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“Keep going, keep going.” Wngz sings, whispers, and celebrates the legacies and histories that helped her find her voice: Sankofa; Harriet Tubman;...

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  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 1
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Returning in a new iteration for 2021, "Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power” invites artists, public intellectuals, and writers to radica...

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  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 1
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Today we're headed to the Junction neighborhood in Toledo, Ohio to talk to Alicia Smith. She's the executive director of The Junction Coalition, a ...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 06:13
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In this episode, part thirty-nine of the multi-part BLUEprint series, we follow up on last weeks' examination of China's response to the climate cr...

  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 05:38
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In an essay for The Believer, the Black Mountain Institute’s flagship magazine, the writer Kyle Paoletta declares that there is a singular ethos of...

  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 14:13
Caption: Nanshan Cultural Tourist Zone in Sanya, China , Credit: Denny Ryanto @runninghead
In this episode, part thirty-eight of the multi-part BLUEprint series, we examine some statistics that show steps China is taking to confront the c...

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 05:38
Caption: Trucks blasting political songs in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
American’s are no stranger to election songs, but in India election songs are a different ballgame. Though there are plenty of songs, Bollywood and...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Right: Grace Lee Boggs, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Left: John Trudell
What is your perspective on Democracy? This week we explore what democracy means.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: A Still from the video "RiRi" by Diljit Dosanjh, Credit: Sandip Roy
More and more celebrities are tweeting about the farmer protest in India, and while this is about the backbone of India but it’s not the farmers wh...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Faruqui and Khamra's twitter headings
Something funny happened on the way to the comedy club in India but no-one is laughing.

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
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We cannot blame social media for our worst demons. But it is undeniable that social media has made it that much easier to create that alternate uni...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
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What happened in the United States might feel shocking. But we gloat at our own peril.

  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
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Never underestimate the power of a poem.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Sandip at the Grand Hotel in Nainital.
India struggles with its image in the larger world, but so should America reconsider hers.

  • Added: Nov 30, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
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Everybody wants a piece of the first female vice president of the United States; Or at least a few degrees of separation from her.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 10, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Indians now look at the 2020 American elections and understand that there’s chaos that’s colorful and then there’s chaos thats toxic.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
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"For many Americans, there’s never been a better time to reconsider the entire system. Years of work, by abolitionists like Angela Davis, Ruthie Gi...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: A masked statue of Gandhi in San Francisco's Ferry Plaza, Credit: Eric Wayne
Oct. 2nd is the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, and in an angry toxic world, we would do well to remember a man who fasted, intermittently, to force us...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
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The furor over a Kamala seems much ado over very few syllables, but how one handles the mispronunciation can be telling.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 18, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
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"Transparency is important, especially in matters of public health. We treasure what we measure..." The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring tim...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
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When does phobia cross over into hate speech? Does a social media site need a bloodthirsty exhortation to deliver a 6-inch deep cut before it can act?

  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
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
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Reydesel, a legally deaf undocumented college graduate, shares how he went from suicidal to successful after the Deferred Action for Childhood Arri...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 17:35
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"Every Juneteenth has me thinking about life and the unknown, and the experience of those who lived two and half years enslaved, denied the news th...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
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Fifty years ago, there was a radical plan to completely remake a county sheriff’s department in an iconic western town. It almost worked, they almo...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1