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February became Black History Month in 1976. It was about time.
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
February is Black History Month, officially recognized by President Gerald Ford in 1976. It was about time. The 1960s had seen crucial economic gai...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
WRM41 - Will Rogers Own Groundhog Day
From: KRSC
Series: The Will Rogers Minute
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Will Rogers proposed we could look at political change like we look at Groundhog Day.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 01:17
WRM39 - Will Loved America
From: KRSC
Series: The Will Rogers Minute
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For as much as he poked fun at those who ran the nation, it was clear that Will loved America.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 01:00
WRM32 - Legislators
From: KRSC
Series: The Will Rogers Minute
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Will loved to joke about politicians at all levels and on both sides

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
WRM23 - Will the Everyman
From: KRSC
Series: The Will Rogers Minute
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Will Rogers was known internationally, but he made his reputation by treating everyone with the same respect

  • Added: Aug 18, 2020
  • Length: 01:00
WRM 22 - A Student of Human Nature
From: KRSC
Series: The Will Rogers Minute
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Will Rogers could make the butt of his jokes laugh just as hard

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 11, 2020
  • Length: 01:01
  • Purchases: 1
Will and Lawyers
From: KRSC
Series: The Will Rogers Minute
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Will's jokes extended outside of politics to discuss other topics, like lawyers

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 01:01
  • Purchases: 1
WRM10 - Will and Congress
From: KRSC
Series: The Will Rogers Minute
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Will Rogers loved to poke fun at Congress. Now he keep an eternal eye on them.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Reel Discovery: The Report
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Reel Discovery
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On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin digs for the truth with Adam Driver in The Report.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KKRN, WOUB, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Nov 15, 2019
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Reel Discover: Vice
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Reel Discovery
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On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin explores the life and career of former Vice President Dick Cheney in Vice.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), KKRN, KSRQ, and WSGE


  • Added: Dec 24, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Art of Capitalism
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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Today, capitalism, aka the free market, is linked to trade wars, suffocating student debt, entire countries gone bankrupt, burgeoning virtual curre...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2018
  • Length: 01:00:36
Outsider Power Shifts Insider Politics: Working Families' Maurice Mitchell
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Social movements and party politics - inherently at odds or natural allies? This week, in his first in-depth TV appearance, Maurice Mitchell, the n...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Jun 06, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Reel Discovery: Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Reel Discovery
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On the latest Reel Discovery, Kristin digs up secrets and scandal in Washington with Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Gandhi the human
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A statue of Mahatma Gandhi
On October 2 India will mark the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. South Africans say India gave us Mohandas Gandhi. We returned him as the Maha...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: 05:59
Saint Monkey: A Conversation with Jacinda Townsend
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Host Doug Storm is joined by Jacinda Townsend, author of the novel <em>Saint Monkey</em> which has won the 2015 James Fenimore Cooper Prize awarded...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2015
  • Length: 57:55
The Greenhouse Project: Bringing San Francisco’s forgotten flower farm back to life
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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In 2002, Juan Carlos Cancino, was riding his bike around town and found an entire city block of dilapidated greenhouses, near a hill in the Portola...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 08:44
Program III: Topical and Protest Songs
From: David Dunaway
Series: Pete Seeger: How Can I Keep From Singing?
Caption: Pete Seeger
Program III looks at the tradition of singing out for social change, and how the music of the Civil Rights, anti-war, and environmental movements g...

Bought by KUNM, KGLP, WOWD, KWMR, KZYX and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 52:41
  • Purchases: 21
Tongue-Tied America (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The fear of public speaking can be debilitating. For some, it’s the stuff of nightmares, and so many of us avoid doing it altogether.

Bought by WCNY and KMXT


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 53:52
  • Purchases: 2
1971 Powell Memo
From: Action Speaks Radio
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A call to arms to protect business from the anti-capitalist rhetoric of the 1960s.

Bought by WRIR, Spokane Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, and WRPI


  • Added: Dec 04, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 4
Tales from the South 080: Tin Roof Project with Chef Roland Mesnier
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2012 Spring Season
Caption: Chef Roland Mesnier
In this special 2-part Tin Roof Project, White House Pastry Chef Roland Mesnier tells stories of his White House years.

  • Added: May 05, 2012
  • Length: 57:59
Program I: Origins
From: David Dunaway
Series: Pete Seeger: How Can I Keep From Singing?
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Program I: Origins How did a Harvard-educated boy become a radical, hitchhiking, banjo-playing, political activist? Program I explores Seeger’s you...

Bought by Prairie Public, KUNM, KZYX, KGLP, WOWD and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2011
  • Length: 52:40
  • Purchases: 27
Humankind: An Informed Republic
From: Humankind
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Ideal for broadcast around July 4th: America's founders knew their democracy required informed citizens, but is quality journalism now threatened b...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KVSC, WBEZ, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WFHB and more


  • Added: Jun 11, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
The Obama Speech Suite [Obama 2008 Speech and Music Mix-28:00]
From: Paul Ingles
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Clips from Barack Obama's2008 victory speech are mixed with Obama campaign trail song favorites and others that underline his remarks.

Bought by PRX PromCom, WGBH Radio Boston, and WKMS


  • Added: Nov 05, 2008
  • Length: 27:55
  • Purchases: 3