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This Asian American Life
From: Mateo Schimpf
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How are Asian-Americans fighting back against accusations of divided loyalties and the sense of “perpetual foreignness”?

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
What Happens When the People Decide?
From: Jenna Spinelle
Series: When the People Decide
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Learn about the basics of the ballot initiative, the history of how it caught on in the United States, and the pros and cons that she will explore ...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 32:45
New York's Hunter College is falling apart
From: Julian Abraham
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Students at CUNY's Hunter College in New York City are complaining about mice running the halls, broken windows, and leaky ceillings. But, the scho...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2022
  • Length: 02:43
The Big Ponder #33: Housing
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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The demand for affordable housing has reached an all-time high in both Europe and North America. In this episode, Tomma Suki investigates the housi...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 28:41
  • Purchases: 1
Trailer for Shifting the Narrative
From: Will Coley
Series: Shifting the Narrative
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Narratives are all around us. These big meta-stories tell us who we are as a nation and the values we share. Narratives help us explain why things ...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:12
Plessy v Ferguson & Brown v Board of Education
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: Civil Rights
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The Supreme Court case that said racial segregation was constitutional, and the landmark decision that, decades later, overturned it.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, WYAP, WCMU Michigan, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Aug 03, 2021
  • Length: 51:31
  • Purchases: 11
Embrace Complexity To Overcome Polarization? Discussing a Way Out with Dr. Peter Coleman of The Difficult Conversations Lab
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Embrace Complexity To Overcome Polarization? Discussing a Way Out with Dr. Peter Coleman of The Difficult Conversations Lab
Police reform, gun violence, global warming... When did you last have a civil, informative, productive conversation with someone of differing opini...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:10
Online Conspiracies & Virtual Cults: Social Extremes in Our Hyperpartisan Age
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Season 2, Episode 7, "Online Conspiracies & Virtual Cults: Social Extremes in Our Hyperpartisan Age"
Join us for “Online Conspiracies & Virtual Cults” and reflect whether group dynamics have overwhelmed logic and conviction in your life, or that of...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 35:35
Vaccines Prevent Viruses; What Combats COVID Vax Skepticism? An Interview with Dr. Jeanine Guidry, Director of VCU’s Health & Media Lab
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Vaccines Prevent Viruses; What Combats COVID Vax Skepticism? An Interview with Dr. Jeanine Guidry, Director of VCU’s Health & Media Lab
In this episode, the Purple Principle speaks with Dr. Jeanine Guidry, Director of the Media and Health Lab at Virginia Commonwealth University, on ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KSFR, and KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 31:52
  • Purchases: 3
Episode Six: When a horse goes 'home'
From: Alan Wartes
Series: Wildish:Wild horses in a not-so-wild west
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In Montana, two ranchers adopted ‘Delilah.’ They’re among the growing number of people actually getting paid to adopt wild horses and burros.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2020
  • Length: 15:40
Episode Five: The unsexy burro
From: Alan Wartes
Series: Wildish:Wild horses in a not-so-wild west
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In Arizona, two incarcerated men rehabilitate wild donkeys for adoption.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2020
  • Length: 18:19
Episode Two: Why wild horses pull on our heartstrings
From: Alan Wartes
Series: Wildish:Wild horses in a not-so-wild west
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Horses and humans evolved together. Much as we do with dogs, we have a special relationship with the species. In this episode, host Anna Coburn spe...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Sep 17, 2020
  • Length: 21:25
  • Purchases: 1
Episode One: Is federal mustang management reaching a breaking point?
From: Alan Wartes
Series: Wildish:Wild horses in a not-so-wild west
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If wildlife managers, landowners, wild horse advocates and the BLM cannot work together to come to a solution, the Wild Horse and Burro Program wil...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Sep 17, 2020
  • Length: 18:53
  • Purchases: 1
The Outlook from Dead Center: Former U.S. Representative Jason Altmire on the Rise of Congressional Partisanship
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Episode 7
Did you hear the one about bipartisanship? Two opposing congressmen walk into a town hall…and civil discussion breaks out.

  • Added: Aug 27, 2020
  • Length: 26:08
The Myth Justice is Blind to Money, Part 2: The System
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 2, Episode 2 Part 2 of The Myth Justice is Blind to Money looks at one prior attempt to get rid of money bail, and how this attempt was thw...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 10:05
  • Purchases: 1
"Crossroads" Hour 8 of Leonard Bernstein: An American Life
From: CultureWorks
Series: "Leonard Bernstein: An American Life" narrated by Susan Sarandon
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Hour 8 “Crossroads” (1968-1978) We follow Bernstein as he leaves the Philharmonic in 1968 to concentrate more on composition. With overtones of S...

Bought by Colorado Public Radio, 'The Sea', KAAD-LP, and WRGY


  • Added: Aug 14, 2018
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 4
Prison fellowship aids in recovery
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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We all have people in our lives who exist on the periphery of our everyday routines--people like the bus driver who takes us to work, or the cashie...

Bought by WDSE


  • Added: Nov 05, 2014
  • Length: 05:42
  • Purchases: 1
What’s it like to manage the Oakland Police Department?
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: OPD Assistant Chief, Paul Figueroa, Credit: Kyung Jin Lee
It’s been almost a year since former Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan -- then, his replacement -- abruptly resigned. “It happened very quickly,...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 06:39
Voices on the bus: the people who depend on AC Transit
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Long-time AC Transit rider Walter Davis gets off the bus at 14th and Market in Oakland., Credit: Isabel Angell
East Bay bus agency AC Transit doesn’t have the ridership or wide-reaching reputation of BART or San Francisco’s Muni. But about 100,000 people tak...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 08:31
Life of the Law #06 - Block Boss (Explicit)
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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On every city block, there are rules. Some are unspoken, some require friendly reminders, some are enforced by the law. Is it ever OK to break the ...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2013
  • Length: 12:16
Life of the Law #09 - Reporter on Death Row
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Carmen Ward has been an inmate in San Quentin’s Adjustment Center for seven years, Credit: Nancy Mullane
What do we really know about death row in California? When we don’t know we create, we imagine.

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 27:37
  • Purchases: 2
Life of the Law #08 - Redesigning Justice
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Red Hook is an isolated neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY, once known as the “crack capital of America.” In 2000, residents banded together to create a ...

Bought by WDBM, KALW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 11:48
  • Purchases: 3
Life of the Law #07 - Felony Factory
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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You’ve just been arrested, charged with a felony and can’t afford to pay your bail, let alone hire a lawyer. You know you have the right to a trial...

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 13:00
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #05 - Tough Crowd
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Is the law ever a laughing matter? We present to you a brief history of attempted comedy in the toughest room in the country—the Supreme Courtroom.

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 12:16
  • Purchases: 1
THE WORLD with Tim Stackpool weekending 15 Dec 2012
From: Timothy Stackpool
Series: THE WORLD with Tim Stackpool
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A look at the issues affecting the various people of our planet

  • Added: Dec 16, 2012
  • Length: 27:30