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Beginning in 1907, states in the US began to forcibly sterilize over 60,000 Americans -- people considered by scientists to be “unfit” -- the menta...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Mar 22, 2016
- Length: 22:29
- Purchases: 1
This is a story about a terrible crime and everything that followed. It’s an intensely personal documentary, but it extends into public life and in...
Bought by HowSound, WGBH Radio Boston, KTSW 89.9, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), WHYY and more
- Added: Mar 01, 2016
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 19
All over the country, critics argue that ID laws discourage voter participation--particularly among poor and minority voters. This is particularly ...
- Added: Feb 23, 2016
- Length: 24:44
After serving almost three decades as on the Board of Monroe County Commissioners, she announced she won't be running for reelection
- Added: Feb 18, 2016
- Length: 08:43
Riding on the train to the Democratic National Convention one year, I had the good fortune to talk with a former president of N.O.W. For young twen...
- Added: Feb 10, 2016
- Length: 05:03
In 2012 President Obama took matters into his own hands. His administration signed a memo addressing all branches of the Department of Homeland Sec...
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: 23:50
If a true modern day cowboy exists, Ryan Bingham is that. Sure, you can hear it in every gravely note that comes out of his mouth, in every note o...
Bought by KUCB, KSUT, and KRCB 104.9
- Added: Feb 01, 2016
- Length: 07:05
- Purchases: 3
Ken Thompson made history in 2013 when he became the first African American to be elected Brooklyn District Attorney. He won international attentio...
- Added: Dec 27, 2015
- Length: 29:06
What comes after Whips and Chains? Solitary confinement. Lisa Guenther of Vanderbilt University discusses the reformist good intentions of Benjamin...
- Added: Nov 17, 2015
- Length: 59:45
Clean elections protect constituent rights so wealthy individuals or self-serving personal interests or six-figure job candidates don’t exploit the...
- Added: Oct 31, 2015
- Length: 05:44
The 2015 United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF) is made up of documentary films dealing with key global issues. This year’s theme RUNNING...
- Added: Oct 29, 2015
- Length: 54:50
For tonight’s show, "The United States of Apartheid," we welcome Gerald Horne.
- Added: Oct 13, 2015
- Length: 01:00:15
Veteran police major and executive director of LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) Neill Franklin discuss his journey from being Drug War en...
- Added: Sep 30, 2015
- Length: 15:06
Voices from the epicenter of unrest in Baltimore
Bought by WESM 91.3 FM, PRX Remix, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Aug 13, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 3
From Reform to Transform introduces listeners to passionate racial and social justice advocates in California who crafted, promoted, and saw throug...
Bought by WUAL and KGNU Community Radio
- Added: Jul 13, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Former BC Attorney General Wally Oppal, Native Studies Professor Niigaan Sinclair
- Added: Jun 25, 2015
- Length: 53:09
The President is asking for "fast track" authority to give the White House sole negotiating authority on the Trans Pacific Partnership, a giant tr...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Jun 08, 2015
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 1
Tatiana Whitlock is a firearms instructor who believes in real world situational learning.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 08:57
- Purchases: 1
While advocates and politicians seek an alternative, more integrative model to the AbilityOne program, Gladys, a disabled worker wonders if the Abi...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 03:55
- Purchases: 1
- Added: May 26, 2015
- Length: 08:48
- Purchases: 1
Too often when Albuquerque, New Mexico is in the news, it's bad – a police department under scrutiny by the Justice Department, or an unsolvable ho...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: May 08, 2015
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 1
Tonight’s show, “What’s the Matter with Voting,” will focus on some of the questions that surround the ways citizens think about what voting means,...
- Added: May 05, 2015
- Length: 01:01:28
In 1987, Steven Pagones, a former assistant district attorney in Dutchess County, New York was accused of being one of six white men who raped and ...
- Added: Apr 21, 2015
- Length: 30:03
Host Doug Storm welcomes the candidates vying for the Democratic party nomination to run for the District 4 Bloomington City Council seat: Dave Rol...
- Added: Apr 14, 2015
- Length: 01:01:01
Host Doug Storm welcomes the primary candidates for Mayor of Bloomington.
- Added: Mar 03, 2015
- Length: 01:00:59
