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Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Rashad Shabazz
Imagine a large population of Americans living in prison-like-conditions. That’s what it’s like in the so-called Black Belt of South Side Chicago.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 09, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Music of the Glaciers (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-An electronic musician uses the sounds of melting glaciers in his composition to raise awareness of climate change. -Documenting 1,000 years of mo...

Bought by WCNY, Raven Radio, WMUU-LP, KRDP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 29, 2016
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 7
Michigan town rebrands itself as shipwreck capital of the Great Lakes
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Passengers of the Lady Michigan look down through its glass bottom in hopes of spotting one of the area’s many shipwrecks., Credit: Veronica Volk
Alpena, Michigan used to be a bustling port on Lake Huron. But since the decline of its major industry, residents of the small town have shifted th...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio, WCPN, and WBFO


  • Added: Jul 26, 2016
  • Length: 03:05
  • Purchases: 3
Bicycle Fever at the Turn of the Century (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-In the late nineteenth century, American cities were home to more cyclists than anywhere else in the world. -An animator talks about working on S...

Bought by WCNY, WMUU-LP, KEDT, KRDP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jul 15, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 7
Shipwreck discovered off the coast of Lake Ontario
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: A photo of the recently-discovered Royal Albert., Credit: Jim Kennard
On Wednesday, a group of New York-based underwater explorers announced they discovered a mid-nineteenth-century shipwreck that's been hiding in the...

Bought by WSKG, WCMU Michigan, WBFO, and WCPN


  • Added: Jun 29, 2016
  • Length: 01:23
  • Purchases: 4
Our National Parks: Indigenous Voices
From: Vermont Public
Series: Our National Parks
Caption: Parks such as Washita Battlefield National Historic Site and Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site have been established and interpreted to tell the difficult stories of atrocities against indigenous people. , Credit: NPS Archives
Though the national parks have famously been called “America’s best idea”, this sentiment is not universally accepted. Native Americans were dispos...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 1
RDD: The Great Lakes with Ellen
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week, The Rough Draft Diaries takes a visit of the National Museum of the Great Lakes, a museum that spans hundreds of years on the Great Lake...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2016
  • Length: 06:24
Food Sleuth Radio, Garrett Broad Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that J. Edgar Hoover expressed concerns over the Black Panthers’ empowering community food programs? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 09, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
What happened to northeast Minnesota's woodland caribou?
From: WTIP
Series: Dr. Seth Moore - Grand Portage Tribal Wildlife Biologist
Caption: Woodland caribou, Credit: Just A Prairie Boy on Flickr
In this interview with producer Martha Marnocha of WTIP North Shore Community Radio, Grand Portage Trust Lands Wildlife Biologist Dr. Seth Moore di...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2016
  • Length: 04:22
"Let's Go Fishing!"--it's a keeper!
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Eric Dregni's latest book, "Let's Go Fishing! Fish Tales from the North Woods," is a celebration of the sport of fishing in the Northland. WTIP's D...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2016
  • Length: 16:46
Mary Gibbs: First woman park commissioner in the nation
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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We talk with Connie Cox from Itasca State Park about Mary Gibbs, the first woman park commissioner in the nation.

Bought by KSRQ, KSRQ, and KVSC


  • Added: May 24, 2016
  • Length: 15:22
  • Purchases: 3
Kassie Hilgert turns a rust belt graveyard into an arts center.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: SteelStacks, Credit: Jonathan Davies
Reclaiming the abandoned Bethlehem Steel Plant for the arts gives a region new life

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 20, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 1
Hadwin's Judgement
From: James Mills
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An interview with writer John Valiant, bestselling author of The Golden Spurce

  • Added: Apr 07, 2016
  • Length: 17:58
Tuna became the 'go to' fish because it was cheap and plentiful. we look at the pitch for tuna.
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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Joanna Solotaroff looks at the emotional connection with tuna, created by marketting. .

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 09:33
  • Purchases: 1
The Allegheny Front Earth Day Special
From: The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment
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A 29-minute special including interviews, sound-rich features and historical clips about the history of Earth Day.

Bought by Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting


  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Origin of the name Greenpeace.
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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We hear who really came up with the name Greenpeace and why.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2016
  • Length: 01:09
Anishinaabe Way: The Inherent Right of Sovereignty, Part 5
From: WTIP
Series: Anishinaabe Way: Lives, Words and Stories of Ojibwe People
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April McCormick works in the Land Trust office on the Grand Portage reservation. She defines the various types of land ownership at Grand Portage, ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Mar 16, 2016
  • Length: 07:11
  • Purchases: 1
Anishinaabe Way: The Inherent Right of Sovereignty, Part 4
From: WTIP
Series: Anishinaabe Way: Lives, Words and Stories of Ojibwe People
Caption: Bryan Bainbridge, Credit: Red Cliff Reservation
The Inherent Right of Sovereignty Part IV examines the sometimes complicated relationship that area tribes have with regard to environmental regula...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and WGZS


  • Added: Mar 16, 2016
  • Length: 08:38
  • Purchases: 2
Ep.05: Trekking to the North Pole & The World's Fridge
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Episodes
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Trekking to the North Pole, the World's Fridge

  • Added: Mar 13, 2016
  • Length: 16:50
Curtis Gagnon discusses American Indian Treaty Rights, traditions and spiritual values
From: WTIP
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Back in 1984, Grand Portage Band Member Curtis Gagnon shot a moose at the right time and in the wrong place. The story of what happened after that ...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2016
  • Length: 53:00
Lauret Savoy - Trace, Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
Caption: Lauret Savoy
WV talks with environmental earth scientist and writer Lauret Savoy about her stunning new book, TRACE. In it, Savoy examines how the country’s sti...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
"Northwoods Naturalist" weighs in on possibility of an early spring
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Chel Anderson is a botanist and plant ecologist who has lived and worked on the North Shore since 1974. She's the Northwoods Naturalist on WTIP and...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 17:20
Earthquake! Part 1
From: Robert Prince
Series: Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
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One man witnessed the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake and recorded the incredible things he saw onto a cassette tape shortly thereafter to mail to fa...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
Vance Gellert's Sleeping Giant: The Iron Range of Minnesota
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Vance Gellert's Sleeping Giant: The Iron Range of Minnesota
When Vance Gellert decided to photograph the Iron Range, people asked him why. In his traveling show Sleeping Giant: The Iron Range of Minnesota, V...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2016
  • Length: 13:30
How & where did dogs evolve? Scientist & veterinarian explains
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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A recently published study suggests that all dogs alive today can trace at least some of their ancestry back to dogs that were domesticated 33,000 ...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2016
  • Length: 20:06

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