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The United Nations designates October 11 as the International Day of the Girl Child, promoting empowerment and rights of girls to safe, educated, ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 03:00
It's Hispanic Heritage Month, so let's recognize their leaders, and raise a glass to the founder of the United Farm Workers. If you’re thinking Ces...
- Added: Sep 21, 2023
- Length: 03:01
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
Date-based history modules for broadcast April 3-7, 2023. Run time 02:45 for all episodes.
- Added: Mar 03, 2023
- Length: 13:45
Historian Howard Zinn would have turned 100 in 2022. His monumental work, A People’s History of the United States, published in 1980, continues to ...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Dec 21, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Crip Camp is a Peabody Award-winning documentary from Netflix and Higher Ground Productions that tells the story of Camp Jened, a summer camp in th...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KWMR, KMUN and more
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 7
In this episode, NPR’s Chief Economics Correspondent Scott Horsley talks with Jeffrey Garten, former Undersecretary of Commerce in the Clinton Admi...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Aug 18, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
The Chairman's Corner is a weekly podcast with Mary Anne Carter, Chairman of the Arts Endowment where we'll discuss issues of importance to the art...
- Added: Aug 07, 2020
- Length: 06:25
This week on World Ocean Radio: part four of the five-part Slavery: Heritage and Identity series. In this episode we discuss the history of La Amis...
- Added: Jul 28, 2020
- Length: 05:30
The 67 shots that rang out at Kent State amid a May 4,1970 Vietnam War protest, killing four students and wounding nine, reverberate nearly 50 year...
- Added: Apr 01, 2020
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 29
On the 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising, hundreds imprisoned inside Michigan’s Kinross Correctional Facility refused to report to wor...
Bought by WVAS
- Added: Apr 19, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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
Wil talks with Jonathan Mason, International President, Phi Beta Sigma.
- Added: Jan 22, 2018
- Length: 16:51
In the second episode of our series on the mass escape from the Woomera refugee detention center in Australia, Aren Aizura parses out the stakes of...
- Added: Mar 11, 2017
- Length: 28:32
David Quammen talks about the history, animals, and land use conflicts related to Yellowstone National Park and reads a passage from the May issue ...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, Yellowstone Public Radio, KSJD, Spokane Public Radio and more
- Added: Apr 29, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 6
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
Minnesota’s state park system turns 125 this year. Nationwide, park attendance has declined for the last twenty years or so. But in Minnesota, a ri...
- Added: Jan 27, 2016
- Length: 12:37
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
In January 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson announced the War on Poverty. Much has changed, but much has stayed the same.
- Added: Jan 02, 2014
- Length: 02:30
A brief history of San Francisco's $6.4 billion bridge
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 11:12
Before 2001, there was another 9/11. In 1973, a military coup backed by the United States, overthrew the Chilean government and ushered in sevente...
Bought by WMMT
- Added: Aug 02, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Happy Independence Day! Today is the 236th birthday of the United States, and following long-established American tradition, lots of us are going t...
- Added: Jul 04, 2012
- Length: 05:01
Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes
- Added: Jun 04, 2012
- Length: 01:50:42
Washington's oldest monuments have nearly been forgotten. But a group of engineers, preservationists and history buffs is racing to change that.
- Added: Jun 04, 2012
- Length: 04:10
The reality of living with HIV and what the Hispanic community is doing in terms of prevention.
La realidad de vivir con VHI y lo que la comun...
Bought by KDNA Radio
- Added: Nov 21, 2011
- Length: 28:02
- Purchases: 1
