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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.
- Added: Mar 19, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
By around 2044, the U.S. will become a majority-minority nation. This seismic demographic shift has triggered a cultural earthquake, provoking a ra...
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 28:30
When Donald Trump rode a wave of white anxiety into the White House, it was part of a backlash to the Obama presidency, one that revealed an increa...
- Added: Jun 21, 2021
- Length: 28:30
The country might be locked down, but struggles inside prisons and out continue to develop chaotically and unexpectedly intersect with the COVID-19...
- Added: Dec 18, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Listen to Helen as she makes sense of what happens when new motherhood, a global pandemic, and systemic racism collide.
This piece was made by Ia...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KGUA, and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 21, 2020
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Topic 1: How America has changed since its founding. Topic 2: Black Women who fought for suffrage. Topic 3: Immigration laws and who gets to be an ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, KSTK, WNMU-FM, and KOWS
- Added: Jun 19, 2020
- Length: 54:57
- Purchases: 4
In last week’s episode, we introduced Johdy Polk, who spoke to us about her time behind the prison walls, and urged audiences to see the other ways...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:56
This week, Johdy Polk, from Gainesville, Florida, describes her time inside a women’s prison, while sharing cutting observations on growing up as a...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:14
This week, we are returning to the topic of Carceral Capitalism. We interviewed the poet and author Jackie Wang in episodes 89 and 90 of Kite Line....
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:42
This week, we share a moving keynote speech recently given at the University of Michigan by Michelle Jones. Jones has been featured on multiple epi...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 28:25
Last week, we began hearing the voices of prisoners on the topic of Angela Davis’s book, Are Prisons Obsolete? Up first, we have Anastazia Schmid’s...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 30:03
This week, we start in on the topic of Are Prisons Obsolete Over the next couple of Kite Line episodes, we will be sharing the words and writings o...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 28:51
For this week’s episode we share the first part of a conversation between Micol Seigel and Jackie Wang. Wang is the author of the recent book, Carc...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:19
This week, we start by finishing the discussion between Micol Seigel and Jackie Wang. You can hear more of their conversation on carceral capitalis...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 29:03
This week, we are airing selections from a panel discussion that took place earlier this month here in Bloomington. Andrea Ritchie and Victoria Law...
- Added: Mar 08, 2020
- Length: 27:43
In 1968, Chisholm became the first black woman elected to Congress Four years later, she ran for President — the first African American to seek a...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WITF, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Feb 28, 2020
- Length: 01:02
- Purchases: 4
This week, we share a conversation we had with Andrea Ritchie, an attorney and activist whose work focuses on police violence against the queer com...
- Added: Feb 17, 2020
- Length: 29:35
A’shanti Gholar is the founder of the Brown Girl's Guide to Politics and the national political director for Emerge America--a national organizatio...
Bought by KKRN, Louisville Public Media, KSJD, KUT, KCSB-FM and more
- Added: Jan 08, 2020
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 8
On the 5 year anniversary of the uprising in Ferguson, MO, we're re-airing this conversation--with new trax acknowledging the date. When Michael Br...
- Added: Aug 14, 2019
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 9
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry today asks if Alabama's long history of lack of compassion toward people of color now appears again in their lack of...
- Added: May 20, 2019
- Length: :54
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
At age 32, Minnesota State Representative Erin Maye Quade is positioned to be at the forefront of a wave of progressive political leaders represent...
- Added: Oct 09, 2018
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 8
"What we don’t know is what happened in the 18 seconds that the police officer that was in the hallway. He ended up shooting my son seven times in ...
- Added: Apr 09, 2018
- Length: 36:29
From: Stefanie Mavronis
In the months leading up to the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division releasing its report on the Baltimore Police Department, I listene...
- Added: May 01, 2017
- Length: 01:38:20
Portraits of some of America’s most groundbreaking and unusual presidential candidates...who never won the white house.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KPIK-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WCQS, KALW and more
- Added: Jul 19, 2016
- Length: 53:25
- Purchases: 22
