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Anthropologist John Bowen shares a brief history of Islam in France and offers commentary on the ongoing European migrant crisis.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 09:30
  • Purchases: 2
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This conversation was excerpted for the program, "Darker than Blue: The Failure of School Integration." This is the full conversation between Inte...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2015
  • Length: 55:59
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Former BC Attorney General Wally Oppal, Native Studies Professor Niigaan Sinclair

  • Added: Jun 25, 2015
  • Length: 53:09
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In NYC, African-Americans make up nearly 26% of the population but make up less than 4% of the NYC Fire Department. For the past 150 years, the cit...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 01:00:01
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The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from a speech by Cornell West, the author of The Radical King, an anthology of Martin Luther King Jr.’s essays,...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:39
Caption: St. Augustine, FL Police jump into a wade in
In 1964, Congress had a noteworthy Civil Rights Bill before it. But Southern Democrats, supporters of Jim Crow laws, were pushing a filibuster to k...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2014
  • Length: 04:55
Caption: Forrest Carter
Asa Carter was a speechwriter for Alabama Governor George Wallace. He penned one of the most infamous speeches of the era… Wallace’s “Segregation N...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 15:54
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Diana Moya Lujan's piece at the Museum of International Folk Art
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 05:57
Caption: Leroy Jones, Essex County Democratic Committee Chairmen
Coverage of the Politics that govern the County of Essex, New Jersey.

  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 29:52
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Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg. Wide ranging discussion from his relationship with Bob Dylan to the potential of viral video...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 16:54
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In his first Book former Newark Mayor Sharpe James write about his career as the leader of New Jersey's largest City and has good things to say abo...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Now Senator Cory Booker
Short interview with former Newark Mayor now Senator from New Jersey and his first days in Office in Washington

  • Added: Nov 03, 2013
  • Length: 02:29
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Host Brian Balogh sits down with historian Daniel Feller, to talk about Jacksonian America and the so-called “humanitarian” claims made on both sid...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Radio Newark, and KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 16, 2013
  • Length: 07:27
  • Purchases: 4
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Jennifer Abraham-Cramer helps us understand the great Mississippi flood of 1927, using stories from survivors preserved by oral historians.

Bought by WOUB, KRZA, Radio Newark, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 17, 2013
  • Length: 07:41
  • Purchases: 4
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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Filmmaker Emily Haddad joined WTIP's Ann Possis during Women's History Month to talk about her latest documentary, "Girl from Birch Creek," the ins...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2013
  • Length: 12:59
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard's course on Reinhold Niebuhr with Robert Bonthius, Wooster’s religion professor, confirms his decision to attend Union Theological Seminary...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 20:05
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard spends the 1948 fall election season organizing student chapters of the League for Industrial Democracy on college campuses. Though loyal t...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 28:27
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
After his mother's death, Richard throws himself into his academic work, four jobs, and campus political and social activities. He earns a reputati...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2013
  • Length: 29:10
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The Federal Writers Project in West Virginia, and the battle to tell the TRUE story of the state's history.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 06:12
Caption: Cesar Chavez
Professor Matt Garcia has written the most comprehensive history ever of the meteoric rise and precipitous decline of the United Farm Workers, the ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 19, 2012
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Finns In Minnesota" by Arnold Alanen
Finnish immigrants had a good amount of influence in shaping Minnesota's history. Scott Hall talks with Historian Arnold Alanen about his new book ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 20:14
  • Purchases: 2
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Stories about the People's Firehouse in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Paul Veneski talks about occupying the Engine Company 212 firehouse in 1975 with h...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 11:26
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Legendary folksinger and social activist Pete Seeger is receiving long-delayed appreciation for his immense contribution to American music and cult...

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, KWIT, KHNS, 90.5 WSNC, KRCB 104.9 and more


  • Added: Dec 05, 2011
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 16
Caption: Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani at the National Press Club, Sep. 6, 2011, Credit: Al Teich
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, assessed the state of U.S. security in the 10 years since the September 11 terrorist attacks at a National Pre...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2011
  • Length: 54:00