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Caption: Frank transporting his first group of Ukrainian passengers. , Credit: Frank Pichel
In the first part of this story we heard from Uliana Bazar who, with her husband, Matthew Propert, left their home in Ukraine five hours before th...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2023
  • Length: 24:18
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The story of how Ed Dwight went from being an Air Force captain to almost becoming the first Black astronaut in the world.

  • Added: May 19, 2023
  • Length: 16:36
Caption: Eva Gay
In the late 1880s, a young journalist named Eva Valesh went undercover in Minneapolis to report on the lives of working women for the St. Paul Glo...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2023
  • Length: 18:19
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This show highlights the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi. I had the opportunity to interview the Active Executive Director, Shelley R...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 58:40
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Fresh Fruit is the longest running queer radio program in the US. It has aired on KFAI Community Radio in Minneapolis, Minn. for over 40 years. Min...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2019
  • Length: 22:40
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Don Floyd looks back on his life of 80 years after surviving a heart attack in March of 2012.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 3
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The 2008 passage of Minnesota’s Clean Water, Land, and Legacy Amendment has had a profound effect upon communities all over the state, and Explore ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 18, 2012
  • Length: 29:43
  • Purchases: 1
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(NOTE: This program was updated in 2012 for the 100th anniversary of the eviction.) In 1912, the state of Maine evicted a mixed-race community fro...

Bought by WERU, KFAI Minneapolis, KUER, WCQS, WFAE and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2009
  • Length: 58:39
  • Purchases: 21
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Winner, 2007 PRNDI award for Best News Series

Bought by KLCC


  • Added: Jul 23, 2007
  • Length: 04:50
  • Purchases: 1
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After supporting the war of ideas against communism, Radio Free Europe /Radio Liberty have been mobilized to support the war on terror.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 01, 2006
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 1
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The Volga Boatmen, who worked as human beasts of burden hauling barges along Russia's rivers, eventually became folk icons, portrayed in literature...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 18, 2004
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1