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Racial profiling has a little understood yet profound impact on race relations, and remains a source of fear and humiliation for blacks and other p...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KPIP-LP
- Added: Jul 16, 2016
- Length: 05:46
- Purchases: 2
Professors Marva Lewis and Marvin Dunn discuss "stereotype threat" and its effect on African Americans sense of safety when interacting with police...
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- Added: Jul 16, 2016
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 4
Although Medicare is not going bankrupt, at the very least, it faces financing challenges.
According to Dr. Andy Lazris, there are some straightfo...
- Added: Jul 11, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
More books have been written about Bobby Kennedy than most public figures in our history.
Although he’s remembered as a fiery liberal, we easily ...
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- Added: Jul 07, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Award winning business journalist Rana Foroohar explores the provocative question that is at the top of mind of today's business leaders: Is Wall S...
- Added: Jun 21, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Michael Bronski is an American academic and writer, best known for his 2011 book A Queer History of the United States.
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- Added: May 12, 2016
- Length: 25:03
- Purchases: 1
Congress is at a standstill. They have been for several years. In 2010 political insiders Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein began searching for the c...
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- Added: May 11, 2016
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
A controversy involving United Nations Peacekeeping forces, the World Health Organization, and scientists --- not to mention the people of Haiti -...
- Added: May 02, 2016
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
Try to find a true democracy anywhere in the world and you’ll be challenged. What you’ll find instead is a nation ruled by the few, with the majori...
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- Added: Apr 21, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Joe Bevilacqua hosts an hour with Bernie Sanders, Spike Lee, Susan Sarandon, Harry Belafonte, Danny Glover, Sarah Silverman, Lorie Kellogg, and Tim...
- Added: Apr 17, 2016
- Length: 59:36
With all the digital text trails we're creating these days, what can we learn about our inner psychology, mental health, and well-being?
- Added: Apr 15, 2016
- Length: 28:32
- Purchases: 2
What happens to our data when we die?
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 27:21
How do you get your news – and how do you think your news gets to you? The pathway of information flow involves layers of decisions that in many wa...
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 35:48
Environmental issues are mounting, and the stakes are huge. So how might big data be used to tackle the issues of sustainability, climate change, h...
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 34:51
Are we addicted to the Internet? Is it even appropriate to use the language of addiction about smartphones and other digital devices?
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 24:30
Elections and political messaging are changing in the new media landscape. Campaigns are using big data to target voters with better precision, and...
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 32:12
Cryptocurrencies could revolutionize money and finance. But even more than that, they symbolize how trust is changing as we increasingly rely on te...
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 25:24
Big data is revolutionizing health and medicine, from genomics to wearable technologies to precision health. But is our medical care system prepare...
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 26:51
What is the future of work? Today, all of our careers are being transformed by big data, from how we find it, to how we collaborate with others, to...
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 22:15
Your normal, everyday digital footprints can reveal surprisingly intimate facts – like whether your parents are divorced, and whether you own a gun.
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 22:03
"That’s inevitable that humans would project their hopes and fears upon the cosmos" - Carl Sagan on October 4, 1985, as told to Studs Terkel. The p...
Bought by KZYX, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZMU Moab Community Radio, PRX Remix and more
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 12:53
- Purchases: 6
In his book, Dr. Steven Hatch cuts to the chase. Readers get a sense of the challenges in all areas of modern medicine.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 23, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In his nearly two terms as president, Barack Obama has solidified his status, as something black people haven’t had for fifty years: a folk hero.
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- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 27, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
A preview of Mannish: a show that investigates the meaning of masculinity.
- Added: Jan 23, 2016
- Length: 02:32
