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Who’s Afraid of DEI?: Interrogating Gender & Race in the Workplace (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Ruchika Tulshyan (left) and Ijeoma Oluo (right).
What does equity really mean? That might be an impossible question to answer objectively, but in this encore episode Ruchika Tulshyan, a workplace ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Blue Dimensions M10: "Queen Rising" from violinist Kersten Stevens with Christian McBride
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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"Queen Rising" a new album from violinist Kersten Stevens with Christian McBride as co-arranger and producer

Bought by KMUN, KJZX-Austin, Northwest Public Broadcasting, KHNS, WJSU and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Building Community and Halting the Gas Export Boom on the Gulf Coast - EcoJustice Radio
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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The Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas face a petrochemical and fracked gas export boom. Super-heat-charged hurricanes strike almost every year. As ...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
Leaveil Degree of The Whispers: Describe Those Things Very Tastefully
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Leaveil Degree, Credit: Shefik
Romance - Leaveil Degree is a member of The Whispers. The group scored 15 top-ten R&B singles, and eight top-ten R&B albums, with two of them, "The...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2022
  • Length: 01:30
Blue Dimensions K12: Great Blues Women, Diunna Greenleaf, Trudy Lynn, & Big Mama Thornton
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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new blues from Houston, Texas singers Diunna Greenleaf and Trudy Lynn — and Big Mama Thornton in concert in 1979

Bought by KMUW, KKRN, WMOT, Royalton Community Radio, KRPS and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
Blue Dimensions K10: Catherine Russell sings with Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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new music from singer Catherine Russell with Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra, and new music from singer and songwriter Eugenie Jo...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KKRN, Royalton Community Radio, KMUN, WJSU and more


  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Sipho Gumbo: A Revolution Is Defined as a Rapid Change in Events
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Sipho Gumbo, Credit: Shefik
Revolution - Sipho Gumbo, the creator of Yangu Beauty, sought out a leading expert in skincare chemistry to help transform her authentic recipes in...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 04:24
Eloisa Diaz-Sanz: One of My Favorite Quotes Is by Malcolm X
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Eloisa Diaz-Sanz, Credit: Shefik
Freedom - Eloisa Diaz-Sanz is an American creative consultant and fashion designer from New York City, specializing in womenswear. Her experience i...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2020
  • Length: 01:36
Angela Adetola: Everyone Can Learn, as Long as They're Given the Right Tools
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Angela Adetola, Credit: Shefik
Education - Angela Adetola is the Presdient of the Board of Directors at YWCA Yonkers, located in Yonkers, New York. The members and supporters of ...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:47
Yolanda Franklin-Moore: I Have So Many Wishes Every Single Day
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Yolanda Franklin-Moore, Credit: Shefik
Wishes - Yolanda Franklin-Moore is Fashion Designer and Owner of Xande Fadee, an innovative fashion and accessories line. She is a highly skilled f...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 01:11
Alee Opuiyo: Wanted to Commit Suicide
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Alafaka Opuiyo, Credit: Shefik
Love - Alee Opuiyo is a 2005 Howard University School of Communications graduate. She majored in Broadcast Journalism and minored in Political Scie...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 01:19
Peppermint: Owning Your Confidence
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Peppermint, Credit: Shefik
Identity - The hardest working woman in show business, drag queen and recording artist Peppermint has conquered the New York scene with her high-en...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 04:29
Yolanda Franklin-Moore: The Environment Is Full of Happiness
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Yolanda Franklin-Moore, Credit: Shefik
Happiness - Yolanda Franklin-Moore is Fashion Designer and Owner of Xande Fadee, an innovative fashion and accessories line. Yolanda is a highly sk...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 01:36
Melba Moore: Things Don't Always Happen When You Want Them To
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Melba Moore, Credit: Shefik
Perseverance - American R&B singer and actress Melba Moore is a 4-time Grammy Award nominee and the winner of the 1970 Tony Award for Best Performa...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: :56
Kimberlé Crenshaw: Intersectionality
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jun 22, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Top of Mind - 2020 Fourth of July Special Episode
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: How America has changed since its founding. Topic 2: Black Women who fought for suffrage. Topic 3: Immigration laws and who gets to be an ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KSTK, WNMU-FM, and KOWS


  • Added: Jun 19, 2020
  • Length: 54:57
  • Purchases: 4
Carceral Capitalism, Part 3- The Prison Abolitionist Imagination
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week, we are returning to the topic of Carceral Capitalism. We interviewed the poet and author Jackie Wang in episodes 89 and 90 of Kite Line....

  • Added: Mar 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:42
Michelle Jones on the Collateral Consequences of Incarceration
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week, we share a moving keynote speech recently given at the University of Michigan by Michelle Jones. Jones has been featured on multiple epi...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2020
  • Length: 28:25
Are Prisons Obsolete? Part Two
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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Last week, we began hearing the voices of prisoners on the topic of Angela Davis’s book, Are Prisons Obsolete? Up first, we have Anastazia Schmid’s...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2020
  • Length: 30:03
F-Word- February/March: The Pandering Months
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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::The latest commentary by Laura Flanders, The F-Word :: "Here we are again, ending Black History Month, starting Women’s History month. ...Do we n...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 03:30
Blue Dimensions H37: Roxy Coss's "Quintet" and Miles Davis's "Rubberband"
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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featuring the album "Quintet" from saxophonist and composer Roxy Coss, and previously unissued music from Miles Davis on the album "Rubberband"

Bought by WMOT, KKRN, Royalton Community Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMUN and more


  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Pushout
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools is an examination of the experiences of black girls across the country whose intricate lives...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Aug 25, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry: Alabama Had No Compassion Then. Now None for Women?
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "The Arc of the moral universe is long but it moves toward justice."., Credit: Susan Cook
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry today asks if Alabama's long history of lack of compassion toward people of color now appears again in their lack of...

  • Added: May 20, 2019
  • Length: :54
Blue Dimensions H10: Eloquent Sadness from Dory Previn; Good Vibes (and Marimbas) from Stefon Harris
From: Bluesnet Radio
Series: Blue Dimensions
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Moving songs from the late singer-songwriter Dory Previn, and new music from Javon Jackson, Stefon Harris, and Christian McBride.

Bought by WMOT, GCR (Global Community Radio), KKRN, Royalton Community Radio, KMUN and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Afrofuturism: 3 Women you Need to Know
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Afrofuturism is a growing genre-movement that spans literature, art, music, and film. It provides radical alternatives to dominant Western narrativ...

Bought by WMMT, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KQED, KVNF, WRIR and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7