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825: Going For Broke: Making Up Our Minds / 826: Growing Justice, 9/2/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Going For Broke: Making Up Our Minds" - In episode two of our three-part series on the care economy: Mental health challenges can push p...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
Top of Mind - Starting Over After Life in Prison
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Nearly half of people who leave prison will end up back behind bars. Why don't they stay out? And how would their lives be different if no criminal...

Bought by KMXT, RadioStPete Florida, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 7
Post-Roe Abortion Access from The Response Part 2
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Digital Security Best Practices by Digital Defense Fund, Credit: Hazel Mead
Mutual aid efforts to provide pregnancy prevention and medical abortion in post-Roe southern United States.

Bought by KSQD Santa Cruz


  • Added: Nov 14, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Georgia Way: Strategies that Work for Winning Elections
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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What happened in Georgia in 2020? The election of two Democrats to the Senate from that state handed the presidency to Joe Biden and control of Con...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN and more


  • Added: Oct 26, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Zero Sum, Zero Change: What Racism Costs Everyone
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this week’s episode of World Affairs, Ray examines the legacy and lived-reality of zero-sum economics at home and abroad.

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for August 3, 2022
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: In Historic Breakthrough, Senate Bill Requires Medicare to Negotiate Price...

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Aug 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Meet the BIPOC Press- Ibram X. Kendi: How to Make America Antiracist?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The fight over what can and can’t be taught in schools is shaping up to be one of the most controversial issues in a pivotal mid-term election year...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 8
Re:Work Soul Force, Part 1
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Rev. James Lawson Jr., Credit: Reed Hutchinson
On Dec. 11, 2021, the UCLA Labor Center’s historic MacArthur Park building was officially named the UCLA James Lawson Jr. Worker Justice Center, in...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Feb 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bring It On! – November 15, 2021: Meet the Candidates – Valerie McCray for U.S. Senate and Jennifer Crossley for Monroe County Council
From: WFHB
Series: Bring It On!
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On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts William Hosea and Natalia Galvan speak with two women of color who are vying for local and national polit...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Plessy v Ferguson & Brown v Board of Education
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: Civil Rights
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The Supreme Court case that said racial segregation was constitutional, and the landmark decision that, decades later, overturned it.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, WYAP, WCMU Michigan, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Aug 03, 2021
  • Length: 51:31
  • Purchases: 11
Austin Activist DaShawn Barr on Code-Switching and Summer 2020 Racial Justice Protests
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Akins High School Spring 2021
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DaShawn Barr played a prominent role in the racial justice protests that occurred in Austin, Texas in summer 2020.

  • Added: May 28, 2021
  • Length: 05:35
BIPOC Journalists On Covering COVID and Racism
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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BIPOC journalists reflect on what it is to be veterans of two of the most devastating wars in recent history: the coronavirus pandemic and the cent...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Geraldine's Story: How Public Schools Are Failing Black Students with Dyslexia
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Geraldine Robinson, center, and one of her sons, right, wait for her to be honored for her advocacy by the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund in September 2019
Black students with dyslexia carry a heavy burden in public schools. This program centers around a grandmother who fought for years to get her gran...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
President Biden and America's Expectation
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Today, a divided nation experiences one of the most tumultuous presidential transitions in US history. Leaders from marginalized communities across...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Black Immigrants in the Whitest State
From: Feet in 2 Worlds
Series: A Better Life
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Two young Black African immigrants in Maine talk about their state, which has the widest racial disparity in the country when it comes to coronavir...

Bought by KMUN and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 20, 2020
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 2
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for October 28, 2020
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Urgent Lawsuit Launched to Stop Trump Regime Voter Intimidation; Despite R...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and WKPW


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for July 29, 2020
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Federal Forces Deployed to Portland Provoke Violence & Rebellion Against I...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Black Don’t Crack: Debunking Racist Explanations About Black Lives
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today we’re joined by two of the four hosts of the Black Myths Podcast which is produced in Indianapolis: Too Black, a spoken word poet and teachin...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 59:04
  • Purchases: 1
Armed and Unmasked: Whiteness at the Core of a Public Health Crisis
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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White Supremacy and the Covid crisis aren’t separate. They’re linked. Defunding public health services and deregulating gun ownership have been ca...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 01, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Police Psychological Screening with Dr. Richard Zonderman- Miami Dade College School of Justice Police Academy, Formerly CIA Washington D.C.
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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Police Psychological Screening with Dr. Richard Zonderman- Miami Dade College School of Justice Police Academy, Formerly CIA(Central Intelligence A...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Jun 05, 2020
  • Length: 27:50
  • Purchases: 1
COVID 19 - an Unequal Opportunity Killer, with Daniel E. Dawes, Esq.
From: Claudia Cragg
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KGNU's Claudia Cragg, @claudiacragg speaks here with Daniel E. Dawes, a nationally recognized leader in healthcare law and policy, who has been an ...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 28:33
StoryCorps Griot: Sydney Reed and Rep. James Clyburn
From: StoryCorps
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Rep. James Clyburn speaks with his granddaughter, Sydney Reed, about the lessons he’s learned from success and failure.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2020
  • Length: 03:04
The Future of Abolition: Mark Lamont Hill, Michelle Alexander and Vonya Quarles
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Michelle Alexander, Mark Lamont Hill and Vonya Quarles discuss the modern prison abolition movement, what's changed in the past ten years, and the ...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Jan 29, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
10 years after the crash: Recovery Not for All
From: Making Contact
Caption: Nomi Prins and Julianne Malveaux
This month is the ten year anniversary of the stock market crash of 2018. Nomi Prins talks about her new book, “Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigg...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Darnell Moore, Credit: www.darnelllmoore.com
Darnell Moore the author of No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America. A story of beauty and hope-and an honest reckoning with...

Bought by WVAS and WRIR


  • Added: Aug 18, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2