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Like the JFK assassination, everyone remembers what they were doing when they heard the news. For Aliza Goren, that isn’t so hard – she was one of ...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2015
  • Length: 09:56
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Daphne Shaed talks about what it's like to be a woman with a penis.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 11:49
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Young people will be crucial to this year?s election, though political activism can take many different forms. Ann Kane talks to youth voters about...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 06:49
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Carlos Padilla Speaking at a DREAM Project Rally
An interview with Carlos Padilla, an undocumented student, and his mentor Roberta Lindeman.

Bought by YouthCast


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 07:47
  • Purchases: 1
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In 2002, Juan Carlos Cancino, was riding his bike around town and found an entire city block of dilapidated greenhouses, near a hill in the Portola...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 08:44
Caption: Santa Rita Jail, Credit: California Energy Commission
Arthur Streeter is taking me to meet an inmate who’s going to be released from jail today. “So we’re going to pick him up and get something to eat...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 12:49
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Elizabeth Garber talks to the bus driver at the Palo Alto Transit Center, Credit: Isabel Angell
’m on the Valley Transportation Authority’s Line 22 bus somewhere between East San Jose and Palo Alto. It’s 2:30 AM, and it’s raining. I start a co...

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 20, 2014
  • Length: 04:43
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Eric Curtis reads his story aloud., Credit: Kyung Jin Lee KALW
On a breezy summer day at San Quentin State Prison, inmate Paul Stauffer reads his writing to a live audience...

  • Added: May 18, 2014
  • Length: 06:12
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
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Radio Curious pays tribute to the life and times of Pete Seeger, folksinger, troubadour and activist, who died January 27th, 2014 at the age of 94.

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jan 29, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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To enroll at West Brooklyn Community High School, students must buy in to a certain level of support and counseling. In exchange, the school promis...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2014
  • Length: 04:48
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The name Andy Lopez probably didn’t ring a bell before October 22, 2013. On that afternoon, the 13-year-old Lopez was just a kid playing with a BB ...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2013
  • Length: 07:35
Caption: The DeBoer-Rowse family is challenging Michigan's ban on same-sex marriage., Credit: Lester Graham, Michigan Radio
Examines legal discrimination of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in Michigan.

  • Added: Oct 11, 2013
  • Length: 50:29
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A discussion of ways in which the arts--both the performing and creative arts--serve as critical communicators on issues of human rights and freedo...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2013
  • Length: 22:28
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Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin were the first same-sex couple to wed in San Francisco City Hall in 2004 and again - legally - in 2008, mere months bef...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2013
  • Length: 29:24
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Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin were the first same-sex couple to wed in San Francisco City Hall in 2004 and again -- legally -- in 2008, mere months b...

Bought by WORT, KQED, and KVMR


  • Added: Jun 26, 2013
  • Length: 29:05
  • Purchases: 3
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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
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Host Brian Balogh unpacks the saga of the Contract Buyers League, a local activist group in Chicago’s Lawndale neighborhood that organized in the 1...

Bought by PRX Remix and KREV-LP


  • Added: Jun 10, 2013
  • Length: 13:27
  • Purchases: 2
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My Would-be Sister’s Pilgrimage

  • Added: Jun 07, 2013
  • Length: 10:04
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BackStory producer Eric Mennel and literature professor Benjamin Reiss brings us the story of Jane Rider, a sleepwalking servant girl whose case in...

Bought by WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, Radio Newark, PRX Remix, and KBRP Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 11:38
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: James Clyburn and Sydney Reed
South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn talks with his granddaughter Sydney Reed about his career in politics.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Feb 05, 2013
  • Length: 02:50
  • Purchases: 1
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Summary: Radio Curious visits with California Democrat, Rep. Sam Farr to discuss the 113th congress.

  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
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On July 9th our castaway was Felicia Knight. For nearly ten years Felicia anchored the noon news and First News at 5:30 on WGME-TV in Portland. Sh...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2012
  • Length: 01:19:07
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 59:02
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In GBA 16 we get better acquainted with Owain. He has lived all his life in Wales and most of his life in Cardiff. We meet him just before he was d...

  • Added: May 22, 2012
  • Length: 57:41