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The Choirs Kept Singing of Freedom - Birmingham Sunday Remembered
From: David Kattenburg
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In the annals of racist terrorism, few acts were more hideous or cowardly than the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 34:47
Does Color Blindness Perpetuate Racism?
From: Open to Debate
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Color blindness has long been presented by some as a philosophy to help improve relations between racial groups. Those who support it say it promot...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Asian Americans & Anti-Blackness: Truth vs. Fiction on Affirmative Action (August 2, 2023 release)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Affirmative action's foes worked with conservative Chinese American organizations to sue two colleges over their admissions processes. The result w...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, WNYE and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Juneteenth We Reflect on Black History in Utah
From: KRCL
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Celebrating Juneteenth, Robert Burch, Founder & Executive Director of the Sema Hadithi Foundation shares his take on the holiday and ways his organ...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2023
  • Length: 16:36
  • Purchases: 1
Black Journalists on Police Violence: Reporting from the Inside Out
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The police killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis generated a significant amount of conversation and coverage, while the killing of environmental activ...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, RadioStPete Florida, KDNK and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
In Good Faith - Lt. Cl. Ruth N. Segres & Elissa Bjeletich
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: In Good Faith
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Exhibitions of spirit as one commits themselves to daily faith.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
2023-02-05 Righteous Rage
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Where do we draw the line between righteous anger and ruthless revenge?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN, KSKQ and more


  • Added: Feb 06, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
2306: Righteous Rage, 2/7/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Where do we draw the line between righteous anger and ruthless revenge?

  • Added: Feb 01, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
North Carolina: Courageous Conversations in a Climate of Fear
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Many questions remain about the recent attack on North Carolina’s electrical grid, which left tens of thousands of citizens unsettled, frightened a...

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  • Added: Dec 14, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
BIPOC Media: Amplifying Black and Indigenous Collaborations
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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How do Black and Indigenous communities intersect? This special feature for Indigenous People’s day explores the forces that have both facilitated ...

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  • Added: Sep 28, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
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.

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
For-Profit Business of Training Guns-for-hire is Literally Booming In Rural America
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The last US soldier to leave Afghanistan returned home this August, but private security personnel long outnumbered US troops in that war, and the ...

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  • Added: Aug 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Imani Perry: The Future of Democracy Depends on the South
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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As goes the South, so goes the nation. It may be a cliché but according to this week’s guest it’s true. In South to America: A Journey Below the Ma...

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


  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
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
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
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 ...

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  • Added: Feb 03, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
2020-11-13 Cropped Out: Land, Race, and Climate
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Harvest season is especially hard this year, as the pandemic strains farmers and food systems, highlighting a deeply divided and often unjust Ameri...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, WDSE, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 9
20201113: Cropped Out: Land, Race, and Climate, 11/13/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Harvest season is especially hard this year, as the pandemic strains farmers and food systems, highlighting a deeply divided and often unjust Ameri...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
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...

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  • Added: Oct 29, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
201030: Power Shift: Climate and Justice in 2020, 10/30/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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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...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
Eloisa Diaz-Sanz: One of My Favorite Quotes Is by Malcolm X
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Eloisa Diaz-Sanz, Credit: Shefik
Freedom - Eloisa Diaz-Sanz is an American creative consultant and fashion designer from New York City, specializing in womenswear. Her experience i...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2020
  • Length: 01:36
The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America, Demo
From: Dan Gediman
Series: The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America
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The Reckoning traces the history and lasting impact of slavery in America by looking at the experience of Kentucky, a slave state which stayed in t...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Morehead State Public Radio, KTEP, WCPN, Tri States Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 08, 2020
  • Length: 10:44
  • Purchases: 9
How the Diversity Industry Is Failing - Pamela Newkirk
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In an era when companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars on diversity and inclusion programs, the proportion of African Americans in tech, me...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Jul 08, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Untold Story of Racial Experience in the Wake of the Death of George Floyd with Shonda Craft, Dean of the SCSU School of Health and Human Services (Full Interview)
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with SCSU Dean of the School of Health and Human...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2020
  • Length: 40:51
The Untold Story of Racial Experience in the Wake of the Death of George Floyd with Shonda Craft, Dean of the SCSU School of Health and Human Services (Radio Edit)
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with SCSU Dean of the School of Health and Human...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 11, 2020
  • Length: 31:37
  • Purchases: 1