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StoryCorps American Pathways: Najat Hamza
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Najat Hamza reflects on her experience resettling in the US and her longing for the home she left behind.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
People are NOT Mascots
From: Generation Justice Admin
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Diné activist Amanda Blackhorse responds to the name and mascot change of the Washington NFL football team.

  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 19:31
Outsider Power Shifts Insider Politics: Working Families' Maurice Mitchell
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Social movements and party politics - inherently at odds or natural allies? This week, in his first in-depth TV appearance, Maurice Mitchell, the n...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Jun 06, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
HumaNature: 30 Minute Special 6
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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"Freedom" A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: 150 years ago, two girls crossed the Missouri River trying to escape a life of slaver...

Bought by KSTK


  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 1
I'm alive because of a dictator's ego and my family's clever thinking
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
Caption: RadioActive producer Jad Vianu with his father Alec Vianu., Credit: Courtesy of Jad Vianu
Many people have heard of the brutal dictatorships that ruled Soviet Eastern Europe in the twentieth century. RadioActive youth producer and high s...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 04:55
Gay youth look back on the Stonewall riots - PART 2 OF 2
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
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LGBTQ youth are often unaware of their own history. In this occasional series, OutCasting connects them with that history. This is part 2 of a tw...

Bought by KZYX and Radio Catskill


  • Added: Jul 26, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Gay youth look back on the Stonewall riots - PART 1 OF 2
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: Professor Karla Jay, Ph.D.
LGBTQ youth are often unaware of their own history. In this occasional series, OutCasting connects them with that history. This is part 1 of a tw...

Bought by KZYX, Radio Catskill, and WMMT


  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Dread Locks
From: Brooklyn College Radio
Caption: Bob Marley , Credit: Dino Caderao
Locks, Dreads, or Jata (Hindi) is a kind of hairstyle that portrays different meaning and belief. In today's society, having dreads is something co...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 11:43
  • Purchases: 1
Good Seed Bad Seed Quanah Parker
From: sarah parker
Series: Good Seed Bad Seed
Caption: Quanah Parker, Credit: Texas State University
Middle School Students at Roots and Wings Community School interviewed, Quanah Parker, a relative of the Legendary Comanche War Chief Quanah Parker.

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
"Through No Fault of My Own: A Girl's Diary of Life on Summit Avenue in the Jazz Age" by Peg Meier
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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The diary of a mischievous daughter of a Minnesota lumber baron finds the light of day.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 19:32
  • Purchases: 1
John Luther (Casey) Jones, April 30, 1900
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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He was born John Luther Jones, but we knew him as Casey. And even though Casey Jones died in an obscure, single fatality train accident more than 1...

Bought by KZYX and KZYX


  • Added: Apr 20, 2011
  • Length: 03:22
  • Purchases: 2
Tales From The Amistad
From: Littleglobe
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In dedication to Singhe Pieh and all the unknown heroes throughout history.

  • Added: Mar 20, 2010
  • Length: 05:52
Our Berlin
From: Radijojo World Children's Radio Network
Series: Across the Ocean - the first Transatlantic Radio for kids
Caption: Anna and Asha
Berlin is huuuuuge and has 1,000 faces - and a voice called Asha, with her Radijojo Song! We would like to present our Berlin to you.

Bought by KTRL


  • Added: Mar 03, 2009
  • Length: 17:36
  • Purchases: 1
Paradoxical Mess by Team Kuumba Lynx
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2008
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This is the group piece (4 poets) performed in-studio by Kuumba Lynx, which was the winner of the 2008 Louder Than a Bomb Competition. They will n...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 03:04
The War Project (:30 Promo)
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
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Four high school journalists collaborate with Wisconsin Public Radio to share true stories from World War II. (Promo for program)

  • Added: Nov 06, 2007
  • Length: :30
The War Project (Full Program)
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
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Four high school journalists collaborate with Wisconsin Public Radio to share true stories from World War II.

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KSQM 91.5 FM, WDSE, KUER and more


  • Added: Nov 06, 2007
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Walking With My Father
From: Long Haul Productions
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Charlie Rizzo's lifelong journey with his father, including a few twists and turns.

Bought by XRAY.fm, KPIK-LP, KUOW, The Story, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jun 23, 2007
  • Length: 10:10
  • Purchases: 8
Surviving a Tsunami: The story of Valdivians in 1960
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Terrascope Radio Major Features
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A college freshman travels to Chile and interviews survivors of the 1960 tsunami/earthquake.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 09:38
  • Purchases: 1
The Moon's Sister
From: KUHB
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Native Youth tell the story of their recent origins

Bought by KSUT and KMXT


  • Added: Jun 03, 2006
  • Length: 23:29
  • Purchases: 2