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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...

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


  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 7
The Georgia Way: Strategies that Work for Winning Elections
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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What happened in Georgia in 2020? The election of two Democrats to the Senate from that state handed the presidency to Joe Biden and control of Con...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN and more


  • Added: Oct 26, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
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
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for August 3, 2022
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: In Historic Breakthrough, Senate Bill Requires Medicare to Negotiate Price...

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Aug 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Re:Work Soul Force, Part 1
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Rev. James Lawson Jr., Credit: Reed Hutchinson
On Dec. 11, 2021, the UCLA Labor Center’s historic MacArthur Park building was officially named the UCLA James Lawson Jr. Worker Justice Center, in...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Feb 23, 2022
  • 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
BIPOC Journalists On Covering COVID and Racism
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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BIPOC journalists reflect on what it is to be veterans of two of the most devastating wars in recent history: the coronavirus pandemic and the cent...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Geraldine's Story: How Public Schools Are Failing Black Students with Dyslexia
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Geraldine Robinson, center, and one of her sons, right, wait for her to be honored for her advocacy by the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund in September 2019
Black students with dyslexia carry a heavy burden in public schools. This program centers around a grandmother who fought for years to get her gran...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for October 28, 2020
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Urgent Lawsuit Launched to Stop Trump Regime Voter Intimidation; Despite R...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and WKPW


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for July 29, 2020
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Federal Forces Deployed to Portland Provoke Violence & Rebellion Against I...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
COVID 19 - an Unequal Opportunity Killer, with Daniel E. Dawes, Esq.
From: Claudia Cragg
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KGNU's Claudia Cragg, @claudiacragg speaks here with Daniel E. Dawes, a nationally recognized leader in healthcare law and policy, who has been an ...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 28:33
The Future of Abolition: Mark Lamont Hill, Michelle Alexander and Vonya Quarles
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Michelle Alexander, Mark Lamont Hill and Vonya Quarles discuss the modern prison abolition movement, what's changed in the past ten years, and the ...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Jan 29, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
10 years after the crash: Recovery Not for All
From: Making Contact
Caption: Nomi Prins and Julianne Malveaux
This month is the ten year anniversary of the stock market crash of 2018. Nomi Prins talks about her new book, “Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigg...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
Cannabis, Spirituality, & Racism (ENCORE)
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Michael Eric Dyson and Stephen Gray
One of my most popular shows of 2017. Originally produced in April 2017.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Dec 22, 2017
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 2
"Rude, Crude and Crass: The Rise of the Right in America-Part Two
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: "The Cutting Edge: Black News and Views- Where Journalism, Culture, Politics and Activism Converge"
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An audio collage of the development of the Klan, the Alt. Right and White Supremacy in the U.S.

  • Added: Aug 15, 2017
  • Length: 53:48
The Struggle Inside: The Murder of George Jackson
From: Making Contact
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On this edition of Making Contact we present, The Struggle Inside: The Murder of George Jackson, a program about the modern anti-prison movement.

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Aug 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
Another View Round Table - The Exchange of Power
From: WHRV
Series: Another View
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President Obama’s eight years in office is winding to a close. What will his legacy be? Meanwhile, President-Elect Trump prepares to take the reins...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2017
  • Length: 54:01
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending September 2, 2016
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, in-depth, progressive analysis since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Aetna, Other Insurance Companies Leave Obamacare, Illustrating Need for Me...

Bought by WRIR, WMUU-LP, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Aug 24, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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
July 25, 2016
From: WFHB
Series: Bring It On!
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William Hosea and Cornelius Wright invite Ms. Oyibo Afoaku, a higher education professional, to Bring It On to discuss the Harambe concept, her de...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2016
  • Length: 58:49
ALLAN WOLPER TALKS TO DAVID DINKINS ABOUT HIS LEGACY
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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David Dinkins made political history in 1990 when he was sworn in as the first African American mayor of New York City. Dinkins, now a professor at...

  • Added: Feb 29, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending September 4, 2015
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: AT&T's Unique Relationship with NSA Comes Under Scrutiny After Release of ...

Bought by WRIR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 26, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending March 20, 2015
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
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50 Years After Selma March, New Report Finds Party Politics Increasingly Polarized by Race; Chicago's Progressive Movement Rallies to Defeat Mayor ...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Louisville Marks 60th Anniversary of Civil Rights Flashpoint
From: Rick Howlett
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This year, Louisville, Kentucky has been marking the anniversary of a touchstone event of the Civil Rights era.

  • Added: Dec 02, 2014
  • Length: 05:49