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Fight For Five: The Flambeaux Strike Of 1946
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Mystick Krewe of Comus, 1933 Parade, Credit: The Charles L. Franck Studio Collection / The Historic New Orleans Collection
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a retrospective look at Mardi Gras, and the year that carnival took place in the dark. Hear the TriPod Xtra...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 12:02
TriPod Xtras: Rien Fertel On Flambeaux
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Krewe of Cynthius, 1948 Parade, Flambeau Carriers. , Credit: The Charles L. Franck Studio Collection / The Historic New Orleans Collection
Tripod Xtras feature one on one interviews with special guests. This week’s TriPod episode focuses on Mardi Gras 1946 and the strike of the flambea...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 23:25
Tracey Brown
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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I repossess autos, boats, motorcycles, things of that nature. It’s rough. I’m just the messenger.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 16, 2017
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 1
Toxic Inequality
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Thomas M. Shapiro
Income and wealth inequality is now a regular topic of conversation. The standard of living for most Americans’ since the Great Recession is either...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 20, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Hunger and Work Strikes
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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We learn about the Chicago Community Bond Fund, a group that bails people out of Chicago's Cook County Jail and strives to end pretrial detention....

  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 29:31
StoryCorps Griot: Willie Harris and Alex Brown
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Willie Harris and Alex Brown remember the prejudice they faced as African American stuntmen while breaking into the film industry in the 1960s.

Bought by WMUU-LP and WEZU


  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
We Are the Bomb: Boots Riley and Dave Zirin Talk Activism and Politics
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Boots RIley, Credit: http://nycsocialist.org/
Boots Riley—activist, author, and “The Coup” front man is interviewed by Edge of Sports blogger Dave Zirin

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Feb 06, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Playwright Lynn Nottage unmasks the cost of industrial decline in Sweat
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Scene from Sweat, Credit: C. Stanley Photography
In her new play, Sweat, Lynn Nottage gives voice to the human cost of workers without work.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 05, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Brief: Michael Honey on Love, Solidarity, and the Black Freedom Song
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Michael Honey discusses non-violent theorist and organizer James Lawson, and John Handcox, the Great Depression-era tenant farmer and union advocate.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 11, 2015
  • Length: 25:20
  • Purchases: 1
John's Corner: Homeless in Richmond, Virginia, Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: John, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Every day of the week John stands near the corner of Laburnum Avenue and Brook Road in Richmond, Virginia’s Northside. He holds a sign that reads: ...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2015
  • Length: 27:05
StoryCorps: James Taylor and Darlene Lewis
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Darlene Lewis, who helps former inmates find employment, interviews James Taylor about his life after prison.

Bought by Public Radio for All, WMUU-LP, Blue Mountain Radio , WEZU, and WTJU


  • Added: Jan 09, 2015
  • Length: 02:14
  • Purchases: 5
FOOD CHAINS -- Sanjay Rawal Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Sanjay Rawal, San Francisco, CA 11/25/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Sanjay Rawal talks corporate responsibility, the power of protest, and the difference a penny can make.

  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 32:51
Eric Jones, Custodian
From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life
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As dawn breaks, birds serenade Eric Jones, who crosses a church parking lot in his baggy jeans, jangling an oversized key ring. The plastic wheels ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 04:18
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Dekalb Walcott Jr. and Dekalb Walcott III
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Dekalb Walcott III talks to his dad, retired Chicago Fire Chief Dekalb Walcott Jr., about...

Bought by WEZU, WTJU, and KMUD


  • Added: Jul 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 3
Slaves for Hire
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Historian Gregg Kimball tells host Ed Ayers about the phenomenon of “hiring out” enslaved persons prior to the Civil War, and how this introduced s...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: Mar 31, 2014
  • Length: 08:09
  • Purchases: 1
Prisoners at War
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Ed Ayers talks with historian Karin Shapiro about the convict leasing arrangements of the 1890s that led to labor disputes with free workers, ...

Bought by WDBM, KFAI Minneapolis, and Radio Newark


  • Added: Mar 31, 2014
  • Length: 09:31
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps Griot: Clayton Sherrod
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Clayton Sherrod looks back to 1964, when at 19 years old he became executive chef at an all--white country club in Birmingham, Alabama.

Bought by WDBM, WMUU-LP, WEZU, and KMUD


  • Added: Jan 17, 2014
  • Length: 02:13
  • Purchases: 4
Moyers & Company Show 234: Encore: John Lewis Marches On
From: Moyers & Company
Series: Moyers & Company
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A special encore broadcast of Bill Moyers and Rep. John Lewis revisit the 1963 March on Washington. How did it transform America? Next on Moyers & ...

Bought by KBBI Alaska, KBRP Community Radio, KTRL, KUOW, WCWP and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2013
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 26
StoryCorps: Rowan Allen and Bryan Lindsay
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Bryan Lindsay (L) and Rowan Allen (R)
Paramedic Rowan Allen talks to Bryan Lindsay about the day he saved his life.

Bought by WEZU and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 26, 2013
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2
Black Women and the Economic Recovery
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Focus Point with Avis Jones-DeWeever
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Although the rest of the nation is on its way to a slow recovery, unemployment among black women remains stubbornly high. Jones-DeWeever explores t...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 1
Young and determined: how a group of young men is reinventing Marin City
From: KALW
Caption: PRX default Piece image
According to the 2010 census, Marin City is now a median-income community. But a stigma and challenges remain. Marin City still has higher crime an...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2012
  • Length: 05:59
StoryCorps Griot: Queen Jackson and Debra MacKillop
From: StoryCorps
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Queen Jackson tells her case manager, Debra MacKillop, how she became homeless.

Bought by WEZU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 02:16
  • Purchases: 3
Unemployment Slamming Public Employees
From: Dick Meister
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Public employees, many of them African-Americans, are being hit particularly hard by today's high levels of unemployment.

  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 04:03
Gloria's Glow
From: Zak Rosen
Caption: Gloria Lowe, Credit: Amanda Le Claire
How one woman is re-imagining the possibilities of living, working, and building a sustainable Detroit

Bought by PRX Remix and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 05, 2011
  • Length: 07:14
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps Griot: John Klein and Bernice Flournoy
From: StoryCorps
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John Klein remembers meeting the love of his life, Mary Ann Allen, with her daughter Bernice Flournoy.

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WEZU, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 18, 2011
  • Length: 01:50
  • Purchases: 3