Search results for

Hear how one of the Arctic’s most valuable fisheries—cod—is being impacted by the politics of Russia’s war in Ukraine as well as changing fish migration patterns due to climate change

The Hollywood Blacklist didn’t only affect the film industry. On this show, we look at the repercussions it had for working musicians in the 1950s, like Lena Horne, Frank Sinatra, and Yip Harburg

Stonewall often gets credit for the beginning of the gay liberation movement. But there was an earlier riot, at Compton's Cafeteria in San Francisco.

Dave visits with one of the world's foremost experts on sharks, Dr. David Ebert. Dave is the Director of the Pacific Shark Research Center at San Jose State University's Moss Landing Marine Laboratories.

Highlights from four public radio specials, including Mavis Staples, James Brown, Otis Redding, and Aretha Franklin

In this four-part series "The Road to Rickwood" host, Roy Wood Jr. speaks with historians, civic leaders, former Negro League players and more, to learn how Birmingham’s civil rights story played out at America’s oldest ballpark.

In episode two of "The Road to Rickwood", host Roy Wood Jr. speaks with surviving players from the Birmingham Black Barons about the soaring highs and painful lows of Negro League baseball in Alabama.

In episode three of "The Road to Rickwood", the 1964 Birmingham Barons became Alabama's first integrated sports team. This was 17 years after Jackie Robinson integrated the Major Leagues. What took so long?

In this final episode four of "The Road to Rickwood", host Roy Wood Jr. goes back to Birmingham to explore some of the obstacles that prevent more Black youth from taking up America's pastime. He talks to MLB executives, managers, and a player about the importance of promoting this sport within Black communities.

This episode features two women who were important to the fight for women’s suffrage but whose names are less known than those of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.