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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
Zero Sum, Zero Change: What Racism Costs Everyone
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this week’s episode of World Affairs, Ray examines the legacy and lived-reality of zero-sum economics at home and abroad.

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for August 3, 2022
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: In Historic Breakthrough, Senate Bill Requires Medicare to Negotiate Price...

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Aug 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for July 13, 2022
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: In Midterm Election, Democrats Must Warn Voters of Dangerous Republican Ex...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WETS, and KMXT


  • Added: Jul 13, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
World in Progress 06/16/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The remnants of slavery - June 19th or Juneteenth is the day where the US commemorates the end of slavery. Dealing with...

Bought by WVTF and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jun 17, 2022
  • Length: 24:29
  • Purchases: 2
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for May 25, 2022
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: GOP’s Embrace of ‘Replacement Theory’, Violence Imperils U.S. Democracy; N...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WETS


  • Added: May 25, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Meet the BIPOC Press- Ibram X. Kendi: How to Make America Antiracist?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The fight over what can and can’t be taught in schools is shaping up to be one of the most controversial issues in a pivotal mid-term election year...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 8
Re:Work Soul Force, Part 1
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Rev. James Lawson Jr., Credit: Reed Hutchinson
On Dec. 11, 2021, the UCLA Labor Center’s historic MacArthur Park building was officially named the UCLA James Lawson Jr. Worker Justice Center, in...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Feb 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Rod Graham: The Fight Over Affirmative Action
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rod Graham
Back in 2016 the US Supreme Court established that the University of Texas could continue to consider race as a factor in admissions, in order to e...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 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
Disposable Cities: Part 4 of The State Made Visible
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: An abandoned home near Love Canal in Niagara Falls. (UPI Photo)
This is part 4 of The State Made Visible with Rasul Mowatt, author of The Geographies of Threat and The Production of Violence published by Routled...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Feb 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Rob Schofield: Carolina In My Mind
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rob Schofield
Come election season, some of us who live in solidly “blue” states like California or New York take our activist selves on the road to so-called “s...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
John Stoehr on Critical Race Theory Pt. 2
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: John Stoehr
It’s right in the Declaration of Independence that everyone is created equal. So why is an entire political party so scared of talking critically a...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 07, 2021
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
In Buffalo with India Walton: An Insurgent Candidate Runs for Mayor
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Eyes across the nation are on the mayoral election in Buffalo, New York, where insurgent candidate India Walton could become the first Black woman—...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, KDNK, and KMUN


  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Bay Area is diverse. Its elected officials are mostly white
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the most diverse in the U.S., but that diversity is rarely seen in the make-up of the region's political leade...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2021
  • Length: 29:27
Prisonscape: The View from Any Window
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our guest is Brett Story, author of Pison Land: Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America and award-winning filmmaker of The Prison in Twelv...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 12, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Rod Graham: Color-Consciousness Not Colorblindness
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rod Graham
Many of us grew up under the impression that “colorblindness,” or pretending not to see racial differences was virtuous. An important contribution ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 18, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Liz King: Civil Rights In Our Public Schools
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Liz King
One front on which the fight for racial justice is being waged is in the area of education. We have been led to believe that education is the great...

Bought by WFHB and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
In Junction
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Today we're headed to the Junction neighborhood in Toledo, Ohio to talk to Alicia Smith. She's the executive director of The Junction Coalition, a ...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 06:13
BIPOC Journalists On Covering COVID and Racism
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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BIPOC journalists reflect on what it is to be veterans of two of the most devastating wars in recent history: the coronavirus pandemic and the cent...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
MOVE Demands Justice for Children and The Return of Stolen Remains
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: On April 28, 2021, MOVE and community members gathered in front of Penn Museum to protest and demand the remains be returned., Credit: Joe Piette
On Making Contact - Members of MOVE, a Black radical liberation group, demand that the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University return t...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1