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(December 27, 2023 Re-Air) Jubilee Justice Black Farmers' Rice Project: Tackling Racism & Rice
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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A bold experiment is taking place among Black farmers in the Southeast — a story of hope in an area with a history of plantation slavery, land thef...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KDNK, KWMR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WNYE


  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
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
Lighing Up A Better Future Half Hour
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Legalize parade
America has locked up hundreds of thousands of people on minor marijuana possession charges. And the majority of those arrests have targeted Black,...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, WJCU, WFHB, KHNS and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Bombing of MOVE, 35 Years Later (Updated)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Our radio adaptation of the film, Let the Fire Burn. Directed by Jason Osder, examines the controversial, 1985 clash between police in Philadelphia...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Putting Public Safety in Public Hands: The Newark Model
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Move money and power from police to communities and invest in local control. In the face of ongoing police brutality against African Americans and ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 09, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 120: The Tunnel
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In the late 1800s, North Carolina was trying to build a railway system through the Western part of the state. In December of 1882, something went w...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 20:27
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 111: Silvon Simmons
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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“My first instinct, to be honest, was they shot this guy and now there’s a coverup.” -Liz Riley, Special Assistant Public Defender, Monroe County P...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 31:22
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
Special for Mother's Day, Mothering: Love on the Front Lines
From: Making Contact
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For Mother's Day: we bring you a discussion by women of color writers and poets who contributed to the anthology, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on ...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: May 05, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
My Life, My Love, My Legacy - Coretta Scott King
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
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Interview with Barbara Reynolds,founding editor of USA Today on her 2017 book My Life, My Love, My Legacy biography of Coretta King, condensed from...

Bought by WMMT and WVAS


  • Added: Feb 09, 2017
  • Length: 28:16
  • Purchases: 2
DO NOT RESIST -- Craig Atkinson Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Craig Atkinson, San Francisco, CA 10/21/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Craig Atkinson talks keeping calm, taking rides, and getting traction.

  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 32:49
LAST DAY OF FREEDOM -- Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Dee Hibbert-Jones & Nomi Talisman, San Francisco, CA 12/28/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman talk distance, authenticity, and having a free hand.

  • Added: Jan 11, 2016
  • Length: 29:56
Two Days in Ferguson, MO
From: Nick Jaworski
Series: One Degree of Separation
Caption: A memorial at the location of Michael Brown's shooting in Ferguson, MO., Credit: Nick Jaworski
**A MUST-HEAR EPISODE FOR ANYBODY INTERESTED IN THE EVENTS THAT OCCURRED IN FERGUSON, MO.** Nick visits the town of Ferguson, MO in the aftermath ...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Aug 27, 2014
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Lawrence and Simeon Cumberbatch
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Lawrence Cumberbatch (R) tells his son, Simeon (L), how he traveled from New York City to Washington DC with Brooklyn CORE for the March on Washing...

Bought by WEZU, WRIR, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and WTJU


  • Added: Aug 23, 2013
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 4
“Being Black and Green: African-Americans & the Environment” (encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Oakland, CA Scraper krew, Credit: flickr user vkdir
African-Americans are helping to lead the environmental movement. We take you to a resettlement community in North Carolina, sustainable farms in W...

Bought by XRAY.fm and WCSU-FM


  • Added: Aug 13, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 2