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In her new book, Carceral Capitalism, poet and scholar Jackie Wang confronts mass incarceration in the US by delving into the processes that feed i...
- Added: Jul 02, 2019
- Length: 01:03:54
400 years since the first enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown, many people agree reparations are due, but what would they look like? How about a...
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- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
The fight to legalize marijuana has never been easy, as evidenced by the recent collapse of months-long efforts in New Jersey and New York. A key i...
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- Added: Apr 04, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews:
Trump Effort to Dismantle Obamacare Underscores Need for Medicare for All...
- Added: Apr 03, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
In 1963, more than a dozen African American girls, including Carol Barner-Seay , Shirley Reese, Diane Bowens, and Verna Hollis, were arrested for p...
- Added: Mar 28, 2019
- Length: 06:02
HOUR ONE: "Against Cynicism" - Why is the world so cynical? This hour, an irony-free exploration of cynicism. HOUR TWO: "Hip Hop Future" - "Strai...
- Added: Mar 08, 2019
- Length: 01:58:59
In the years between 1915 and 1970 almost six million black American citizens from the south migrated to northern and western cities seeking freedo...
- Added: Feb 12, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Michelle Alexander, Mark Lamont Hill and Vonya Quarles discuss the modern prison abolition movement, what's changed in the past ten years, and the ...
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- Added: Jan 29, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The image is of a badly abused enslaved man called variously “A Typical Negro,” “The Scourged Back,” “Gordon the Slave,” or “Poor Peter," who is tu...
- Added: Jan 09, 2019
- Length: 59:25
This week on the show: Once they have completed their medical degree, many Ghanaian doctors prefer to move to Europe or North America instead of wo...
- Added: Jan 02, 2019
- Length: 30:00
The home ownership gap continues to widen.
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- Added: Nov 27, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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
Private prisons in the South capitalized on the loophole in the 13th Amendment. In American Prison Shane Bauer takes us into Winn Correctional Cent...
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- Added: Oct 17, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
At age 32, Minnesota State Representative Erin Maye Quade is positioned to be at the forefront of a wave of progressive political leaders represent...
- Added: Oct 09, 2018
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 8
This month is the ten year anniversary of the stock market crash of 2018. Nomi Prins talks about her new book, “Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigg...
- Added: Sep 21, 2018
- Length: 29:59
What does it mean to be Black in 21st century America? The expression of Blackness in art has a history of intricate connections to civil rights an...
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- Added: Sep 14, 2018
- Length: 56:29
- Purchases: 1
Personal Statement takes us into the lives of three public HS seniors who are determined to go to college and take their classmates with them.
Bought by Harford Community Radio
- Added: Sep 12, 2018
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 1
Students at several prominent historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), have demanded that school administrators address sexual assault...
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- Added: Aug 31, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Darnell Moore the author of No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America. A story of beauty and hope-and an honest reckoning with...
- Added: Aug 18, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Topics include her entry into politics, racism, the various factions of the Deep State, 9/11, COINTELPRO, media propaganda, Hollywood, the Israel l...
- Added: Aug 10, 2018
- Length: 58:01
Before the 17th century, being white didn’t even exist as a racial category. The idea of “whiteness” evolved in the slave-based economies of the En...
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- Added: Jul 25, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
As with our recent show on the 1954 Salt of the Earth, here is another “forgotten film” that seems a kind of impossibility. Made by a Spanish filmm...
- Added: Jul 24, 2018
- Length: 58:31
In this timely installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage producer Jeff Carmack talks about the Martin Luther...
- Added: Jun 26, 2018
- Length: 30:45
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
From: John Shuck
A "Bottom-Up" history of the U.S. from an African-American and Latinx viewpoint.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WJAB
- Added: Jun 04, 2018
- Length: 57:01
- Purchases: 2
