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Sven Olaf Nelson began his printing press shop with a small table-top proof press and a few drawers of type in 2001, now he has over 300 drawers an...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2021
  • Length: 06:11
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James Baldwin was one of the 20th century’s most incisive thinkers and writers. In our own era, as political rhetoric, state violence, and popular ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Feb 03, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Author and scholar Gretchen E. Minton discusses her book, "Shakespeare in Montana: Big Sky Country's Love Affair with the World's Most Famous Write...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5

  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we're meeting with Stephen Rothschild, the executive director of The Jewish Federation of Greater Toledo, to c...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2020
  • Length: 06:18
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What made Baruch Spinoza one of the most influential and beguiling thinkers of all time?

Bought by KSKQ, KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KNVC Carson City Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 22, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 4
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When it comes to racism, many white Americans can intellectualize it and some can personalize it through the experience of others but the real chan...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2020
  • Length: 01:59:05
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His lynching was said to have propelled the Civil Rights Movement but what really happened to the 14 year old boy from Chicago and what can we lear...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2020
  • Length: 01:47:41
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Her book is back on the NYT Best Seller list and for a very good reason. “White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide” as been called both ...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 02:17:15
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Who should own the narrative when it comes to talking about slavery and Jim Crow? Lance Wheeler, is the former Curator of Exhibition & Interpreters...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 53:24
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The n-word is loaded with a history of hate and death. Today, the word's meaning has transformed but the echoes of its past remain. Who's word is i...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:33:06
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Is there a subconscious belief amongst whites that only they can "save" people of color? Have they been conditioned by society to see themselves as...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:34:42
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When white people are called out on their racism a response one often hears is, "Well, Black people are just as racist again me." Is racism the exc...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:08:24
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Whites too often see themselves as the real victims of racism and they might have point but it’s not the one they thought they were making. Are whi...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:32
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Many of us want to help change the narrative and be anti-racist partners in the good fight. This was true of civil rights activists coming to Missi...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:14:23
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Education is the gateway to the future in America. Our system is built around it but major colleges and universities continue to be predominantly w...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:16:43
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Don Carter is a former police officer who spent nearly 10 years on the beat. He knows how the system works. He's also African American.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:29:21
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Being black in America is exhausting and even deadly. Racial Battle Fatigue (RBF) is real and impacts the health and well-being of millions. What i...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 01:06:39
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His work helped close four of the most infamous cold cases of the Civil Right Movement. Jerry Mitchell is one of the most celebrated investigative ...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 48:16
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When we say the words, “the talk”, it probably conjures up the awkward conversation one has with their children about the birds and the bees. Howev...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 58:43
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The United States government has a history of paying reparations to those who have been wronged but with one very striking exception: slavery. Shou...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 46:41
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Is life just like a rock you keep pushing up a hill so it won't roll back over you?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KTSW 89.9, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Nov 09, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
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What is the sound of one hand clapping?

  • Added: Nov 04, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
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Astronomy, mathematics, linguistics, politics, justice, and the state -- the heritage of the West, given to Christianity by Islam.

Bought by KSKQ, KICI Iowa City, and WNYO


  • Added: Nov 04, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Paul Halpern
There always seems to be a peculiar twist in understanding our world. How it works. Just when we think of have a grip on it, like a greased pig, it...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1