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This week, we share a conversation we had with Andrea Ritchie, an attorney and activist whose work focuses on police violence against the queer com...
- Added: Feb 17, 2020
- Length: 29:35
In this episode, we share a phone call and three short essays from Timothy Smith. Smith spoke to us from inside Cook County Jail, the most recent p...
- Added: Feb 17, 2020
- Length: 25:15
This week, we return to the history of black radicalism within the prison system. You can hear more from Dr. Micol Seigel and Dr. Garrett Felber ab...
- Added: Feb 17, 2020
- Length: 29:23
This week, we are changing our format slightly. After hearing a letter from a prisoner involved in Operation PUSH, we are broadcasting an intervie...
- Added: Feb 17, 2020
- Length: 29:22
Five years after Michael Browns death at the hands of a police officer galvanized criminal justice reform activists in St. Louis, they're gaining s...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Jan 31, 2020
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 1
In this week’s episode, we speak with Karen Smith in Florida, who gives us insights into Operation PUSH. Kicking off in just 10 days, Operation PUS...
- Added: Jan 27, 2020
- Length: 29:17
In this week’s episode, we hear from Valerie Buford, the sister of Leon Benson, a prisoner here in Indiana. Valerie talks about the circumstances t...
- Added: Jan 27, 2020
- Length: 29:43
In this episode we give follow-up information about the hunger strike at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility. Then, we finish a conversation wi...
- Added: Jan 27, 2020
- Length: 29:35
In Wabash Valley, Shaka Shakur is maintaining his hunger strike, demanding an end to guard abuses and the isolation of active prisoners in camera c...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 29:54
This week, we share the words and experiences of Salomon X, a former prisoner in Illinois. In the first of two episodes with Salomon, he describes ...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 29:15
Our news this week focuses on the prisoners who are fighting California’s wildfires for as little as a dollar an hour while actually fighting fires...
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- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 1
This week we share the first part of a lecture by Elizabeth Hinton delivered at IU on October 12. In her talk, she traces the creation and rise of...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 27:34
This episode is an interview with Kwame Shakur, who is currently incarcerated at the Pendleton Correctional Institution. On August 11th , Indiana p...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 29:29
In this episode of Kite Line, we cover the recent demonstrations outside the Workhouse in St. Louis, Missouri.
On July 21, police there used peppe...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 29:59
We return for our final episode with Mark Cook, former political prisoner and member of the Black Panther Party and the George Jackson Brigade. Aft...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 29:22
This week, we return to our interview with Mark Cook. You can hear more about his history in last’s week episode. Now, Mark leads us through severa...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 29:00
A’shanti Gholar is the founder of the Brown Girl's Guide to Politics and the national political director for Emerge America--a national organizatio...
Bought by KKRN, Louisville Public Media, KSJD, KUT, KCSB-FM and more
- Added: Jan 08, 2020
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 8
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews:
Brexit Fatigue a Major Factor in UK Election’s Labor Defeat; Central Park...
- Added: Dec 18, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Our radio adaptation of the film, The Murder of Fred Hampton, produced by filmmakers Mike Gray and Howard Alk, provides a glimpse into the life of ...
- Added: Nov 26, 2019
- Length: 29:00
On the 5 year anniversary of the uprising in Ferguson, MO, we're re-airing this conversation--with new trax acknowledging the date. When Michael Br...
- Added: Aug 14, 2019
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 9
Wartime. Disaster. Trauma. Charges of mutiny for 50 Black sailors in a Jim Crow courtroom. Discrimination and a battle for civil rights. Listen to ...
Bought by KSFR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KVSC
- Added: Jul 03, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
In her new book, Carceral Capitalism, poet and scholar Jackie Wang confronts mass incarceration in the US by delving into the processes that feed i...
- Added: Jul 02, 2019
- Length: 01:03:54
400 years since the first enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown, many people agree reparations are due, but what would they look like? How about a...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
The fight to legalize marijuana has never been easy, as evidenced by the recent collapse of months-long efforts in New Jersey and New York. A key i...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Apr 04, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews:
Trump Effort to Dismantle Obamacare Underscores Need for Medicare for All...
- Added: Apr 03, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
