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In this episode we explore how one community is working to have the hard conversations growing out of this moment. As protesters push for reforms t...
- Added: Jun 25, 2020
- Length: 29:30
Law Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw defined the concept of intersectionality 30 years ago. She developed that framework to understand how identities s...
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- Added: Jun 22, 2020
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
An awkward conversation with her white mother about “good white people” inspired Ijeoma Oluo to take on the unenviable task of writing one of the m...
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- Added: Jun 22, 2020
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 10
In 1855, an outbreak of yellow fever devastated the port city of Norfolk, VA. Annette Finley-Croswhite says the similarities with the handling of t...
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 13
In 1855, an outbreak of yellow fever devastated the port city of Norfolk, VA. Annette Finley-Croswhite says the similarities with the handling of t...
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- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 12
In 1855, an outbreak of yellow fever devastated the port city of Norfolk, VA. Annette Finley-Croswhite says the similarities with the handling of t...
Bought by WNED Buffalo, WNMU-FM, WSGE, and KXCV
- Added: Jun 18, 2020
- Length: :29
- Purchases: 4
In light of the recent events regarding race in America, we revisit MacArthur Genius and Guggenheim Fellow, Claudia Rankine, who discusses her mo...
- Added: Jun 09, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
We take a look at Ella Fitzgerald in 1957, one of the singer's busiest and most memorable years on record.
- Added: Mar 21, 2020
- Length: 59:04
This week on the show: Fighting slavery worldwide -
In this edition: Millions of people are forced to toil in forms of modern slavery across the ...
- Added: Mar 12, 2020
- Length: 30:00
In this episode, Laura interviews MacArthur Genius Award winning choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili about her groundbreaking experimental work to comm...
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- Added: Mar 11, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
In last week’s episode, we introduced Johdy Polk, who spoke to us about her time behind the prison walls, and urged audiences to see the other ways...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:56
This week, Johdy Polk, from Gainesville, Florida, describes her time inside a women’s prison, while sharing cutting observations on growing up as a...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:14
This week, we are returning to the topic of Carceral Capitalism. We interviewed the poet and author Jackie Wang in episodes 89 and 90 of Kite Line....
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:42
This week, we share a moving keynote speech recently given at the University of Michigan by Michelle Jones. Jones has been featured on multiple epi...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 28:25
Last week, we began hearing the voices of prisoners on the topic of Angela Davis’s book, Are Prisons Obsolete? Up first, we have Anastazia Schmid’s...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 30:03
This week, we start in on the topic of Are Prisons Obsolete Over the next couple of Kite Line episodes, we will be sharing the words and writings o...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 28:51
For this week’s episode we share the first part of a conversation between Micol Seigel and Jackie Wang. Wang is the author of the recent book, Carc...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:19
This week, we start by finishing the discussion between Micol Seigel and Jackie Wang. You can hear more of their conversation on carceral capitalis...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:03
This week, we are airing selections from a panel discussion that took place earlier this month here in Bloomington. Andrea Ritchie and Victoria Law...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 27:43
We'll hear the strong voices of women for Women's History Month, kicking off with Nona Hendryx and rolling on with Aretha Franklin, Mavis Staples, ...
- Added: Feb 28, 2020
- Length: 01:57:59
- Purchases: 8
This week, we share a conversation we had with Andrea Ritchie, an attorney and activist whose work focuses on police violence against the queer com...
- Added: Feb 17, 2020
- Length: 29:35
Hour One explores the roots of a motif in contemporary music that has come down to us from far away and a thousand years ago. Hour Two continues t...
- Added: Feb 17, 2020
- Length: 01:56:00
This week we take an look at the life and music of Margaret Bonds.
- Added: Feb 14, 2020
- Length: 58:29
The "Juke In The Back" pays tribute to the great R&B vocalist, Lil Greenwood. You'll hear her greatest early recordings from 1950-1954, before she ...
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- Added: Feb 09, 2020
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 6
On Feb 3rd, 1945, The all women of color, Six-Triple-Eight, was sent overseas to clear a two year backlog of mail. They were told it would take six...
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- Added: Feb 05, 2020
- Length: 04:25
- Purchases: 1
