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OutCasting Overtime - April 2018 - Was Alexander the Great gay?
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth participant Lucas
The changing meaning and social significance of homosexuality.

Bought by Cards Against Humanity: The Good News Podcast


  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Dion Diamond
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Dion Diamond talks about the risks he took as a young civil rights activist in the 1950s and 60s.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jan 25, 2018
  • Length: 02:25
  • Purchases: 1
the Black Panthers
From: WIL LAVEIST
Series: The Wil LaVeist Show
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A discussion about the groundbreaking PBS documentary about The Black Panthers.

  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 37:16
The Winona Dakota Gathering
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Robert Pack and Erin Camacho talk about The Winona Dakota Gathering, Homecoming and Powwow, an annual event in Winona, MN for families of indigenou...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 21:45
RDD: Having Fun Isn't Hard When You've Got A Library Card
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries you'll meet Jason Kucsma, the deputy director of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library. We'll talk about Tole...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 05, 2017
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 1
Rocking the Boat: the Story of Changing Race Relations in Bemidji, Minnesota
From: Native Voice One
Caption: Paul Bunyan in Bemidji, MN
Predominantly white towns that border large American Indian reservations can be racially charged places. It is difficult for residents to face the ...

Bought by KSFR, WHRV, and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Mar 09, 2017
  • Length: 57:25
  • Purchases: 3
RDD: A Man And His Bass (part 2)
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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In this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, Haley gets acquainted with one of Toledo's Jazz Icons, Clifford Murphy. Clifford is known for playing i...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 27, 2017
  • Length: 06:31
  • Purchases: 1
Black History Matters: Racial Propaganda
From: c j armentano
Series: Black History Matters
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Harvard Professor Emertus, Psychiatrist Alvin Poussaint discusses the long history of efforts to undermine the self-esteem and well-being of black ...

Bought by WBST, RadioStPete Florida, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 4
Beyond the Golden Leaf: Tobacco, Food Culture and a Changing Farming Landscape (Gravy Ep. 50)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
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For generations, farmers in western North Carolina have relied on tobacco as a core crop, their lifeblood. It was more than just income, though: to...

Bought by KVLU


  • Added: Nov 17, 2016
  • Length: 26:01
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Duery Felton and Rick Weidman
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Duery Felton (right) and Rick Weidman (left)
The first curator of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection talks with his friend and fellow war veteran about the collection and his service.

Bought by WGUC/ WVXU, WMUU-LP, and WEZU


  • Added: Nov 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 3
Maize Migrations (Gravy Ep. 49)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
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Corn is a ubiquitous part of Southern food—from bread to whiskey. But how did it get to be that way? In this episode of Gravy, we go on a hunt for ...

Bought by KVLU and West Virginia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 25:21
  • Purchases: 2
Black History Matters: Profiling (Long Version)
From: c j armentano
Series: Black History Matters
Caption: Harvard Professor Emeritus Alvin Poussaint MD
Racial profiling has a little understood yet profound impact on race relations, and remains a source of fear and humiliation for blacks and other p...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jul 16, 2016
  • Length: 05:46
  • Purchases: 2
RDD: Old Number 18
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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It's not surprising that our last episode on The Rough Draft Diaries, an interview with a local Lt. firefighter, has led The RDD to a firefighters ...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2016
  • Length: 06:13
Mary Gibbs: First woman park commissioner in the nation
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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We talk with Connie Cox from Itasca State Park about Mary Gibbs, the first woman park commissioner in the nation.

Bought by KSRQ, KSRQ, and KVSC


  • Added: May 24, 2016
  • Length: 15:22
  • Purchases: 3
RDD: Press and Dies of Deep In Design (Part 2)
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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In today's episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, Haley wraps up the story of Deep In Design's stamping press. Last week we heard how the company inhe...

  • Added: May 16, 2016
  • Length: 06:14
SITPE # 1611
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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A strange one...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KKRN, KSRQ, KEOS, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2016
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 14
Parsing Granfalloons: Douglas Wissing on Indiana
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Question, What do Afghanistan, Castration, and Karst have in common? They’re topics Journalist Douglas Wissing has investigated and written about. ...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2016
  • Length: 59:06
Islam, Immigration, and What It Means to Be French
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Going Global
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Anthropologist John Bowen shares a brief history of Islam in France and offers commentary on the ongoing European migrant crisis.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 09:30
  • Purchases: 2
SITPE # 1550
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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The last regular show of 2015.

Bought by KEOS, KSRQ, KCMJ Community Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Dec 08, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 12
The Warmth of the Other Suns
From: New Jersey Radio Exchange Network
Series: American Black Male Leadership Institute Radio
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Alfred Bundy and Kevin Jenkins in conversation about this book.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2015
  • Length: 18:57
A Long View of Policing in America
From: History Talk from Origins
Series: History Talk Shorts
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How modern policing problems are connected to a wide range of historical issues.

  • Added: Aug 24, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
Just Call me NOLA
From: Nina Feldman
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The genesis, lovers and haters of New Orleans newest nickname.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Aug 18, 2015
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 1
SITPE # 1531
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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August Already!

Bought by KWMR, KKRN, KSRQ, KCMJ Community Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 14
Endeavours - Truth & Reconciliation Commission
From: Dan McPeake
Series: Endeavours
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Former BC Attorney General Wally Oppal, Native Studies Professor Niigaan Sinclair

  • Added: Jun 25, 2015
  • Length: 53:09
"Fire Fight: The Struggle To Integrate NYC's Fire Department"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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In NYC, African-Americans make up nearly 26% of the population but make up less than 4% of the NYC Fire Department. For the past 150 years, the cit...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 01:00:01