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A conversation with dietician Jessica Wilson about what we get wrong when we focus on weight.
- Added: Apr 13, 2023
- Length: 54:01
Drawing upon twenty-five years of experience representing Black youth in Washington, D.C.’s juvenile courts, Kristin Henning confronts America’s ir...
- Added: Nov 27, 2021
- Length: 18:16
- Added: Jun 11, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Black students with dyslexia carry a heavy burden in public schools. This program centers around a grandmother who fought for years to get her gran...
- Added: Feb 12, 2021
- Length: 29:00
The term food desert implies that it’s naturally occurring--but is it?
- Added: Dec 17, 2020
- Length: 53:58
The cost and health burdens of electricity production have long been higher for low-income communities of color than for wealthy white ones. But fo...
Bought by KOWS, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more
- Added: Sep 03, 2020
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 7
This week on World Ocean Radio we share the final episode of the five-part Slavery: Heritage and Identity series. In this broadcast we look at the ...
- Added: Aug 04, 2020
- Length: 05:18
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
This week on World Ocean Radio: part four of the five-part Slavery: Heritage and Identity series. In this episode we discuss the history of La Amis...
- Added: Jul 28, 2020
- Length: 05:30
In this episode we explore how one community is working to have the hard conversations growing out of this moment. As protesters push for reforms t...
- Added: Jun 25, 2020
- Length: 29:30
Michelle Alexander, Mark Lamont Hill and Vonya Quarles discuss the modern prison abolition movement, what's changed in the past ten years, and the ...
Bought by WVAS
- Added: Jan 29, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Radio Curious visits with civil rights lawyer, Barbara Phillips, who is also a contributing writer to the anthology "Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers...
Bought by KVMR
- Added: Mar 07, 2018
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
This week’s episode focuses on the importance of education in prison. We speak with Dr. Scarlett Brooks, who has taught English and writing in seve...
- Added: Feb 05, 2017
- Length: 29:07
As we mark Black History Month, host Bob Kustra talks with Saladin Ambar about a pivotal speech Malcolm X gave near the end of his life.
- Added: Feb 03, 2017
- Length: 30:30
Craig Atkinson talks keeping calm, taking rides, and getting traction.
- Added: Oct 25, 2016
- Length: 32:49
Radio Curious discusses police misconduct, accountability and the Black Lives Matter movement with Dr. Joseph Marshall, a member of the San Francis...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Aug 23, 2016
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
The past finalist on NBC's The Apprentice shares insights into community building with nonprofits in Austin, Tx, lessons learned working with Donal...
- Added: Apr 29, 2016
- Length: 21:42
In the auditorium of Willard Middle School, about 300 people have gathered, many of them sitting on those rickety school bucket chairs, the ones th...
- Added: Apr 21, 2015
- Length: 09:31
- Purchases: 2
What's Next in Ferguson, MO?
After the shooting of Michael Brown, many are left wondering what are the best ways to move forward. Nick Jaworski ta...
- Added: Sep 04, 2014
- Length: 53:23
How could a nation founded on a Declaration that "all men are created equal" permit slavery? Nowhere was this contradiction more stark than at the ...
Bought by KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WUMB, WRGY, KWIT, KALW and more
- Added: Dec 20, 2012
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 23
Angela Blackwell has spent her adult life advocating practical ways to fulfill America’s promise of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” f...
Bought by WMNF, KBRP Community Radio, WPSU, WXVU 89.1 FM Villanova, KUOW and more
- Added: Apr 11, 2012
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 17
CRIME AFTER CRIME -- Filmmaker Yoav Potash and lawyers Joshua Safran and Nadia Costa on finding justice for Debbie Peagler.
- Added: Aug 09, 2011
- Length: 27:16
African-Americans are helping to lead the environmental movement. We take you to a resettlement community in North Carolina, sustainable farms in W...
- Added: Aug 03, 2011
- Length: 29:01
There is an effort underway in Bedford-Stuyvesant, or Bed Stuy, to protect the old architecture by turning parts of the neighborhood into historic ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 22, 2011
- Length: 05:20
- Purchases: 1
We take a look at the Police killing of Oscar Grant in Oakland, and the debate over who gets to decide when an officer has done something wrong.
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Jul 15, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
