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October 13, 2023: Surveillance and Social Media
From: WFHB
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On today’s Kite Line, we are sharing more research conducted collectively by Micol Seigel’s Inside-Out class.

  • Added: Nov 03, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
I&I - A.I. and creativity part 2
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week is the October edition of Incentives & Instincts, a recurring series in which Justin speaks with economist and friend Bryce Ward about so...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 28:27
  • Purchases: 1
Johann Hari: Get Your Mind Back / Save Democracy?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Are we too distracted to think? The answer is worse than you’d expect. In his latest book, New York Times bestselling author Johann Hari says we’re...

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


  • Added: Jan 25, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
North Carolina: Courageous Conversations in a Climate of Fear
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Many questions remain about the recent attack on North Carolina’s electrical grid, which left tens of thousands of citizens unsettled, frightened a...

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


  • Added: Dec 14, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
For-Profit Business of Training Guns-for-hire is Literally Booming In Rural America
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The last US soldier to leave Afghanistan returned home this August, but private security personnel long outnumbered US troops in that war, and the ...

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


  • Added: Aug 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
F-Word: Times They Ain't A Changing
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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Bob Dylan... "sing as he might about The Times They are A-Changing, Dylans deal, worth an estimated $300 million to him, changed nothing about anyt...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
F-Word: Divest / Invest
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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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
How the Diversity Industry Is Failing - Pamela Newkirk
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In an era when companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars on diversity and inclusion programs, the proportion of African Americans in tech, me...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Jul 08, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Untold Story of Racial Experience in the Wake of the Death of George Floyd with Shonda Craft, Dean of the SCSU School of Health and Human Services (Full Interview)
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with SCSU Dean of the School of Health and Human...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2020
  • Length: 40:51
The Untold Story of Racial Experience in the Wake of the Death of George Floyd with Shonda Craft, Dean of the SCSU School of Health and Human Services (Radio Edit)
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with SCSU Dean of the School of Health and Human...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 11, 2020
  • Length: 31:37
  • Purchases: 1
Puerto Rico: Freedom From Fantasy
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this episode, Laura interviews journalist and author, Professor Ed Morales, Lecturer of Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity ...

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


  • Added: Jan 16, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Hallelujah Farewell: Chris Hedges and Reverend Billy
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Chris Hedges explains why President Donald Trump is just the predictable end of a long sad history of American avaric...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 28:46
  • Purchases: 1
After Maria: Puerto Rican Self Determination
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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While the money media shifts to emerging social crises, many continue to struggle for basic supplies, medical care, and services including electric...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Bomani Episode
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week, we focus on a topic that is close to many of us on the outside: the story and struggle of political prisoner and Ohio death row inmate B...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2016
  • Length: 29:54
Is a Woman a Person? Needing Ellen Willis More Than Ever
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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So, here we are, August 4th, 2015, and I’m asking "Is a Woman A Person?" You laugh, no, scoff at me for asking this. Of course!, you say. But are w...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2015
  • Length: 58:41
The Abuse of the Bully Pulpit Department
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Maine Guide William Sewall and Teddy Roosevelt, Credit: Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard College Library (detail) 520.12-015
Just before the Olympics, the country if not the world received, from a bully pulpit, a message from my state's junior United States senator. On te...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2014
  • Length: 03:30
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry: Why Not Mangle the Information If You Can?
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "...as close as you can to the truth, that wild horse that once you catch..., Credit: Susan Cook
The Sixty-Second Moral Inquiry asks questions about what is right and wrong. Today's Sixty-Second Moral Inquiry asks: Why not mangle,`distort the i...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2014
  • Length: 01:04
The Beat: Amy Clark - "Inheritance"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Amy Clark is a native Iowan and recent transplant to Northern Minnesota. She is a poet, essayist, university instructor, and sometimes producer for...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:14
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry: How Do We Know What Human Rights Are?
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Sometmes exploring what is right means finding the right question to ask. Today's Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks the question: how do we know what...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2013
  • Length: 01:00
A Citizen's Guide to Acupuncture
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Acupuncture is an ancient intervention for helping raise "chi"- pronounced "GEE" in English. For those for whom acupuncture treatments have enhanc...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2011
  • Length: 02:54
Letters from the Outside
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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Getting letters in jail is part of what keeps Randy going. Here he shares some from his friends in Texas.

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Jan 17, 2008
  • Length: 02:06
  • Purchases: 1
The Day After
From: Judah Bruce Leblang
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Wondering 'what if' on the day after the election--November 2004

  • Added: Sep 02, 2005
  • Length: 03:46
End of a Red-Hunter's Crusade: The Censure of Joseph McCarthy
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
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A review of famed Communist-chaser Senator Joseph McCarthy's legacy a half-century past his condemnation by Congress.

Bought by Listenwise, KTNA, and 2SER FM 107.3


  • Added: May 05, 2005
  • Length: 07:49
  • Purchases: 3
The Vietnam Tapes of Michael A. Baronowski
From: Jay Allison
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Award-winning documentary from Lost & Found Sound, produced by Christina Egloff with Jay Allison

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WRFA-LP, WFHB, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WUTC and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2003
  • Length: 19:17
  • Purchases: 36