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Reproductive Justice: The Ongoing Struggle for Bodily Autonomy (Encore)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

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.

Season 1, Episode 21 - 'Beyond Bars' feat Fox & Rob Richardson

From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1

The need for prison reform in the USA.

Bought by WOJB

Echoes of a Coup

From: Scene on Radio

One-hour special (59:00 with 5-minute news hole), Echoes of a Coup, telling the story of the only successful coup d'etat in U.S. history -- the 189...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WNYC, WUNC, Baltimore Public Media, WFDD and more

The Lost Cause — the Civil War, then and now

From: Humankind
Series: Humankind Specials

Are we still living with the racial divide left over from the Civil War? This provocative audio documentary explores the history of a conflict that...

Bought by WHYY, KUNM, Maine Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, WLPR and more

Civics 101: The True Story Of Reconstruction

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101

Reconstruction has long been taught as a lost cause narrative. We talk about what that narrative leaves out.

The EXTENDED Untold Story of Dr. Annette Atkins' Missing Pieces at the Stearns History Museum Breakfast Club

From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota

In today’s FULL and EXTENDED Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attends the Stearns History Museum’s...

The Untold Story of Dr. Annette Atkins' Missing Pieces at the Stearns History Museum Breakfast Club

From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota

In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack attends the Stearns History Museum’s Breakfast Club pr...

Plessy v Ferguson & Brown v Board of Education

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: Civil Rights

The Supreme Court case that said racial segregation was constitutional, and the landmark decision that, decades later, overturned it.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, WYAP, WCMU Michigan, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more

Episode 158: "If it ever happens, run."

From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

“What I recall most is the way that she grabbed my wrist and, shaking a bit, she said over and over again, ‘If it happens, run. Don’t let that happ...

The Sabotage of Black Education: The Fight Against Rahm Emanuel to Save Dyett High School

From: When We Fight, We Win!

The continued closures of our public schools and high-stakes testing illustrate the institutionalized racism embedded in our educational system. Ji...

The Myth Justice is Blind to Money, Part 3: The City

From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned

Season 2, Part 3 The Myth Justice is Blind to Money, Part 3 investigates the impact of the Federal Court’s involvement in Orleans Parish’s practic...

Bought by PRX Remix

André Wallace: Birds Really Color the World for Us

From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues

Birds - André Wallace is a City Council Member at Mount Vernon, New York. He is also the owner of a construction company, CDCD, LLC.

Stopping Voter Suppression

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Caption: Voters waiting hours in line in Milwaukee

Millions of citizens of color have been purged from voting rolls while millions of young people struggle to get on. We talk with folks working on...

Bought by WFHB and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]

50 Years Later: Remembering Fred Hampton

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Our radio adaptation of the film, The Murder of Fred Hampton, produced by filmmakers Mike Gray and Howard Alk, provides a glimpse into the life of ...

The Port Chicago Sailors: Separate and Unequal

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Freddie Meeks, sailor in the disaster at weapons shipping depot in Port Chicago, Calif., holds a picture of himself as a young seaman July 14, 1994. He died in 2003. , Credit: (AP Photo/Chris Pizzelo)

Wartime. Disaster. Trauma. Charges of mutiny for 50 Black sailors in a Jim Crow courtroom. Discrimination and a battle for civil rights. Listen to ...

Bought by KSFR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KVSC

Why is Deerfield (Still) So White?

From: Amy Roost

Caption: Deerfield, 1963 , Credit: ART SHAY / @ART SHAY ARCHIVE, 2018

A North Shore Suburb of Chicago skirts fair housing laws that require affordable housing and struggles to come to terms with segregation and a trou...

Locking Up Our Own

From: Sally Tucker
Series: Thinking CAP

James Forman Jr., a former Washington, D.C., public defender, Yale University professor, and author of the Pulitzer Prize winner and The New York’s...

Life of the Law #102: Radio Silenced

From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law

In April of 2014, federal agents raided the studios of 106.1 TOUCH FM in Boston, Massachusetts. The reason was simple: the radio station was operat...

Bought by KUER

You Are How You Sound

From: Hold That Thought
Series: On Language

How may speech affect your perceived level of intelligence? Dr. John Baugh describes research that sheds light on linguistic profiling.

Bought by KRZA

Linguistic Insights

From: Hold That Thought
Series: On Language

In the late 1980s, a personal case of housing discrimination prompted Dr. John Baugh to launch decades of research into what he calls linguistic pr...

Bought by KRZA and PRX Remix

How Americans Make Race

From: Hold That Thought
Series: American Identities

Whether looking at the 1920s or 2013, people's behavior and attitudes toward race are often influenced by factors beyond their own experience and c...

The Dream Before the Dream: Detroit, 1963

From: Zak Rosen

On June 23, 1963, labor and church leaders organized tens of thousands of people in Detroit for the Great March to Freedom. Dr. Martin Luther King ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix

Segregation Now, Segregation Forever: The Infamous Words of George Wallace

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project

On the 50th anniversary of Wallace’s inaugural speech as the Governor of Alabama, Radio Diaries tells the story behind those infamous words, and th...

Bought by The Story and PRX Remix

The Life, Death, and Rebirth of ACORN

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

It took 40 years to build ACORN, but just a few months to bring it down. Local organizers are trying to rebuild, but how is ACORN’s absence affect...

Rediscovering Barbara Jordan

From: KUT

One-hour documentary about the life and legacy of Barbara Jordan, the first black woman from the South to serve in the U.S. Congress.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and KXOT Public Radio

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