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In Charleston, South Carolina and its suburbs questions of environmental justice and wetland protections arise as development encroaches.
- Added: Aug 31, 2020
- Length: 33:46
Part 1 of series -- When you think of the environmental movement, what comes to mind. Preserving the wilderness in national parks? Or guaranteeing ...
Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WCPN, WXXI Rochester, WBFO, North Country Public Radio and more
- Added: Sep 19, 2017
- Length: 03:36
- Purchases: 8
In 1979, a group of labor organizers protested outside a Ku Klux Klan screening of the 1915 white supremacist film, The Birth of a Nation. Nelson J...
- Added: May 24, 2016
- Length: 29:53
Love em or hate em, they’re an ever present part of American culture. And they’re not going away anytime soon. On this edition, we talk guns…from...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Sep 30, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
We visit the Lower 9th Ward Living Museum, to learn how some are trying to preserve the lessons and legacies of the past. And we talk to a residen...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Aug 03, 2015
- Length: 13:31
- Purchases: 1
Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg with Roots Music Icon Taj Mahal. A discussion about the genesis of roots music and the music ...
- Added: Dec 18, 2013
- Length: 11:13
A century ago more than 60 percent of Americans lived in rural areas. Today 16 percent do. As more and more people flock to cities what used to be ...
- Added: Apr 19, 2013
- Length: 03:54
- Purchases: 2
From: Radio Diaries
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 WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, KUT, WRPI, KUOW and more
- Added: Oct 12, 2010
- Length: 22:59
- Purchases: 8
How some immigrants once considered non-white became white
- Added: Feb 13, 2008
- Length: 06:02
A short doc exploring the curious legacy of a "racial cleansing" in a small Kentucky town.
Bought by WRPI, KFAI Minneapolis, and SALTcast Podcast
- Added: May 14, 2007
- Length: 13:27
- Purchases: 3
