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The President is the country’s Commander-in-chief – but the most recent uproar over alleged racially offensive remarks in the White House threaten ...
- Added: Jan 22, 2018
- Length: 02:59
From: Robin Washington
One year ago this week, July 6, Philando Castile was shot to death by Officer Jeronimo Yanez in suburban St. Paul.
Commentator Robin Washington a...
- Added: Jul 02, 2017
- Length: 01:59
William Hosea and Amrita Myers host a long-overdue discussion on current event happenings in the world of entertainment, politics and local events....
- Added: Feb 13, 2017
- Length: 01:00:09
Clarence Boone and Leila Randle speak with Nyama McCarthy-Brown, Selene Carter, and Dr. Stephanie Power-Carter about their collaborative project en...
- Added: Nov 07, 2016
- Length: 01:01:41
Clarence Boone and Leila Randle hear about the newly launched Progressive Thought Matters organization from leader Robin Winston. The organization...
- Added: Sep 19, 2016
- Length: 58:19
50 Years After Selma March, New Report Finds Party Politics Increasingly Polarized by Race; Chicago's Progressive Movement Rallies to Defeat Mayor ...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: After 55 Years, Obama Acknowledges U.S. Cuba Policy Was a Failure; New Yor...
- Added: Dec 24, 2014
- Length: 29:00
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Coast to Coast Explosion of Protest Confronts Police Violence in Communiti...
- Added: Dec 11, 2014
- Length: 29:00
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Injustice Seen in Ferguson is Rallying Cry for Movement Confronting Police...
- Added: Dec 04, 2014
- Length: 29:00
Unspun examines the Ferguson, MO, murder of teenager Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson and the lack of justice in America today.
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 57:45
- Purchases: 1
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Ferguson Streets Explode in Anger After Grand Jury Opts Not to Indict Darr...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 29:00
'Ferguson October' Civil Disobedience Protests Target Police Violence in Communities of Color Nationwide; Report on Abuse of Adolescent Inmates in...
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 29:00
Threat of Wider War Looms Over Ukraine as U.S. and NATO Accuse Russia of Intervention in Civil War; Could Public Outrage at Michael Brown Shooting ...
- Added: Aug 27, 2014
- Length: 29:00
Police Killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson Exposes U.S. Culture of Racism and Violence; Lake Erie Algae Bloom Reveals Lax Regulation and Wider Thr...
- Added: Aug 21, 2014
- Length: 29:00
Author and Psychiatrist Dr. Frances Cress Welsing dissects the controversy surrounding Attorney General Eric Holder's remarks on Racism. She commen...
- Added: Jul 17, 2014
- Length: 22:01
Poet Destiny McClendon, 17, is a senior at Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the first time t...
- Added: Apr 12, 2013
- Length: 02:50
Sex Sells is a team piece about the objectifying stereotypes of women, performed by the poets of Lyrikally Xplicit from Gwendolyn Brooks College Pr...
- Added: Apr 12, 2013
- Length: 02:57
Poet Mariah Starks, 15, is a freshman at Simeon Career Academy and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the first time this year. Her piece, "The...
- Added: Apr 12, 2013
- Length: 02:17
Barack Obama’s first term has been a disappointment for many, and leaves open the question for those with a progressive agenda—is voting for Obama ...
- Added: May 25, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Public employees, many of them African-Americans, are being hit particularly hard by today's high levels of unemployment.
- Added: Dec 07, 2011
- Length: 04:03
For reasons yet unknown, more and more Americans each year have been contracting asthma. In spite of the fact that 17% of black children now have...
- Added: May 26, 2011
- Length: 02:00
The Great Recession officially ended in Jun 2009 but the American workforce is still suffering from its traumatic effects.
- Added: Feb 16, 2011
- Length: 02:00
The wealth gap between African-American and white workers has been growing
steadily even as the wage gap has been shrinking.
- Added: Jul 02, 2010
- Length: 03:12
Genocide has claimed the lives of millions of civilians worldwide. Now, in the aftermath of such atrocities, human rights advocates are beginning t...
- Added: Jan 15, 2010
- Length: 55:00
- Added: Dec 14, 2009
- Length: 55:00
