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Debate: Coleman Hughes and Jamelle Bouie on Color Blindness for Black History Month
From: Open to Debate
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During Black History Month, we reflect on a debate that confronts America’s complex history with racial and social inequality. How can we ensure fa...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 5
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
From: National Endowment for the Arts
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An interview with the co-directors of the documentary Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes. The interview paints a comprehensive picture of Max Roach's...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2024
  • Length: 29:01
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
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
Expanding the Franchise (hour/no bb)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Dwayne Betts was only a teenager when he was convicted of carjacking and sentenced to 9 years in prison. Today, he’s an acclaimed poet and accompli...

Bought by KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRST-FM Oshkosh, Royalton Community Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 6
Expanding the Franchise (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Dwayne Betts was only a teenager when he was convicted of carjacking and sentenced to 9 years in prison. Today, he’s an acclaimed poet and accompli...

Bought by WTJU, KUHF, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KEDT, WRGY and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
Expanding the Franchise (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Dwayne Betts was only a teenager when he was convicted of carjacking and sentenced to 9 years in prison. Today, he’s an acclaimed poet and accompli...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WJCU, Harford Community Radio, WFHB, KRDP and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Expanding the Franchise (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Dwayne Betts was only a teenager when he was convicted of carjacking and sentenced to 9 years in prison. Today, he’s an acclaimed poet and accompli...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KUHF, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Sep 29, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
The Prophetic Lens: The Camera and Black Moral Agency from MLK to Darnella Frazier
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Phil Allen, Jr.
This program is a second in a conversation with author Phil Allen, Jr., in which he highlights the prophetic potential of the camera. Its imagery p...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Nelson, Alondra— "Health Care & The Black Panthers"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Originally Broadcast: February 13, 2012 The exodus of approximately six million black people from the American South between 1915 and 1970 had a s...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Bring It On! – November 15, 2021: Meet the Candidates – Valerie McCray for U.S. Senate and Jennifer Crossley for Monroe County Council
From: WFHB
Series: Bring It On!
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On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts William Hosea and Natalia Galvan speak with two women of color who are vying for local and national polit...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
07-17: Backlash Moment: Converging at the Crossroads of Identity and Justice, 6/30/2021
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Kimberle Crenshaw (foreground) with Eve Ensler
When Donald Trump rode a wave of white anxiety into the White House, it was part of a backlash to the Obama presidency, one that revealed an increa...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
No Common Ground
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Karen Cox
Polarizing debates over the meaning behind Confederate monuments have intensified lately. There are legal battles to remove them. Legislative maneu...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
New Voices At The Table (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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In 2016, Lashrecse Aird made history as the youngest woman ever elected to the Virginia House of Delegates.

Bought by Ohm Radio , C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KHEN-LP, WCNY, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 7
New Voices At The Table (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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In 2016, Lashrecse Aird made history as the youngest woman ever elected to the Virginia House of Delegates.

Bought by WCPN, KVCR, WYPL, KUAT, WVPE and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 15
New Voices At The Table (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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In 2016, Lashrecse Aird made history as the youngest woman ever elected to the Virginia House of Delegates.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, Harford Community Radio, WJCT, KRDP, WJCU and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
New Voices At The Table (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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In 2016, Lashrecse Aird made history as the youngest woman ever elected to the Virginia House of Delegates.

Bought by WCPN, KVCR, KUAT, KUHF, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 7
Geraldine's Story: How Public Schools Are Failing Black Students with Dyslexia
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Geraldine Robinson, center, and one of her sons, right, wait for her to be honored for her advocacy by the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund in September 2019
Black students with dyslexia carry a heavy burden in public schools. This program centers around a grandmother who fought for years to get her gran...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Expanding The Franchise (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Dwayne Betts was only a teenager when he was convicted of carjacking and sentenced to 9 years in prison. Today, he’s an acclaimed poet and PhD cand...

Bought by KHEN-LP and WCNY


  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 51:57
  • Purchases: 2
Expanding The Franchise (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Dwayne Betts was only a teenager when he was convicted of carjacking and sentenced to 9 years in prison. Today, he’s an acclaimed poet and PhD cand...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WTJU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WNED Buffalo and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 10
Expanding The Franchise (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Dwayne Betts was only a teenager when he was convicted of carjacking and sentenced to 9 years in prison. Today, he’s an acclaimed poet and PhD cand...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KVSC, Harford Community Radio, WJCT, KRDP and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
Expanding The Franchise (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Dwayne Betts was only a teenager when he was convicted of carjacking and sentenced to 9 years in prison. Today, he’s an acclaimed poet and PhD cand...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
President Biden and America's Expectation
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Today, a divided nation experiences one of the most tumultuous presidential transitions in US history. Leaders from marginalized communities across...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
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
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