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The End of Policing (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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After the police killing of George Floyd, protests around the country have erupted, calling for an end to police brutality against Black Americans.

Bought by WCNY, KUOW, WFAE, WNYO, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 04, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 17
The End of Policing (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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After the police killing of George Floyd, protests around the country have erupted, calling for an end to police brutality against Black Americans.

Bought by KUOW, WNED Buffalo, KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jun 04, 2020
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 4
After initially saying it wouldn't, the VA now will remove Nazi symbols from two veterans cemeteries
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: A gravestone for a German POW in the San Antonio VA cemetery. The stone is engraved with a swastika and an inscription that references Adolf Hitler., Credit: Military Religious Freedom Foundation
The stones, engraved with swastikas, mark the graves of German POWs who died in the United States during World War II.

Bought by WUSF, Colorado Public Radio, and Texas Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 02, 2020
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 3
1918 Flu Pandemic vs. COVID-19: Nancy Bristow, U Puget Sound
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
Caption: Headshot: Nancy Bristow
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Nancy Bristow… Chair of the History Department at the University of Puget Sound… and author of American Pandemic:...

  • Added: May 07, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
Covid-19 Demands a National Reckoning
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The U.S. already has over one million confirmed cases of Covid-19 and tens of thousands of deaths. Victims of the disease are disproportionately bl...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: May 06, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Hard News (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Think you don’t get your news from the paper anymore? Think again.

Bought by WJCT, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WLIW, WNED Buffalo, WFHB and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 6
Hard News (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Think you don’t get your news from the paper anymore? Think again.

Bought by WSGE, WJCT, WLIW, KRZA, KRDP and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
Hard News (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Think you don’t get your news from the paper anymore? Think again.

Bought by WSGE, WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 3
Downstairs at the White House, A New Way to Counter the Generic Drug Shortage
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Downstairs at the White House. Topic 2: A new way to counter the generic drug shortage.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2020
  • Length: 49:49
Fighting Words
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week, we have two contributions –one closer to home and one many more miles away- but both aim to describe an unfair relationship of power eac...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2020
  • Length: 29:07
Family Values: A Conversation with Ray Luc Levasseur
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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In this episode, we continue our conversation with Ray Luc Levasseur. He is a former underground combatant with the United Freedom Front, which car...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2020
  • Length: 28:27
Prisoner Perspectives on Reform
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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We cover a range of news in this week’s episode- from a brief history of Black August and the upcoming August 19th prison demonstrations, to curren...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2020
  • Length: 29:46
“They haven’t deterred our work” Ramona Africa on the MOVE 9 and State Violence
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week, we share a conversation with Ramona Africa, who talks about the MOVE 9 case, the 1985 police bombing of the MOVE house, and the relation...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2020
  • Length: 29:57
One Long Night: Andrea Pitzer on the Global History of Concentration Camps
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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"Honorable people can do terrible things" says Andrea Pitzer in her book "One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps." We talk to Andr...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 17, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
One Keeps Spinning: Saving Yiddish on Cape Cod
From: Theo Greenly
Caption: Ellie Glener reads a Yiddish phrase book. October 2019. Mashpee, Credit: Photo by Theo Greenly
A woman on Cape Cod tries to save the Yiddish language

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 22, 2019
  • Length: 04:37
  • Purchases: 1
California Burning: News Feature 1 - Smokey Bear
From: North State Public Radio
Series: California Burning
Caption: James Lewis and Smokey
Smokey Bear was the most successful advertising campaign of all time. And the success of his message "Only YOU can prevent Forest Fires" might be a...

Bought by KCBX, KUSU, KSQD Santa Cruz, KRCB 104.9, WOUB and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2019
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 6
Political Junkie Fall 2019 Fundraiser Show
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie Fundraising Materials
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Fundraising hour for stations carrying the Ken Rudin's Political Junkie weekly program. This show highlights three interviews from late-2018/early-...

Bought by WHQR, Delta College Public Radio, and WHRV


  • Added: Aug 27, 2019
  • Length: 41:09
  • Purchases: 3
MN Native News: The Land Buyback Program
From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Native News
Caption: Patrice Kunesh
This week on Minnesota Native News, Bois Forte joins Fond du Lac as the second Minnesota tribe to participate in the Land Buyback Program for Triba...

Bought by Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KVSC, KMSU, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Jul 17, 2019
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 9
Jules Feiffer, THE GHOST SCRIPT, Art Spiegelman, BREAKDOWNS & Amos Oz Remembered
From: Francesca Rheannon
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We talk with the great cartoonist Jules Feiffer about the third graphic novel in his noir trilogy about the Hollywood blacklist of the 1940s and 50...

  • Added: May 07, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
Voices of Vietnam: A Lost Homeland (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-The Fall of Saigon marked the bitter end of the American War in Vietnam and the loss of a homeland for hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people....

Bought by WCNY, WCQS, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WLPR , WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: Apr 11, 2019
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 12
I Remember TMI
From: WITF
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Oral History project about the Three Mile Island partial-meltdown.

Bought by WSKG, WHYY, WPSU, and 90.5 WESA


  • Added: Mar 25, 2019
  • Length: 51:58
  • Purchases: 4
2019 Bemidji Women's March
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Bemidji Women's March 2019, Credit: Katie Carter
For the third year, Women's Marches took place across the country recently. More than 100 people marched in Bemidji, despite the frigid temps. Ma...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2019
  • Length: 10:35
Immigration Stories (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Immigrants to the United States share their personal stories of how they journeyed from Central and South America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, ...

Bought by WYAP, RadioStPete Florida, KICI Iowa City, WCNY, WCPN and more


  • Added: Jan 24, 2019
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 17
MN Native News: 'Ohiyesa: Soul Of An Indian' Documentary
From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Native News
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This week on Minnesota Native News, we talk to historian and producer Dr. Kate Beane, who recently released the documentary, Ohiyesa: Soul of an In...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KSRQ, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KVSC, KMSU and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2018
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 11
Grappling with the Violence of Whiteness
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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In this episode of Peace Talks Radio, our guests turn the lens on Whiteness, asking how the notion of Whiteness came to be, how it has shaped Ameri...

Bought by KSFR and KUNM


  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2

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