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A controversial, yet necessary conversation around how many people can this planet support.

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB


  • Added: Mar 31, 2024
  • Length: 57:55
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: Mar 19, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
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María de los Ángeles Vázquez and her son, Rafael Cancel Vázquez, remember his father, Rafael Cancel Miranda, one of four Puerto Rican Nationalists ...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 03:16
Caption: Margaret Crane, inventor of America's first home pregnancy test, in 1965. , Credit: Anna Kaufman
In 1965 Margaret Crane was a young graphic designer with an idea: Why couldn't women do their own pregnancy tests at home? This is the story of how...

Bought by WUWM, KISU, KETR-FM, RadioStPete Florida, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
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"When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel. Taking to the road—by which I mean lett...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2024
  • Length: 09:43
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The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate of any high-income nation in the world — and it is Black mothers who are dying at the hig...

Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: May 31, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Members of the single moms collective, Motherful, gather for a photo, Credit: Motherful
Ohio's single mom collective, Motherful, shows what it's like when pregnant and parenting people make decisions for themselves.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Leonard Pitts Jr.
Writer Leonard Pitts Jr. talks about race, family, and the process of writing his syndicated column which won him a Pulitzer Prize in 2004. Pitts a...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WJCU


  • Added: Jun 24, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Nearly two thirds of all children in the U.S. juvenile justice system are kids of color. That’s according to a report by the Children’s Defense Fun...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Apr 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Elizabeth Hernandez and other tenants protest rent hike , Credit: Alliance for Californians for Community Empowerment Action
While wages have flatlined for most working class people, rents have reached new highs, leaving most people struggling. But it’s not just in the US...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioStPete Florida, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Mar 28, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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We discuss important questions around social identity with Dr. Dominic Packer.

  • Added: Dec 14, 2021
  • Length: 28:45
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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
Caption: How can I make them understand
Deborah Tannen is a world class expert in communications and we discuss highlights of wonderful insights she has gained and shared over the years i...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2021
  • Length: 55:50
Caption: Let's Work Together to Make Life Better
John Wood Jr. is National Ambassador for Braver Angels, volunteer citizens committed to respectful dialog and depolarization. He invokes elements ...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 54:29
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At 91, Helen Merrill has never missed a presidential election. She sat down with her granddaughter to remember her mother, Blanche, who rose from h...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2020
  • Length: 02:53
Caption: Left: Wilson Dairy Restaurant Right: Helen Zia as baby with mom
In the midst of our dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s hard to imagine what stories we will ultimately tell our children and grandchildren. T...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
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n my story, you will hear my mom talk about her journey and what it was like growing up and getting kicked out of Ethiopia.

  • Added: Dec 30, 2019
  • Length: 03:12
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This piece is an exploration of the experience of children of immigrants.

  • Added: Dec 30, 2019
  • Length: 07:04
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Legend says whoever sees the Demon Cat of Capitol Hill is cursed. Fina Mendoza, the 10-year old daughter of a congressman, just saw it. Can she sav...

Bought by KUNM and KUNM


  • Added: Nov 26, 2019
  • Length: 01:56:10
  • Purchases: 2
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Many things divide a country, but it’s the overlooked, personal slights, that hurt the most.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
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Michele DiTomas, a hospice physician who cares for incarcerated men, races against the clock and slashes through bureaucratic tape to help a dying ...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 37:16
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For today’s show we focus on Gilligan’s two recent books, both out from Polity Press. These are Joining the Resistance and Why Does Patriarchy Pers...

  • Added: May 21, 2019
  • Length: 59:02
Caption: resist, Credit: flocabulary
Celebrating the Month of our founder Cesar Chavez through his own words and with the people who were closer to him.

  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 01:00
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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...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2019
  • Length: 03:00
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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...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 28:00