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Austin's bright moon towers can be traced back to a series of 19th century killer known as the "Servant Girl Annihilator"

  • Added: Jul 16, 2021
  • Length: 08:34
Caption: On April 28, 2021, MOVE and community members gathered in front of Penn Museum to protest and demand the remains be returned., Credit: Joe Piette
On Making Contact - Members of MOVE, a Black radical liberation group, demand that the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University return t...

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  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A 3 generation family farm business discusses farming

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 23:15
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This week, filmmaker Stephanie Welch explores the role that racist, unscientific propaganda has played in promoting white supremacy in the U.S. She...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
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Richard and his daughter Margaret investigate the bird insurrection, while humans attack the U.S. Capitol and President Trump is impeached for the ...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2021
  • Length: 11:47
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Imagine spending your youth witnessing to the rise of Nazi Germany under Hitler’s dictatorship. You’re watching your country fall into the hands of...

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Would we know actual Fascism if we saw it? Unfortunately, the answer to that question appears to be “not until it is too late.” Created from act...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Rose Simmons
How the murder of George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers led to an ever-expanding ripple of protests across the country and...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2020
  • Length: 27:51
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A look into Billie Holiday's last year, and those whose mission it was to silence her.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
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Journalist and author Blaine Harden talks with Jack Segal.

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 54:29
  • Purchases: 1
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It's our Halloween Special! Join us as we encounter the spookier side of Fort Meigs with the Garrison Ghost Walk. It's a night-time stroll through ...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2019
  • Length: 06:17
Caption: We Are Still Here!
The Holocaust Through Music & Memory; Sung by The Western Wind & Narrated by Danny Burstein and Jessica Hecht

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and KWIT


  • Added: Oct 19, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: High Voltage Women by Ellie Belew
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor, Ellie, and Megan examine Seattle City Light’s Electrical Trades Program and how the first trade’s women were tr...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2019
  • Length: 28:01
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Author Greg Iles talks with National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.

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  • Added: Jan 26, 2019
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Amy Barton has an eye for dangerous and innovative doctors and Dr. Robert Liston is no exception. FYI This episode has some up-close discussions of...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2019
  • Length: 03:09
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The image is of a badly abused enslaved man called variously “A Typical Negro,” “The Scourged Back,” “Gordon the Slave,” or “Poor Peter," who is tu...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2019
  • Length: 59:25
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes talks with water law expert John McClow.

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Dec 06, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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We’ll hear from Native American activists Michelle Cook and Hartman Deetz about the ongoing struggle for autonomy and environmental protection. The...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and KDNK


  • Added: Nov 21, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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When Benjamin Ferencz was 27 years old, he prosecuted his very first trial. There were 22 defendants, each of them high-ranking members of Nazi Ger...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 25:23
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“Learn Yourself” with Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington Interview by Mike Dumovich: Nemesio, Cindy, Garry, and Cono...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2018
  • Length: 28:06
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David Grann, a New Yorker magazine staff writer and author of "The Lost City of Z" and "Killers of the Flower Moon," talks with editor and publishe...

Bought by WKAR and WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 28, 2018
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Chickahominy Pow Wow
Although American Indians in Virginia now enjoy both state and federal recognition--that came fairly recently. For many years American Indians didn...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2018
  • Length: 27:52
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We talk with Steven Stoll about his brilliant history of Appalachia: Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia. Then, coastal property values are threa...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: The Blue Ridge Mountains, Credit: Charles McGuigan
The Mountain People had settled in the Blue Ridge long before the United State gained its independence. They followed the Great Wagon Road from Lan...

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  • Added: Aug 07, 2018
  • Length: 26:06
  • Purchases: 1
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Art & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits the Charles Lindbergh House and Museum for a com...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:51