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We learn about and from Hazel's early fights scrapping with the power of the state, and the new possibilities for healing that she created.
- Added: May 14, 2024
- Length: 58:02
We go to the roots of the land where Altgeld Gardens sits and where Hazel's legacy lives, digging through the layers of indigenous, Black liberatio...
- Added: May 14, 2024
- Length: 43:53
Despite being one of the most frequently banned authors, Toni Morrison’s work has inspired countless others to tell stories outside the mainstream....
- Added: Nov 30, 2023
- Length: 23:18
Covers of other artists songs by Elvis
- Added: Jan 05, 2023
- Length: 01:56:37
Jessie Mae Hemphill was a 4th generation Mississippi musician who learned how to play music from her granddaddy (as she called him).
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Sep 24, 2022
- Length: 59:49
- Purchases: 1
The hits plus the early cuts from the legendary Little Richard!
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Feb 16, 2022
- Length: 01:54:49
- Purchases: 1
Anthony Brutus Cassius was questioned by the FBI, fought to be the first Black person in Minnesota to get a liquor license, and his famous greasy b...
Bought by MPR News Stations and WGZS
- Added: Jul 09, 2021
- Length: 56:32
- Purchases: 2
400 years since the first enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown, many people agree reparations are due, but what would they look like? How about a...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
A women's history-month series, highlighting lesser-known historical female figures.
- Added: Feb 13, 2018
- Length: 01:03:37
Host Bob Kustra interviews New York Times columnist David Brooks about his bestselling book.
- Added: Jun 09, 2017
- Length: 30:29
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
If you’ve made a serious faux pas and need to acknowledge it with humility, you might be said to be “eating crow” or “eating humble pie.” In this e...
- Added: Jan 25, 2017
- Length: 18:43
The Fifth Symphony opens very famously with four memorable notes. Beethoven was asked what he meant by this opening and he’s said to have replied, ...
- Added: Apr 26, 2016
- Length: 59:18
Ransom tells us about being sworn in by James Stewart and his early days of flying
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 06:17
Kas tells us about the US Airway's Flight 1549 Hudson River accident, how the system worked when it was most needed.
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 07:28
The duet of Henry "Red" Allen and Coleman "The Bean" Hawkins, 1933.
- Added: Aug 10, 2012
- Length: 58:52
The true story of the largest wave on earth 100-miles off Catalina Island.
- Added: Dec 20, 2011
- Length: 21:18