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Roots Thinning In Rural America
From: Eleanor Boudreau
Series: Roots Thinning In Rural America
Caption: Beverly Johnson is the Program Director at the Alex Haley House and Museum. She is also a relative of Haley.
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 ...

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 2
ACORN Descendents Keep Their Traditions, While Fighting Foreclosures
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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As the 2009 ACORN scandal quickly unfolded and funding started to dry up, the groups’ members and organizers had to jump ship. Many formed new loc...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Oct 19, 2012
  • Length: 08:20
  • Purchases: 1
Infant Mortality: A special documentary
From: Michigan Radio
Series: State of Opportunity
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Infant mortality rates in Michigan are better than they used to be, but still not good enough. Seven out of every 1,000 babies born in Michigan w...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2012
  • Length: 51:01
Bullying Forces One Student Into Homeschooling
From: Georgia Public Broadcasting
Series: Bullying in Georgia Schools
Caption: Jaheem Herrera
: Public school students and parents are seeing some changes this year in the way their schools handle bullying. That’s because of a law passed by...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jan 24, 2012
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 1
Willie McGee and the Traveling Electric Chair: A Granddaughter's Search for the Truth
From: Radio Diaries
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 WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, KUT, WRPI, KUOW and more


  • Added: Oct 12, 2010
  • Length: 22:59
  • Purchases: 8
Mind the Gap: Why Good Schools are Failing Black Students (54:00 and 59:00)
From: Nancy Solomon
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This documentary won a 2010 Peabody Award. Nationwide, suburban schools are doing a good job educating white students, but those schools are not ge...

Bought by WNYC, WAER Syracuse, NY, KUER, WESM 91.3 FM, WITF and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2009
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 40
North City Gangs Getting Younger, More Violent
From: Adam Allington
Series: Block by Block: Street Gangs in St. Louis
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teenage gangbangers responsible for spike in St. Louis murder rate

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Aug 28, 2008
  • Length: 06:35
  • Purchases: 2
Limited solutions for St. Louis gang problem
From: Adam Allington
Series: Block by Block: Street Gangs in St. Louis
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Police wrestle with solutions for St. Louis gang problem

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 26, 2008
  • Length: 06:48
  • Purchases: 1
Neighborhoods suffer as a result of gang violence
From: Adam Allington
Series: Block by Block: Street Gangs in St. Louis
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Communities are devided block by block as gangs compete for territory

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 26, 2008
  • Length: 06:27
  • Purchases: 1
How European Immigrants Became White
From: Phillip Martin
Series: The Color Initiative
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How some immigrants once considered non-white became white

  • Added: Feb 13, 2008
  • Length: 06:02
Crash, Race and Taiwan
From: Phillip Martin
Series: The Color Initiative
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Learning about race relations in the U.S. from the Oscar-Award winning CRASH.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 10, 2008
  • Length: 07:05
  • Purchases: 1
Matters of Love and Faith
From: Pauline Bartolone
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An Audio Portrait of a Muslim Polygamous Family

  • Added: Nov 01, 2007
  • Length: 11:32
Sprawling of America
From: The Environment Report
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Hour-long documentary on the costs and causes of urban sprawl.

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WRPI, KXOT Public Radio, WBEZ, Iowa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2007
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 18
Racial Cleansing in America
From: The Center for Documentary Studies
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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
Holiday Loan-Sharking
From: Charles Lane
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A new lending product offers quick cash for the holidays but comes with a hefty price tag

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Dec 18, 2006
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 1
Katrina, Race, and High School
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Series: Blunt Responds to Hurricane Katrina
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Hurricane Katrina stirred up a national dialogue about racial inequality and prompted Blunt's Bly Lauritano-Werner to take a look at some of the di...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KZYX, PRX Remix, KSFR, KTNA and more


  • Added: Oct 18, 2005
  • Length: 04:15
  • Purchases: 6
Living Flag
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Street performance piece with Artist damali ayo as she panhandles around the country to create dialogue about reparations for slavery.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, KRUA, WBHM and more


  • Added: Jul 20, 2004
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 10
Democracy Yes, Change No
From: WAER Syracuse, NY
Caption: PRX default Piece image
When a group of citizens banded together in Syracuse to fight a sewage treatment plant, it looked at first like a noble grassroots effort, but thei...

Bought by WRFI Community Radio and WILL


  • Added: Sep 18, 2003
  • Length: 07:02
  • Purchases: 2