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Mexicans Confronting Racism: Aztec myths to modern stereotypes
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Ismael Rivera, historian and cultural guide, in front of ancient Aztec ruins in Mexico City. , Credit: Anthony Wallace
Lies the Spanish conquistadors told about the Aztecs have led to racist tropes that still affect brown Mexicans today. Now, brown Mexicans are lead...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and WFHB


  • Added: Aug 22, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
First Annual Solidarity Harvest This Saturday Reflects the Community Arising After the Death of George Floyd
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Raycurt Johnson, Credit: Rachel Luhrs Austin
The First Annual Solidarity Harvest features local artists who met at the crossroads that became known as George Floyd Square. They congregated out...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Appalachian Vibes: Cody Christian
From: WNCW
Series: Appalachian Vibes
Caption: Cody Christian
My guest is Cody Christian, the Powhatan, Virginia, Americana, country artist who made waves in late 2021 when he quit his 8 year job at a shipyard...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
The Agony and the Ecstasy: Race and the Future of the Love Story Part 2
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We revisit a major race debate within the Romance Writers of America that began in 2019 and talk about why questions of race in art and in institut...

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


  • Added: Jun 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Celebration & Polarization, Holiday Survival Kit (Part 2): When Anti-Science Makes the Menu
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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In this Purple Principle Part Two of our Holiday Survival Kit, we learn from Lee McIntyre how artful pushback must be to reach skeptical counterpar...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2021
  • Length: 28:09
Civil Rights: Korematsu v United States
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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Is it Constitutional for the government to remove and relocate American citizens to camps without due process of law? In 1944, SCOTUS said yes.

  • Added: Jul 21, 2021
  • Length: 32:22
Lessons From Defund the Police
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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It's been a year since the call to "Defund the Police" rang out through the George Floyd Protests. The idea isn't new - redistributing police funds...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jonquilyn Hill/ Through The Cracks Podcast
From: Generation Justice Admin
Caption: Jonquilyn Hill
Long time GJ member Jonquilyn Hill speaks with us about her new podcast Through the Cracks.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2021
  • Length: 58:18
Deaths of Despair
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Overdoses have spiked during the pandemic. One of the reasons is a breakdown in the community support so critical to keeping people off drugs. Soci...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 04:21
Inauguration 2021: Democracy Demands a Democratic Economy
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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A new administration takes office in the midst of an ongoing public health catastrophe and an economic crisis, on the heels of one of the most pola...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Jan 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
A Year Of Reckoning And Loss In The World Of Sports
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: TTBOOK Favorites of the Week for PRX Remix
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There's never been a year in sports quite like 2020. Sportswriter Kurt Streeter spoke to "To The Best Of Our Knowledge" executive producer Steve Pa...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 15:17
  • Purchases: 1
He’s a Political Man: Minnesota’s Dr. Dean Alger and His Protest Songs
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Dr Dean Alger, Credit: WWOZ Staff
Dr Dean Alger is a political scientist with five books to his credit, he has written about influential bluesman Lonnie Johnson and he sings and pla...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2020
  • Length: 08:00
Musician's Spotlight -Rahim AlHaj Part One- 706
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Iraqi-American musician and composer Rahim AlHaj has traveled a musical and life journey that few could imagine. A virtuoso of the Oud (the grandfa...

Bought by KMXT, RadioFreePalmer, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Postcard Activism in Texas - Lisa in Austin
From: Pius Wong
Series: Megaphone Texas
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Lisa from Austin describes postcard activism projects in Texas and around the country. She explains how postcards can help get out the vote and in...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2019
  • Length: 05:33
On the Detention Centers at the Border - Vanessa in Austin
From: Pius Wong
Series: Megaphone Texas
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Vanessa from Austin, Texas, talks about why she wants the detention centers at the border to be closed. She describes what she saw in the children'...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2019
  • Length: 04:10
Will Falk — Fighting for Ecosystem "Entities"
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes spoke with environmental activist Will Falk.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Apr 04, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The War on Yemen: A Conversation with Dr. Aisha Jumaan
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Aisha Jumaan
Dr. Aisha Jumaan with the Facts about the Genocide of Yemen. Plus a conversation with His Eminence the 7th Kyabje Yongzin Ling Rinpoche.

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Dec 17, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 1
National Writers Series: Sebastian Junger and Philip Caputo
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
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Retired U.S. diplomat Jack Segal talks with author and documentary filmmaker Sebastian Junger and journalist and novelist Philip Caputo.

Bought by WKAR and WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 25, 2018
  • Length: 54:32
  • Purchases: 2
¿QPM? S2 EP 7: Census 2020 and the citizenship question.
From: WNIN
Series: ¿Qué Pasa, Midwest?
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Every ten years, the government of the United States of America issues a mandatory census to count the population. The results of the census deter...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 13, 2018
  • Length: 09:25
  • Purchases: 1
America: Farewell Tour--A Conversation with Chris Hedges
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
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Chris Hedges wants us to face the reality that our society is unraveling. He speaks with John Shuck about his latest book.

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Aug 27, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
On the Brink of Everything: A Conversation with Parker Palmer
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Parker Palmer and Carrie Newcomer
The Grace and Gravity of Growing Old

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Aug 21, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Uprooting Racism offers a framework for understanding institutional racism. It provides practical suggestions, tools, examples, and advice on how w...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WVAS, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: Jul 27, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Outsider Power Shifts Insider Politics: Working Families' Maurice Mitchell
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Social movements and party politics - inherently at odds or natural allies? This week, in his first in-depth TV appearance, Maurice Mitchell, the n...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Jun 06, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
First Daughter and the Black Snake
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of Art Beat, we take you to the Frozen River Film Festival to talk about the film First Daughter and the Black Snake. Directed by K...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2018
  • Length: 17:04
Vernon Baker and Daniel Inouye by Stephen Lang
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Vernon Baker
First Lieutenant Vernon Baker received the Medal of Honor for his actions during World War II, April 1945, near Viareggio, in Tuscany, Italy and Ca...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2018
  • Length: 34:20