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This week on Making Contact we look at Bail Reform in the state of Texas with the help of our podcast partners 70 Million. For conservative lawmake...
Bought by WXDU and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jul 13, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
This week on the show: The remnants of slavery -
June 19th or Juneteenth is the day where the US commemorates the end of slavery. Dealing with...
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- Added: Jun 17, 2022
- Length: 24:29
- Purchases: 2
“What I recall most is the way that she grabbed my wrist and, shaking a bit, she said over and over again, ‘If it happens, run. Don’t let that happ...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 33:08
From: Generation Justice Admin
This week, we tackle misinformation and misleading narratives about mail in ballots and the 2020 election with New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie...
- Added: Oct 05, 2020
- Length: 49:21
In this year's celebration of Black History Month and the 50th Anniversary of Africana Studies at the University of New Mexico, author and journali...
- Added: Aug 14, 2020
- Length: 50:32
Northern California Public Media's Adia White interviews Stacey Abrams at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, California, May 20, 2...
- Added: Aug 04, 2019
- Length: 59:00
In her new book, Carceral Capitalism, poet and scholar Jackie Wang confronts mass incarceration in the US by delving into the processes that feed i...
- Added: Jul 02, 2019
- Length: 01:03:54
The image is of a badly abused enslaved man called variously “A Typical Negro,” “The Scourged Back,” “Gordon the Slave,” or “Poor Peter," who is tu...
- Added: Jan 09, 2019
- Length: 59:25
This week on the show: Once they have completed their medical degree, many Ghanaian doctors prefer to move to Europe or North America instead of wo...
- Added: Jan 02, 2019
- Length: 30:00
Private prisons in the South capitalized on the loophole in the 13th Amendment. In American Prison Shane Bauer takes us into Winn Correctional Cent...
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- Added: Oct 17, 2018
- Length: 59:00
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What does it mean to be Black in 21st century America? The expression of Blackness in art has a history of intricate connections to civil rights an...
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- Added: Sep 14, 2018
- Length: 56:29
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Charles Miles talks about the wrongful incarceration of his son.
- Added: Feb 27, 2018
- Length: 05:00
On this edition of Making Contact we present, The Struggle Inside: The Murder of George Jackson, a program about the modern anti-prison movement.
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- Added: Aug 08, 2017
- Length: 29:00
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Discussion on the lingering history of racist ideology in the Americas and beyond.
- Added: Jun 13, 2017
- Length: 01:00:02
Renault Robinson was an officer in the Chicago Police Department in 1971 when he was first interviewed by radio host and oral historian Studs Terke...
Bought by Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WORT, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 08, 2017
- Length: 05:42
- Purchases: 4
Since 2014 the department of justice and President Obama have been working to right the wrongs of the war on drugs. Through Clemency, Obama has com...
- Added: Jul 26, 2016
- Length: 15:28
Interchange reviews 2015 with a specific look at the programs which detailed the history and present moment of Black lives in the United States of ...
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- Added: Dec 29, 2015
- Length: 58:51
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In the summer of 1970, when she was 21, Patrice Gaines spent several weeks in jail facing charges for possession of heroin. She was a drug abuser s...
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- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 11:48
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Calvin Duncan spent over 28 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. In prison, he taught himself the law. He became a jailhouse lawyer and he...
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- Added: May 25, 2015
- Length: 17:08
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The Cutting Edge presents Mary Helen Washington, author of “ The Other Blacklist” which shows how the government targeted African- American as wel...
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- Length: 01:02:17
Mauro Oliviera, local activist and producer of Smallworldradio.net, co-hosts with me today. Our guest is direct action activist and organizer, Cat...
- Added: Jan 25, 2015
- Length: 58:54
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: "The Cutting Edge: Black News and Views- Where Journalism, Culture, Politics and Activism Converge"
Series: "The Cutting Edge: Black News and Views- Where Journalism, Culture, Politics and Activism Converge"
The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from The Fire Next Time: Ferguson and the Myth of A Post-Racial America-a panel discussion held recently with yo...
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Kwame Ture, once known as Stokely Carmichael was born in Trinadad, later moving to the United States at the age of eleven. He would become a lead...
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- Added: Nov 21, 2014
- Length: 01:00:35
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"A Mayor's Life: Governing New York's Gorgeous Mosaic" is the autobiography of New York City's 106th mayor, David Dinkins. The book recounts the li...
- Added: Nov 07, 2014
- Length: 01:00:24
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
In this first of a two-part series, The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from a forum presented by the Baruch History Department at their Performing ...
- Added: Apr 17, 2013
- Length: 58:01
