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RDD: Toledo Black Artist Coalition
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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We're talking to a brand new organization on this week's RDD. It's the Toledo Black Artist Coalition, a collection of artists, educators, activists...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2020
  • Length: 06:15
RDD: To Be Young, Gifted, and Black
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Today on The Rough Draft Diaries, we're talking to a young artist, one that has just recently moved to New York City. Jordan Collins fell in love w...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2020
  • Length: 06:24
200904: Polluting and Providing: The Dirty Energy Dilemma, 9/4/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The cost and health burdens of electricity production have long been higher for low-income communities of color than for wealthy white ones. But fo...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
The Write Question - Geffrey Davis - 441
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Award-winning poet Geffrey Davis discusses his collection, "Night Angler." He also reads several poems from the collection.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 30, 2020
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
How the Diversity Industry Is Failing - Pamela Newkirk
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In an era when companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars on diversity and inclusion programs, the proportion of African Americans in tech, me...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Jul 08, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
#20-25 The Talk
From: All Classical Public Media
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Damien Geter’s The Talk: Instructions for Black Children When They Interact with the Police

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jun 19, 2020
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Rough Draft Diaries Revisit: African American Legacy
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Unveiled in 2004, the African American Legacy Project (AALP) of Northwest Ohio, has been documenting and preserving the history of Northwest Ohio's...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2020
  • Length: 05:59
2020-06-07 White Privilege and Racial Injustice
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is it a privilege or a right to be treated as you deserve to be?

Bought by KMUN, RadioStPete Florida, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHFR, KSKQ and more


  • Added: Jun 07, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 12
Cave Canem Fellow Marcus Jackson
From: New Letters on the Air
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Our celebration of National Poetry Month continues with Marcus Jackson, a Cave Canem Fellow, who reads from his 2019 Ohioana Award-winning poetry b...

Bought by WNMU-FM and Raven Radio


  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Mutual Aid Justice: Beyond Survival
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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What does it look like in the Justice sphere? If you don’t want to call the cops, what else can you do? Many people turn to transformative justice ...

Bought by KSPC, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 08, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
RDD: Honoring Cliff
From: WGTE Public Media
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Clifford Murphy, one of Toledo's Jazz Icons known for playing in his jazz group, The Murphy's and his Jazz Cafe, Murphy's Place, passed away over t...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2019
  • Length: 06:10
The Write Question - Shonda Buchanan - 431
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Shonda Buchanan discusses her memoir, "Black Indian." She also reads a short passage from the book.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
190426: Oppressive Heat: Climate Change And Civil Rights, 4/26/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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While the environmental movement is typically associated with upper-class white folk, it is also a civil rights issue. Communities of color often l...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
2019-04-26 Oppressive Heat: Climate Change And Civil Rights
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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While the environmental movement is typically associated with upper-class white folk, it is also a civil rights issue. Communities of color often l...

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, WAMU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 14
American Decline: A Case for Optimism
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Soul Fire Farm’s Leah Penniman talks with Chris Hedges, author of America: The Farewell Tour, about environmental threats, societal breakdown, and ...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Robin Barnes: Songbird of New Orleans
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: Robin Barnes
Robin Barnes was born and raised in the Lower 9th Ward, shuttling between her parents’ and grandparents’ houses and singing the songs they liked to...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 52:00
Education Activists Back To School With A Test for Devos
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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2018 has been a year of upheaval for students, in and out of the classroom. This week educators and education activists talk about educational just...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2018
  • Length: 28:26
RDD: Larry's Story
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Last week on The Rough Draft Diaries we started a a two-part conversation on The Beach House Family Shelter in Toledo, Ohio with Tammy Holder, CEO ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 04, 2017
  • Length: 06:33
  • Purchases: 1
2020-02-02 Race Matters
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What's could be controversial about a movement insisting that Black lives matter too?

Bought by KSKQ, WTJU, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KSKQ, KRZA and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2017
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 7
Bresha Meadows, Domestic Violence, and the State
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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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
"Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: The Cutting Edge
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Discussion on the lingering history of racist ideology in the Americas and beyond.

  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:02
RDD: Marjory the Motivator
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Marjory is a keynote speaker, author, playwright, student, and advocate for children in the foster care system. Her success in these areas stems la...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 22, 2017
  • Length: 06:41
  • Purchases: 1
RDD: Back to the Roots
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, you'll meet Megan Yasu Davis. Megan is the founder of The Kitchen Salon, a natural and locked hair resource f...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 15, 2017
  • Length: 06:41
  • Purchases: 1
March 13, 2017
From: WFHB
Series: Bring It On!
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Jim Sims and Liz Mitchell host Cherrish Pryor, Chairwoman of the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus. Hear how the caucus is advancing the primary co...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
Support Communities
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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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