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Black Maternal Mortality: How Do We Save Black Lives?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate of any high-income nation in the world — and it is Black mothers who are dying at the hig...

Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: May 31, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Black Journalists on Police Violence: Reporting from the Inside Out
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The police killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis generated a significant amount of conversation and coverage, while the killing of environmental activ...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, RadioStPete Florida, KDNK and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
North Carolina: Courageous Conversations in a Climate of Fear
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Many questions remain about the recent attack on North Carolina’s electrical grid, which left tens of thousands of citizens unsettled, frightened a...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, RadioStPete Florida, KDNK and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Forgotten Coup, January 6th & the Small Town Americans on the Frontlines of Democracy
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Could a successful coup happen in the US? The ongoing Congressional hearings into the events of January 6 show that just a handful of election offi...

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


  • Added: Jul 20, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Linda Villarosa: the Dobbs Decision: a Death Sentence for Black Women?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Is the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health a death sentence for women of color? The overturning of Roe v. Wade not only creat...

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


  • Added: Jul 13, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Unequal Justice: the Criminalization of Black Youth
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Nearly two thirds of all children in the U.S. juvenile justice system are kids of color. That’s according to a report by the Children’s Defense Fun...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Apr 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Bomb Threats Shake HBCUs During Black History Month
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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More than 20 Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs) received bomb threats at the start of Black History Month — including a threat on V...

Bought by KSFR, KWMR, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Extremist Ties of Survivalist Groups at Paramilitary Training Camps In Rural America (Holiday ReAir - Week of 12/29/21)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The last US soldier to leave Afghanistan returned home this August, but private security personnel long outnumbered US troops in that war, and the ...

Bought by KDNK, WNYE, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, and KWMR


  • Added: Dec 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
In Buffalo with India Walton: An Insurgent Candidate Runs for Mayor
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Eyes across the nation are on the mayoral election in Buffalo, New York, where insurgent candidate India Walton could become the first Black woman—...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, KDNK, and KMUN


  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Community Safety in a Time of Insurrection
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The last US soldier to leave Afghanistan returned home this August, but private security personnel long outnumbered US troops in that war, and the ...

Bought by KDNK, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN


  • Added: Oct 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Kimberlé Crenshaw & Soledad O’Brien Call Out the Media on Critical Race Theory
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The right wing has found its newest racist wedge issue: Critical Race Theory. This decades-old movement in legal scholarship has suddenly become a ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Jun 30, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
MOVE Demands Justice for Children and The Return of Stolen Remains
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: On April 28, 2021, MOVE and community members gathered in front of Penn Museum to protest and demand the remains be returned., Credit: Joe Piette
On Making Contact - Members of MOVE, a Black radical liberation group, demand that the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University return t...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Medical Racism Past and Present
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Black Americans are twice as likely to die from COVID as white Americans. Despite this, polls show that African-Americans are less interested in re...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 03:58
Vaccine Hesitancy: Building Public Trust For Public Health
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The Biden administration has promised to make Covid-19 vaccines available to all US adults by May 1st, but getting a vaccine to those who need them...

Bought by KDNK, KWMR, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 24, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Bombing of MOVE, 35 Years Later
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 KOSU and KVSC


  • Added: May 04, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The United States of America v. Billie Holiday
From: Drew Darling
Series: Adagio
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A look into Billie Holiday's last year, and those whose mission it was to silence her.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
Newark: Fixing The People’s Water
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The people of Newark, New Jersey—the majority of whom are black and brown—are grappling with a lead contamination crisis that has drawn comparisons...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
Brotherly Love
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Poetry and music honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2019
  • Length: 57:58
The Skin Off His Back: Exposing the North to Slavery's Lash
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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The image is of a badly abused enslaved man called variously “A Typical Negro,” “The Scourged Back,” “Gordon the Slave,” or “Poor Peter," who is tu...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2019
  • Length: 59:25
Solitary Confinement: Locked Away with No Human Contact
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious discusses solitary confinement and its physical and mental health impacts on prison inmates with Dr. Terry Allen Kupers, a forensic p...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Feb 14, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Seeking Justice for Quanice Hayes
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: (Left to Right): Venus Hayes, two of her children, Teressa Raiford
The family of 17 year-old Quanice Hayes, who was shot to death by Portland police, seeks justice from the city of Portland.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Mar 22, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Bloodier Than Tarantino: The Real Slave Narrative and Its Complexities
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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The last few years in particular have seen a re-popularization of slave narratives: from Tarantino's fictional Django Unchained to the award-winnin...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2015
  • Length: 59:51
Blues Unlimited #274 - A Conversation With The Blues (Language Advisory)
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
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Join us for a special program featuring two legendary albums. The first, a "Conversation With The Blues," was recorded by Paul Oliver during the su...

Bought by Radio New Zealand and WJSU


  • Added: Feb 06, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Racism in a Rural California Sheriff's Department Part One & Two
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Orell Massey, a black sheriff's deputy in rural Mendocino County, Ca, who shares his experiences as a black sheriff in a ...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 58:02
Examining Ferguson With Local Advocates, Pat Sansom and Pamela Spoto
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Pamela Spoto
Unspun examines the Ferguson, MO, murder of teenager Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson and the lack of justice in America today.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 57:45
  • Purchases: 1