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2019 Bemidji Women's March
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Bemidji Women's March 2019, Credit: Katie Carter
For the third year, Women's Marches took place across the country recently. More than 100 people marched in Bemidji, despite the frigid temps. Ma...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2019
  • Length: 10:35
Grappling with the Violence of Whiteness
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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In this episode of Peace Talks Radio, our guests turn the lens on Whiteness, asking how the notion of Whiteness came to be, how it has shaped Ameri...

Bought by KSFR and KUNM


  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Love Canal, 40 years later
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Children protest at Love Canal, Credit: Center for Health, Environment & Justice
This week marked the 40th anniversary of the federal emergency declaration at Love Canal, the New York neighborhood endanger by industrial pollutio...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 3
Divers uncover 1899 Great Lakes shipwreck
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: The Margaret Olwill, Credit: [Historical Collection of the Great Lakes/Bowling Green State University]
A group of underwater explorers has announced the discovery of the Margaret Olwill, a steam barge that sank in Lake Erie off the Ohio coast in 1899.

Bought by WORT, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WVBI-LP, WBFO, WSKG and more


  • Added: Mar 21, 2018
  • Length: :56
  • Purchases: 6
Surprise! The New Russian President Is the Same as the Old Russian President
From: Jason Fields
Caption: War College Logo, Credit: War College
Mark Galeotti joins us for War College’s Russian election special. The winner, Vladimir Putin, was never in doubt, but what’s the sham election all...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2018
  • Length: 33:56
Waste dumps a burden for minority neighborhoods
From: Great Lakes Today
Series: Environmental Injustice
Caption: Children playing next to Garden Valley [Bill Nehez/CSU Cleveland Memory Project]
Would you want an industrial waste dump near your house? Probably not. But across the country, environmental hazards like waste dumps tend to be lo...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, WCMU Michigan, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2018
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 10
Population Growth and Peace
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Host Suzanne Kryder hosts a program that considers the impact of population growth on peace and rates of conflict, personally and globally. John S...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KMUN, and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Dig Deep on Journalism part one: History of Journalism
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Dig Deep
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This month our Dig Deep topic is on Journalism. Minnesota Brown's Aaron Brown and Strong Town's Chuck Marohn discuss the history of journalism in ...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2017
  • Length: 20:24
Asylum seekers follow Canadian path once used by Underground Railroad
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: by ANGELICA A. MORRISON / Bridge crossing in Niagara Falls NY location where Harriet Tubman helped runaway slaves escape to Canada. , Credit: by ANGELICA A. MORRISON / Bridge crossing in Niagara Falls NY location where Harriet Tubman helped runaway slaves escape to Canada.
Thousands of asylum seekers in the US are heading to Canada, because of the hostile political climate here. And they're taking routes along the Gre...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCPN, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Aug 04, 2017
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 6
102-year-old Coast Guard veteran honored
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Mabel Johnson (right) and daughter Betty, Credit: Elizabeth Miller/ideastream
75 years ago, the SPARS were created to take the job of thousands of Coast Guardsmen who had to leave their posts to fight in World War II. 102-ye...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, WOSU, WCPN, and WBFO


  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 01:11
  • Purchases: 4
Episode 90: The Past and Future of the Constitution
From: Shira Rascoe
Series: No Jargon
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Is the U.S. Constitution about to change? Professor David Marcus lays out why some states are calling for a constitutional convention to introduce ...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2017
  • Length: 30:06
Orchestra travels along Erie Canal to mark 200th anniversary
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Albany Symphony Orchestra musicians Jamecyn Morey and Mitsuko Suzuki at Lock E-2 in Waterford, N.Y. , Credit: Gary David Gold
The Albany Symphony is holding a series of concerts in towns along the Erie Canal, to mark the beginning of construction in July, 1817.

Bought by WCMU Michigan, WCPN, North Country Public Radio, and WBFO


  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 4
Beer tanks float down Erie Canal
From: Great Lakes Today
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In the 200 years since ground was broken on the Erie Canal, it has evolved from means of transportation and mode of industrial shipping -- to a pla...

