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Justice Isn’t for All, Legacy of Slavery in America’s Prison System
From: KRCL
Caption: Book Cover, "Of Greed and Glory In Pursuit of Freedom for All"
Two-way interview with author Deborah G. Plant about her new book, Of Greed & Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All

  • Added: Feb 17, 2024
  • Length: 17:22
Henrietta Lacks' Immortal Cells
From: David Kattenburg
Caption: Henrietta Lacks, Credit: Courtesy: Lacks family & Estate
David Kattenburg speaks about Henrietta Lacks and medical racism in America with Dorothy Roberts. Roberts is Professor of Law and Sociology at the ...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2023
  • Length: 34:56
Black Maternal Mortality: How Do We Save Black Lives?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate of any high-income nation in the world — and it is Black mothers who are dying at the hig...

Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: May 31, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Black Journalists on Police Violence: Reporting from the Inside Out
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The police killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis generated a significant amount of conversation and coverage, while the killing of environmental activ...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, RadioStPete Florida, KDNK and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Linda Villarosa: the Dobbs Decision: a Death Sentence for Black Women?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Is the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health a death sentence for women of color? The overturning of Roe v. Wade not only creat...

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


  • Added: Jul 13, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
70 Million: When "Bail Reform" Isn't
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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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
Unequal Justice: the Criminalization of Black Youth
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Nearly two thirds of all children in the U.S. juvenile justice system are kids of color. That’s according to a report by the Children’s Defense Fun...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Apr 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Bomb Threats Shake HBCUs During Black History Month
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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More than 20 Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs) received bomb threats at the start of Black History Month — including a threat on V...

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


  • Added: Feb 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Kimberlé Crenshaw & Soledad O’Brien Call Out the Media on Critical Race Theory
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The right wing has found its newest racist wedge issue: Critical Race Theory. This decades-old movement in legal scholarship has suddenly become a ...

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


  • Added: Jun 30, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
MOVE Demands Justice for Children and The Return of Stolen Remains
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: On April 28, 2021, MOVE and community members gathered in front of Penn Museum to protest and demand the remains be returned., Credit: Joe Piette
On Making Contact - Members of MOVE, a Black radical liberation group, demand that the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University return t...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Medical Racism Past and Present
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Black Americans are twice as likely to die from COVID as white Americans. Despite this, polls show that African-Americans are less interested in re...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 03:58
Vaccine Hesitancy: Building Public Trust For Public Health
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The Biden administration has promised to make Covid-19 vaccines available to all US adults by May 1st, but getting a vaccine to those who need them...

Bought by KDNK, KWMR, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 24, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Newark: Fixing The People’s Water
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The people of Newark, New Jersey—the majority of whom are black and brown—are grappling with a lead contamination crisis that has drawn comparisons...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
National Writers Series: Greg Iles
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
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Author Greg Iles talks with National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Jan 26, 2019
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Skin Off His Back: Exposing the North to Slavery's Lash
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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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
Solitary Confinement: Locked Away with No Human Contact
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious discusses solitary confinement and its physical and mental health impacts on prison inmates with Dr. Terry Allen Kupers, a forensic p...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Feb 14, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Mocha Moms & Marion Barry
From: WIL LAVEIST
Series: The Wil LaVeist Show
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Changing the negative image of the African American male and a tribute to Marion Barry.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 54:24
StoryCorps: William Lynn Weaver
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Dr. William Lynn Weaver
In 1964, Dr. William Lynn Weaver was one of 14 black teens who integrated West High School in Knoxville, Tennessee. At StoryCorps, he spoke about h...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2017
  • Length: 05:41
StoryCorps: Francine Anderson
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Francine Anderson
Francine Anderson grew up in rural Virginia during the 1950s. It was the Jim Crow South and “Whites Only” signs punctuated the windows of many busi...

Bought by WVBI-LP


  • Added: Aug 22, 2017
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 1
Voices of the Baltimore DOJ Report & The Intersections Of Race, Gender, Sexuality and Policing
From: Stefanie Mavronis
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In the months leading up to the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division releasing its report on the Baltimore Police Department, I listene...

  • Added: May 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:38:20
Beth Macy, author of "Truevine"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Beth Macy, author of "Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother’s Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South."

  • Added: Apr 28, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
Seeking Justice for Quanice Hayes
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: (Left to Right): Venus Hayes, two of her children, Teressa Raiford
The family of 17 year-old Quanice Hayes, who was shot to death by Portland police, seeks justice from the city of Portland.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Mar 22, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Wesley Lowery, THEY CAN'T KILL US ALL & Frederick Clarkson on Trump's Theocratic Vision for America
From: Francesca Rheannon
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Journalist Wesley Lowery talks about his acclaimed book, They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Mov...

Bought by WRGY


  • Added: Feb 01, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 58: Walnut Grove
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 2010, Michael McIntosh’s son was incarcerated at the Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility in the small town of Walnut Grove, Mississippi. On...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 32:55
No One Was Thinking that Cop Has Kids at Home
From: Vivian Chum
Series: A Matter of Black Lives: Mothers and Fathers
Caption: Antonio McKinney
As an African-American and the son of a police officer in Shreveport, LA, Antonio McKinney offers a nuanced view of the relationship between Africa...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 31, 2016
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 1