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Black Candidates, BIPOC Media: Making Coverage Complex and Better
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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New York City will likely elect its second African American mayor in November. Eric Adams, currently the Brooklyn Borough President, was declared t...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KWMR


  • Added: Jul 29, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Kimberlé Crenshaw & Soledad O’Brien Call Out the Media on Critical Race Theory
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The right wing has found its newest racist wedge issue: Critical Race Theory. This decades-old movement in legal scholarship has suddenly become a ...

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


  • Added: Jun 30, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Etiquette Show: Inter-racial and LGBTQ dating stories
From: Ray Samuels
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Inter-racial and LGBTQ dating stories

  • Added: Jun 04, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
Austin Activist DaShawn Barr on Code-Switching and Summer 2020 Racial Justice Protests
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Akins High School Spring 2021
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DaShawn Barr played a prominent role in the racial justice protests that occurred in Austin, Texas in summer 2020.

  • Added: May 28, 2021
  • Length: 05:35
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...

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  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Carl Hart, DRUG USE FOR GROWNUPS & Hari Ziyad, BLACK BOY OUT OF TIME
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with Carl Hart about his book, Drug Use For Grownups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear. We also talk with Hari Ziyad about their memoir...

  • Added: May 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
Heather McGhee: Racism Costs Everyone
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Color of Change board chair Heather McGhee talks with Laura about her New York Times best-selling book, The Sum of Us, What Racism Costs Everyone a...

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  • Added: May 05, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
210430: Distorted Democracy and the “Zero-Sum Game”, 4/30/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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In the US, we’ve become accustomed to climate -- like nearly everything else -- being politicized. Even when potential solutions might benefit ever...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
2021-04-30 Distorted Democracy and the “Zero-Sum Game”
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In the US, we’ve become accustomed to climate -- like nearly everything else -- being politicized. Even when potential solutions might benefit ever...

Bought by KZUM, Maine Public Radio, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WMUU-LP, KGUA and more


  • Added: Apr 28, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 13
Medical Racism Past and Present
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Black Americans are twice as likely to die from COVID as white Americans. Despite this, polls show that African-Americans are less interested in re...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 03:58
Vaccine Hesitancy: Building Public Trust For Public Health
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The Biden administration has promised to make Covid-19 vaccines available to all US adults by May 1st, but getting a vaccine to those who need them...

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  • Added: Mar 24, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
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
2021-02-12 Killer Combination: Climate, Health and Poverty
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Experts have warned us that COVID-19 is just one example of climate change-related diseases on the rise. And while climate disruption, environmenta...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA, WDSE and more


  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 10
210212: Killer Combination: Climate, Health and Poverty, 2/12/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Experts have warned us that COVID-19 is just one example of climate change-related diseases on the rise. And while climate disruption, environmenta...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:57
Baldwin's Lessons for the US
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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James Baldwin was one of the 20th century’s most incisive thinkers and writers. In our own era, as political rhetoric, state violence, and popular ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Feb 03, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • 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
National Writers Series: Albert Woodfox
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Three
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WDET's Jerome Vaughn talks with Albert Woodfox, author of "Solitary."

Bought by Michigan Radio, WKAR, and WCMU Michigan


  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 3
EE 20-51: Food Desert Or Food Apartheid?, 12/18/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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The term food desert implies that it’s naturally occurring--but is it?

  • Added: Dec 17, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
Episode 143: Knock and Announce
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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“I didn’t do what they said I did. And it was like, I don’t know how to disprove the police. I mean, it’s my word against theirs. I don’t really st...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 33:00
Black Immigrants in the Whitest State
From: Feet in 2 Worlds
Series: A Better Life
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Two young Black African immigrants in Maine talk about their state, which has the widest racial disparity in the country when it comes to coronavir...

Bought by KMUN and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 20, 2020
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 2
2020-10-30 Power Shift: Climate and Justice in 2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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What is the role of power in deciding the fate of a planet? 2020 has seen a reckoning with various forms of power embedded in racial, gender, and g...

Bought by KZUM, KTSW 89.9, WDSE, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Oct 29, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for October 28, 2020
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: Urgent Lawsuit Launched to Stop Trump Regime Voter Intimidation; Despite R...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and WKPW


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Future of Museums
From: KUNM
Series: Augmented Humanity
Caption: Monique Davis and Jon Voss
On this program, we talk with Jon Voss and Monique Davis about the future of museums. Jon is a founding member of Shift Collective. Monique is the ...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
How can Philanthropy help bring a silver lining during the dark cloud of Covid-19 ?
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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How can Philanthropy help bring a silver lining during the dark cloud of Covid-19 ? With Elizabeth Barbella President of The Community Foundation M...

Bought by WCNY and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 02, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for September 30, 2020
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: Leak of Trump’s Taxes Reveal He Paid No Income Tax in 10 of Last 15 Years,...

Bought by WKPW and KMXT


  • Added: Sep 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2

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