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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

250: Building the Solidarity Economy: Awakening to Our Mutuality and Shifting the Terrain of Power, 5/24/2023

From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature

At the core of our civilizational breakdown is an extractive economy that wastes both nature and people, at the same time it is Hoovering extreme w...

The Agony and the Ecstasy: Race and the Future of the Love Story Part 2

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

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

Celebration & Polarization, Holiday Survival Kit (Part 2): When Anti-Science Makes the Menu

From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast

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...

Civil Rights: Korematsu v United States

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101

Is it Constitutional for the government to remove and relocate American citizens to camps without due process of law? In 1944, SCOTUS said yes.

Lessons From Defund the Police

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

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

Part 2 of The Pandemic Inside: Covid-19 and Prisons

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Joseph V. Conte Facility., Credit: Broward County Sheriff’s Office

In a two-part series, we look at how COVID-19 has torn through prisons and how organizers are trying to push state and local governments to release...

Bought by WXDU

Jonquilyn Hill/ Through The Cracks Podcast

From: Generation Justice Admin

Long time GJ member Jonquilyn Hill speaks with us about her new podcast Through the Cracks.

Inauguration 2021: Democracy Demands a Democratic Economy

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

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

A Year Of Reckoning And Loss In The World Of Sports

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: TTBOOK Favorites of the Week for PRX Remix

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

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...

The UCA News Interviews - Cross Removals atop Chinese Churches

From: Binu Alex
Series: Observations and Interviews

This week we discuss on the communist regime in China embarking upon a new form of repression by removing crosses from church buildings. Joining ...

Panther Cubs

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

We don'y just plant the seeds so we can eat the fruit. We plant the seeds so the fruit will be there for generations.

Bought by PRX Remix

"If you believe you’re American, then you’re American"

From: Saadia Khan
Series: Immigrantly

This week we speak with Farah Kathwari. Farah is a Kashmiri American who is strongly connected with her Kashmiri heritage while she maintains a str...

Women Warriors: The Voices of Change - Chapter 11, Hell Hath No Fury Like a Women Scorned

From: Crossover Media Max Horowitz
Series: Women Warriors - The Voices of Change podcast series

Women Warriors: The Voices of Change multimedia concert performed by Orchestra Moderne NYC, under the direction of Amy Andersson, features the musi...

Bought by WOUB

Musician's Spotlight -Rahim AlHaj Part One- 706

From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight

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

Postcard Activism in Texas - Lisa in Austin

From: Pius Wong
Series: Megaphone Texas

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...

On the Detention Centers at the Border - Vanessa in Austin

From: Pius Wong
Series: Megaphone Texas

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'...

VIVA LA MUJER HISTORIA 2

From: Cesar Chavez Foundation
Series: Viva La Mujer

In Viva La Mujer we speak to different Latinas creating spaces and power in different platforms around the country.

Will Falk — Fighting for Ecosystem "Entities"

From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet

In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes spoke with environmental activist Will Falk.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.

Maria

From: Media Humboldt
Series: Immigrant Voices

Maria, from El Salvador, speaks of her struggles to learn English, reacquaint herself with her children after 8 years apart, and how they all achie...