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Reproductive Justice: The Ongoing Struggle for Bodily Autonomy (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Today we share excerpts from “She's Beautiful When She's Angry,” a documentary about the rise of activism around women’s rights in the late 1960s, ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Mar 19, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
865: The Year Of Return / 866: Wintering In The Wild, 1/20/2024
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "The Year Of Return" - 2019 marked the "year of return" to Ghana – attracting visitors from throughout the African diaspora. Now, scores ...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:01
Top of Mind - Righting Society’s Past Wrongs: How Late is Too Late to Repair?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Can righting society's past wrongs help us heal from historical harm?

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


  • Added: Dec 21, 2023
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 10
231110: Putting It All on the Line with Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr. and Jacqueline Patterson, 11/10/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Climate affects everyone, but not equally. Those affected first and worst are often the same communities that suffer from housing and income inequa...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
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
13-17: Who Is an American? Is Our Democracy As Unequal As Our Economy?, 7/5/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Heather McGhee, Credit: Hardy Wilson
By around 2044, the U.S. will become a majority-minority nation. This seismic demographic shift has triggered a cultural earthquake, provoking a ra...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
259: Creating a World Where Everyone Belongs: From a Change of Heart to System Change, 3/22/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: john a. powell and Angela Glover Blackwell , Credit: Alex Akamine
In this moment of radical transformation, shifting the societal pronoun from “me, me, me” to “we” may be the single most transformational pivot we ...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
731: Empathy For Monsters / 732: Growing Justice, 10/8/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Empathy For Monsters" - The American soldiers who guarded Saddam Hussein came to like and care about him. This hour: Should we feel empa...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
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
509: Growing Justice / 510: In Search Of Real Food, 8/22/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Growing Justice" - Where does the racial justice movement need to go next? How about back to the land. HOUR TWO: "In Search Of Real Food...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:57
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
357: Against Cynicism / 358: Hip Hop Future, 3/9/2019
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Against Cynicism" - Why is the world so cynical? This hour, an irony-free exploration of cynicism. HOUR TWO: "Hip Hop Future" - "Strai...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:59
Michael Eric Dyson on Trump, Truth, and Race
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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America’s unwillingness to assess the ugly truth about systemic inequality has created a perpetual sinkhole of denial. A reality that existed long ...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Dec 07, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
An African-American and Latinx History of the United States: A Conversation with Paul Ortiz
From: John Shuck
Caption: Paul Ortiz
A "Bottom-Up" history of the U.S. from an African-American and Latinx viewpoint.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WJAB


  • Added: Jun 04, 2018
  • Length: 57:01
  • Purchases: 2
A Curse Upon the Nation (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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How today's racial rhetoric borrows from the past - Author Paula Seniors on her mother's turn to militant activism - Responding to Birth of a Natio...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
BHM Special: A Curse Upon the Nation (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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How today's racial rhetoric borrows from the past - Author Paula Seniors on her mother's turn to militant activism - Responding to Birth of a Natio...

Bought by WGTE Public Media, WUGA (part of GPB), Georgia Public Broadcasting, WNSB, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 6
BHM Special: A Curse Upon the Nation (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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How today's racial rhetoric borrows from the past - Author Paula Seniors on her mother's turn to militant activism

Bought by WLPR , KPSQ-LP, WLPR , WNSB, and WVAS


  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 5
A Curse Upon the Nation (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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How today's racial rhetoric borrows from the past - Author Paula Seniors on her mother's turn to militant activism - Responding to Birth of a Natio...

  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: :30
A Curse Upon the Nation (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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How today's racial rhetoric borrows from the past - Author Paula Seniors on her mother's turn to militant activism - Responding to Birth of a Natio...

Bought by WCNY, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCWP, WRGY, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 6
A Curse Upon the Nation (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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How today's racial rhetoric borrows from the past - Author Paula Seniors on her mother's turn to militant activism

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, WXDU, KWMR, WNSB and more


  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 15
"The Other Blacklist"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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The Cutting Edge presents Mary Helen Washington, author of “ The Other Blacklist” which shows how the government targeted African- American as wel...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 01:02:17
From Death Row To A Doctorate
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Consider spending time on death row and turning that experience into the drive to get a doctorate?

  • Added: Nov 16, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
AVR Larry Tye- Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend
From: Chris Goldstein
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Author/Journalist Larry Tye interviews on his new book Satchel. This is the first comprehensive biography of perhaps the best pitcher in baseball h...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KSFR


  • Added: Jun 24, 2009
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 2
Camp Lovewave's 305th Show-Chris Gardner
From: Terran Lovewave
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This show honors heroes and people of passion and is highlighted by host, Terran Lovewave's interview with the author of "The Pursuit of Happyness"...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2009
  • Length: 59:47
Active Voice Radio 6-29-07: Congressman Ron Paul and Journalist Clarence Page speak about Marijuana and Racism
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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Congressman ron Paul of Texas and Chicago Tribune Columnist Clarence Page discuss marijuana and racism

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Jun 28, 2007
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 1