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835: Astonishing African Futures / 836: You're Not OK. That's OK., 10/7/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Astonishing African Futures" - The new Black Panther movie, "Wakanda Forever," dominated the global box office. This hour, a literary ta...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
825: Going For Broke: Making Up Our Minds / 826: Growing Justice, 9/2/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Going For Broke: Making Up Our Minds" - In episode two of our three-part series on the care economy: Mental health challenges can push p...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
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
259: Creating a World Where Everyone Belongs: From a Change of Heart to System Change, 3/22/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: john a. powell and Angela Glover Blackwell , Credit: Alex Akamine
In this moment of radical transformation, shifting the societal pronoun from “me, me, me” to “we” may be the single most transformational pivot we ...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
How to Hold Back the Ocean
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Maurice Bailey at Shell to Shore collection in Athens GA, Credit: Claire Reynolds
More and more coastal communities want to build sea walls to prevent catastrophic flooding because of rising sea levels. But do they work? We talk ...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 18, 2022
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 3
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
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
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...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KWMR


  • Added: May 05, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
Armed and Unmasked: Whiteness at the Core of a Public Health Crisis
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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White Supremacy and the Covid crisis aren’t separate. They’re linked. Defunding public health services and deregulating gun ownership have been ca...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 01, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Spare the Kids, Dr. Stacey Patton
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Dr. Stacey Patton
We speak with author Dr. Stacey Patton about her book, Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Won't Save Black America. The book examines the unique cultural...

Bought by WVAS and WFHB


  • Added: Feb 05, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Michael Eric Dyson on Trump, Truth, and Race
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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America’s unwillingness to assess the ugly truth about systemic inequality has created a perpetual sinkhole of denial. A reality that existed long ...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Dec 07, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Justice Is About Everything We Do
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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However you put it, food is as political as it gets. Today, we'll hear from farmers, organizers, workers, and seed-keepers who all attended the NES...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Dec 05, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Degrees of Separation: Higher Ed (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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Stories of massive student debt and for-profit school scams make it clear that the post-secondary system can be an unfriendly place to many disadva...

Bought by WHFR


  • Added: Jun 23, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
Degrees of Separation: Higher Ed (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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Stories of massive student debt and for-profit school scams make it clear that the post-secondary system can be an unfriendly place to many disadva...

Bought by WHFR, KWMR, WCPN, WTJU, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 23, 2017
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
Degrees of Separation: Higher Ed (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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Stories of massive student debt and for-profit school scams make it clear that the post-secondary system can be an unfriendly place to many disadva...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and WVAS


  • Added: Jun 23, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Degrees of Separation: Higher Ed (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Stories of massive student debt and for-profit school scams make it clear that the post-secondary system can be an unfriendly place to many disadva...

Bought by WCPN and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jun 23, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Degrees of Separation: Higher Ed (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Stories of massive student debt and for-profit school scams make it clear that the post-secondary system can be an unfriendly place to many disadva...

Bought by WCNY, KTSW 89.9, KPIK-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jun 23, 2017
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 12
Degrees of Separation: Higher Ed (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Stories of massive student debt and for-profit school scams make it clear that the post-secondary system can be an unfriendly place to many disadva...

Bought by WJCT, WVAS, WCQS, WUGA (part of GPB), KRDP and more


  • Added: Jun 23, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi - Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Stamped offers a deeply researched, provocative narrative that is a comprehensive history of anti-Black racist ideas—their origins, and how they be...

Bought by WXDU and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 19, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Degrees of Separation: Secondary (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In the third episode of our series, we examine how inequality is at work in the high-stakes world of high school, from who we discipline, to the wa...

Bought by WCPN and WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 26, 2017
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 2
Degrees of Separation: Secondary (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the third episode of our series, we examine how inequality is at work in the high-stakes world of high school, from who we discipline, to the wa...

Bought by WCNY, KWMR, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCPN, WTJU and more


  • Added: May 26, 2017
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 14
Degrees of Separation: Secondary (Half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In the third episode of our series, we examine how inequality is at work in the high-stakes world of high school, from who we discipline, to the wa...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, WJCU, KMUN, KRDP and more


  • Added: May 26, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Degrees of Separation: Secondary (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the third episode of our series, we examine how inequality is at work in the high-stakes world of high school, from who we discipline, to the wa...

Bought by WHFR


  • Added: May 26, 2017
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
Degrees of Separation: Secondary (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the third episode of our series, we examine how inequality is at work in the high-stakes world of high school, from who we discipline, to the wa...

Bought by WHFR, WDSE, KWMR, and WLIW


  • Added: May 26, 2017
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 4