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Caption: Zachariah, left, and Craig Boyd, Saturday morning regulars at Gary Public Libary's main branch. , Credit: Niala Boodhoo
What happens when your local library shuts its doors? That’s a question Midwestern towns from Evanston, Ill., to Troy, Mich., are asking as local l...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2011
  • Length: 04:06
Caption: People line up outside the Dim and Den Sum food truck for gourmet tacos and kimchi mac and cheese.
Food trucks have become all the rage in big cities like L.A., New York, and Boston. They’re transforming the way people think about street food and...

Bought by Vocalo.org and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 03, 2011
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Yesterday morning, May 23, the Supreme Court ruled that California must reduce its prison population by tens of thousands of inmates to correct the...

  • Added: May 24, 2011
  • Length: 08:32
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Recently, two big stories shared the front page: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “love child” was revealed and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, now former head of t...

  • Added: May 23, 2011
  • Length: 32:02
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Residents of the island of Vinalhaven, Maine discuss the noise created by the arrival of three new wind turbines.

Bought by KPVL, KXOT Public Radio, WDSE, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 17, 2011
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Former San Jose State Professor and artist Hasan Elahi, founder of “Hiding in Plain Sight”
Descendants of immigrants and refugees from countries in the Middle East and South Asia often find a hard time living in the post 9/11 United State...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 27, 2011
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Istanbul, Credit: Anton Foek
In Nederland willen we eerlijk en open met elkaar omgaan. Maar als het aan het Openbaar Ministerie ligt wordt daar grof en oneerlijk onderscheid i...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 07:14
Caption: Harmeet Dhillon is the chairwoman of San Francisco’s Republican Party.
San Francisco’s Republican Party has a new chair, and it’s not your average Republican. Let’s take some demographical statistics of GOP supporters....

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 06:54
  • Purchases: 1
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New research examines how postwar German history textbooks addressed the traumatic events of the Second World War.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXDU, and WRPI


  • Added: Mar 29, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Investigative reporter Thomas Peele, The Chauncey Bailey Project and the Bay Area News Group
Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey was gunned down on the morning of August 2, 2007 as he was walking to work. This past Monday, the jury was sele...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2011
  • Length: 05:02
Caption: Brad Crowder & David McKay
Two boyhood friends from Midland, Texas – David McKay and Brad Crowder – fall under the sway of a charismatic revolutionary ten years their senior....

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Mar 18, 2011
  • Length: 24:51
  • Purchases: 1
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The city of Oakland is currently defending a controversial effort to reduce gang violence. Alameda County Judge Robert Freedman is reviewing a prop...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2011
  • Length: 07:05
Caption: Rob Hodges
In 2005, Rob Hodges and his then-girlfriend (now wife) Kate were in Guatemala, on a chicken bus heading to a lake town for a few days of relaxation...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2011
  • Length: 21:01
Caption: Khotan Shahbazi-Harmon
Khotan was born in Iran but fled at the age of 13. Shortly after she left, her father was executed, her mother was imprisoned and their home was ra...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2011
  • Length: 25:20
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Talking politics at the Waldo Flea Market in Waldo, FL Nov 2, 2008

  • Added: Jan 13, 2011
  • Length: 05:56
Caption: Mara Keisling Executive Director for The National Center for Transgender Equality
This week on Culture Clique we continue our interview with two individuals from the National Center for Transgender Equality. Mara Keisling The Exe...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2010
  • Length: 09:47
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How the Limited Liability Corporation is one of the most important inventions of all time

  • Added: Nov 04, 2010
  • Length: 20:27
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LaDarrell Hagans is something of a full-time volunteer for Deval Patrick's reelection campaign for Governor of Massachusetts. Although LaDarrell k...

Bought by KUT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 27, 2010
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Bruce A. Jacobs, Credit: via www.aliasbruce.typepad.com
Today we continue our conversation and lecture on Race Manners with Bruce A. Jacobs. In our interview we ask about what cities in the US are have t...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2010
  • Length: 31:29
Caption: Former service members discharged under Don’t Ask Don’t Tell protest in front of the White House., Credit: Photo courtesy of the AP
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: Oct 22, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Equipo de Trabajo de Angeles de la Frontera
El trabajo de la organización Angeles de la Frontera para proteger la vida de los inmigrantes. Border Angels' work to preserve the lives of immi...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2010
  • Length: 27:45
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This week the conversation moves from Kabul to Paris, as we talk with John Mearsheimer, the foreign policy "realist" from the University of Chicago...

Bought by WMNF, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 07, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
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Medidas que se están tomando para la reducción de lasr armas nucleares. Measures being taken for nuclear weapon reduction.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2010
  • Length: 28:11
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Robo de salarios en América Wage theft in America

  • Added: Sep 15, 2010
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: Bollywood posters for sale in an Afghani store, Credit: AP
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Sep 10, 2010
  • Length: 29:00