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Uncovering the History of the Massacre of Black Wall Street (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: B.C. Franklin (right), I.H. Spears (left) and Effie Thompson (center) filing insurance claims for survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre in a Red Cross tent. , Credit: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Tulsa Friends and John W. and Karen R. Franklin
In the first of our 3 part series leading up to Black History Month, we focus in on how journalists and historians today are covering the Tulsa Rac...

Bought by KALW, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN


  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Once A Braided River
From: Barbara Bernstein
Caption: Risk in the North Reach, Credit: Kandace Manning
A tale about how Portland, Oregon abused and degraded the river that runs through it, and the current campaign to reclaim this stretch of river as ...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2023
  • Length: 54:05
What difference can a play make? Ask Angola Prison
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In 2020, the authorities at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (better known as Angola, for the former plantation on which it stands) shut down a pla...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Women's History Month: Indigenous Women and Leaders’ Lessons on Community Care, a Tipi Town Approach
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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On Indigenous Peoples' Day, Laura reports from “He Sapa‘’, the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota where NDN Collective is reclaiming ancestral land...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Tracing the Racist Roots of American Psychiatry
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Acclaimed white anti-racist scholar Mab Segrest, author of the influential book Memoir of a Race Traitor, takes Laura through the US South to trace...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Uncomfortable Truth About Race in America
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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“The Uncomfortable Truth” is a film produced by Loki Mulholland. It is a journey to understand how being white has benefited his family across gene...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KSTK, KMUN, KOWS, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jul 14, 2020
  • Length: 50:07
  • Purchases: 5
Lynching and Lunacy: Mab Segrest on the Racist Roots of American Psychiatry
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Acclaimed “Race Traitor” author, Mab Segrest, takes Laura through deep south to trace the racist roots of American psychiatry. They explore the inf...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 19, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Orange Grove
From: Kate Madara
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Someone has to hold their hands very carefully underneath, to catch a tear inside a message in a bottle. Plus, a look at the sound triangles make.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 10:28
The Untold Story of Dealing with Racism and Xenophobia in St. Cloud with Mayor Dave Kleis
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack sits down with St. Cloud Mayor Dave Kleis to talk abou...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
A Fiery Unrest: Why Plymouth Avenue Burned
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: Silver's Grocery on Plymouth Avenue in North Minneapolis in 1967., Credit: Minneapolis Star & Tribune Negatives, July 1, 1967-August 31, 1967: Box 263. Minneapolis and St Paul Newspaper Negatives Collection. Minnesota Historical Society.
During the summer of 1967, Plymouth Avenue in North Minneapolis went up in flames. This was during a period known as the Long, Hot Summer when frus...

Bought by KVSC and MPR News Stations


  • Added: Jul 18, 2019
  • Length: 52:58
  • Purchases: 2
Listening to Our Better Angels
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Red, blue, rich, poor, country, city, left or right. Chances are you probably fall into one of those categories. And you may be quite happy where y...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KDNK


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Treating America’s Opioid Addiction Part 3
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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Searching for Meaning in Kensington

  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 55:22
The Big Pond #01: The Things We Brought
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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​There are things that hold history for each of us – a stitch, a book, a hat – things that we carry around for our whole lives. In this episode, we...

Bought by KSFR and KRZA


  • Added: Oct 12, 2018
  • Length: 10:43
  • Purchases: 2
Smart Talk - Mister Rogers' Neighborhood 50th Anniversary
From: WITF
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Take a trip down memory lane as Smart Talk celebrates Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood’s 50th Anniversary.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WSKG, 90.5 WESA, and WPSU


  • Added: Feb 21, 2018
  • Length: 51:58
  • Purchases: 4
Building Resistance: Japanese Imprisonment and the Fight Against a Muslim Registry
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Japanese Internment Camp, Credit: Densho Archives
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...

Bought by WCPN, KVNF, WRIR, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Feb 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Stolen Childhoods
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: Kip Moon, Credit: Courtesy of Kip Moon
America's attempt to separate Native children from their families didn't end with boarding schools. In the decades after World War II, the U.S. gov...

Bought by Prairie Public, KUT, Prairie Public, WYSO, KKWE Niijii Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Of Numbers and Names
From: Israel Story
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For Yom HaShoah, stories of Israeli encounters with the Holocaust in the years and decades after it ended.

  • Added: May 25, 2016
  • Length: 48:42
Life of the Law #79: Sterilized
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Virigina State Colony for the Feebleminded
Beginning in 1907, states in the US began to forcibly sterilize over 60,000 Americans -- people considered by scientists to be “unfit” -- the menta...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 22:29
  • Purchases: 1
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
The Lower 9th Ward Lives On
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Robert Green, Lower 9th ward resident, Credit: Andrew Stelzer
We visit the Lower 9th Ward Living Museum, to learn how some are trying to preserve the lessons and legacies of the past. And we talk to a residen...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 03, 2015
  • Length: 13:31
  • Purchases: 1
WASPs / Honoring Heroic Legacies / Servicewomen Today / Reunions! / Cultivating Life After War
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
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Segment 1: Deanie Bishop Parish/WASPs Segment 2: Melvin Morris/ Medal of Honor Segment 3: Tanya Biank/Women in military Segment 4: Larry Kelle...

Bought by WUFT


  • Added: May 25, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
In Their Own Words: Voices of Our Veterans
From: Johnna Kerres
Caption: In Their Own Words: Voices of Our Veterans
This radio program features veterans of all eras beginning with World War II to the present day. Nine veterans share their recollections of before,...

Bought by 'The Sea' and WDSE


  • Added: Apr 07, 2015
  • Length: 01:41:34
  • Purchases: 2
Project #9
From: Joanne DeVault
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This is a story of one city, one global company, one mother and one American dream.

  • Added: Feb 07, 2014
  • Length: 24:58
No Common Market: Whither Kensington?
From: Marion Kane
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There's a battle going on for the soul of Kensington Market in downtown Toronto...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 22:00
Tales & Tools of Revolution: From Serbia to Egypt
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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A new generation is telling their stories of overthrowing corrupt regimes. And in the digital age, their lessons can spread more quickly than ever ...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2011
  • Length: 29:00