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The need for prison reform in the USA.
Bought by WOJB
- Added: Mar 11, 2024
- Length: 58:25
- Purchases: 1
Reconstruction has long been taught as a lost cause narrative. We talk about what that narrative leaves out.
- Added: Jan 09, 2024
- Length: 51:30
San Francisco is considering reparations for Black San Franciscans. To understand why advocates are pushing for reparations in the city, we dive de...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida and KALW
- Added: Jun 15, 2023
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 2
Decades before our current debate over critical race theory, the 1968 Kerner Commission pointed the finger at structural racism for creating the co...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Oct 05, 2021
- Length: 08:56
- Purchases: 2
The Supreme Court case that said racial segregation was constitutional, and the landmark decision that, decades later, overturned it.
Bought by KUPR low power FM, WYAP, WCMU Michigan, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more
- Added: Aug 03, 2021
- Length: 51:31
- Purchases: 11
In this episode, we share information about the recent disturbances in St. Louis. Afterwards, we have the second part of a conversation with Balago...
- Added: Apr 19, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Up first, we have a comprehensive overview of prisoner protests compiled by Perilous Chronicle, who are collecting information about the many priso...
- Added: Apr 19, 2021
- Length: 29:00
“What I recall most is the way that she grabbed my wrist and, shaking a bit, she said over and over again, ‘If it happens, run. Don’t let that happ...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 33:08
Last week marked the 49th anniversary of the Attica prison rebellion. In this episode of Kite Line, we finish our conversation with Dr. Orisanmi Bu...
- Added: Dec 19, 2020
- Length: 29:00
This week marks the 49th anniversary of the Attica Uprising, when 1300 prisoners in New York state overcame physical, social, and political barrier...
- Added: Dec 19, 2020
- Length: 29:00
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
From: When We Fight, We Win!
The continued closures of our public schools and high-stakes testing illustrate the institutionalized racism embedded in our educational system. Ji...
- Added: Aug 02, 2020
- Length: 58:23
Birds - André Wallace is a City Council Member at Mount Vernon, New York. He is also the owner of a construction company, CDCD, LLC.
- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 02:26
Rain - André Wallace is a City Council Member at Mount Vernon, New York. He is also the owner of a construction company, Creative Direction Constru...
- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 02:22
In a this Juneteenth edition of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attended the June 19th obse...
- Added: Jun 27, 2020
- Length: 30:00
Across the country, thousands of prisoners are facing consequences for their participation in the national prison strike. Some are being denied co...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:31
This week, we share a conversation we had with Andrea Ritchie, an attorney and activist whose work focuses on police violence against the queer com...
- Added: Feb 17, 2020
- Length: 29:35
This week, we return to the history of black radicalism within the prison system. You can hear more from Dr. Micol Seigel and Dr. Garrett Felber ab...
- Added: Feb 17, 2020
- Length: 29:23
This week, we are changing our format slightly. After hearing a letter from a prisoner involved in Operation PUSH, we are broadcasting an intervie...
- Added: Feb 17, 2020
- Length: 29:22
James Forman Jr., a former Washington, D.C., public defender, Yale University professor, and author of the Pulitzer Prize winner and The New York’s...
- Added: Jun 07, 2018
- Length: 24:54
Shortly after David Brown was sworn in as the Dallas Chief of Police, his son shot and killed a police officer. Just before he retired as chief, 5 ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 08, 2018
- Length: 29:52
- Purchases: 1
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with another edition of TriPod Xtras. Host Laine Kaplan-Levenson and Dartmouth history professor Rashauna Johnso...
- Added: Oct 26, 2017
- Length: 20:17
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a story about a monument that was supposed to be erected in the late 1800s, but never happened.
- Added: Oct 24, 2017
- Length: 12:20
From: Stefanie Mavronis
In the months leading up to the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division releasing its report on the Baltimore Police Department, I listene...
- Added: May 01, 2017
- Length: 01:38:20
In 2010, Michael McIntosh’s son was incarcerated at the Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility in the small town of Walnut Grove, Mississippi. On...
- Added: Jan 13, 2017
- Length: 32:55
