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Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for March 27, 2024
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: The U.S. Finally Has Allowed Passage of U.N. Gaza Ceasefire: What Happens ...

Bought by WFHB and WETS


  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps Military Voices: Estel Roberts, Mariann Roberts, William Pickens, Benjamin Jenkins, Candice Francis and Sidney Francis
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Sidney Francis and Candice Francis at their StoryCorps interview in New York, New York on November 29, 2005., Credit: Justina Mejias for StoryCorps
Sidney Francis and his daughter, Candice Francis, reflect on his time as one of the first Black Marines to serve at Montford Point during World War...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Shiekh Nazim Abdul Karriem
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Sheikh Nazim Abdul Karriem was drafted at the age of 18 into World War II. He came to StoryCorps at 96 to talk about what he found when he came hom...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 02:03
  • Purchases: 2
How To Reckon With Patriarchy: V, RECKONING & Black History Month: DaMaris Hill, A BOUND WOMAN IS A DANGEROUS THING
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
Caption: PRX default Piece image
We talk with V, formerly known as Eve Ensler about her collection of essays and poems, Reckoning. Then in honor of Black History Month, we listen ...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:03
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for July 13, 2022
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: In Midterm Election, Democrats Must Warn Voters of Dangerous Republican Ex...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WETS, and KMXT


  • Added: Jul 13, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps MVI: Saleemah Muhammad and Abdul-Rasheed Muhammad
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Lieutenant Colonel Abdul-Rasheed Muhammad talks to his wife, Saleemah Muhammad, about becoming the first Muslim chaplain in the U.S. Armed Forces, ...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 08, 2021
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 37: What Gets Told
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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“History was dependent upon people like me remembering.” A conversation with Betty Reid Soskin, shortly before her 100th birthday.

  • Added: Sep 10, 2021
  • Length: 26:16
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for July 28, 2021
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Supreme Court’s Conservative Majority Deals Death Blow to Voting Rights Ac...

Bought by RADIOLEX, WKPW, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for July 7, 2021
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Supreme Court Once Again Erodes Voting Rights Act, Affirming GOP Voter Sup...

Bought by WKPW


  • Added: Jul 07, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Denise Baken, Richard Yingling, and Christian Yingling
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Denise Baken (center) with her children Christian Yingling (left) and Richard Yingling (right) at their StoryCorps interview in Baltimore, MD on August 23, 2019., Credit: By Emilyn Sosa for StoryCorps.
Denise Baken tells her children about her family's legacy of military service—and the battles faced along the way.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, PRX Remix, and WHRV


  • Added: Sep 26, 2019
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 3
Vernon Baker and Daniel Inouye by Stephen Lang
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Vernon Baker
First Lieutenant Vernon Baker received the Medal of Honor for his actions during World War II, April 1945, near Viareggio, in Tuscany, Italy and Ca...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2018
  • Length: 34:20
Richard Mosse Brings Beauty, Suffering Into Focus At Dayton Art Institute Exhibit
From: renee wilde
Series: Culture Couch
Caption: Richard Mosse in front of one of his Aerochrome images
Richard Mosse’s images of the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of The Congo, are shot on film which is no longer made. In the past, it ...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2017
  • Length: 05:37
StoryCorps: Duery Felton and Rick Weidman
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Duery Felton (right) and Rick Weidman (left)
The first curator of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection talks with his friend and fellow war veteran about the collection and his service.

Bought by WGUC/ WVXU, WMUU-LP, and WEZU


  • Added: Nov 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 3
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending October 7, 2016
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, in-depth, progressive analysis since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Obama Administration Rejects Adopting Nuclear Weapons No-First Use Pledge;...

Bought by WRIR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 28, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending August 19, 2016
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, in-depth, progressive analysis since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: U.S. Poised to Build New Generation of Nuclear Weapons As World Marks 71 Y...

Bought by WRIR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending July 22, 2016
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: After a Week of Tragic Violence, Americans Remain Divided on Issues of Pol...

Bought by WRIR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 13, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Roy Wilkins and Keith Melick
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Command Sergeant Major Roy Wilkins and Retired Army 1st Sergeant Keith Melick, who first crossed paths at war in 2004, talk about reuniting in a VA...

Bought by Blue Mountain Radio , WEZU, and WTJU


  • Added: Dec 09, 2014
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 3
Interview with Norm Stamper, Battle in Seattle Police Chief, On Ferguson, MO
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Norm Stamper, Credit: KPLU
Co-host, Pamela Spoto, and I speak with 34-year veteran Top Cop, Norm Stamper of Battle in Seattle fame. He is author of Breaking Rank: A Top Cop'...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2014
  • Length: 58:26
Cardinal Glass Employs Immigrants: Each One Has a Story
From: Erika Lorentzsen
Series: New American Stories
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A young boy's father is killed in Somalia, as he makes his way to a camp in Kenya. After a long journey, now in the US, he doesn't feel discriminat...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 08:51
StoryCorps MVI: Daniel and Evelyn Hodd
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Staff Sergeant Daniel Hodd and his mother, Evelyn, talk about Daniel's decision to put aside a promising career as a pianist in order to join the M...

Bought by WEZU and WITF


  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps MVI: Talana, Willie and Felicia Banks
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Talana, Felicia and Willie Banks
Talana Banks and her brother, Willie, talk with their mother, Chief Warrant Officer Felicia Banks, about her deployment to Iraq in 2005 and their l...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: 02:03
  • Purchases: 1
Forgiving the Unforgivable: Community Reconciliation in Sierra Leone
From: A World of Possibilities
Caption: A Fambul Tok fire., Credit: Sara Terry
A look at a new Reconciliation process in Sierra Leone.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Sep 05, 2011
  • Length: 54:56
  • Purchases: 1
In Maine, Southern Sudanese Celebrate Independence
From: Alyce Ornella
Caption: Veterans of the Second Sudanese Civil War stand under the new flag of South Sudan., Credit: Alyce Ornella
Portland, Maine is home to one of the largest Southern Sudanese refugee communities in the United States, many of whom settled in the city after fl...

Bought by WMPG and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 10, 2011
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 2
Pioneers of Flight: Tuskegee Airmen in Transition
From: Andrew Hiller
Caption: Lt. Col. Ivan Ware, Credit: Courtesy Air Force Magazine
Lt. Col. Ivan Ware has known war. For thirty-two months, he served in Europe. He’s been bombed at, shot at, and fought back. But his battles did...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Jan 24, 2011
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 1
Race, Slavery, and the Civil War: The Tough Stuff
From: With Good Reason
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To mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the nation’s finest historians gathered on September 24th at Norfolk State University to discuss th...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, WUAL, and KWIT


  • Added: Oct 28, 2010
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3