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War Crimes in Real Time - Waging War on Refugees
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Hamas didn't parachute into Gaza from another planet. The Islamic Resistance Movement, its leaders and militants are an organic part of a packed po...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2023
  • Length: 58:39
Henrietta Lacks' Immortal Cells
From: David Kattenburg
Caption: Henrietta Lacks, Credit: Courtesy: Lacks family & Estate
David Kattenburg speaks about Henrietta Lacks and medical racism in America with Dorothy Roberts. Roberts is Professor of Law and Sociology at the ...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2023
  • Length: 34:56
Reconciling John Muir, Racial Politics and the Restoration of Indigenous Lands in Yosemite
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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A look at the legacy of John Muir, his actions in Yosemite, and the impacts on the Indigenous people in the area.

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 25:47
  • Purchases: 1
Intersection of Black and Indigenous Resistance & Justice in the U.S. with Kyle T. Mays - EcoJustice Radio
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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In his book “An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States,” Kyle T. Mays argues that the foundations of the United States are rooted in Anti-Bla...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
20: Shared Cultural Legacies Across Oceans and Borders, 04/28/22
From: Heritage Radio Network
Series: Eat Your Heartland Out
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On this week's episode of Eat Your Heartland Out, we discuss similarities in the food histories of regions separated by oceans and borders. First ...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KRPS, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Apr 28, 2022
  • Length: 54:04
  • Purchases: 3
National Writers Series: Mary Roach
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Three
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Kendra Carr of Interlochen Public Radio talks with science writer Mary Roach.

Bought by WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Nov 11, 2021
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 3
20: Shared Cultural Legacies Across Oceans and Borders, 11/5/2021
From: Heritage Radio Network
Series: Eat Your Heartland Out
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On this week's episode of Eat Your Heartland Out, we discuss similarities in the food histories of regions separated by oceans and borders. First ...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and Prairie Public


  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 54:06
  • Purchases: 2
WAR - Gen. Wesley Clark
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Recorded 10/1/01 Gen. Clark guest on Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow

  • Added: Mar 28, 2021
  • Length: 23:59
1918 Flu Pandemic vs. COVID-19: Nancy Bristow, U Puget Sound
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
Caption: Headshot: Nancy Bristow
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Nancy Bristow… Chair of the History Department at the University of Puget Sound… and author of American Pandemic:...

  • Added: May 07, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
April 2020 - Comparing the outbreaks of COVID-19 and AIDS
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Chris
Comparing the outbreaks of COVID and AIDS

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Mar 31, 2020
  • Length: 07:45
  • Purchases: 1
National Writers Series: Blaine Harden
From: Interlochen Public Radio
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Journalist and author Blaine Harden talks with Jack Segal.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 54:29
  • Purchases: 1
Heroes of American Dissent (Special Episode)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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Stories about We The People, pushing back, in the pursuit of a better America.

Bought by WGTE Public Media, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KWIT, KICI Iowa City, and KWTF community radio for Sonoma County


  • Added: Jan 22, 2019
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 5
James Forman, Jr., LOCKING UP OUR OWN
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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Writer’s Voice spends the hour with James Forman, Jr., talking about his groundbreaking book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black Ame...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:28
GPV19 Book Review - Griftopia
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Griftopia by Matt Tiaibi

  • Added: Jan 25, 2017
  • Length: 02:18
GPV17 Book Review - The Arsenal of Democracy
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Here's Gerald's audio book review of The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War by A. J. Baime

  • Added: Jan 25, 2017
  • Length: 02:31
GPV08 Book Review - The Prague Cemetery
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Here's Gerald's audio book review of The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco about the roots of fascism in Europe.

  • Added: Jan 12, 2017
  • Length: 03:14
FRDH: How America Got This Way
From: MIchael Goldfarb
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Veteran overseas journalists look at America as it enters the Age of Donald Trump

  • Added: Dec 19, 2016
  • Length: 49:16
296-Tilted History
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Where you are from and where you live has been influenced by changes in the tilt of the Earth's axis of rotation relative to its orbit around the Sun.

Bought by Radio Newark, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW and more


  • Added: Oct 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Trump and the Politics of Paranoia
From: MIchael Goldfarb
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Donald Trump and the tradition of using fear to win elections in America

Bought by KUER and KFCF FM


  • Added: May 29, 2016
  • Length: 27:30
  • Purchases: 2
Doctor Visits
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Generational discussion on the changes we have seen from the older generation doctor visit down to our future telemedicine.

  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 57:00
Tracking Subversives: Alan Wald On the Development of the Literary Left
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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According to or my guest, Alan Wald, the aim of the literary radical is “to endow history with meaning.” We track three “subversives” in our progra...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2015
  • Length: 57:14
Buffalo Trail: A Novel of the American West
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Jeff Guinn talks about a female warrior named Mochi and reads from his latest historical novel, BUFFALO TRAIL, during this episode of The Write Que...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KCMJ Community Radio, KSJD, Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 14, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 5
Birth of an Answer
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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One hundred years ago, the city of Norfolk, Virginia was the first Southern city in the US to screen the notoriously racist film Birth of a Nation....

Bought by KENW and WABE


  • Added: Aug 21, 2015
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 2
The Doctors of Nazi Germany (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the late 19th century, German medical practices were considered to be the best in the world. But by the start of World War II, a number of Germa...

Bought by WCNY, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WTJU, and WXDU


  • Added: Jul 10, 2015
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 4
The Doctors of Nazi Germany (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In the late 19th century, German medical practices were considered to be the best in the world. But by the start of World War II, a number of Germa...

Bought by WJCT, KVSC, WKCC, KENW, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jul 10, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6