PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
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Amid national outrage over the police killing of George Floyd in May of 2020, and other police-shootings of Black people, the movement to "defund t...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Ferrer's Modern School was not new pedagogy. We have known its truths for as long as authorities have forced children into rows and rote learning, ...
- Added: Feb 20, 2019
- Length: 58:15
Georgetown Preservation Society's attorney talks about their case against El Dorado County
- Added: Jul 22, 2016
- Length: 15:58
(Our first daily reading for June:) A famous, enigmatic personality stood before the King and Queen of England and refused the honor of knighthood....
Bought by KCSM
- Added: May 29, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
Bobby speaks, on this “National Marijuana Day” (April 20, 2013), with Alexander Portelli, mayoral candidate for the city of Albany, NY. They discus...
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 44:31
Poet and songwriter Abel Meeropol wrote that lament after seeing a photograph of two black teenagers hanging from a tree.
Bought by PRX Remix, Marfa Public Radio, KUER, WMMT, KFAI Minneapolis and more
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 14:35
- Purchases: 6
Mitt Romney and Barack Obama completely mixed up in a special "Election Shortcut". The first Shortcut was broadcast in November of 1972 in reaction...
Bought by KBRP Community Radio
- Added: Oct 24, 2012
- Length: 59:56
- Purchases: 1
In 1964, Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman from a major party to run for President. The Republican Senator ran as a staunch hawk and expe...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, WDET Detroit Public Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 07:38
- Purchases: 5
Who was she? Imagine Indiana Jones or Lawrence of Arabia ... think of them in skirts ... and you're close. Archeologist, diplomat, writer and poet ...
- Added: Jul 03, 2011
- Length: 03:00
While the middle class in the US is struggling to survive, the rich keep getting richer.
- Added: Sep 20, 2010
- Length: 02:01
Historical look at Presidential Elections
Bought by KBRP Community Radio and KGLT
- Added: Feb 19, 2008
- Length: 27:36
- Purchases: 2