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This week’s episode begins to explore the intersections of borders, documentation, and incarceration. We look at the history of U.S. immigration po...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Dec 15, 2016
  • Length: 29:11
  • Purchases: 1
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The Rough Draft Diaries meets with Ken Leslie of 1Matters. 1Matters is a non-profit that works to return domestic autonomy to those without homes. ...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2016
  • Length: 06:33
Caption: Jamison and Yuvette at the BART Station going to Disney on Ice, Credit: Photo provided by Jamison Robinson
Jamison Robinson, Yuvette Henderson’s brother, talks about the difference it makes when a community comes together to demand justice after the poli...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: Jun 30, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Tonight we discuss the groundbreaking graphic novel series,March, an engaging and award-winning first-hand account of Congressman John Lewis’s life...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:17
Caption: Lou Ureneck
Shortly after World War One, the Ottoman Empire was in its fiinal days. The last desperate act of the Turkish nationalist army was to destroy the...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 07, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Stokely Carmichael was a down-home organizer and radical off-beat visionary of racial equality in America 50 years ago, a quicksilver activist, the...

Bought by WRPI


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 59:14
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Naomi Benaron
The novel, Running the Rift, follows the life of young Jean Patrick. He’s a gifted Rwandan boy. He knows that running will be his future. What he ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 16, 2013
  • Length: 19:35
  • Purchases: 1
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Host Brian Balogh talks with former aid worker David Koren about his experiences during the Biafran airlift in the late 1960s, and explores whether...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: Sep 16, 2013
  • Length: 09:09
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Suzette Jordan, Credit: Sandip Roy
Recently the Park Street rape victim did something almost unthinkable in India. She revealed her identity.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 30, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Columbine Principal Frank DeAngeles, Credit: Eric Molinsky
Can trauma be healed with architecture and design? Eric Molinsky looks how Columbine, Aurora and Virginia Tech have changed.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 09:42
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Woman in Handcuffs, Credit: Thisisbossi
Pregnant women in America’s prisons are being shackled to their beds; others are being sterilized. Correctional institutions claim the policies are...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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Inspired by the campaign to end South African apartheid, Palestinians are leading an international campaign to put economic and political pressure ...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Escape by Death, Credit: T Woodard
A growing movement is demanding the United States do away with the death penalty. In 2012 voters had the chance to vote to replace California’s dea...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Dec 13, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Inspired leadership begins with mutual respect
This election felt divisive and strident and the feelings today are those of the victors and the losers, joyous and excitement for those that won, ...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 49:10
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The first weekend of fall concludes with Ian Hunter, Richard Butler & The Psychedelic Furs dancing with the 1% and President Gas, while Alan Price ...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2012
  • Length: 55:58
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Our castaway is Michele Arcand. A poet, activist and one of the driving forces in the Portland independent music scene. Michele is sui generis. ...

  • Added: May 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:22:59
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Radio Curious brings you an archived interview with Maria Stewart, as portrayed by scholar, Sandra Kamusakiri. Stewart was a free black woman who l...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
Caption: Hakeem Shaheed
Tens of thousands are in solitary confinement in American prisons which according to the United Nations is torture. Producer Claire Schoen met nine...

Bought by CKMO


  • Added: May 22, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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We speak with activists and an MS patient who testified before the Senate Health Committee.

  • Added: Mar 04, 2009
  • Length: 29:31
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We learn about a Thousand Kites, a media-arts initiative designed to spark a national dialogue about the criminal-justice system in the U.S. throug...

  • Added: May 30, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
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Our veterans: heroes yesterday, homeless today

  • Added: Oct 19, 2007
  • Length: 28:00
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Mike Jones, an ex-escort, discusses his relationship and eventual outing of Ted Haggard, which led to Haggard's downfall

  • Added: Oct 09, 2007
  • Length: 26:30
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Radical politics, religion and hope for the thinking person.

  • Added: Sep 28, 2007
  • Length: 30:08
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Getting an education does not only happen in school. What positive or negative messages did you receive from your family and community? How did the...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2007
  • Length: 28:00
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Catholic nun, Sister Dorothy Stang tirelessly defended the rights of peasant farmers and fought to preserve the integrity of the Amazon. Sister Do...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KVNF


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2