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In 1959, as a senior in college, Albert Jose Jones founded the first Black Scuba Diving Club in the U.S. Since then Albert and his fellow divers ha...
- Added: Apr 29, 2024
- Length: 02:51
There have been fewer than 50 full face transplant recipients in the world. And up until 2019, there had been zero done for African-Americans. Toda...
- Added: Mar 29, 2024
- Length: 50:00
Urban shamanism and setting sacred space. Dreams, like myths, can be regarded as stories that are not true but that say something true. The essence...
- Added: Mar 15, 2024
- Length: 54:13
Is melanin a genetic marker for superiority?
Bought by KCHW, KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KWMR and more
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 01:58:02
- Purchases: 31
HOUR ONE: "The Year Of Return" - 2019 marked the "year of return" to Ghana – attracting visitors from throughout the African diaspora. Now, scores ...
- Added: Jan 19, 2024
- Length: 01:59:01
Learning to let go and move forward even when we are afraid. The Dream Journal has a conversation with new mother Sahlah Dubel who goes deep with a...
- Added: Dec 11, 2023
- Length: 55:57
David Kattenburg speaks about Henrietta Lacks and medical racism in America with Dorothy Roberts. Roberts is Professor of Law and Sociology at the ...
- Added: Oct 01, 2023
- Length: 34:56
Feed your head, Grace Slick cried in the song White Rabbit. How about feeding the bacteria in your gut? Beer won’t make you smart. How about wine, ...
- Added: Sep 16, 2023
- Length: 56:05
The history of why Black women are more likely to die when giving birth than White women.
Bought by WVTF and WNED Buffalo
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 56:56
- Purchases: 2
"Race correction" is a practice based on the premise that Black bodies are inherently different from White bodies. Medical students are trying to c...
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 48:57
If there is no such thing as biological race, why do we have race-specific drugs?
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 54:18
The word “Tuskegee” has become shorthand for the Black community’s mistrust of the medical establishment. But what really happened?
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 59:05
Activists were angry that a museum held the skulls of enslaved people. Then they discovered it also had remains of Black children killed in 1985.
- Added: May 14, 2023
- Length: 56:58
The faulty—and fatal—race logic of an 18th century yellow fever epidemic.
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 40:50
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 33:44
Black Americans report higher levels of mistrust in the health care system than white Americans and suffer worse outcomes in everything from matern...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 03, 2023
- Length: 20:23
- Purchases: 1
Topic 1 - Green Lights for Migraines; Topic 2 - Black in Science; Topic 3 - Lithium Mining
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Feb 02, 2023
- Length: 51:45
- Purchases: 1
You only die once. But you can get close a few times.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 52:00
- Purchases: 1
You only die once. But you can get close a few times.
Bought by KHEN-LP, WMUU-LP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRGY and more
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 10
You only die once. But you can get close a few times.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNMU-FM, and KXCV
- Added: Dec 15, 2022
- Length: :30
- Purchases: 3
HOUR ONE: "Astonishing African Futures" - The new Black Panther movie, "Wakanda Forever," is dominating the global box office. This hour, a litera...
- Added: Dec 09, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
Interview with Drew Lanham, South Carolina author, Black birder and wildlife biologist.
- Added: Dec 01, 2022
- Length: 33:10
Dr. Robert Bullard, widely considered the father of environmental justice, talks about the inequality of pollution and climate change.
- Added: Dec 01, 2022
- Length: 29:53
The pipeline fight comes to a surprising end. But with so many environmental injustices remaining in Memphis, the work is far from over. MCAP will ...
- Added: Sep 23, 2022
- Length: 31:05
Though the pipeline’s construction seems inevitable, MCAP’s relentless activism has begun attracting the attention of national figures, who help en...
- Added: Sep 23, 2022
- Length: 29:47