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2425: Righteous Rage, 6/18/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Where do we draw the line between righteous anger and ruthless revenge?

  • Added: May 20, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
Well of Souls: The Hidden History of the Banjo
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about the new book "Well of Souls," which dives further into the earliest history of the banjo than anyone has gone befo...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Feb 10, 2024
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 1
Does Color Blindness Perpetuate Racism?
From: Open to Debate
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Color blindness has long been presented by some as a philosophy to help improve relations between racial groups. Those who support it say it promot...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith
From: New Letters on the Air
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Tracy K. Smith, U.S. Poet Laureate 2017-19, kicked off her poetry career with the 2002 Cave Canem Prize, awarded to exceptional manuscripts of firs...

Bought by WMUU-LP, XRAY.fm, and WJCU


  • Added: Jul 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The American Dream - recorded 9/02
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A generational discussion in 2002 about the American Dream

  • Added: Mar 31, 2021
  • Length: 24:21
210305: Temperature Check: Science, Texas, and Climate Chaos, 3/5/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Just two months into 2021, deadly winter temperatures left millions of Texans without water and power. Meanwhile, California is preparing for anoth...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
2021-03-05 Temperature Check: Science, Texas, and Climate Chaos
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Just two months into 2021, deadly winter temperatures left millions of Texans without water and power. Meanwhile, California is preparing for anoth...

Bought by WCNY, WAMU, Maine Public Radio, MPR News Stations, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 18
National Book Award-winning Poet Nikky Finney: Part 2
From: New Letters on the Air
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Affrilachian and Cave Canem poet Nikky Finney talks about her father, the first African American Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court,...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Mar 04, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
2020-11-13 Cropped Out: Land, Race, and Climate
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Harvest season is especially hard this year, as the pandemic strains farmers and food systems, highlighting a deeply divided and often unjust Ameri...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, WDSE, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 9
20201113: Cropped Out: Land, Race, and Climate, 11/13/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Harvest season is especially hard this year, as the pandemic strains farmers and food systems, highlighting a deeply divided and often unjust Ameri...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
2020-10-30 Power Shift: Climate and Justice in 2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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What is the role of power in deciding the fate of a planet? 2020 has seen a reckoning with various forms of power embedded in racial, gender, and g...

Bought by KZUM, KTSW 89.9, WDSE, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Oct 29, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
201030: Power Shift: Climate and Justice in 2020, 10/30/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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What is the role of power in deciding the fate of a planet? 2020 has seen a reckoning with various forms of power embedded in racial, gender, and g...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
On Just Being with Scott Russell Sanders
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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The centerpiece in today’s program is our talk about the essay “The Suffering of Strangers” which details a visit Sanders took to Charleston, South...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 27, 2020
  • Length: 59:06
  • Purchases: 1
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
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
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
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
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
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
February 13, 2017
From: WFHB
Series: Bring It On!
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William Hosea and Amrita Myers host a long-overdue discussion on current event happenings in the world of entertainment, politics and local events....

  • Added: Feb 13, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:09
January 30, 2017
From: WFHB
Series: Bring It On!
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Jim Sims and William Hosea host a special show with two interviews previewing Black History Month in the community. City of Bloomington has adopted...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:47
December 5, 2016
From: WFHB
Series: Bring It On!
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Beverly Calender- Anderson and Leila Randle speak with Gary radio producer and personality Dinahlynn Biggs, host of the syndicated “Dinahlynn Biggs...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2016
  • Length: 59:20
November 28, 2016
From: WFHB
Series: Bring It On!
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Cornelius Wright and William Hosea speak with Jim Sims, the newly elected president of the Monroe County Branch of the National Association for the...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2016
  • Length: 58:40