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A controversial, yet necessary conversation around how many people can this planet support.
Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB
- Added: Mar 31, 2024
- Length: 57:55
- Purchases: 2
María de los Ángeles Vázquez and her son, Rafael Cancel Vázquez, remember his father, Rafael Cancel Miranda, one of four Puerto Rican Nationalists ...
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 03:16
In 1965 Margaret Crane was a young graphic designer with an idea: Why couldn't women do their own pregnancy tests at home? This is the story of how...
Bought by WUWM, KISU, KETR-FM, RadioStPete Florida, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more
- Added: Feb 27, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 9
"When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel. Taking to the road—by which I mean lett...
- Added: Jan 16, 2024
- Length: 09:43
The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate of any high-income nation in the world — and it is Black mothers who are dying at the hig...
Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more
- Added: May 31, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 6
Writer Leonard Pitts Jr. talks about race, family, and the process of writing his syndicated column which won him a Pulitzer Prize in 2004. Pitts a...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WJCU
- Added: Jun 24, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Nearly two thirds of all children in the U.S. juvenile justice system are kids of color. That’s according to a report by the Children’s Defense Fun...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Apr 12, 2022
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
While wages have flatlined for most working class people, rents have reached new highs, leaving most people struggling. But it’s not just in the US...
Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioStPete Florida, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]
- Added: Mar 28, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
In this Purple Principle Part Two of our Holiday Survival Kit, we learn from Lee McIntyre how artful pushback must be to reach skeptical counterpar...
- Added: Nov 30, 2021
- Length: 28:09
Deborah Tannen is a world class expert in communications and we discuss highlights of wonderful insights she has gained and shared over the years i...
- Added: Apr 07, 2021
- Length: 55:50
John Wood Jr. is National Ambassador for Braver Angels, volunteer citizens committed to respectful dialog and depolarization. He invokes elements ...
- Added: Feb 12, 2021
- Length: 54:29
At 91, Helen Merrill has never missed a presidential election. She sat down with her granddaughter to remember her mother, Blanche, who rose from h...
- Added: Oct 27, 2020
- Length: 02:53
In the midst of our dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s hard to imagine what stories we will ultimately tell our children and grandchildren. T...
- Added: Apr 28, 2020
- Length: 29:00
n my story, you will hear my mom talk about her journey and what it was like growing up and getting kicked out of Ethiopia.
- Added: Dec 30, 2019
- Length: 03:12
Michele DiTomas, a hospice physician who cares for incarcerated men, races against the clock and slashes through bureaucratic tape to help a dying ...
- Added: Jun 07, 2019
- Length: 37:16
For today’s show we focus on Gilligan’s two recent books, both out from Polity Press. These are Joining the Resistance and Why Does Patriarchy Pers...
- Added: May 21, 2019
- Length: 59:02
Social movements and party politics - inherently at odds or natural allies? This week, in his first in-depth TV appearance, Maurice Mitchell, the n...
- Added: Aug 23, 2018
- Length: 28:00
In the late 60s, one man imagined creating a place that would radically undermine the societal values of his time—an alternative space that subvert...
- Added: Aug 21, 2018
- Length: 58:11
- Purchases: 2
For Mother's Day: we bring you a discussion by women of color writers and poets who contributed to the anthology, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on ...
Bought by WVAS
- Added: May 05, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Because Pedro is a U.S. citizen, he was able to sign up for eight years of service and in return, his parents can stay in this country after living...
- Added: Jan 15, 2018
- Length: 09:35
- Purchases: 2
Vernon Dahmer was a successful farmer who fought for voting rights in the mid-1960s. His family recalls the night he was killed by the KKK.
Bought by Public Radio for All and WMUU-LP
- Added: Jan 23, 2017
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
We hear from Munir Jirmanus, a physicist near Boston, MA about his multiple experiences and encounters with the concept of "home." Munir tells a nu...
- Added: Jan 04, 2017
- Length: 26:19
This week’s episode is the second installment of our Families and Prison series. We speak with April, a formerly-incarcerated mother who works with...
- Added: Nov 25, 2016
- Length: 29:39
There is deep concern for the health of American cities. Frustration with inequality is spreading. Public schools are lagging behind expectation. I...
- Added: Nov 14, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Kathleen Lindsen interviews Ron Sheckler on "Fat Kat Kountry" (another awesome KFOK radio show)...
- Added: Sep 16, 2016
- Length: 26:46