Bought by WCPN, WRVO Public Media, WCMU Michigan, North Country Public Radio, and WBFO


  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 01:18
  • Purchases: 5
War, What Is It Good For? (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Bitwa pod Grunwaldem, Credit: Jan Matejko
If we can't end war, what can we learn from the fight? We look at 3 stories of conflict involving mercenaries, radicalized Union generals and the o...

Bought by WCNY, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WTJU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WLIW and more


  • Added: Apr 07, 2017
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 10
A New Era For the ERA
From: Nahanni Rous
Series: Can We Talk?
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In March 2017, Nevada became the 36th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment-- three and a half decades after the ratification deadline expired...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2017
  • Length: 22:21
RDD: The Lake and the Doctor (part 2)
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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In a Rough Draft Diaries first, we're entering the world of science by learning about the past (and present) struggles of Lake Erie with the former...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2017
  • Length: 06:06
March on Momument
From: Nicki Stein
Caption: Robert E. Lee Statue on Moument Avenue, Credit: Kelley Libby/Radio IQ
This past Saturday, over 1,000 Richmonders streamed down Monument Avenue in solidarity with the Women’s March on Washington, planned for this weeke...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2017
  • Length: 01:21
The man who turned off Niagara Falls
From: Great Lakes Today
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In 1969, the Army Corps of Engineers shut off the American side of Niagara Falls to study erosion. We interview the man who led that team.

Bought by KUSU, WCPN, WCMU Michigan, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WBFO


  • Added: Nov 23, 2016
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 5
How the Erie Canal changed the world
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Michael Keene is an author and historian.
The Erie Canal changed the world by connecting New York City and the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes. But author and historian Michael Keene says...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, WRVO Public Media, WCPN, North Country Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 23, 2016
  • Length: :56
  • Purchases: 6
American side of Niagara Falls to go silent
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: BY ANGELICA A. MORRISON / Pedestrian Bridge to be replaced at Niagara Falls State Park., Credit: BY ANGELICA A. MORRISON / Pedestrian Bridge to be replaced at Niagara Falls State Park.
New York State plans to shut off the American Falls, a major attraction for tourists who flock to Niagara Falls. It's part of a project to replace...

Bought by WCPN, WXXI Rochester, North Country Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WSKG and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2016
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 7
Museum seeks WWII Navy pilots
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: A plane recovered from Lake Michigan, Credit: John Davies
To accompany a documentary screening, the National Museum of the Great Lakes is searching for Navy pilots who trained on Lake Michigan during World...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, WCMU Michigan, WKSU, and WBFO


  • Added: Nov 02, 2016
  • Length: 01:14
  • Purchases: 4
Viking ship Draken leaves Great Lakes, but hard feelings linger
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Draken Harald Harfagre, Credit: courtesy of Draken Harald Harfagre
The replica Viking ship Draken Harald Hårfagre has sailed out of the Great Lakes, wrapping up a summer visit marred by a dispute over pilots fees. ...

Bought by WCPN, WXXI Rochester, WMUK, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2016
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 7
Community Forum: Confederate Flag Part One
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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The Winona Human Rights Commission and Winona State University sponsored a community forum in response to the recent displays of the Confederate Fl...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 34:07
Shipwreck discovered off the coast of Lake Ontario
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: A photo of the recently-discovered Royal Albert., Credit: Jim Kennard
On Wednesday, a group of New York-based underwater explorers announced they discovered a mid-nineteenth-century shipwreck that's been hiding in the...

Bought by WSKG, WCMU Michigan, WBFO, and WCPN


  • Added: Jun 29, 2016
  • Length: 01:23
  • Purchases: 4
Eliza Jane Nicholson, The Small-Town Poet Who Became The First Woman Publisher Of The Picayune
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: A Tobacco Card from 1887, Credit: JOSEPH MAKKOS / NOLA DNA
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a profile of Eliza Jane Nicholson, a small town poet who became the first woman publisher of a major metrop...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 10:24