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Growing Up Waila
From: KXCI
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In this episode you will hear from Gertrude Lopez also known as Gertie, share her story growing up beside her dad Augustine Lopez Sr., listening, l...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2019
  • Length: 45:07
The Big Pond #25: US-American Students in German Universities
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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For some US students, escalating costs are putting college out of reach – whereas in Germany higher education is considered a right, tuition is nor...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 19:24
  • Purchases: 1
Minnesota Native News: 'Warrior Up' for the Community
From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Native News
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This week on Minnesota Native News, the latest on the tent camp in Minneapolis, an all-out effort to recruit more Native foster homes, and getting ...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KMSU, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KKWE Niijii Radio, KVSC and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2018
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 10
Native Advancement Through Culture: Ron Solimon
From: Generation Justice Admin
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Ron Solimon, former director of the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, schools us on the strength of Native peoples and how we can move forward to crea...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2018
  • Length: 20:01
Con Mujeres: Beva Sanchez Padilla & Yahaira Carreras
From: Generation Justice Admin
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“Organizing with a caring heart” - listen in on this powerful conversation between two New Mexican community organizers, women at opposite ends of ...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2018
  • Length: 17:31
Inclusive Catholicism: Father Frank Quintana
From: Generation Justice Admin
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When pursuing social justice “prayer without action is useless…” Listen as Generation Justice host Kenia Alonzo speaks with Father Frank Quintana a...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2018
  • Length: 12:41
Deconstructing the College Admissions Rat Race
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What values are implicit in the American college admissions process?

Bought by KSKQ, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, and WLPR


  • Added: Aug 15, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 3
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
One Student's Response to Gun Violence
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with a Ukiah High School student, Indigo Funk, about gun violence and the youth led movement to stop school shootings.

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Jun 20, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Frozen River Film Fest 2018, Making Noise: The Story of a Skatepark
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of Art Beat, Logan Erickson takes us to the Frozen River Film Festival to speak with filmmaker Cecilia Cornejo on her new documenta...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Apr 06, 2018
  • Length: 27:11
  • Purchases: 1
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
2018-01-21 Inheriting Climate Change
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Bruce Gibney, author, "A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America"
Consumption-crazed baby boomers are leaving millenials with a mountain of debt and a destabilized climate. In his book "A Generation of Sociopaths:...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KUHF, KWIT, KBBI Alaska, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
We Got Next: Youth Poets Changing the World
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Constellations | Very Quiet, Credit: Flickr
On this edition of Making Contact, we’ll explore how the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival has challenged mainstream cultur...

Bought by WMMT, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WVAS, and WRIR


  • Added: Jan 02, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The uncertain future of segregated workshops
From: WXXI Rochester
Series: Exited
Caption: While Carrie D'Olivo says there's no particular task that she especially enjoys in her job at ArcWorks, she says she wants "to stay here as long as I can.", Credit: MALINDA RUIT/WXXI NEWS
For lots of people, leaving high school means looking for a job. But for some people with intellectual or developmental disabilities, finding a job...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2017
  • Length: 03:38
Marijuana Community Talk: Hidden In Plain Sight
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we go to a community forum on marijuana abuse in Winona County. We also speak to substance abuse counselor Phil ...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2017
  • Length: 14:38
Interview with psychologist Ritch Savin- Williams about his book "Being Who I am: Young Men on Being Gay"
From: Out of Bounds
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Lively interview w/ Savin-Williams after years of research about young gay men and how they navigate their lives in the 21st century.

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Two teens overcome bullying
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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Why do kids bully? And what moves them to stop?

Bought by WMPG and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 30:58
  • Purchases: 2
Degrees of Separation: School Systems (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the final episode of our special series on education and inequality, we dive deep into the debate over charters, examine new ways school distric...

Bought by WHFR and WCPN


  • Added: Aug 25, 2017
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 2
Degrees of Separation: School Systems (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the final episode of our special series on education and inequality, we dive deep into the debate over charters, examine new ways school distric...

Bought by WHFR, KWMR, WMUU-LP, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 25, 2017
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 4
Degrees of Separation: School Systems (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the final episode of our special series on education and inequality, we dive deep into the heated debate over charters.

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA


  • Added: Aug 25, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Degrees of Separation: School Systems (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In the final episode of our special series on education and inequality, we dive deep into the debate over charters, examine new ways school distric...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Aug 25, 2017
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
Degrees of Separation: School Systems (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the final episode of our special series on education and inequality, we dive deep into the debate over charters, examine new ways school distric...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCWP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2017
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 10
Degrees of Separation: School Systems (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In the final episode of our special series on education and inequality, we dive deep into the heated debate over charters.

Bought by WJCT, KMUN, WVAS, WLPR , KKRN and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Problem of Rural Schools (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Nearly a quarter of Virginia’s schools are in rural areas. According to one researcher, Federal education policy could threaten the sustainability ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Aug 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 1
10th Annual Red Lake Ride Against Youth Suicide
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Bill May & Katie Carter
Suicide is the second leading killer of American youth, taking more lives than cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia influ...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2017
  • Length: 14:35

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