
  • Purchases: 2
The Writ Writer - part 1
From: Guy Rathbun
Caption: The Writ Writer, Credit: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
This is a story that begs to be told. It’s long overdue. The year was 1919. The place: Phillips County, Arkansas. What became a watershed moment i...

Bought by WNCU


  • Added: Jan 02, 2014
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Reality Check
From: David Schultz
Caption: Carolyn Parham, Credit: SpeakeasyDC
A mother of two faces a life-altering crisis when, just a few months out of rehab, a $5,000 check appears in her mailbox.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, and KUOW


  • Added: Feb 28, 2010
  • Length: 05:52
  • Purchases: 3
A Pirate Looks At Forty
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A profile of a young fisherman in Maine.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 08:28
  • Purchases: 1
Tanya Ward: A Triumph Over Addiction
From: Lisa Albert
Caption: Tanya Ward, Credit: Lisa Marie Albert
Tanya Ward shares her experience of recovery from the disease of addiction. In and out of jail from the age of 16, a life on the run, living on one...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: May 16, 2009
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 2
Toilet Paper Scrap Chronicles Civil Rights Ordeal
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
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A six-foot piece of jail-grade toilet paper from 1963 captures Civil Rights struggle

Bought by WABE, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KUOW, KFAI Minneapolis, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2005
  • Length: 07:23
  • Purchases: 7