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Girls Are in a Mental Health Crisis. What Can Schools Do?
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Shekinah Jackson and friends.
Girls in the U.S. are in the midst of a growing mental health crisis, and schools are on the front line of finding solutions. But will Black and La...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2023
  • Length: 20:47
Black Pills
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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If there is no such thing as biological race, why do we have race-specific drugs?

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 54:18
One Doctor’s Crusade to Improve Health Literacy
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick believes plainspoken information from trusted messengers can help shrink health disparities, and some insurers are buying in., Credit: Ryan Levi
Black Americans report higher levels of mistrust in the health care system than white Americans and suffer worse outcomes in everything from matern...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 03, 2023
  • Length: 20:23
  • Purchases: 1
Plessy v Ferguson & Brown v Board of Education
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: Civil Rights
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The Supreme Court case that said racial segregation was constitutional, and the landmark decision that, decades later, overturned it.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, WYAP, WCMU Michigan, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Aug 03, 2021
  • Length: 51:31
  • Purchases: 11
Ep2: Inequities in PA's Education Funding System
From: WITF
Series: Toward Racial Justice
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For decades, students of color have lagged behind their peers in academic achievement across the country. Unfortunately, in Pennsylvania, the schoo...

Bought by WLVT


  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 51:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Importance of Expanding America’s Hidden Historical Narratives
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Rotterdam Slavery Memorial, Credit: Courtesy of Pixabay
We discuss why preserving and expanding historical narratives is important to protecting our future with Cordell Reaves from the New York State Off...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2021
  • Length: 34:38
Episode Four: Facing the Past
From: Dan Gediman
Series: The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America
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There are clear lines that connect the legacy of slavery to many of our present day issues, including the racial inequities of COVID-19 infection a...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUOW, KGOU, KSQD Santa Cruz, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2021
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 19
From Oakland to Johannesburg: Can We Reform the Police?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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The United States is three months into a mass movement against police violence. We are the midst of a national conversation about the relationship ...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Sep 09, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Why We Still Need to Talk About White Supremacy
From: Mateo Schimpf
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It’s been three months since George Floyd was killed by a white police officer in Minnesota. The movement prompted an outpouring from lawmakers in ...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Aug 26, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Decolonizing the Land, Liberating the Farmer
From: When We Fight, We Win!
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98% of US farmland is white-owned. What does this mean for communities of color? We talk to Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm, which teaches BIPOC pe...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2020
  • Length: 45:20
The Sabotage of Black Education: The Fight Against Rahm Emanuel to Save Dyett High School
From: When We Fight, We Win!
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The continued closures of our public schools and high-stakes testing illustrate the institutionalized racism embedded in our educational system. Ji...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2020
  • Length: 58:23
The Myth Justice is Blind to Money, Part 3: The City
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 2, Part 3 The Myth Justice is Blind to Money, Part 3 investigates the impact of the Federal Court’s involvement in Orleans Parish’s practic...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 14:42
  • Purchases: 1
How are the record number of people returning from Louisiana prisons making their way in the world?
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 14 Here’s what it’s like when you’re released from prison. You’re given a $20 debit card and a bus ride home. You need housing, ...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 09:21
People who've served time are being left out of voting
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 1 Louisiana, unlike many of its Deep South neighbors, restores voting rights to citizens with felony convictions after they have...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 06:15
  • Purchases: 1
Controlling the Narratives on Race, Transformation and Travel
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Ardre Orie with author clients, Credit: Ardre Orie
Join World Footprints as we discuss the power of storytelling, narratives on race and, of course, travel.

  • Added: Jul 27, 2020
  • Length: 39:54
Fixing Law Enforcement from Within + Policing After Apartheid
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Black Lives Matter might be the largest social movement in American history. In the first half of the episode, we hear from Jinho “The Piper” Ferre...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
White Supremacy, at Home and Abroad
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week on the podcast, we’re looking at what white supremacy means and the role it plays in policing in the Western Hemisphere. Anthropologist C...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
EP133 Living Blues Magazine 50 years
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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The Year 2020 marks the 50th Anniversary of one of the best magazines on African-American Blues Tradition. This episode honors and congratulates th...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2020
  • Length: 59:56
UnCommonCore Podcast Episode 32 | Fall Fashion 2019 | Capsule 4 | Part 2
From: Tom Howell
Series: 2019 New York Sumer Fashion: Capsule 4
Caption: Kimberly Goldson, Credit: Tom Howell
From Guatemalan Mercado Global to Harlem Fashion Row (HFR) this diverse collection of designers are all giving back to their communities with socia...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2019
  • Length: 40:03
The businesswomen with high hopes for the cannabis industry
From: Stevie Hertz
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Women-owned businesses generated over $1.6 trillion in sales in 2017, but they still make up less than 2/5ths of all privately held companies. But,...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 04:20
Race & The Media: 50 Years After the Kerner Report
From: Generation Justice Admin
Caption: Original collage art by Damon Davis
Narratives around people of color added fire to the social unrest of the late 1960s. In this episode of Generation Justice, we look at the Kerner R...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2018
  • Length: 45:27
The Year of the Black Superhero: Black Lightning Strikes
From: Andrew Hiller
Caption: Cress Williams at 2018 San Diego Comic Con
This package features a short music bed before and after the piece. It looks at the rise of Black Lightning and why the time has arisen now, the re...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2018
  • Length: 04:32
Experts push for more African-Americans in STEM fields
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Doctor Scott Williams, African American mathematician retired from the Unviersit at Buffalo, discusses what it's like working as an African American in the STEM field., Credit: by ANGELICA A. MORRISON
Great Lakes states have produced several influential African-Americans in the sciences. There’s astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson – he’s from New ...

Bought by WVBI-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WDET Detroit Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WSKG and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2018
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 7
The Global Fight for Climate Justice and against Environmental Injustice with Jacqui Patterson Director of Environmental & Climate Justice at the NAACP
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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The Global Fight for Climate Justice and against Environmental Injustice with Jacqui Patterson Director of Environmental & Climate Justice at the N...

Bought by WCNY and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Feb 04, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Part 3: Green movement pivots toward minorities
From: Great Lakes Today
Series: New Faces, New Issues
Caption: A few members of Outdoor Afro Cleveland, including Smith-Woodford (holding sign), Credit: Elizabeth Miller/ideastream
Part 3 of series -- The Great Lakes region is home to millions of people of different races and ethnicities. But diverse backgrounds – and issues ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WBFO, WXXI Rochester, WCPN, WOSU and more


  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 7