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In 1942, the government rounded up more than one hundred thousand Japanese living in the U.S. They were incarcerated for the duration of the war.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 26, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Things we learn from Woody Guthrie and Native Americans ... and Donald Trump's dad?
- Added: Oct 13, 2016
- Length: 27:19
The U.S. chose to link God, money, business, and government. But it’s important to remember that America was originally established to keep God ind...
- Added: Aug 17, 2016
- Length: 24:45
This is the full audio from the 1969 Wellesley College commencement speech delivered by Hillary Rodham Clinton, then Hillary Rodham, the first ever...
Bought by KZYX, WHQR, Wisconsin Public Radio, MPR News Stations, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 21, 2016
- Length: 12:02
- Purchases: 5
Pamela Spoto, educator and Peace and Justice advocate, co-hosts again. Our guest is Kevin Alexander Gray. He is is a civil rights organizer and a...
Bought by KMUD
- Added: May 30, 2016
- Length: 59:13
- Purchases: 1
Dollar General is coming to Georgetown...
- Added: May 12, 2016
- Length: 02:53:07
Since we couldn't get David Talbot, founder of Salon.com and author of Devil's Chessboard, I borrowed portions of Amy Goodman's interview with him ...
- Added: Jan 03, 2016
- Length: 59:24
With our guest, George Kateb, who has been called "the most interesting and important philosopher of liberalism alive today,"* we'll focus on oppre...
- Added: Sep 22, 2015
- Length: 59:49
We talk with David DeGraw, author, journalist and Occupy activist, credited with coining the rally cry, "We are the 99%." Two of his books, Econom...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Jun 16, 2015
- Length: 59:14
- Purchases: 1
Host Doug Storm is joined by Asma Afsaruddin to discuss her bookStriving in the Path of God: Jihad and Martyrdom in Islamic Thought
- Added: Mar 17, 2015
- Length: 58:39
Unspun talks with Lee Harvey Oswald's lover and confidant, Judyth Vary-Baker. Judyth is an author, artist, poet, teacher and social scientist. 35...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 59:58
Two and one-half minute commentary on the 1964 Civil Rights Act and its effect on women over the next 50 years.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Jun 26, 2014
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
As part of the 10th anniversary of one of CBC's premier current affairs programs, The Current, an interview from 2006 with the author Kurt Vonnegut...
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 22:59
This Sunday, February 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the Buffalo Creek Disaster in Logan County, West Virginia. The disaster occured when the da...
Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Feb 24, 2012
- Length: 08:53
- Purchases: 1
Stanley Nelson discusses his award-winning documentary Freedom Riders. [29:39]
- Added: Feb 09, 2012
- Length: 29:35
- Purchases: 2
Isabel Wilkerson talks about her book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, focusing on the transfer of Southern ...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WSLR, WHFR, KUOW, KVNF and more
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 25:33
- Purchases: 16
Over the next two weeks, we broadcast the documentary film “COINTELPRO 101,” about the secret FBI program which ran from 1956-1971, and disrupted m...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: May 05, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Joe Carraro describes how even from the start, the Department of Homeland Security was created with the intention of grabbing more power for the go...
- Added: Apr 15, 2011
- Length: 04:08
An exclusive interview with economist Richard Wolff, who explains how failed ‘trickle down economics’ theories are being recycled under a different...
- Added: Mar 21, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Tom Hoffman and Nathan Sooy of Clean Water Action (cleanwateraction.org) discuss how Marcellus Shale drilling affects water sources. Then Darryl M...
- Added: Mar 21, 2011
- Length: 50:00
"Say It Loud" traces the last 50 years of black history through stirring, historically important speeches by African Americans from across the poli...
Bought by WDDE, WAMU, New Hampshire Public Radio, WGTE Public Media, Nevada Public Radio and more
- Added: Feb 16, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 81
Election day is closing in, and Jill Lepore has a hip historian's take on the question: What Would the Founding Fathers Do? Jill Lepore says there'...
- Added: Oct 28, 2010
- Length: 58:59
An interview with James Lawson, the chief architect of the 1960 lunch counter sit-ins, and confidant to Martin Luther King. Lawson touches on every...
- Added: May 27, 2010
- Length: 29:00
One thing to bear in mind as we approach the end of ‘Confederate History month’ -- the slaughter of the civil war failed in many ways to solve the ...
- Added: Apr 26, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Shawn Allee meets a man who took the Dow and dioxin issue to Congress years ago and is shocked it hasn't been dealt with.
- Added: Nov 06, 2009
- Length: 03:40
