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In Wabash Valley, Shaka Shakur is maintaining his hunger strike, demanding an end to guard abuses and the isolation of active prisoners in camera c...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 29:54
This episode is an interview with Kwame Shakur, who is currently incarcerated at the Pendleton Correctional Institution. On August 11th , Indiana p...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 29:29
In this episode of Kite Line, we cover the recent demonstrations outside the Workhouse in St. Louis, Missouri.
On July 21, police there used peppe...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 29:59
Our radio adaptation of the film, The Murder of Fred Hampton, produced by filmmakers Mike Gray and Howard Alk, provides a glimpse into the life of ...
- Added: Nov 26, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Northern California Public Media's Adia White interviews Stacey Abrams at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, California, May 20, 2...
- Added: Aug 04, 2019
- Length: 59:00
Pay no attention to what the media says about how undermined Jeff Sessions is. POTUS may bait him publicly via tweet, but in private, at the DOJ, S...
- Added: Jul 09, 2018
- Length: 03:00
One police chief decided he needed to apologize for an incident 77 years ago: a lynching in his small Georgia town in 1940. LaGrange Chief Louis De...
- Added: Jul 10, 2017
- Length: 04:09
Many American cities are struggling with police-community relations, and racial divisions are often the heart of the problem. David Kennedy talks a...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 10, 2017
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
From Obama-era task forces to widespread protests, the idea of community policing has become part of our national conversation. Jerry Clayton, the ...
- Added: Jul 10, 2017
- Length: 05:25
A torchlit Confederate protest in Charlottesville, Virginia had some residents recalling the days of the KKK. But one Virginia scholar says today’s...
Bought by KENW and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: May 19, 2017
- Length: 03:13
- Purchases: 2
The family of 17 year-old Quanice Hayes, who was shot to death by Portland police, seeks justice from the city of Portland.
- Added: Mar 22, 2017
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 2
It's been less than 30 days since Donald Trump became President, and in that time people the world over have taken to the streets in protest of his...
- Added: Feb 13, 2017
- Length: 54:01
On this evening’s episode of Bring It On, William Hosea and Liz Mitchell welcome Stanley Madison, chairman and founder of the Lyles Station Histori...
- Added: May 09, 2016
- Length: 55:42
William Hosea and Leila Randle welcome Amina B. Pierson, Assistant Vice President of Community & Economic Development for Fifth Third Bank.
- Added: Dec 07, 2015
- Length: 56:23
Veteran police major and executive director of LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) Neill Franklin discuss his journey from being Drug War en...
- Added: Sep 30, 2015
- Length: 15:06
In an encore broadcast, journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates on the nation’s legacy of slavery and white supremacy – The United States of Ferguson, this wee...
Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KBRP Community Radio, KUNV, KPVL, KUOW and more
- Added: Dec 03, 2014
- Length: 23:59
- Purchases: 27
NPR’s Michel Martin joins community leaders in Ferguson, Missouri for a conversation about race, law enforcement and more in the wake of the shooti...
Bought by WEKU, NPR Illinois, KWMR, MPR News Stations, WDSE and more
- Added: Aug 29, 2014
- Length: 01:53:58
- Purchases: 24
When the Supreme Court struck down Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, the majority did so with an eye toward the past and a distinctly blurred vie...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 09, 2013
- Length: 01:59
- Purchases: 1
This special edition of "The Cutting Edge", looks at the trial, resistance and execution of Troy Davis, who was convicted of the killing of an off-...
- Added: Sep 29, 2011
- Length: 56:30
Jamaica has a long history of police violence and corruption. In May 2010 a government crackdown left 73 people dead and a city in chaos. The major...
Bought by KRUA
- Added: May 23, 2011
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
A story about how those thick Plexiglas walls come down in an Oakland, California neighborhood as more white folks move in.
- Added: May 08, 2010
- Length: 07:00
- Added: Dec 14, 2009
- Length: 55:00
Keith Plessy, descendant of Homer Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, great, great grandaughter of Judge John Ferguson, both litigants in the 1896 Supreme ...
- Added: Sep 27, 2009
- Length: 29:00
Stephanie Robinson's newest book is Accountable: Making America as Good as its Promise. She joins us to discuss President Obama's first 100 days in...
- Added: May 06, 2009
- Length: 29:28
Marijuana has made big news again: The Michael Phelps photo and backlash against Kellogg's; The arrest of George Obama in Kenya and CNBC's Marijuan...
- Added: Feb 11, 2009
- Length: 29:33
