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Federal Courts Leave Racially Gerrymandered South Carolina, North Carolina & Florida Maps in Place for 2024 Election
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
Federal Courts Leave Racially Gerrymandered South Carolina, North Carolina & Florida Maps in Place for 2024 Election

Bought by WUTC and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 31, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Henrietta Lacks' Immortal Cells
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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One of medical science’s greatest paradoxes: The cancer cells that killed Henrietta Lacks revolutionized medicine -- medical care her own family co...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:14
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
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
The Bombing of MOVE, 35 Years Later
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Our radio adaptation of the film, Let the Fire Burn. Directed by Jason Osder, examines the controversial, 1985 clash between police in Philadelphia...

Bought by KOSU and KVSC


  • Added: May 04, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
Pamela Newkirk, author of "Spectacle"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra talks with Pamela Newkirk about her book about a young African man who was displayed in a cage in the Bronx Zoo in 1906.

  • Added: Jul 01, 2016
  • Length: 29:51
Examining Ferguson With Local Advocates, Pat Sansom and Pamela Spoto
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Pamela Spoto
Unspun examines the Ferguson, MO, murder of teenager Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson and the lack of justice in America today.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 57:45
  • Purchases: 1
Immaculée Ilibagiza: One of 16 Women Who Survived The Rwanda Genocide
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Immaculée Ilibagiza was one of sixteen women that survived the Rwanda Genocide in 1994. Listen to her story of survival and how it's changed her li...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 30:34
  • Purchases: 1
Slavery in America: 1870 through WWII
From: Burton Cohen
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Interview with Doug Blackmon, author: Slavery By Another Name

  • Added: Aug 05, 2008
  • Length: 59:59
The Link: Education & Incarceration
From: WAMU
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An examination of the direct relationship between schools and prisons.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Mar 31, 2008
  • Length: 05:09
  • Purchases: 1
Juvenile Detention
From: Justin Levy
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A look at violence and other ongoing problems in The Baltimore City Juvenile Detention Center

  • Added: Nov 14, 2006
  • Length: 04:43