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Giving Bayard Rustin His Flowers (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Bayard Rustin, half-length portrait, facing front, microphones in foreground, Credit: Library of Congress
Today’s episode from our archives continues to honor Black history and heritage. We take a look at the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin, a central ...

Bought by WXDU, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WORT, Oregon Public Broadcasting, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Feb 13, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Top of Mind - Righting Society’s Past Wrongs: How Late is Too Late to Repair?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Can righting society's past wrongs help us heal from historical harm?

Bought by KMXT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RADIOLEX, KSTK, KOWS and more


  • Added: Dec 21, 2023
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 10
Why Black San Franciscans Are Fighting for Reparations
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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San Francisco is considering reparations for Black San Franciscans. To understand why advocates are pushing for reparations in the city, we dive de...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and KALW


  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
Top of Mind - Starting Over After Life in Prison
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Nearly half of people who leave prison will end up back behind bars. Why don't they stay out? And how would their lives be different if no criminal...

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  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 7
Defenseless: Daniel Medwed on Incarcerated Innocents
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Daniel Medwed
Many followers of the highly publicized Adnan Syed case were delighted to see an innocent man set free after over two decades behind bars. But the ...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Zero Sum, Zero Change: What Racism Costs Everyone
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this week’s episode of World Affairs, Ray examines the legacy and lived-reality of zero-sum economics at home and abroad.

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Rob Schofield: Carolina In My Mind
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rob Schofield
Come election season, some of us who live in solidly “blue” states like California or New York take our activist selves on the road to so-called “s...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bring It On! – November 15, 2021: Meet the Candidates – Valerie McCray for U.S. Senate and Jennifer Crossley for Monroe County Council
From: WFHB
Series: Bring It On!
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On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts William Hosea and Natalia Galvan speak with two women of color who are vying for local and national polit...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Top of Mind - Three-Fingered Salute, McDonald's, Foreign Policy
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Hunger Games Revolution Symbol Evolves in Real-World Asian Protests; Topic 2: Why There Are So Many Golden Arches in Black Communities; To...

Bought by RADIOLEX, KOWS, and WYAP


  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 51:37
  • Purchases: 3
Rod Graham: Color-Consciousness Not Colorblindness
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rod Graham
Many of us grew up under the impression that “colorblindness,” or pretending not to see racial differences was virtuous. An important contribution ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 18, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Plessy v Ferguson & Brown v Board of Education
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: Civil Rights
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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


  • Added: Aug 03, 2021
  • Length: 51:31
  • Purchases: 11
Voter Suppression, Professional Tree Climbing, Basketball Graphic Novel
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 - Civil Rights Filmmaker Takes on Voter Suppression in “After Selma.” Topic 2 - Connecting with Nature through Professional Tree Climbing. ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, RadioStPete Florida, and KOWS


  • Added: Oct 13, 2020
  • Length: 51:51
  • Purchases: 3
Maurice Plaines on America’s Epidemic of Racism
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Maurice Plaines
This has been a difficult stretch for the country with millions sick, out of work, or simply stuck at home. But the horrific murder of George Floyd...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Community Land Trusts: A Model for Reparations?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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400 years since the first enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown, many people agree reparations are due, but what would they look like? How about a...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Jun 06, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Wilkerson, Isabel — America’s Great Migration: 1915-1970 Part Two
From: Barry Vogel
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In the years between 1915 and 1970 almost six million black American citizens from the south migrated to northern and western cities seeking freedo...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
World in Progress 01/03/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Once they have completed their medical degree, many Ghanaian doctors prefer to move to Europe or North America instead of wo...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
RDD: Dignity and Respect
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we're meeting with Heather Hall, the Director of Advocacy for ABLE, the Advocates for Basic Legal Equality. A...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 14, 2017
  • Length: 06:36
  • Purchases: 1
Stand Your Ground: America's Love Affair With Lethal Self-Defense
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Caroline Light
Harvard Professor, Caroline Light, explores the racist "Stand Your Ground" history.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 57:59
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 78: Can’t Get Ahead
From: Shira Rascoe
Series: No Jargon
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Poverty can persist in the same communities for generations, especially communities of color. Professor Darrick Hamilton walks through the policies...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2017
  • Length: 27:15
Episode 77: Urban Renewal 2.0
From: Shira Rascoe
Series: No Jargon
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Development efforts in American cities often push out long-term residents and communities of color. Zeroing in on Baltimore, Professor Brandi Bless...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 21:27
Episode 71: Violence in Resistance
From: Shira Rascoe
Series: No Jargon
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Protests that turn violent have been a constant throughout American history. Professor Ashley Howard explains their origins, and how new laws, poli...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 26:10
  • Purchases: 1
Police Policies and Black Lives Matter
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious discusses police misconduct, accountability and the Black Lives Matter movement with Dr. Joseph Marshall, a member of the San Francis...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Reconstructing Republicanism
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Ed Ayers talks with historian Annette Gordon-Reed about the Republican Party’s own civil war in the late 1860s, over the nature of Reconstruct...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 1
“Let Freedom Ring!”
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Historian David Blight talks with host Ed Ayers about the continuing impact of the Civil War in shaping the context within which the march took pla...

Bought by Radio Newark and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 03, 2013
  • Length: 12:22
  • Purchases: 2
America's Great Migration: 1915-1970 Part One
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Pulitzer Prize winner, Isabel Wilkerson, author of “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2012
  • Length: 29:02