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Caption: Kimberlé Crenshaw, Credit: Annabel Clark
Law Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw defined the concept of intersectionality 30 years ago. She developed that framework to understand how identities s...

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  • Added: Jun 22, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Rev. William Barber Sermon: "America, Accepting Death Is Not an Option Any...

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  • Added: Jun 17, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: George Floyd protests, downtown Indianapolis, 2020-05-29. Credit -Anonymous Indianapolis Social Worker.
While this immense degree of mass uprising is certainly unprecedented in the history of the US, this is not a moment that stands in isolation. The ...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 58:32
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Protests Build Momentum for Police Accountability, Reforms to Address U.S....

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  • Added: Jun 10, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Minneapolis Rally, May 29, 2020, Credit: Rebecca McDonald, BFresh Productions
The movement to uplift Black lives and to defund and dismantle police departments has grown to a point where it cannot be ignored. We’ll hear from ...

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  • Added: Jun 10, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Poetry and music which reacts to racism and social unrest.

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  • Added: Jun 06, 2020
  • Length: 56:34
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Minneapolis Police Murder of George Floyd Triggers Nationwide Week of Mass...

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  • Added: Jun 03, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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KGNU's Claudia Cragg, @claudiacragg speaks here with Daniel E. Dawes, a nationally recognized leader in healthcare law and policy, who has been an ...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 28:33
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Amari Poindexter, 17, says the indifferent attitudes and racism of people during the coronavirus in coastal North Carolina remind her of how her pe...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2020
  • Length: 02:06
Caption: Ian Haney López, Credit: YouTube
On this edition of Making Contact, acclaimed author Ian Haney López talks about his new book - Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
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Rep. James Clyburn speaks with his granddaughter, Sydney Reed, about the lessons he’s learned from success and failure.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2020
  • Length: 03:04
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In her book, Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence, Kellie Carter Jackson contends that the history of abolitionism, ...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Inex Bordeaux holds up a sign while doing street outreach in north St. Louis to raise awareness about the Close the Workhouse campaign., Credit: Carolina Hidalgo
Five years after Michael Browns death at the hands of a police officer galvanized criminal justice reform activists in St. Louis, they're gaining s...

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  • Added: Jan 31, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
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John Lewis remembers how Dr. King’s words inspired him to join the Civil Rights Movement.

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  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Brexit Fatigue a Major Factor in UK Election’s Labor Defeat; Central Park...

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Starting with real estate reforms in the 1970s supposedly instituted to open a path to the American Dream for Black citizens, Keeanga-Yamahtta Tayl...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
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Our radio adaptation of the film, The Murder of Fred Hampton, produced by filmmakers Mike Gray and Howard Alk, provides a glimpse into the life of ...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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People of mixed heritage lead complex lives, often navigating between two racial and/or cultural identities. Producer Jocelyn Robinson, who lives t...

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  • Added: Oct 16, 2019
  • Length: 27:04
  • Purchases: 2
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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.

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  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 04:12
  • Purchases: 1
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Courtesy of the Decarcerated Podcast, host Marlon Peterson hosts a live conversation with Common Justice founder Danielle Sered. Sered’s New Book,...

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  • Added: Aug 30, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Pushout
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools is an examination of the experiences of black girls across the country whose intricate lives...

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Artist Charles Gaines has been delving into philosophy, abstraction and mathematics to address politics and race since the 1970s. In August 2019, G...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2019
  • Length: 19:29
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The docks of San Francisco and Durban, South Africa – two essential locations where a commitment to black internationalism and leftist politics spa...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: Freddie Meeks, sailor in the disaster at  weapons shipping depot in Port Chicago, Calif., holds a picture of himself as a young seaman  July 14, 1994. He died in 2003. , Credit: (AP Photo/Chris Pizzelo)
Wartime. Disaster. Trauma. Charges of mutiny for 50 Black sailors in a Jim Crow courtroom. Discrimination and a battle for civil rights. Listen to ...

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  • Added: Jul 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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In her new book, Carceral Capitalism, poet and scholar Jackie Wang confronts mass incarceration in the US by delving into the processes that feed i...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 01:03:54