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Reproductive Justice: The Ongoing Struggle for Bodily Autonomy (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Today we share excerpts from “She's Beautiful When She's Angry,” a documentary about the rise of activism around women’s rights in the late 1960s, ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Mar 19, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
210305: Temperature Check: Science, Texas, and Climate Chaos, 3/5/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Just two months into 2021, deadly winter temperatures left millions of Texans without water and power. Meanwhile, California is preparing for anoth...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
2021-03-05 Temperature Check: Science, Texas, and Climate Chaos
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Just two months into 2021, deadly winter temperatures left millions of Texans without water and power. Meanwhile, California is preparing for anoth...

Bought by WCNY, WAMU, Maine Public Radio, MPR News Stations, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 18
201009: A Feminist Climate Renaissance, 10/9/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Pathways for reducing carbon emissions include electrifying transportation, replacing fossil fuels with wind and solar power. But in this time of n...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
2020-10-09 A Feminist Climate Renaissance
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Pathways for reducing carbon emissions include electrifying transportation, replacing fossil fuels with wind and solar power. But in this time of n...

Bought by WWNO, WDSE, KSQD Santa Cruz, KICI Iowa City, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 8
Courageous Conversations with Reverend Zina Jacque & Jessica Green
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
Caption: Zina Jacque, Credit: Linda Barrett (lindambarrettproductions.com)
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
Kimberlé Crenshaw: Intersectionality
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Kimberlé Crenshaw, Credit: Annabel Clark
Law Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw defined the concept of intersectionality 30 years ago. She developed that framework to understand how identities s...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jun 22, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Janis Porter and Olivia Hooker
From: StoryCorps
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Dr. Olivia Hooker, who lived to be 103, sat down with her goddaughter Janis Porter to discuss her groundbreaking life as the first African American...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2020
  • Length: 02:05
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Pushout
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools is an examination of the experiences of black girls across the country whose intricate lives...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Aug 25, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Joyce Carol Oates and “The Sacrifice”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Never one to shy away from controversial topics, Joyce’s latest novel is based on the true story of Tawana Brawley of upstate New York who made hea...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 04, 2015
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine Week Ending December 5, 2014
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Ferguson Streets Explode in Anger After Grand Jury Opts Not to Indict Darr...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Centerstage Minnesota: Southwire
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
Caption: Southwire at Tycoon's in Duluth, Credit: Charlie Pulkrabek - 4/20/13
A new band out of Duluth, Southwire, while drawing from some well established musical traditions, are operating in the realm of invention. When you...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 05, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
CRIME AFTER CRIME -- Filmmaker Yoav Potash and lawyers Joshua Safran and Nadia Costa
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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CRIME AFTER CRIME -- Filmmaker Yoav Potash and lawyers Joshua Safran and Nadia Costa on finding justice for Debbie Peagler.

  • Added: Aug 09, 2011
  • Length: 27:16
“.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO FAITH, FEMINISM AND HIP HOP.”
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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IN IT’S THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN;S DAY PROGRAM, CASA ATABEX ACHE & MOMMAS HIP HOP KITCHEN PRESENT “.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 54:15
This I Believe - Sufiya Abdur-Rahman
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Sufiya Abdur-Rahman believes being black is beautiful and not a condition she has to rise above.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KBGA 89.9 FM


  • Added: Sep 22, 2008
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 3
"Life Challenges" by Shekira McKnight
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2007
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With her amazing voice and sly poetry, this young writer approaches depression head-on. This poet is a student at Steinmetz Academic Centre (Chica...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 22, 2007
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 1