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June 7th marks the one year anniversary of the death of Clinton Gilkie, and so we devote our June 2nd and June 16th episodes of Kite Line to his st...
- Added: Jun 15, 2017
- Length: 29:55
The death penalty is the barest, most explicit aspect of state violence. Relatively few people are sentenced to death, and even fewer are actively,...
- Added: Jun 15, 2017
- Length: 29:58
This week we share news and stories from two people who have been caught up in very different ways in the web of prison. Both Bresha Meadows and Pa...
- Added: Jun 13, 2017
- Length: 30:10
This week, we examine the intersections between domestic violence, along with other forms of gendered violence, the courts, and the prison system. ...
- Added: Jun 13, 2017
- Length: 29:40
For decades, studies have shown African-American students are disciplined more often and with greater consequences than their white peers. Now, a n...
Bought by KENW, WOUB, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: May 26, 2017
- Length: 03:16
- Purchases: 3
A torchlit Confederate protest in Charlottesville, Virginia had some residents recalling the days of the KKK. But one Virginia scholar says today’s...
Bought by KENW and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: May 19, 2017
- Length: 03:13
- Purchases: 2
From: Stefanie Mavronis
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
In this episode of The Onco’Zine Brief hosts Peter Hofland, Ph.D and Sonia Portillo interview Michael A. Caligiuri, MD, the current president of th...
- Added: Apr 22, 2017
- Length: 25:02
Co-Anchors Amrita Myers and Cornelius Wright invite William Palomo and Esmeralda Martinez to speak about the UndocuHoosiers Alliance, and their hop...
- Added: Apr 18, 2017
- Length: 57:17
Spies of Mississippi is a journey into the world of informants, infiltrators, and agent provocateurs in the heart of Dixie. Directed and produced b...
Bought by WVAS, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRIR, and XRAY.fm
- Added: Apr 17, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Interview with Author Colin Flaherty
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 59:34
Bring It On's William Hosea and Dr. Amrita Myers speak with Dr. Kali Gross, Professor of African American Studies at Wesleyan University about "Vio...
- Added: Mar 20, 2017
- Length: 58:00
Joining us to speak on life as an elected official are Nicole Bolden, Bloomington City Clerk, Nicole Brown, Monroe County Clerk and the Honorable V...
- Added: Mar 02, 2017
- Length: 54:19
This episode, we focus on two individuals who are working to organize support systems for communities that are directly affected or targeted by law...
- Added: Mar 02, 2017
- Length: 29:15
Our focus for this episode returns to the impact of incarceration on families. First we have a discussion between our friend Lucy and one of her fe...
- Added: Mar 02, 2017
- Length: 28:10
Before Jackie Robinson, there were the Negro Leagues -- home to some of the greatest untold stories in baseball.
Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, Radio Newark, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 17, 2017
- Length: 03:33
- Purchases: 4
We go to the neighboring state of Ohio this week in order to dig into
the history of Midwestern prison resistance. We share more of the story
of Si...
- Added: Feb 05, 2017
- Length: 29:54
When NASA wanted to put a man on the moon, they naturally turned to the brightest — and whitest. That is, until the brilliant Katherine Johnson dem...
Bought by KENW, Radio Newark, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 03, 2017
- Length: 03:35
- Purchases: 4
Election Day 2016 has come and gone! As we are still sorting through the impact of the results, many (not just in the African American community) h...
- Added: Jan 09, 2017
- Length: 56:19
Mental health is an issue that rarely gets discussed in the black community. For college students of color the issue gets even more difficult.
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Dec 08, 2016
- Length: 04:22
- Purchases: 2
He straddles the more essential American Century, from the failure of Reconstruction to the March on Washington, not demarcated by round numbers an...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and WCPN
- Added: Dec 01, 2016
- Length: 58:03
- Purchases: 2
This week, we return to the experiences and stories of Sekou Kambui, who was incarcerated for 47 years in Alabama prisons. He was originally charg...
- Added: Nov 04, 2016
- Length: 29:57
The women behind a new production called "Resilience" discuss the histories of people of color in Indiana on this week's edition of Big Talk with M...
- Added: Oct 06, 2016
- Length: 09:37
From: Jacqueline Parke
San Francisco 49ers Colin Kaepernick has thrust himself into the spotlight by not standing during the National Anthem.
- Added: Oct 05, 2016
- Length: 38:37
Black Lives Matter protesters take over a city council meeting to protest against police killings of blacks, and how Ty're King's death overlapped ...
- Added: Sep 29, 2016
- Length: 03:00
