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Hal Higdon discusses "Leopold and Loeb: The Crime of the Century"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Among the criminal celebrities of Prohibition-era Chicago, not even Al Capone was more notorious than two well-educated and highly intelligent Jewi...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 29:28
WoodSongs 1070: Victor Furtado and Kristina Gaddy
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Steve Martin Banjo Prize winner Victor Furtado
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes clawhammer banjo champion Victor Furtado plus award winning author and ba...

Bought by KBRW, KMUN, WEJP-LP 107.1, GCR (Global Community Radio), KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 37
OutCasting 0035x – LGBTQ history – Christopher Z. Hobson
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: Christopher Z. Hobson
February 2023 — The gap that LGBTQ youth experience when their people’s history is suppressed. Originally presented in 2017.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and KECG


  • Added: Jan 31, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
What difference can a play make? Ask Angola Prison
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In 2020, the authorities at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (better known as Angola, for the former plantation on which it stands) shut down a pla...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
History of Pride Month with Marshall Martinez
From: Generation Justice Admin
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What is the history behind Pride Month? Tune in to learn from Marshall Martinez from Equality New Mexico!

Bought by KRVS and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Oct 13, 2021
  • Length: 29:51
  • Purchases: 2
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
College -recorded 9/02
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A generational discussion about college as of 9/02

  • Added: Mar 31, 2021
  • Length: 24:31
At Home in Miami’s Little Haiti
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fall 2020 Student Edition
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In this episode of Fresh Art’s Fall 2020 Student Edition, University of Miami students Gretchell Cano and Luz Estrella Cruz explore the work of Hai...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 08:40
OutCasting 0075 - The Covid-19 and AIDS pandemics - Part 4 of 4
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: Jay Blotcher and OutCaster Lucas, Credit: Jay Blotcher photo by Bill Bytsura
The Covid-19 and AIDS epidemics - similarities and notable differences

Bought by RADIOLEX, WGHC-LP 98.3 FM Chicago, Radio Catskill, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
OutCasting 0074 - The Covid-19 and AIDS pandemics - Part 3 of 4
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: Jay Blotcher and OutCaster Lucas, Credit: Jay Blotcher photo by Bill Bytsura
The Covid-19 and AIDS epidemics - similarities and notable differences

Bought by WGHC-LP 98.3 FM Chicago, Radio Catskill, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
OutCasting 0072 - The Covid-19 and AIDS pandemics - Part 1
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: Jay Blotcher and OutCaster Lucas, Credit: Jay Blotcher photo by Bill Bytsura
The Covid-19 and AIDS epidemics - similarities and notable differences

Bought by RADIOLEX, WGHC-LP 98.3 FM Chicago, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and Radio Catskill


  • Added: Apr 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Evan Yabu and Shig Yabu
From: StoryCorps
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Shig Yabu tells his grandson Evan about an unlikely friend he made as a Japanese American internee during World War II.

Bought by KALW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 25, 2020
  • Length: 02:18
  • Purchases: 2
443: Time Beyond The Clock / 444: What Can We Learn From Teens?, 1/4/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Time Beyond The Clock" - What's wrong with the way we tell time? What if we lived with no clocks at all? HOUR TWO: "What Can We Learn ...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:58
I'd Rather Kiss A Pig
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: See It Through My Eyes
Caption: Texas Folklife x Akins High Listening Party flyer, Credit: Jennifer (Amora) Arriaga
Akins High School has an annual fall festival called Blue and Gold Night. It's a night with many activities, including a pig kissing "contest." Pro...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2019
  • Length: 04:19
RDD: Raise Your Voice!
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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We're talking to another Bowling Green State University professor on this week's episode of The RDD. But we're talking about a project she worked o...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2019
  • Length: 06:39
OutCasting 52 - LGBTQ women in AIDS activism - part 2 of 2
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: Journalist and activist Ann Northrop, Credit: Bill Bahlman
This week on OutCasting, public radio’s LGBTQ youth program, we continue our conversation with Ann Northrop, a longtime journalist and activist, ab...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Aug 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
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
Degrees of Separation: Origins (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the first of a six-part series on education and inequality in America, we look back on the origins of the modern education system.

Bought by WHFR and WCPN


  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 2
Degrees of Separation: Origins (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the first of a six-part series on education and inequality in America, we look back on the origins of the modern education system.

Bought by WHFR, WCPN, and WDSE


  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 3
Degrees of Separation: Origins (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the first of a six-part series on education and inequality in America, we look back on the origins of the modern education system.

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA


  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Degrees of Separation: Origins (Promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In the first of a six-part series on education and inequality in America, we look back on the origins of the modern education system.

Bought by WDSE and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Mar 24, 2017
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 2
Degrees of Separation: Origins (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the first of a six-part series on education and inequality in America, we look back on the origins of the modern education system.

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WDSE, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KWMR and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 16
Degrees of Separation: Origins (Half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In the first of a six-part series on education and inequality in America, we look back on the origins of the modern education system.

Bought by WJCT, WUGA (part of GPB), WMNR, KMUN, KKRN and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7