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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. There are many photos from that day — Lyndon B. Johnson being sworn in aboard Air ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and KUCB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 09:29
  • Purchases: 2
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In this episode, we learn about two historic negotiations – one failed and one successful – from the negotiators themselves. We begin with a peace...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KUHF, WXXI Rochester, WLPR , Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 20
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Iryiel Cochran shares her story about growing up as a Guatemalan adoptee in northern Colorado and searching for biological family in Quetzaltenango...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2021
  • Length: 18:21
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After 32 years in the United States, José Chicas was told he had to leave. He bought a plane ticket to El Salvador, but then a local church offered...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 36:54
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David Ben Shabat hates being called a prophet. As he sees it, he’s just a guy who stumbled upon a deep truth and wants to share it with the people....

  • Added: Oct 26, 2020
  • Length: 59:17
Caption: Dan Bazile, Credit: Shefik
Revolution - In March 2004, Dan Bazile joined the news team at WNYT (a television affiliate of NBC), where he anchors "Weekend Today". Prior to tha...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2020
  • Length: 02:04
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Marina is a pediatric nurse from Austin and the Rio Grande Valley who deeply opposes the detention centers for children crossing the Texas-Mexico b...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 26:01
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Recent violence in El Paso made Ana in Austin reflect on immigrants in America. She talks about what she has learned living and working at the bor...

Bought by Radio Catskill


  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 17:17
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Photo of Big Bend in Texas., Credit: Pius Wong
Jan from Bastrop in Central Texas is hugely concerned about the way the USA is handling several issues at the border with Mexico.

Bought by KRZA and WOUB


  • Added: Sep 04, 2019
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Dr. Abdelwahhab Azzawi
Escape is only the first challenge.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 30:39
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Tales of precocious kids who fight for causes they haven't completely thought out. The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, CI Dolphin Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 05, 2017
  • Length: 23:39
  • Purchases: 3
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We hear from Munir Jirmanus, a physicist near Boston, MA about his multiple experiences and encounters with the concept of "home." Munir tells a nu...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: 26:19
Caption: Bobby Pickles (left); Nicole Liedke (right)
Podcasting from Compassionate Care Center of CT (one of the six medical marijuana dispensaries in that state) Bobby, on location in the quaint town...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2014
  • Length: 33:47
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On April 13, 2014, former KKK member Frazier Glenn Cross pulled into a Jewish Community Center and ambushed a grandfather and grandson, killing bot...

Bought by KRCC-FM, WUNC, PRX Remix, and WEZU


  • Added: Jun 13, 2014
  • Length: 14:13
  • Purchases: 4
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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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As Burma transitions from dictatorship to democracy, hundreds of political prisoners have been freed after decades behind bars. On this edition, we...

  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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One amazing woman, Anila Ali, is transforming the stereotypes of Muslims in America through her work as a teacher, journalist, author, and activist...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 08:04
Caption: Captain John Campbell, Credit: Balazs Gardi / Basetrack
Captain John Campbell of 1st Battalion 8th Marines spoke to Balazs Gardi, while on deployment in Southern Afghanistan, in 2010.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 08:33
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Corporal Sean R. Smith, Credit: Balazs Gardi / Basetrack
Corporal Sean R. Smith of 1st Battalion 8th Marines spoke to Balazs Gardi, while on deployment in Southern Afghanistan, in 2010.

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 07:37
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Corporal Michael Perry, Credit: Balazs Gardi / Basetrack
Corporal Michael Perry of 1st Battalion 8th Marines spoke to Balazs Gardi, while on deployment in Southern Afghanistan, in 2010.

  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 09:53
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A short story from a Egyptian perspective who lives in The USA and visited his parents in Egypt just before The Revolution on January 25, 2011.

  • Added: May 19, 2011
  • Length: 05:21
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From "The Invisible Threat" (7/9/10): War News Radio reports on the new documentary Restrepo.

  • Added: Jul 09, 2010
  • Length: 05:48
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This month we are in San Francisco, California exploring what it means to be American through those involved in the struggle for same-sex marriage ...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2009
  • Length: 09:49
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A three-part series about the impact of the Holocaust on grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, today's third generation.

  • Added: Jul 11, 2008
  • Length: 30:27