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This is part 1 of A Monumental Change about how the brutal murder of George Floyd has propelled the entire country forward toward a more perfect Un...
- Added: Apr 14, 2023
- Length: 26:48
In the words of one expert, California has “gone crazy for propositions.” In this episode, we tell the story of one of the state’s most notorious b...
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 30:41
Americans believed the Soviet Union was cut off from the West. Nothing went in. And very little came out. Yet, tens of thousands of Americans visit...
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 01:42
In 1971, Hunter S. Thompson chronicled his drug-fueled haze during an off-road-desert race, the Mint 400, in his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Veg...
- Added: May 18, 2021
- Length: 11:17
How the murder of George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers led to an ever-expanding ripple of protests across the country and...
- Added: Jul 01, 2020
- Length: 27:51
This documentary shines a light on one of America’s most extraordinary musicians and activists, Barbara Dane. This is a woman who lead the way in c...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WKMS, and Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)
- Added: Sep 19, 2019
- Length: 01:56:41
- Purchases: 3
Pro-Confederates and white supremacists faced off with counter-demonstrators on America's largest outdoor Civil War museum on Monument Avenue in Ri...
- Added: Jul 30, 2019
- Length: 26:39
- Added: Feb 08, 2019
- Length: 19:49
Although American Indians in Virginia now enjoy both state and federal recognition--that came fairly recently. For many years American Indians didn...
- Added: Aug 27, 2018
- Length: 27:52
We’ll say goodbye to the “Red Scare Next Door” in Evansville, Indiana and travel East to the Green Mountains of Vermont where it turns out that eve...
- Added: Aug 10, 2018
- Length: 58:01
From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago to the national stage. Host Jennifer White t...
Bought by KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KRWG, Indie3 Radio and more
- Added: May 23, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 31
From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago to the national stage. Host Jennifer White t...
Bought by KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KRWG, Indie3 Radio and more
- Added: May 23, 2018
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 33
Gary Hankins is recruited from the air force during the Vietnam War to become a D.C. police officer.
- Added: Apr 30, 2018
- Length: 15:30
- Purchases: 2
Communism ended in failure, capitalism corrupted Russia’s soul. Now Russians are looking inward. Our story follows the grandson of a once forgotten...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 27, 2017
- Length: 29:48
- Purchases: 1
This is a special 90-minute show, live from The Atlas Bar, featuring the music and protest politics of Fela Kuti, the Nigerian multi-instrumentalis...
- Added: May 17, 2017
- Length: 01:32:39
This week The Rough Draft Diaries chats with Democratic Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur.
- Added: Mar 27, 2017
- Length: 06:48
It was November 9, 2016. Amy was worried about the new political landscape. But some unusual encounters at work gave her fresh perspective.
Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KUER, and KRZA
- Added: Feb 08, 2017
- Length: 11:36
- Purchases: 3
This week on the RDD, Haley meets with Pete Culp, a member of the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority board of directors. Baldemar Velasquez nominat...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 06, 2017
- Length: 06:57
- Purchases: 1
From: Donna Granata
The feature film Trumbo (2015), staring Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston, is based on the true story of blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo. The followin...
- Added: Aug 21, 2016
- Length: 04:38
Speaking out about unjust events and atrocities that others passively accept segregates the outspoken, often. In their own time, they are often ...
- Added: Jul 04, 2016
- Length: 04:34
The real meaning of the Buddhist concept of karma is murky, but the Republican Presidential campaign has become an explanatory sponge for it- fully...
- Added: Jun 29, 2016
- Length: 04:49
In the mid-20th Century, a man named Robert LeFevre (pronounced Luh-FAVE) created a small mountain academy just north of Colorado Springs called Th...
Bought by KVNF
- Added: Jun 20, 2016
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 1
Michael Eric Dyson's new book, "The Black Presidency Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America", explores the powerful, surprising way the p...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 01:00:14
A micronation that aimed to restore the Roman Empire to its former glory, turns against its founding father.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 09:10
- Purchases: 1
In NYC, African-Americans make up nearly 26% of the population but make up less than 4% of the NYC Fire Department. For the past 150 years, the cit...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 01:00:01
