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Port Arthur Texas is home base for the largest oil refinery in North America and a dizzying toxic array of fossil fuel and chemical facilities. But...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
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The United States is three months into a mass movement against police violence. We are the midst of a national conversation about the relationship ...

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  • Added: Sep 09, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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It’s been three months since George Floyd was killed by a white police officer in Minnesota. The movement prompted an outpouring from lawmakers in ...

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  • Added: Aug 26, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: Left: Tweety Suazo; Right: Jim Harvey
Juan de Onate is responsible for brutalizing New Mexico’s Indigenous people...hear more about the history of the Spanish colonizer.

  • Added: Jul 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:02
Caption: Kimberlé Crenshaw, Credit: Annabel Clark
Law Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw defined the concept of intersectionality 30 years ago. She developed that framework to understand how identities s...

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  • Added: Jun 22, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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The fight to legalize marijuana has never been easy, as evidenced by the recent collapse of months-long efforts in New Jersey and New York. A key i...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Deerfield, 1963 , Credit: ART SHAY / @ART SHAY ARCHIVE, 2018
A North Shore Suburb of Chicago skirts fair housing laws that require affordable housing and struggles to come to terms with segregation and a trou...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2018
  • Length: 14:55
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Bring It On's William Hosea and Dr. Amrita Myers speak with Dr. Kali Gross, Professor of African American Studies at Wesleyan University about "Vio...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
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William Hosea and Cornelius Wright invite Ms. Oyibo Afoaku, a higher education professional, to Bring It On to discuss the Harambe concept, her de...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2016
  • Length: 58:49
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Clarence Boone and Cornelius Wright welcome special guest Dr. Iris Rosa, who is a professor in Indiana University Bloomington's Department of Afric...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2016
  • Length: 58:24
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50 Years After Selma March, New Report Finds Party Politics Increasingly Polarized by Race; Chicago's Progressive Movement Rallies to Defeat Mayor ...

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  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Cat Brooks
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
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: After 55 Years, Obama Acknowledges U.S. Cuba Policy Was a Failure; New Yor...

  • Added: Dec 24, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Coast to Coast Explosion of Protest Confronts Police Violence in Communiti...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Injustice Seen in Ferguson is Rallying Cry for Movement Confronting Police...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Pamela Spoto
Unspun examines the Ferguson, MO, murder of teenager Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson and the lack of justice in America today.

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 57:45
  • Purchases: 1
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Ferguson Streets Explode in Anger After Grand Jury Opts Not to Indict Darr...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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'Ferguson October' Civil Disobedience Protests Target Police Violence in Communities of Color Nationwide; Report on Abuse of Adolescent Inmates in...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Norm Stamper, Credit: KPLU
Co-host, Pamela Spoto, and I speak with 34-year veteran Top Cop, Norm Stamper of Battle in Seattle fame. He is author of Breaking Rank: A Top Cop'...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2014
  • Length: 58:26
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Threat of Wider War Looms Over Ukraine as U.S. and NATO Accuse Russia of Intervention in Civil War; Could Public Outrage at Michael Brown Shooting ...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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Tonight’s program seeks to shine a light first on what’s been called the “militarization” of police across the country due to something like a fede...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 57:53
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Police Killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson Exposes U.S. Culture of Racism and Violence; Lake Erie Algae Bloom Reveals Lax Regulation and Wider Thr...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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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
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On the 50th anniversary of Wallace’s inaugural speech as the Governor of Alabama, Radio Diaries tells the story behind those infamous words, and th...

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 10:23
  • Purchases: 2
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For reasons yet unknown, more and more Americans each year have been contracting asthma. In spite of the fact that 17% of black children now have...

  • Added: May 26, 2011
  • Length: 02:00