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We go to the roots of the land where Altgeld Gardens sits and where Hazel's legacy lives, digging through the layers of indigenous, Black liberatio...
- Added: May 14, 2024
- Length: 43:53
Minnesota was the first state to take Big Tobacco to trial in the 1990s. Minnesota was also the first state to take the vaping company Juul to tria...
- Added: Mar 14, 2024
- Length: 28:53
Tulsa Tri-City Collective leaders Carlos Moreno and Bracken Klar talk about the history of Greenwood, a Tulsa neighborhood founded by and for Black...
Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and KALW
- Added: Jan 30, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
2023 is the 75th anniversary of one of the biggest political upsets in American political history (although the documentary does not mention the 75...
Bought by Iowa Public Radio, WRVO Public Media, Michigan Radio, KUOW, and WAMU
- Added: Jul 30, 2023
- Length: 55:31
- Purchases: 5
Follow the money that props up racist science, and you'll find it all leads back to one man.
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 01:03:24
The faulty—and fatal—race logic of an 18th century yellow fever epidemic.
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 40:50
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 33:44
Jessie Mae Hemphill was a 4th generation Mississippi musician who learned how to play music from her granddaddy (as she called him).
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Sep 24, 2022
- Length: 59:49
- Purchases: 1
Aaron Corthen was more commonly known in the Blues music world as A.C. Reed and was heard on countless recordings as a contributing saxophone player.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Sep 24, 2022
- Length: 58:21
- Purchases: 1
Topic 1 - Harriet Tubman; Topic 2 - Global Warming; Topic 3 - Library Fines
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KSTK, WYAP, RadioStPete Florida, KOWS and more
- Added: Feb 24, 2021
- Length: 51:42
- Purchases: 6
Ears Adrift speaks with Navy Nurses that are deployed on the USNS Comfort .
- Added: May 08, 2020
- Length: 09:10
With a little help, carbon eating, coast protecting marshes are on the mend
Bought by WFHB, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KICI Iowa City, WFHB, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]
- Added: May 06, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 5
Computer viruses today pose a very real threat. However, it turns out that their origins are actually very non-threatening. Today, we are going to ...
- Added: Oct 15, 2019
- Length: 29:11
In 1925, the African-American philosopher Alain Locke (1886-1954) launched a revolutionary black arts movement now known as the Harlem Renaissance....
Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO
- Added: Sep 18, 2019
- Length: 34:12
- Purchases: 2
Bob Kustra talks with Marc C. Johnson about his book "Political Hell-Raiser"
- Added: Jun 24, 2019
- Length: 30:00
We speak to a man who has given thousands of people new names, told them where they would live, and warned them they could never go back home.
Bought by ABC
- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 25:54
- Purchases: 1
The Narcotic Farm and the Promise of Salvation
- Added: Jun 04, 2019
- Length: 32:11
This 6-minute sampler provides a taste of the history, literature, and legacy of Route 66 as discussed in the 3-hour-long radio documentary series ...
- Added: Apr 29, 2019
- Length: 06:18
- Added: Dec 11, 2018
- Length: 08:00
- Purchases: 1
This episode picks up where Episode 91 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order.
The early 20th century’s biggest murder trial, and a part...
- Added: Jul 19, 2018
- Length: 21:05
The story behind the face of New York’s Gilded Age, Evelyn Nesbit.
- Added: Jul 19, 2018
- Length: 27:24
A history and philosophy of the cover song in the rock music tradition, and how it contrasts with the classical music tradition.
- Added: Mar 09, 2018
- Length: 47:28
A women's history-month series, highlighting lesser-known historical female figures.
- Added: Feb 13, 2018
- Length: 01:03:37
(9/4/2017) As more schools begin to confront their participation in slavery, they also consider how to make amends.
- Added: Sep 05, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 13
Cacao was born in a bean-shaped area in the upper Amazon and is believed to have been grown and used—first, as a drink—in countries that now encomp...
- Added: May 05, 2017
- Length: 24:01
