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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
Voices from the Climate March
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Five speakers from the March to End Fossil Fuels are featured in this week's show

Bought by WRFA-LP and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 18, 2023
  • Length: 28:44
  • Purchases: 2
THE UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABILITY GOAL #2: ZERO HUNGER
From: melodically challenged
Series: Saving the Planet: The United Nations Sustainability Goals
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Welcome to another edition of melodically challenged when this week we’ll look at the United Nations Sustainability Goal Number 2: Zero Hunger.We’r...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:06
Rising Against Asian Hate: Turning Grief Into Action
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Join Laura and Gina Kim for this impactful conversation on combating anti-Asian hate. A documentary series on PBS, Rising Against Asian Hate: One ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Mar 22, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 8
Reunification Camp Survivor Recounts Horrific Experience
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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When a family court rules that a child was brainwashed into lying about parental abuse, judges routinely order the child into programs called reuni...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 24, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
What happens when parents are unaccepting
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth broadcaster Carys
The emptiness left behind can be devastating.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2022
  • Length: 11:44
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
Rosa’s Story: Undocumented and Unemployed in the Pandemic
From: Feet in 2 Worlds
Series: A Better Life
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Undocumented hotel housekeepers are among some of the most vulnerable workers in the pandemic. In this episode, we hear one of their stories.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 15, 2020
  • Length: 22:18
  • Purchases: 1
F-Word: Mourn Justice Ginsburg, Fight to Close Irwin Detention Center
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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"...one fitting way to honor the historic justice would be to take action on some unfinished feminist business. Justice Ginsburg is on my mind toda...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
HMT 5-16
From: Gregarious Recluse
Series: How Many Tomorrows
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HMT 5-16

  • Added: Sep 05, 2020
  • Length: 11:45
Who is Protecting Essential Workers?
From: Suzanne LaGrande
Series: We Are All In This Together
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Suzanne LaGrande interviews Nicole, a grocery worker with 20 years experience about what it's like to be an essential worker during the Covid-19 Pa...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2020
  • Length: 10:05
StoryCorps: Lauren Cartaya and Zack Cartaya
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Siblings Lauren Cartaya and Zach Cartaya remember how the 1999 Columbine High School shooting changed their lives forever.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2019
  • Length: 02:58
Masterpiece in the Mire
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Each day starts off at ground zero. Based on my motivation, it'll either be mundane or it'll be a masterpiece.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 22, 2019
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - Ray McPadden - 363
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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An interview with Ray McPadden, author of the war novel, "And the Whole Mountain Burned." He also reads a short passage.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
National Writers Series: David Grann
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
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David Grann, a New Yorker magazine staff writer and author of "The Lost City of Z" and "Killers of the Flower Moon," talks with editor and publishe...

Bought by WKAR and WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 28, 2018
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 2
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
The emerging history of Indian slavery in California
From: KALW
Caption: Members of the Round Valley Indian Tribe retrace the 1863 route of the Nome Cult walk in 2013, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Konkow Maidu Trail of Tears, the route of forced relocation of Indians from Chico, California, to Covelo, California., Credit: US Forest Service
After more than 150 years, historians (and many Californians) are facing the horrifying truth that Indian slavery was a key source of labor that he...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2016
  • Length: 58:25
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
Just Another Man Trying to Hit My Mama
From: Vivian Chum
Series: A Matter of Black Lives: Mothers and Fathers
Caption: Khiari Benson
Khiari Benson recalls coming to his mother's defense when a police officer attacked her. He was just five years old. "I didn't see the badge. I d...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 31, 2016
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 1
Nikkia the Kingpin
From: renee wilde
Series: Women's Voices From The Dayton Correctional Institution
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: renee wilde
When Nikkia Sullivan was 13 she set out to become a Kingpin.

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 04:45
Impulse Under the Influence: A Repeat Prompted by Weekend Rape Reports
From: WFHB
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We revisit a 2014 program called Impulse Under the Influence in the light of two alleged rapes reported by female Indiana University students. One ...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 59:29
A Life Sentence: Victims, Offenders, Justice, and My Mother
From: Atlantic Public Media
Series: The Transom Radio Specials
Caption: Samantha Broun with Ernest Preate , Credit: Associated Press
This is a story about a terrible crime and everything that followed. It’s an intensely personal documentary, but it extends into public life and in...

Bought by HowSound, WGBH Radio Boston, KTSW 89.9, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), WHYY and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 19
The Beat: Addie Dauner - "Colors Flash Before Me"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Schoolcraft Learning Community's middle school students read Inge Auerbacher's book 'I am a Star'. Inge Auerbacher was one of the very few childre...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: 01:22
  • Purchases: 1
The Caffeine Kick That Can Kill You
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
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Caffeine Powder, or the purest form of caffeine, is a very lethal substance in small amounts. Many people do not know about the dangers of the prod...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2015
  • Length: 03:30
Rape And White Male Privilege
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Host Doug Storm is joined by Jen Maher, Rasul Mowatt and Justin Garcia a second time to try to figure out how to talk about rape, sexual violence a...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2014
  • Length: 57:04