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Indian officials in Bangalore play 'racism dodge ball' over the attack of a Tanzanian student.
- Added: Feb 09, 2016
- Length: 06:00
First published on the eve of Martin Luther King Day , we turn to our preferred form of political expression, the sonnet, to acknowledge the compas...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jan 15, 2016
- Length: 01:11
- Purchases: 1
Is net neutrality just a right for the West and a luxury for the rest. And must poor countries be told, be grateful, half an internet is better tha...
- Added: Jan 04, 2016
- Length: 06:00
All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, Tolstoi wrote as the first sentence in Anna Karenina. The epitaph he c...
- Added: Dec 15, 2015
- Length: 04:45
I will not overlay my Facebook profile picture with the French tricolor.
- Added: Nov 16, 2015
- Length: 06:00
As more writers return awards and honors, cynics ask if this is an outbreak of Award Returnitis
- Added: Oct 12, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Mahesh Sharma, India’s Culture minister, and a high school in Irving, Texas have more in common than they realize.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Sep 22, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
The secrecy around an illness can become the great taboo.
What Jimmy Carter did by going public was break that taboo and face the disease squarely....
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Aug 25, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
The world will need to remember that Nepal is not just a home for temples and palaces and Everest expeditions. It is a country that millions call h...
- Added: Apr 27, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Once there was a great hue and cry about racial profiling by law enforcement in America and it resulted in a landmark called Driving while Black. T...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 06:04
- Purchases: 2
We are always adjusting the way we sound. It especially depends on the social situation we are in. Linguists call it "code switching," a term origi...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 06:19
- Purchases: 2
Jessie Jackson was recently spotted in Calcutta, India. But why?
- Added: Mar 05, 2014
- Length: 04:30
After Nelson Mandela was freed from the life sentence he was serving in prison, he often spoke about refusing bitterness toward his captors. But h...
- Added: Dec 06, 2013
- Length: 02:54
To understand what civility is these days in times of tweets, smart phones, blogs and Facebook, we first have to look at "uncivil" and how "uncivil...
- Added: Aug 25, 2013
- Length: 02:36
"Updating your truth" is a term not much used these days. We read that somebody "denied", "vetoed", "denounced", "maintained", "refused to consider...
- Added: Jun 15, 2013
- Length: 04:07
Corrupting the Message: Remembering the Iraq War
Ten years ago this week, the Iraq War began. Like every other atrocity in history, or let's limi...
- Added: Mar 18, 2013
- Length: 03:48
When people say things like the quote published in the newspaper the other day, they don't seem to realize what's at stake. So, this Citizen's Guid...
- Added: Nov 20, 2012
- Length: 03:12
Party structure has always provided the legs for a candidate to stand on- supporting and staying in touch with a candidate's focus: the voters. ...
- Added: Nov 10, 2012
- Length: 04:34
The Constitution does not say "We, the Brand Consumer". It says "We, the... thinking , questioning, remembering, mind-changing, advocating and yes...
- Added: Sep 13, 2012
- Length: 03:55
The peculiar thing about the News is that very often events of senseless tragedy and despair are juxtaposed with News of hope and compassion. Some...
- Added: Jul 27, 2012
- Length: 04:17
As the Supreme Court Justices listen to lawyers try to find the legal logic in requiring people to buy health insurance, let us remember that peopl...
- Added: Mar 28, 2012
- Length: 06:45
Hold that fork! Block that barbeque! Do you know the source of the meat that's sizzling on the grill? Can we trust meat inspectors to catch pathoge...
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- Added: Nov 21, 2011
- Length: 55:00
- Purchases: 7
There is an effort underway in Bedford-Stuyvesant, or Bed Stuy, to protect the old architecture by turning parts of the neighborhood into historic ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 22, 2011
- Length: 05:20
- Purchases: 1
Teenagers at City High School in downtown Tucson share their reactions to the tragic shooting on January 8, 2011. (Long and short version)
- Added: Jan 15, 2011
- Length: 08:00
The January 8, 2011 shooting in Tucson, Arizona has ignited a fiery discussion about the shooter's cultural context. Some have claimed that Jared L...
- Added: Jan 15, 2011
- Length: 09:03
