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Riding the waves of feminism: a conversation with scholar Bettina Aptheker

From: Suki Wessling
Series: The Babblery

Noted feminist scholar Bettina Aptheker explores the dawning of her feminist consciousness in waves. Daughter of a communist, Aptheker had to throw...

Trying not to do damage: The Student Free Speech Movement with Bettina Aptheker

From: Suki Wessling
Series: Babblery Minibabbles

In this short episode, feminist scholar Bettina Aptheker talks about the reasons for her iconic speech atop a police car and the impact of the Stud...

Bought by PRX Remix

Liz Cheney on Good Citizen

From: Madison Brown
Series: Good Citizen with Ted Roosevelt V

Liz Cheney shares the enthralling details from her book, Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning, of defending the Constitution while inside the Cap...

Tom Allman- "The Sheriff and Marijuana"

From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious

This program was originally broadcast on June 19, 2007. Marijuana, some say, is on the lips of many people here in Mendocino County, California, a...

StoryCorps: María de los Ángeles Vázquez and Rafael Cancel Vázquez

From: StoryCorps

María de los Ángeles Vázquez and her son, Rafael Cancel Vázquez, remember his father, Rafael Cancel Miranda, one of four Puerto Rican Nationalists ...

Building Back Black Wall Street

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, All Souls' book publishing imprint, 2021 , Credit: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, All Souls' book publishing imprint, 2021

Tulsa Tri-City Collective leaders Carlos Moreno and Bracken Klar talk about the history of Greenwood, a Tulsa neighborhood founded by and for Black...

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

National Writers Series: Heather Cox Richardson

From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Five

Detroit Free Press columnist Neal Rubin talks with historian and author Heather Cox Richardson.

Bought by WKAR

Dr. Steven Miles: "A Blind Eye to Torture"

From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious

This interview with Dr. Steven H. Miles was recorded in mid July 2006. The silence of doctors, nurses and medics in cases of torture and physical ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida

World in Progress 21/09/23

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW

This week on the show: The troubling trend looming over Cairo's City of the Dead. Who gets to decide the best way to make space in a city? Officia...

Bought by WFHB, Troy Public Radio, and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)

Mexicans Confronting Racism: Aztec myths to modern stereotypes

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Ismael Rivera, historian and cultural guide, in front of ancient Aztec ruins in Mexico City. , Credit: Anthony Wallace

Lies the Spanish conquistadors told about the Aztecs have led to racist tropes that still affect brown Mexicans today. Now, brown Mexicans are lead...

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

Sam Totten – "Genocide in Darfur"

From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious

Genocide is the intent to exterminate in whole or in part a specific group of people often based on nationality, ethnicity, race or religion. For t...

Jumaane Williams & Hell Gate on Rikers: Why is it So Hard to Close a Jail?

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

The plan to permanently close Rikers in New York City and replace it with four borough facilities has hit roadblocks. Why is it so hard to close a ...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE

Revisiting GOP Party Dynamics: The Decline of Moderates & Rise of Populism

From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast

Applying a GOP history lesson to our current political moment

Bought by RadioStPete Florida

White Hoax: Racism, Divide-and-Conquer, and Politics

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

On today's episode anti-racism activist and author Tim Wise examines the concept of Whiteness and what he describes as the psychological wage of wh...

Bought by WXDU and RadioFreePalmer

Lisa Graves: The Extremist Revolution & Democracy Hanging by a Thread

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

The American Right is embracing a dangerous extremism, challenging elections, packing courts and aligning with Hungarian prime minister and Putin-a...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, KVSC and more

2021 Producer’s Choice Awards – Part 2: The Poetry Show

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

Today we feature four poets who help us see our own predicaments – one who shows us we contain multitudes; one whose life and writing was always an...

Women's History Month: Changing the Narrative, Women War and Peace II

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Making the future while surviving a war. In humanity’s never ending war stories, combat makes the news, but the macho gaze misses the complex reali...

Bought by KWMR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN and more

Women's History Month: Women's Choice is More Than Roe vs Wade

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court could overturn Roe v Wade, imperiling all women’s freedoms, and creating a new pipeline to prison for the vulnerabl...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more

Democratizing Democracy: Redistricting by the People

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Redistricting has the power to shape elections, and this year, it’s more controversial than ever. After a contentious 2020 census, the development ...

Bought by KWMR, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and WNYE

Tamara Payne on Les Payne’s THE DEAD ARE ARISING (Re-Broadcast)

From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice

For Black History Month, we air our conversation with Tamara Payne about her late father Les Payne’s acclaimed biography of Malcolm X, The Dead Are...

Disposable Cities: Part 4 of The State Made Visible

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

Caption: An abandoned home near Love Canal in Niagara Falls. (UPI Photo)

This is part 4 of The State Made Visible with Rasul Mowatt, author of The Geographies of Threat and The Production of Violence published by Routled...

Bought by RADIOLEX

UPDATED AUDIO: Freedom for Women Requires Abolition Feminism: Suzanne Pharr & Beth Richie

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court could overturn Roe v Wade, imperiling all women’s freedoms, and creating a new pipeline to prison for the vulnerabl...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN, and WNYE

Here There Be Dragons: Part 2 of The State Made Visible

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

Caption: "Sir Francis Drake in Cartagena 1585" by Baptista Boazio, 1589

This is Part 2 of The State Made Visible with Rasul Mowatt, author of The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence, published by Routle...

Bought by RADIOLEX

Vonnegut on Tralfamadore: Billy Pilgrim and PTSD

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

In today's show we explore the history of recognizing the trauma experienced by soldiers in war - PTSD is only the most recent iteration of this di...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KNCT FM, RADIOLEX, and KTSW 89.9

A History of Traditional Root Healing

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Left is a Mullein Plant and the author Michele Elizabeth Lee , Credit: Photo by Anita Johnson

In some parts of the world, traditional herbal remedies are the norm. When we think of natural remedies we tend to think of older generations liv...

Bought by KVNF, WXDU, and RadioFreePalmer

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