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A 60th Anniversary review of the funniest album of the Kennedy era. The Grammy Award winning Album of the Year that was ultimately withdrawn from c...
- Added: Oct 27, 2023
- Length: 57:17
A year after SCOTUS banished abortion rights, millions of American women and girls face dire threats to their health and emotional well-being. Twen...
- Added: Sep 10, 2023
- Length: 56:42
Memorial Day is when we honor those who died while serving in the armed forces. It dates from 1866, when women decorated graves from both sides of ...
- Added: May 25, 2023
- Length: 06:00
This week the People’s Republic of China celebrates its 70th anniversary as months of pro-democracy demonstrations continue in Hong Kong. Demonstra...
Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Oct 09, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
Narratives around people of color added fire to the social unrest of the late 1960s. In this episode of Generation Justice, we look at the Kerner R...
- Added: Apr 10, 2018
- Length: 45:27
Fifty years ago, the Vietnamese Liberation Front inspired people of color around the world who were building movements for self-determination. Tod...
Bought by WVAS, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WRIR
- Added: Mar 11, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
As President Trump moves to ban Muslims from entering the U.S., we look at two moments where we found ourselves at a similar crossroads. First, th...
- Added: Feb 11, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
The nuclear industry pays a fraction of the cost of an accident and in Canada taxpayers pick up the balance.
- Added: Mar 13, 2016
- Length: 01:14
In Defense of a National Flag Burning Day
- Added: Apr 03, 2015
- Length: 06:26
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: FBI 9/11 Whistle-blower Coleen Rowley: Post-Charlie Hebdo Massacre Rush to...
- Added: Jan 21, 2015
- Length: 29:00
Lawrence Cumberbatch (R) tells his son, Simeon (L), how he traveled from New York City to Washington DC with Brooklyn CORE for the March on Washing...
Bought by WEZU, WRIR, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and WTJU
- Added: Aug 23, 2013
- Length: 02:38
- Purchases: 4
The historic 1963 March on Washington with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech featured a number of other speakers -- all male. Or...
- Added: Aug 19, 2013
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
President Obama's State of the Union 2011. Raw audio available for air, editing and excerpting.
- Added: Jan 26, 2011
- Length: 01:02:02
A commentary on labor leader Harry Bridges, one of the 20th century's greatest leaders of any kind, on the anniversary of his death.
- Added: Mar 18, 2010
- Length: 04:21
It's a time of celebration in Eastern and Central Europe -- a time to recall the beginning of the "Velvet Revolution" in Prague that led to the end...
- Added: Nov 14, 2009
- Length: 03:20
It's the 75th anniversary of "Bloody Thursday," the day in July of 1934 when open warfare between police and striking longshoremen raged on San Fra...
- Added: Jul 02, 2009
- Length: 04:45
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -1: How the South (or White Supremacy?) Won the War (1865 - 1877)
From: Alan LipkeSeries: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
From the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers, through the defeat of Reconstruction: How history is made and remade, with histor...
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 58:19
- Purchases: 3
Historian John D'emilio discusses his book on the controversial figure, Bayard Rustin
- Added: Jan 18, 2008
- Length: 57:18