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Season 1, Episode 33 - 'Hunt The Good Stuff' feat Duncan Kirkwood
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Resilience is a choice.

Bought by WOJB


  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 57:37
  • Purchases: 1
GLOBAL ISSUES come to BURNING MAN
From: David Boyer
Series: THE INTERSECTION at Burning Man
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As the media portrays 2023's Burning Man as a hellscape, THE INTERSECTION at Burning Man revists the work of a group of Burners at the 2019 event. ...

Bought by KFCF FM, WVTF, Nevada Public Radio, KUNM, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:37
  • Purchases: 6
Episode 143: Knock and Announce
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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“I didn’t do what they said I did. And it was like, I don’t know how to disprove the police. I mean, it’s my word against theirs. I don’t really st...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 33:00
Best of the Best 2020: Towards a Better World
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: Best of the Best: The 2020 Third Coast Broadcast
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In this episode, we meet extraordinary people who are fighting the system, working to make transformative change and seeking a better world, for th...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, Prairie Public, WRVO Public Media, New England Public Media, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 37
The Sabotage of Black Education: The Fight Against Rahm Emanuel to Save Dyett High School
From: When We Fight, We Win!
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The continued closures of our public schools and high-stakes testing illustrate the institutionalized racism embedded in our educational system. Ji...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2020
  • Length: 58:23
Victim/Criminal: The Myth of Difference
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 2, Episode 6 Victim/Criminal tells the story of Hakeem Carter, who was brutally attacked while walking home from work one night. This trau...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 24:40
  • Purchases: 1
70 Million: The Work of Closing a Notorious Jail
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jan 31, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
50 Years Later: Remembering Fred Hampton
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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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
The O'Jays: The Last Word
From: Joyride Media
Series: Black History Month Specials
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The O'Jays have made their final album, The Last Word, and it's filled with wisdom, love and some choice words about the state of the world.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPSQ-LP, Harford Community Radio, WSGE, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 11, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Prisoners of War
From: Radio Diaries
Caption: Inmates at LBJ
During the war in Vietnam, there was a notorious American military prison on the outskirts of Saigon called Long Binh Jail. But LBJ wasn’t for capt...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 11, 2018
  • Length: 18:19
  • Purchases: 1
Michael Anderson
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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I opened the door and tried to push him out. That’s when he fired the first shot.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 1
Voices of the Baltimore DOJ Report & The Intersections Of Race, Gender, Sexuality and Policing
From: Stefanie Mavronis
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In the months leading up to the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division releasing its report on the Baltimore Police Department, I listene...

  • Added: May 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:38:20
Hunger and Work Strikes
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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We learn about the Chicago Community Bond Fund, a group that bails people out of Chicago's Cook County Jail and strives to end pretrial detention....

  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 29:31
Track Life by Hakeem
From: YMCA/YSVP Story Squad
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An emotional and poetic tour of a day in the life of a youth at Cook County's Juvenile Temporary Detention Center.

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 07:13
Out of the Blocks: Penn-North (full version)
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks
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Voices from the epicenter of unrest in Baltimore

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Apr 26, 2016
  • Length: 48:30
  • Purchases: 1
Raising a Police Officer
From: Missouri Audio Project
Series: Summer Story Workshop, 2015
Caption: Raymond Summerville, Credit: Meredith Turk
Raymond Summerville uncovers the surprising and troubled past of George Hatton, a beloved citizen of Columbia, Missouri, whom neighborhood children...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 06:58
Out of the Blocks: Penn-North (mini version)
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks
Caption: The intersection on Pennsylvania & North Avenues in Baltimore, Credit: Wendel Patrick
Voices from the epicenter of unrest in Baltimore

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM, PRX Remix, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 13, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 3
Deadly Force: Police Shootings
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Police Lights, Credit: JJ https://www.flickr.com/photos/tattoodjay/4172577749/in/photolist-7mHxZF-ntjU6o-BA5dw-4YVuiR-4oxk3p-9WvKAJ-6aAVL8-4TriEc-9RxFf5-cX9PJ7-9FWBUQ-9iVSZY-3JGAkJ-aA7muZ-5Z6ysn-NajHv-97f5km-7NV3qB-dhhs8s-fjfh3-9Ra8Si-nZLv2P-HjZTJ-hrc2rF-cbcHJ5-bW6YvQ-4kV4bM-7y
Why are so many of those killed by police young people of color? A recent ProPublica investigation found that a young black male is at twenty one t...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WRIR


  • Added: Feb 14, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
PPW - Louisiana: No Longer Invisible
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop
Caption: Lead Belly, Credit: Lead Belly Foundation
We take to the streets of New Orleans, Louisiana to ask folks about their connection to the criminal justice system. In the state of Louisiana, ...

Bought by WWNO and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 50:03
  • Purchases: 2
Yolanda Williams
From: You're U.S.
Series: You're U.S.
Caption: Detain of Yolanda's portrait, Credit: Painting by Emile B Klein
Who could imagine overcoming a multi decade street life, fed by crack & prostitution, to care for a family that disowned you? Yolanda can, and did.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 13:25
Nina Simone: The High Priestess of Soul!
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Soul Roots
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This is a special musical tribute to Eunice Kathleen Waymon, known as the great NINA SIMONE. This special contains some of her biggest hits.

Bought by KPIP-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio, WSLR, and WVAS


  • Added: Dec 28, 2012
  • Length: 55:45
  • Purchases: 4
MLK Park's Freedom Form ll : A Sculptural Metaphor on Race?
From: Susan Gray
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Forty years ago, the first African American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize spoke at the 1971 dedication of the MLK Park in south Minneapolis. ...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jul 04, 2012
  • Length: 06:35
  • Purchases: 1
Jazz & the Civil Rights Movement
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
Caption: Serenade To A Bus Seat, Credit: 2007 Concord Music Group, Inc.
"Jazz & the Civil Rights Movement" is an important one hour program that features Jazz music as the background with comments concerning the Civil R...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WJAB, Spokane Public Radio, Radio New Zealand, WTJU and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2012
  • Length: 49:56
  • Purchases: 6