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The Purcell Principle: A SCOTUS Decision Intended to Avoid Voter Confusion May Now Be a Stealth Voter Suppression Tactic
- Added: May 15, 2024
- Length: 01:30
What are the stories that will be driving news coverage in the coming year for communities of color and our network partners in the media that serv...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK and more
- Added: Feb 01, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 7
(August 24th, 2022 release date)
In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, imperiling all women’s freedoms, and creating a new pipelin...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, WNYE, and KWMR
- Added: Aug 23, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 5
We talk about the Brian Flores lawsuit against the NFL and the bombshell allegations he and Hugh Jackson alleges what their bosses told them to do.
- Added: Feb 08, 2022
- Length: 57:58
One of the original 13 Freedom Riders, what Charles Person faced during the Civil Rights Movement was far worse than his time as a Marine in Vietnam.
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:26:58
Only 11 years old on Bloody Sunday, JoAnne faced the charging horses and the swinging batons of the state troopers.
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:06:54
Freedom Rider, Dave Dennis, never thought about getting involved in the Civil Rights Movement but he did want a date with a pretty young lady.
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:31:59
Her mugshot has been called one of the most iconic in American history. The pretty white southern woman who defied Jim Crow and fought for civil ri...
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:23:34
How should we talk about race and racism in America when the divide between Black and white can be so vast?
- Added: Nov 12, 2020
- Length: 01:08:18
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 KDNK and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Feb 19, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
We go to the neighboring state of Ohio this week in order to dig into
the history of Midwestern prison resistance. We share more of the story
of Si...
- Added: Feb 05, 2017
- Length: 29:54
This week, we return to the experiences and stories of Sekou Kambui, who was incarcerated for 47 years in Alabama prisons. He was originally charg...
- Added: Nov 04, 2016
- Length: 29:57
Our guest Nenna Joiner of Feelmore 510, Oakland knows a lot about sex toys and will chat with us about how she got into that business, and what kee...
- Added: Aug 23, 2015
- Length: 22:51
Journalist Gianluca Tramontana takes you through the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, introduces you to their people, examines their history and explores...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 01:00:13
- Purchases: 1
Lucy Parsons fought tirelessly and effectively for the rights of political prisoners, people of color, workers, the homeless and women.
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:33
After the Civil War, Haviland became a one-woman cyclone of activity, organizing refugee camps and establishing schools, volunteering as a teacher ...
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:26
- Purchases: 1
Taylor made the cut as an in-your-face woman because she had the brass to go to secret schools as a child and then pass along what she learned as t...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:24
Till used the broken body of her only child to give an entire nation a much needed object lesson.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:30
Nzingha formed an alliance with the Dutch and spent the rest of her days leading troops into battle against them.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:36
After she became a lawyer, Kennedy missed no opportunity to push every envelope she could related to either race or gender.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:18
Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb was brought in to fix a school system that's a big mess. But who's paying his salary? Private foundations t...
- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: 05:18
A story about how those thick Plexiglas walls come down in an Oakland, California neighborhood as more white folks move in.
- Added: May 08, 2010
- Length: 07:00
The Copenhagen mess. Guest Paul Kingsnorth says civilization IS climate change. Nobody wants to change Western comforts. Opens with a digest of alt...
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Dec 19, 2009
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 1
