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BIPOC Press for the People: Bursting the Corporate Media Bubble
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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It is a cliché to say that the richest corporate media operate inside a bubble of their own making, but it's largely true. Today’s guests are breat...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KWMR, and WNYE


  • Added: May 29, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
WoodSongs 1072: Sugar Harp and Gail Ceasar
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Sugar Harp on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Alabama bluesman Sugar Harp plus Piedmont blues artist Gail Ceasar.

Bought by KDLG, KTRL, KMXT, KBRW, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2024
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 39
Episode 165: Going Deep with Linda Villarosa on Being Seen , 11/5/2023
From: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Series: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
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seeing past our oldest biases

  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
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
2023-01-20 Activism, Art and Environmental Justice
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Art can inspire community and conversation, provide fresh insights into understanding history, and cultivate connection. It can challenge your worl...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
20231020: Activism, Art and Environmental Justice, 1/20/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Art can inspire community and conversation, provide fresh insights into understanding history, and cultivate connection. It can challenge your worl...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
WoodSongs 1049: DaShawn Hickman & Adam Weinberg
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: DaShawn and Wendy Hickman make their debut on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes North Carolina Sacred Steel player DaShawn Hickman plus singer and finger...

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 42
Poet and NAACP Image Award Winner Patricia Smith: Part 1
From: New Letters on the Air
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For Black History Month, we'll hear from Patricia Smith, the author of eight poetry books and the 2021 winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for li...

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Feb 24, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
WoodSongs 928: John Gorka and War & Treaty
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: The power of War & Treaty on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes world-renowned singer-songwriter plus electric husband & wife roots duo W...

Bought by Radio Bristol, WEJP-LP 107.1, GCR (Global Community Radio), KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: May 04, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 24
WoodSongs 965: Amythyst Kiah and Joe Robinson
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Amythyst Kiah on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Southern Gothic folksinger Amythyst Kiah plus Australian virtuoso guitari...

Bought by Angelica Community Radio, WEJP-LP 107.1, Radio Bristol, WETS, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 34
The Fallen of 2020
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This year on making contact, instead of our normal end of year show commemorating movement leaders we've lost, and highlighting their work, we reme...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
Okwui Okpokwasili: Visibility for the Invisible, Centering Black Women's Experiences in Performance
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Can dance and song offer insight into a person’s experience, and provoke curiosity, even empathy across national identity, race and gender? In this...

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


  • Added: Nov 24, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Author Janet Cheatham Bell on Literature, American History and Travel
From: World Footprints LLC
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Having lived through America’s Civil Rights Movement, author Janet Cheatham Bell joins World Footprints to reflect on her life journey from a segre...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2020
  • Length: 31:16
Poet & MacArthur Genius Claudia Rankine
From: New Letters on the Air
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In light of the recent events regarding race in America, we revisit MacArthur Genius and Guggenheim Fellow, Claudia Rankine, who discusses her mo...

Bought by WJSU and WNJR


  • Added: Jun 09, 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
WoodSongs 955E: Guy Davis and Fabrizio Poggi and The Affrilachian Poets
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Caption: Guy and Fabrizio pay homage to the legendary blues duo Sonny & Brownie.
On this week's encore broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes blues master Guy Davis and Italian harmonica virtuso Fabrizio P...

Bought by WLIW, RadioFreePalmer, KRZA, WEKU, WETS and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2019
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 11
RDD: SunBridge, Meet the Kids
From: WGTE Public Media
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We're headed back to school on this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries! Join us as we take a tour of SunBridge Schools in Toledo, OH.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2018
  • Length: 06:03
About Last Night: How HBCU Students are Addressing Sexual Assault on Campus
From: Making Contact
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Students at several prominent historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), have demanded that school administrators address sexual assault...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Aug 31, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Former Mississippi Poet Laureate & Two Term US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey
From: New Letters on the Air
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For Black History Month, we present THE 19th U.S. Poet Laureate (2012-14) and former Mississippi Poet Laureate (2012-16), Natasha Trethewey, who wo...

Bought by WNJR and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Cell by Cassandra Medley
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Condola Rashad
Starring Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins and Condola Rashad (“Billions”), CELL tells the riveting story of three African-American women working at ...

Bought by WCPN, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUNM, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WHRV


  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 5
2017-11-12 Oppressive Heat: Climate Change and Civil Rights
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: L-R: Ingrid Brostrom, Mystic, Rev. Gerald Durley
While solar panels and electric cars are typically associated with upper-class white folk, the transition to clean energy is also a civil rights is...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KWIT, and NPR Now


  • Added: Nov 09, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Want A Path Toward Police-Community Reconciliation? Acknowledge The Past
From: Megan Harris
Series: Criminal Injustice
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Many American cities are struggling with police-community relations, and racial divisions are often the heart of the problem. David Kennedy talks a...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 10, 2017
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Pemature Death of Boo Gilkie
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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June 7th marks the one year anniversary of the death of Clinton Gilkie, and so we devote our June 2nd and June 16th episodes of Kite Line to his st...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 29:55