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The Choirs Kept Singing of Freedom - Birmingham Sunday Remembered
From: David Kattenburg
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In the annals of racist terrorism, few acts were more hideous or cowardly than the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 34:47
Fallen Heroes 2022
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Thousands of social justice leaders in communities all over the world passed away this year. We're closing out the year, as we usually do, with in...

Bought by WXDU and KMUN


  • Added: Dec 25, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
70 Million: Tribal Land, Banishment, Rehabilitation and Re-Entry
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This week on Making Contact - with assistance from our podcast partners, 70 million - we head to the state of Alaska, where rising violent crime an...

Bought by WXDU and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Oct 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Medical Racism Past and Present
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Black Americans are twice as likely to die from COVID as white Americans. Despite this, polls show that African-Americans are less interested in re...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 03:58
Invisible Women
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Domestic workers have been especially hard hit by the pandemic but have been consistently excluded from bills meant to help frontline workers. In t...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2021
  • Length: 04:10
The Bombing of MOVE, 35 Years Later (Updated)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Our radio adaptation of the film, Let the Fire Burn. Directed by Jason Osder, examines the controversial, 1985 clash between police in Philadelphia...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
National Writers Series: Nicholas Kristof and Cheryl WuDunn
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Three
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Nate Payne talks with journalists and authors Nicholas Kristof and Cheryl WuDunn.

Bought by WCMU Michigan and WKAR


  • Added: Feb 27, 2020
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 117: The Lake
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Amanda Hamm and her boyfriend Maurice LaGrone drove to Clinton Lake one night in 2003. The next day, DeWitt County Sheriff Roger Massey told a loca...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 33:34
National Writers Series: Beth Macy
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
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Investigative journalist Beth Macy talks with Interlochen Public Radio executive director Peter Payette about her latest book, "Dopesick: Dealers, ...

Bought by WKAR and WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 20, 2018
  • Length: 54:29
  • Purchases: 2
New York's Senegalese Street Traders (1997 BBC African Service Assignment)
From: Hechtech
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Thousands of Senegalese street traders in New York and other big cities around the world are organised around Sufi

  • Added: Aug 01, 2018
  • Length: 27:56
Episode 3: Lost weekends
From: KCRW's Independent Producer Project
Series: Off The Block
Caption: Betty Peters, known as Mama Betty, shuttles jail visitors along the last mile of the journey. , Credit: George Lavender
Thousands of Los Angeles County prisoners are housed in Pitchess Detention center. For visitors, the journey to the jail can take all day. The clos...

Bought by PRX Remix, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 3
Mwende Katwiwa at Community Book Center
From: Sarah Holtz
Series: The Poetic City
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Mwende Katwiwa performs a poem about a police killing in New Orleans that occurred on Lundi Gras.

  • Added: Oct 04, 2016
  • Length: 02:24
Suicide Prevention Day
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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In honor of Suicide Prevention Day, Rock School discusses suicide throughout the music industry.

Bought by KSKQ, WOUB, 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, WYAP, and KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 08, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Jeffrey Toobin Reads Award-Winning Prison Essay
From: PEN America
Series: The Freedom to Write
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Author Jeffrey Toobin of the New Yorker reads "The Colfax Crew” an essay from the PEN Prison Writing Contest by Tim Boland of Minnesota Correctiona...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2016
  • Length: 10:55
The Heart and Soul Of Community
From: Steven Scher
Series: On The Bus
Caption: On The Bus
For all the ways we devise to pull communities apart, people find ways to rebuild.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1
On the Bus
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Seeing the city while on public transportation.

  • Added: Dec 29, 2015
  • Length: 08:28
Jean Anoilh play Antigone Performed by IU Theater
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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IU performs Jean Anoilh adaption of Sophocles' Antigone

  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 09:10
Disguising Hatred- The ACLU Lawsuit Against Torture
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against two psychologists who developed a program to pair torture with interrogation of “s...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 18, 2015
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 1
Servicewomen Today-Interview with Tanya Biank
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
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Tanya Biank is the author of Army Wives, on which the hit TV series is based, and she's traveled the world with the troops as a newspaper reporter....

  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: 07:10
After a fatal heroin overdose, the grief lingers for a family
From: WITF
Caption: Stephen Mercado (Anthony's stepfather), Jesse Perez and Stacy Emminger (Anthony's mother), Credit: Ben Allen/WITF
NOTE: This piece pairs best with a companion piece called Heroin addiction robs family of son. This traces the Emminger family's grief since they...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jan 20, 2015
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 1
Deadly Divide: Migrant death on the Border
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: One of the few remaining unknown markers left in the county cemetery in Falfurrias, Texas, Credit: Brandon Thibodeaux
Over 6,000 migrant deaths were recorded on the U.S. side of the border with Mexico between 1998 and 2013. This documentary travels to the desert ra...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Nov 24, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Raising Angel
From: Chloe Prasinos
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Jamie is pregnant and has nowhere she can go. She finds herself at Saint Andre Home, a modern day home for unwed mothers, where she awaits her four...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2014
  • Length: 07:31
Where D'ya Get That Hatred?
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: ...the anonymous collaboration called humanity..., Credit: Susan Cook
Great affirmation of human purpose is the victory for those who watch the runners and wheelchairs racers come in at the Boston Marathon. They are ...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2013
  • Length: 06:13
Civil Liberties for Sexists: The Purity Ball and Prostitution Laws
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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Recently, a man convicted of aiding the prostitution of a young woman who was exploited by over 150 men, was given a 3 week sentence. This sente...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2013
  • Length: 03:45
130210 The Meaning of Mardi Gras
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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From early calypso and New Orleans Mardi Gras music to New Orleans neighborhoods to my demise - what Mardi Gras means to me.

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Feb 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:47:46
  • Purchases: 1