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Uncovering the History of the Massacre of Black Wall Street (Encore)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: B.C. Franklin (right), I.H. Spears (left) and Effie Thompson (center) filing insurance claims for survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre in a Red Cross tent. , Credit: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Tulsa Friends and John W. and Karen R. Franklin

In the first of our 3 part series leading up to Black History Month, we focus in on how journalists and historians today are covering the Tulsa Rac...

Bought by KALW, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN

Love, Loyalty, and Espionage: The Untold Story of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg

From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio

thel and Julius Rosenberg grew up in New York City, a melting pot of cultural diversity, and faced economic challenges during the early 20th centur...

"The Doctor", written and narrated by Michael Henrik Wynn

From: Michael Henrik Wynn

This is my reading of my own short story. It is a sort of horror story set in Victorian London.

Revisiting The Halloween Documents

From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio

The Halloween documents refer to a series of confidential Microsoft memoranda on potential strategies relating to open source software and Linux th...

An Interview with Author William Yeske

From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio

“DAMN THE VALLEY” , wriitten by Wiilliam Yeske was a phrase regularly uttered by the men that spent any amount of time in the Arghandab River Valle...

SPECIAL ISeeU EPISODE: Victoria, TX - A Town Like Yours

From: I See U with Eddie Robinson
Series: I SEE U with Eddie Robinson Specials

Join host Eddie Robinson for a special edition of I SEE U, featuring award-winning director, Li Lu with her latest PBS docu-series, “A Town Called ...

Bought by KECG, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUOW, KUNM, and KICI Iowa City

Friendly and Not So Friendly Ghosts

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: The Houlihans, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo

This week we encounter the supernatural with Beth and Chris Houlihan.

National Writers Series: Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson

From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Five

Benjamin Busch talks with journalists Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson about their book "American Gun."

Bought by Michigan Radio and WKAR

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 ...

Jumaane Williams & Hell Gate on Rikers: Why is it So Hard to Close a Jail?

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

The plan to permanently close Rikers in New York City and replace it with four borough facilities has hit roadblocks. Why is it so hard to close a ...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE

Return, Rebury, Repatriate

From: Distillations
Series: Innate

Activists were angry that a museum held the skulls of enslaved people. Then they discovered it also had remains of Black children killed in 1985.

A Monumental Change, Part 1

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: State Senator Jennifer McClellan, Credit: Charles McGuigan

This is part 1 of A Monumental Change about how the brutal murder of George Floyd has propelled the entire country forward toward a more perfect Un...

Wolf Woman, Wild Woman

From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio

Tonight we escape the freezing late-winter West and enjoy some time in the piney forests on the Tennessee River, in the Alabama counties where a st...

Bought by KFCF FM

The Whipping Man

From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works

A gripping Civil War drama with an unusual twist.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KFCF FM, KWMR, KMUN, KUOW and more

Encounters With Coyote-Man

From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio

For as long as people have lived in the desert southwest, they have told stories of Coyote, that peculiar personality that’s both a common wild can...

Bought by KFCF FM

In the Haunted Mountains (with Betty & Barney Hill)

From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio

Four decades ago, Betty and Barney Hill were driving back from a visit to Niagara Falls when they endured a strange assault in the deeply haunted W...

Bought by KFCF FM

North Carolina: Courageous Conversations in a Climate of Fear

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Many questions remain about the recent attack on North Carolina’s electrical grid, which left tens of thousands of citizens unsettled, frightened a...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, RadioStPete Florida, KDNK and more

What difference can a play make? Ask Angola Prison

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

In 2020, the authorities at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (better known as Angola, for the former plantation on which it stands) shut down a pla...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more

The Forgotten Coup, January 6th & the Small Town Americans on the Frontlines of Democracy

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Could a successful coup happen in the US? The ongoing Congressional hearings into the events of January 6 show that just a handful of election offi...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMUN and more

Lisa Graves: The Extremist Revolution & Democracy Hanging by a Thread

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

The American Right is embracing a dangerous extremism, challenging elections, packing courts and aligning with Hungarian prime minister and Putin-a...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, KVSC and more

StoryCorps: Rodger Patience and Kirby Metoxen

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Rodger Patience and Kirby Metoxen at their StoryCorps interview in Green Bay, Wisconsin on January 27, 2022. , Credit: Carl Romey for StoryCorps.

Kirby Metoxen and his priest Father Rodger Patience talk about the forced removal of Oneida children to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and ...

StoryCorps: Halyna Hrushetsky and Oryna Hrushetsky-Schiffman

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Halyna Hrushetsky and Oryna Hrushetsky-Schiffman at their StoryCorps interview in Chicago Illinois on September 4, 2014., Credit: By Andre Perez for StoryCorps.

Halyna Hrushetsky tells her daughter Oryna Hrushetsky-Schiffman about when she learned her Ukrainian parents had lived through the Holodomor famine.

Bought by WYAP

Behind the Sheet

From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works

A story of bravery in the face of inhuman treatment.

Bought by KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, KUOW, WPCA-LP, Harford Community Radio and more

U.S. Anti-Torture History After 9/11

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: "Equal Justice Under Law" & Black Hood & Orange Jumpsuit, Outside The Third Guantanamo Hearing At the Supreme Court (Washington, DC), Credit: Photo by “tacomabibelot”

In today’s program, sociology professor Lisa Hajjar traces the rise and fall of torture after 9/11. She examines the ways in which torture and the ...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN

A Shortcut Back to 9/11-The 20th Anniversary Mix

From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up

A look back on September 11, 2001 on the 20th Anniversary with new music and additional material on Afghanistan, small and just wars and "The War O...

Bought by KAAD-LP

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