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Can Blacks Be Racist?
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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When white people are called out on their racism a response one often hears is, "Well, Black people are just as racist again me." Is racism the exc...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:08:24
Who’s the Real Victim of Racism?
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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Whites too often see themselves as the real victims of racism and they might have point but it’s not the one they thought they were making. Are whi...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:32
It's the Wrong Time to be Right
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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Many of us want to help change the narrative and be anti-racist partners in the good fight. This was true of civil rights activists coming to Missi...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:14:23
Diversifying Higher Education
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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Education is the gateway to the future in America. Our system is built around it but major colleges and universities continue to be predominantly w...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:16:43
Black & Blue: Policing and Blacks Lives in America
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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Don Carter is a former police officer who spent nearly 10 years on the beat. He knows how the system works. He's also African American.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:29:21
Racial Battle Fatigue: A Discussion with Dr. William A. Smith
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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Being black in America is exhausting and even deadly. Racial Battle Fatigue (RBF) is real and impacts the health and well-being of millions. What i...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:06:39
Bringing the Klan to Justice: A Discussion with Jerry Mitchell
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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His work helped close four of the most infamous cold cases of the Civil Right Movement. Jerry Mitchell is one of the most celebrated investigative ...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 48:16
The Talk
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth
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When we say the words, “the talk”, it probably conjures up the awkward conversation one has with their children about the birds and the bees. Howev...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 58:43
Ep 13 & 14: Gone With The Wind / Behind The Scenes Doc
From: WFIU
Series: The Ernie Pyle Experiment!
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Episode 13: Gone With The Wind It is three weeks since Ernie dropped Jerry off back at their home in Washington DC. Jerry has been in the care of...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ep 11 & 12: A Bed of Coals / The Simple Proposition
From: WFIU
Series: The Ernie Pyle Experiment!
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Episode 11: A Bed of Coals Ernie pays a visit to the home office for a meeting with his editor, Lee Miller. Miller, an old friend, knows about Je...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ep 9 & 10: A Desolate Corporation / The Zipper
From: WFIU
Series: The Ernie Pyle Experiment!
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Episode 9: A Desolate Corporation Ernie’s first writing job was as an aviation columnist in The Washington Daily News. Amelia Earhart once said, ...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ep 7 & 8: Not The Washington Post March / Have You Been Away?
From: WFIU
Series: The Ernie Pyle Experiment!
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Episode 7: Not The Washington Post March Finally back on the road, Ernie and Jerry stop into a favorite haunt for the night. However, it is in Oh...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ep 5 & 6: Perhaps You've Heard Of My Father / Thirty Years Too Soon
From: WFIU
Series: The Ernie Pyle Experiment!
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Episode 5: Perhaps You've Heard Of My Father Ernie discovers that his father drove his car through the front plate-glass window of the Dana dry-g...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ep 3 & 4: The Snake Story / My Mother
From: WFIU
Series: The Ernie Pyle Experiment!
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Episode 3: The Snake Story Ernie’s parents are enjoying Ernie and Jerry’s visit home, but his mother just can’t seem to accept what her son has b...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ep 1 & 2: The Bourgeois Standard / That Long Sad Wind
From: WFIU
Series: The Ernie Pyle Experiment!
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Episode 1: The Bourgeois Standard As pressure mounts from the home office, Ernie is forced to use a voice recorder for his work in interviewing t...

Bought by KAAD-LP and WCBE


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 2
SPRINGSTEEN: Writers' Favorites (HOUR 1)
From: Paul Ingles
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"...articulate, thoughtful, moving" A LIMITED SERIES. Producer Paul Ingles gathers 7 top music writers to talk about their favorite Bruce Springs...

Bought by WHRV, KUOW, KSUT, KSRQ, and KRCU Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 16, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 5
Episode Three: Aftermath
From: Dan Gediman
Series: The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America
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Kentuckians fought on both sides of the Civil War but came together at war’s end to oppose a common foe—newly emancipated African Americans yearnin...

Bought by KRSC, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUOW, KGOU, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Oct 01, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 22
Episode One: Invisible History
From: Dan Gediman
Series: The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America
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The history of slavery is often taught as a bitter chapter of America’s past that has been rectified. But in Kentucky that history has been rarely ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Morehead State Public Radio, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUOW, KGOU and more


  • Added: Oct 01, 2020
  • Length: 57:59
  • Purchases: 23
Episode Two: Recovering History
From: Dan Gediman
Series: The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America
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Due to prohibitions against enslaved people learning to read and write, there are only a few written records left behind by formerly enslaved Kentu...

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUOW, KGOU, WKMS and more


  • Added: Oct 01, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 22
The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America, Demo
From: Dan Gediman
Series: The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America
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The Reckoning traces the history and lasting impact of slavery in America by looking at the experience of Kentucky, a slave state which stayed in t...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Morehead State Public Radio, KTEP, WCPN, Tri States Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 08, 2020
  • Length: 10:44
  • Purchases: 9
Stay for the Trees (episode 6)
From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy
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Meet five native Seattle trees and plants through the eyes of humans that care for them: The Western Red Cedar, Dougfir, Madrone, White Pine, and F...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 36:58
  • Purchases: 2
Sing the Old Songs: Part 1 (episode 4)
From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy
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Explore the systems of assimilation that aimed to eliminate Native culture in the United States, systems that began in Washington State. Travel to ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KVSC


  • Added: May 06, 2020
  • Length: 34:44
  • Purchases: 3
Monacan Voices:True History of First Contact & Paper the Genocide of Virginia Indians
From: Kimberley Little White Owl Lambert
Series: Native American Heritage
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Please join us for a rare journey through poetry and conversation with the Monacan Nation of Virginia regarding first contact, the birth of our nat...

Bought by WCPN, KWIS 88.3 FM, KWMR, WRNC-LP, WTIP and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 59:17
  • Purchases: 8
Be the Hummingbird (episode 2)
From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy
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Go to the heart of Seattle's Rainier Beach neighborhood, where an immigrant family and thousands of volunteers turned 20 acres into a Japanese gard...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KVSC


  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 29:47
  • Purchases: 3
Kingwood Kowboy's History Of Country Music Episode 38
From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: Kingwood Kowboy's History Of Country Music
Caption: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Kingwood Kowboy's History Of Country Music Episodes showcases the roots of classic and vintage country, cowboy, western and bluegrass music with co...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2020
  • Length: 58:00

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