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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
Episode 146: Ten Doors
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1978, Tim Jenkin was charged under South Africa’s Terrorism Act for disseminating anti-apartheid material, and sentenced to 12 years in prison. ...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 29:22
WorldCanvass: Pursuing Racial Justice
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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A wide-ranging discussion about the pursuit of racial justice in a historically white institution like the University of Iowa; racial barriers that...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2020
  • Length: 01:27:08
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
The Pandemic Election (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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If you think poll taxes and literacy tests are voting barriers of the past, think again.

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WTJU, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Oct 23, 2020
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 13
The Pandemic Election (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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If you think poll taxes and literacy tests are voting barriers of the past, think again.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KRDP, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WJCT, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 22, 2020
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
The Pandemic Election (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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If you think poll taxes and literacy tests are voting barriers of the past, think again.

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


  • Added: Oct 22, 2020
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
Census and Voting in New Mexico ( Sec. of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver and Nichole Rogers)
From: Generation Justice Admin
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This week, we tackle misinformation and misleading narratives about mail in ballots and the 2020 election with New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2020
  • Length: 49:21
Roland Martin: "Never Stop Fighting!"
From: Generation Justice Admin
Caption: Roland Martin
In this year's celebration of Black History Month and the 50th Anniversary of Africana Studies at the University of New Mexico, author and journali...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 50:32
2020-07-19 Frantz Fanon and the Violence of Colonialism
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Should there be limits to violence in the service of liberation?

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KSKQ, KTSW 89.9, WLPR , KNVC Carson City Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 20, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 11
DISCUSSION WITH DR. FINNIE COLEMAN: BLM & RAISING A BLACK SON
From: Generation Justice Admin
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In the Summer of 2020, we revisit a discussion on police killings of Black people from 2016 after the murders of Alton Sterling and Philando Castil...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:03
Say I'm Dead
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: E. Dorolas Johnson
Most of us wish to know our family history. Our ancestry. It’s part of understanding and coming to terms with our own identity. But, what if there ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Sydney Reed and Rep. James Clyburn
From: StoryCorps
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Rep. James Clyburn speaks with his granddaughter, Sydney Reed, about the lessons he’s learned from success and failure.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2020
  • Length: 03:04
Edra Soto on the Architecture of Connecting with Communities
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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Edra Soto is a Puerto Rico born, Chicago based, interdisciplinary artist, educator and curator whose architectural projects connect with communitie...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2020
  • Length: 12:39
I Am Not Your Negro (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
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Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examina...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Future of Abolition: Mark Lamont Hill, Michelle Alexander and Vonya Quarles
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Michelle Alexander, Mark Lamont Hill and Vonya Quarles discuss the modern prison abolition movement, what's changed in the past ten years, and the ...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Jan 29, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Heroes of American Dissent (Special Episode)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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Stories about We The People, pushing back, in the pursuit of a better America.

Bought by WGTE Public Media, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KWIT, KICI Iowa City, and KWTF community radio for Sonoma County


  • Added: Jan 22, 2019
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 5
Episode 4: Great Things Happen When You Just #DoYou
From: L. Michelle Smith
Series: The Culture Soup Podcast
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Ep 4 features pop culture and politics journalist & host from NBC BLK, MSNBC, NY Times and Essence writer, @JarrettHill. He talks plagiarism, Fir...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2018
  • Length: 43:18
Constitutional Cages: The Core of Civil Society?
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Private prisons in the South capitalized on the loophole in the 13th Amendment. In American Prison Shane Bauer takes us into Winn Correctional Cent...

Bought by WWNO


  • Added: Oct 17, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1