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Bounty hunters are kind of like human bloodhounds. They’re dogged. They won’t stop until they get who they’re looking for. Frank Abramovitz is a bo...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 20:22
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"She called us on the phone and said, 'You will not be allowed to return to the Y.'"

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Kendall Wild
An homage to Kendall Wild, the former managing editor of the Rutland Herald during the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s. He was eccentric, competitive, a...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2015
  • Length: 25:45
Caption: Wisconsin Rep. Chris Taylor , Credit: Jake Harper
State Rep. Chris Taylor tells the story of her difficult second pregnancy.

  • Added: Feb 24, 2014
  • Length: 17:40
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As whites fled Washington D.C. to live in the suburbs in the 1950s, Stronghold was born. This piece reveals how residents gave the neighborhood its...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2014
  • Length: 14:07
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Tony Lucero is a Mexican American professor at The University of Washington. In this piece, Professor Lucero tells us how he came to be an educato...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2013
  • Length: 08:28
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Glenda Rike tells her son, Larry, how his father, Aubrey Rike, came to be one of the few present when President John F. Kennedy received his last r...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, KMUD, and WTJU


  • Added: Nov 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 4
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In “The Orphan Master’s Son,” this Stanford University creative writing teacher introduces us to the people of modern-day North Korea. Johnson spe...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 17, 2013
  • Length: 10:04
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: 2012 Moab Pride Visibility March, Credit: Moab Pride
Red state, rural America isn't exactly the first place that pops into your mind when you think about pioneering LGBTQ pride movements.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Radio Catskill, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 04, 2013
  • Length: 05:07
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Maria in Mangalia, Credit: Anton Foek
Maria is a young and vibrant woman from Mangalia in Romenia and doing her international studies about European integration in Maastricht, Holland.

  • Added: Jul 20, 2013
  • Length: 14:33
Caption: Donald Payne Jr on Left
Charmil Davis talking to the US Congress from New Jersey Donald Payne Jr.

  • Added: Jun 09, 2013
  • Length: 09:40
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Sgt. Matthew Pennington was injured while serving on combat duty in Iraq. He showed signs of PTSD, but is working toward recovery by promoting self...

Bought by KUOW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 21, 2012
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 2
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Volunteers in New Hampshire explain why they're pitching in to re-elect President Obama, and how independent-minded voters across the state are put...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:54
Caption: www.theciviccommons.com
Husband and Wife preach the Gospel at different churches, whose members get to heaven sooner?

  • Added: Nov 20, 2011
  • Length: 28:31
Caption: Sugarcane Harvester, Credit: Zwelethu Mthethwa, photographer
Since the 1994 demise of South Africa's apartheid system, photography in that country has taken on a new freedom, and a new meaning. It has evolve...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 06:05
Caption: Air Force veteran Eddie Falcon is president of the Bay Area Chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War
In the ‘60s and ‘70s, the Bay Area was a center for activism against the war in Vietnam. Some of those protestors happened to be returning veterans...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 06:39
Caption: From the NowRoz Festival, Credit: http://www.littlekabul.com/littlekabul_history#Next
As U.S. journalists and photographers venture into war-torn countries like Afghanistan, scores of people from there try to get out. The largest Afg...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Mar 06, 2011
  • Length: 05:46
  • Purchases: 1
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ATMI Reporter Aviva Hirsch asks her group mates from Alaska Youth for Environmental Action (AYEA) what it will take to get a tax through the assembly.

  • Added: Mar 02, 2010
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: A Sudanese woman carries a box of food aid on her head., Credit: AP
Analysis and exploration of current issues surrounding the conflict in Darfur.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
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From the Sudan Radio Project: we speak with a representative from Khartoum's first privately-operated radio station about the growth of commercial ...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2009
  • Length: 09:02
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From the Sudan Radio Project: we talk with a Sudanese blogger whose provocative writings have narrated the evolution of his personal politics and f...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2009
  • Length: 09:29
Caption: At the entrance to the Tashi Palkhiel Tibetan Refugee Camp in Pokhara, Nepal, Credit: Laura Spero
Tibetan refugees have been living in Nepal for over fifty years, and refugee camps are well-established collections of concrete homes. But Tibetan...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2009
  • Length: 03:29
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Karin Agness, a young Republican, started a conservative organization for college females. Started in 2004, Network of Enlightened Women, now has c...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2009
  • Length: 04:20
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This year more than other years, a college degree is no guarantee of a job. Commentator Emma Jacobs of Youth Radio graduated spring 2009 from Colum...

Bought by WMNF and Topics Education


  • Added: Jun 02, 2009
  • Length: 03:11
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Sudanese couples waiting to get married., Credit: Associated Press
Analysis and exploration of current issues surrounding the conflict in Darfur.

  • Added: Apr 05, 2009
  • Length: 29:00