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Episode 2: Dawn of the Creators #BlackExcellence, Jaylen Bledsoe
From: L. Michelle Smith
Series: The Culture Soup Podcast
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At only 20, Jaylen Bledsoe is the CEO of Bledsoe Global Group, a tech and investment firm that made him a millionaire when he was only 15. We talk...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2018
  • Length: 30:10
103: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism & Sexism - Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Dr. Safiya Noble
What we think of as “the great equalizer”-- the internet--and the algorithms behind it, created by humans, is serving up content that is sexist and...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KWIT, KUT, KWMR, Louisville Public Media and more


  • Added: Nov 01, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Infrastructures of Power (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Across the nation, natural gas production has been ramping up. In many communities, this has meant new pipelines, new promises, and new protests. ...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRGY, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Oct 26, 2018
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 11
Infrastructures of Power (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Across the nation, natural gas production has been ramping up. In many communities, this has meant new pipelines, new promises, and new protests. ...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WJCT, WUGA (part of GPB), KRZA, WFHB and more


  • Added: Oct 25, 2018
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 10
Experts push for more African-Americans in STEM fields
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Doctor Scott Williams, African American mathematician retired from the Unviersit at Buffalo, discusses what it's like working as an African American in the STEM field., Credit: by ANGELICA A. MORRISON
Great Lakes states have produced several influential African-Americans in the sciences. There’s astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson – he’s from New ...

Bought by WVBI-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WDET Detroit Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WSKG and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2018
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 7
Episode 80: Photo, Hair, Fingerprint
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1988, a man in Hickory, NC was sentenced to life in prison based on evidence that experts would later call “junk science.” It took him 24 years ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 25:43
  • Purchases: 1
The Legal Codes
From: Raw Data
Series: Raw Data: Season 2
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How are algorithms and data science making their way into the American criminal justice system?

  • Added: Jun 27, 2017
  • Length: 32:20
66: How To End Structural Racism in America - Laura Weidman Powers, Code2040
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Laura Weidman Powers
Bringing more people of color into tech may be the next civil rights movement. Laura Weidman Powers, co-founder and CEO of Code2040, talks with Inf...

Bought by WCPN, KUT, KSJD, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 22, 2017
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Cancer Research and Treatment
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Researchers hope to repair cancer-causing genes - A new app is designed to make more informed patients - A hidden HIV epidemic among elderly Africa...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
Cancer Research and Treatment (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Researchers hope to repair cancer-causing genes - A new app is designed to make more informed patients - A hidden HIV epidemic among elderly Africa...

Bought by WCNY, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WCWP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 10
RDD: Making it Work
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Will Lucas is an entrepreneur, businessman, podcast host, and commissioner serving on the University of Toledo's Board of Trustees, the Ohio Casino...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 12, 2017
  • Length: 06:40
  • Purchases: 1
DO NOT RESIST -- Craig Atkinson Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Craig Atkinson, San Francisco, CA 10/21/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Craig Atkinson talks keeping calm, taking rides, and getting traction.

  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 32:49
52: Roz Hudnell of Intel on Gender & Racial Diversity in Tech; Amy Whitaker, Author of "Art Thinking"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Roz Hudnell, Intel
Meet one woman leading the charge to quite literally change the face of technology--by bringing in more women and people of color to the industry, ...

Bought by KCSB-FM, KSJD, KWMR, WRIR, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
StoryCorps Griot: Melva Washington Toomer and John Washington
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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John Washington, 95, who is blind and deaf, recently recorded a StoryCorps interview with his eldest child, Melva, using a TeleBraille machine.

Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, and WRIR


  • Added: Aug 22, 2016
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 3
Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome
From: Barry Vogel
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Who we are and where we come from is a crucial question that now we are more able to answer than ever before. The examination and analysis of our i...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
Part Four: The Unspoken Crisis
From: KBIA
Series: Shortage in Rich Land
Caption: Marylouisa Cantu (left) with her case worker Lucretia Cox (center) and mother Star Tafolla, Credit: Bram Sable-Smith
Almost 17 percent of the babies born here in Dunklin County are born premature. According to data from the World Health Organization, if this were ...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 06:10
Bay Area hackathon brings tech to youth of color
From: KALW
Caption: Giovanni Vieira (left), talks with his team about the Cop Stop app., Credit: Johnathan Henninger
When President Obama launched the My Brother’s Keeper initiative in 2014, he said he hoped it would help boys and young men of color find success. ...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2015
  • Length: 06:59
Is This Thing On? and Unlearning Racist Lessons
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
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First, tech consultant Abbey Stokes has developed wide-ranging knowledge of her field. In her new book, Is This Thing On?, she explains everything ...

Bought by WCNY, Harford Community Radio, and WCWP


  • Added: Apr 14, 2015
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 3
The Truth About Cultural Bias (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Hoodie Rally in Memory of Trayvon Martin, Credit: Madison Guy, on Flickr
Sharply different reactions to the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial reveal the racial divide that persists in America. We speak with the autho...

Bought by WJCT, KSFR, WFHB, KPVL, KRZA and more


  • Added: Feb 13, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
HIV Education in the African American Church (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Psychologist John Fife is working to address what he says is a critical need for HIV interventions that target older Americans, specifically older ...

Bought by WJCT, KVSC, WLIW, and KENW


  • Added: Jan 09, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Programming a More Diverse Tech World
From: Lauren Ober
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Technology isn't a field known for its attention to diversity. Most people’s idea of a computer programmer is a white guy in a hoodie and jeans. Bu...

Bought by PRX Remix and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 15, 2014
  • Length: 04:43
  • Purchases: 2
Dr. Chileshe Nkonde-Price, Social Media Lab UPENN School of Medicin
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Chileshe Nkonde-Price, Cardiologist and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/US Depart...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Apr 29, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
26: Gennett Records
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Indiana was a hotbed for KKK activity in the 1920's, but during that time Richmond was the home of a record label that helped pioneer the recording...

Bought by Radio New Zealand and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 30, 2013
  • Length: 20:09
  • Purchases: 2
Episode #4: Turkey Creek/Bridge The Gulf
From: Wendy Levy
Series: The Stream
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Bridge the Gulf is a storytelling initiative promoting cultural survival, environmental justice and sustainable development in Gulf Coast communiti...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2010
  • Length: 05:00
Episode #3: Always In Season
From: Wendy Levy
Series: The Stream
Caption: from Always in Season island
For almost a century until the mid-1960s, tens of thousands of ordinary people attended the lynchings of more than 4,000 African Americans in the U...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2010
  • Length: 05:00