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Thurgood Marshall: Before the Court
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History
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In 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. But Marshall had already earned a place in histor...

Bought by Nevada Public Radio, WGTE Public Media, WMUU-LP, WFAE, KALW and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2009
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 22
Say It Plain: A Century of African American Oratory
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History
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For generations, African American orators have been demanding justice and equality, reminding America to make good on its founding principles of de...

Bought by Mississippi Public Broadcasting, WGTE Public Media, Nevada Public Radio, KLCC, WGTE Public Media and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2009
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 31
King's Last March
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History
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Although it was one of the most challenging and controversial chapters of his career, the final year of King's life has not been the focus of signi...

Bought by KANW, KUAT, WABE, WWNO, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 249
World Trade Organization Demonstrations Seattle 1999
From: KUOW
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Excerpts of KUOW-FM's live coverage of the WTO demonstrations.

  • Added: Sep 28, 2009
  • Length: 16:08
Women in Sports: Separate & Not Equal
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Lisa Herner, Credit: Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University
Dave Zirin and Elizabeth Terzakis take a look back at the history of discrimination against women in sports, and we’ll hear where the long battle f...

Bought by WJCT, RadioStPete Florida, KMXT, 90.5 WSNC, KUT and more


  • Added: Sep 04, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 6
Grand Old Central Is Back
From: Gideon Thompson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Oklahoma's oldest higher education building is back in use after a two-year, $8.6 million renovation.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2009
  • Length: 03:56
Native American Life - rebroadcast 2003 program
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Older, middle and younger generations discussion Native American life covering many subjects...a rebroadcast

  • Added: Jul 19, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
Catching Fire -- Groks Science Show 2009-07-15
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Prof. Richard Wrangham discussed Catching Fire.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2009
  • Length: 29:49
  • Purchases: 1
We Shall Remain - Half-Hour Special
From: Native Public Media
Series: We Shall Remain
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A compilation of the 5 5-minute features from the We Shall Remain Radio Project complementing the recently aired five-part television special from ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KMUD, WRIR, WLPR , KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2009
  • Length: 27:57
  • Purchases: 7
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -1: How the South (or White Supremacy?) Won the War (1865 - 1877)
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
Caption: An American Terrorist
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...

Bought by WCPN, WRPI, and KUNM


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 58:19
  • Purchases: 3
Between Civil War and Civil Rights - 5: White Protestant Nation (1915-25)
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
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An exploration of American racism as cultural and commercial mass-phenomenon, covering the "reincarnation" of the Klan as a fraternal movement whic...

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 57:56
  • Purchases: 1
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -8: American As Apple Pie--How Terrorism Lost (1940-55)
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
Caption: Paul Robeson testifies
Equality under the law became viable for African Americans only after hard, dangerous work turned public opinion and federal policy against the whi...

Bought by WCPN and KSJD


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 2
Action Speaks! - What Now? 1933: The Creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Action Speaks! - Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial a...

Bought by KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WRPI, KWIT, WRNC-LP, WPTC and more


  • Added: May 04, 2009
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
New York's City Reliquary
From: Emma Jacobs
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The founders of the City Reliquary hope their museum will help change the way New Yorkers think about the city.

  • Added: Apr 20, 2009
  • Length: 08:42
GETTING GHOST: TWO YOUNG LIVES AND THE STRUGGLE FOR THE SOUL OF AN AMERICAN CITY
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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A look at the prognosis for Detroit, a city devastated by the decline of the U.S. auto industry

  • Added: Mar 26, 2009
  • Length: 27:36
“.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO FAITH, FEMINISM AND HIP HOP.”
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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IN IT’S THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN;S DAY PROGRAM, CASA ATABEX ACHE & MOMMAS HIP HOP KITCHEN PRESENT “.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 54:15
"WITHOUT COMMENT: THE FIRST 100 DAYS-Week Four"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: "Without Comment:The First 100 Days"
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The series takesa a look at the first 100 days of the Obama administration.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2009
  • Length: 06:27
What if the South had won the Civil War?
From: With Good Reason
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Noel Hendrickson considers questions about what might have been if the past had happened differently.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:39
Six Days That Shook Seattle
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
It's the 90th anniversary this month of the Seattle general strike, one of the most dramatic strikes in U.S. history.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 07, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
"Havana Nocturne: How The Mob Owned Cuba And Then Lost It To The Revolution"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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A look at the contending forces-the mob,a brutal dictatorship, United Fruit and Fidel Castro-prior to the Cuban revolution

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2009
  • Length: 54:37
  • Purchases: 1
Inauguration at Independence Mall in Philadelphia: Street Interviews, Ambient Sounds
From: Chris Goldstein
Caption: Philly, Independence Mall, Credit: Chris Goldstein
Interviews with members of the public attending the Presidential Inauguration on Philadelphia's Independence Mall.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2009
  • Length: 13:50
"I do solemnly swear..."
From: With Good Reason
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A Presidential Historian plays clips from Inauguration speeches and tells us what to listen for in Obama's address. And Political Scientists reflec...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
Ghosts of Gary
From: Robin Amer
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The story of one abandoned movie theater is the story of this very post-industrial city. People haunt places, and places haunt people.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUT, PRX Remix, and Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser)


  • Added: Jan 10, 2009
  • Length: 19:14
  • Purchases: 4
Barack Obama's Hawaii Roots: How Hawaii Helped Shape America's 44th President
From: Heidi Chang
Caption: Barack Obama, Credit: Gig Greenwood
Family and friends who knew Barack Obama when he was growing up in the Aloha State share their insight about how Hawaii helped shape his character ...

Bought by KRUA


  • Added: Dec 22, 2008
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 1
Johnny Cash: At Folsom Prison
From: Joyride Media
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One-hour radio special takes you inside Folsom Prison for Johnny Cash's historic 1968 concert

Bought by KRCB 104.9, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WKMS, Harford Community Radio, KMUN and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 29

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