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The Pseudo-Science of Whiteness: Biology as a Social Weapon (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This week, filmmaker Stephanie Welch explores the role that racist, unscientific propaganda has played in promoting white supremacy in the U.S. She...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 10, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Heather McGhee: The Sum of Us, What Racism Costs Everyone and How we can Prosper Together (Re-Air)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Color of Change board chair Heather McGhee talks with Laura about her New York Times best-selling book, The Sum of Us, What Racism Costs Everyone a...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Special: Housing is A Human Right
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Before 2020, America was already in a housing crisis. The Covid-19 pandemic, high unemployment, and a recession have only made things worse. A reco...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Electoral College’s Dirty History (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Given the election, and the difference between popular votes and electoral votes, we revisit our show on the Electoral College. It’s history in the...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Why We Believe What We Believe (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Why do people believe weird things? That’s what Jason Hart wants to find out. He delves into the psychology behind ghost encounters, anti-vaccine ...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, Kansas Public Radio, WLIW, KVSC and more


  • Added: Sep 12, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 13
Democracy: Past, Present... and Future?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Don't remember the past? Does that mean you're condemned to repeat it? What does our country's past tell us about our present— and how can it help ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 26, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Voices of Vietnam: A Lost Homeland (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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The Fall of Saigon marked the loss of a homeland for hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people. This captivating NEH-funded documentary shares st...

Bought by WFAE, WPCA-LP, WCPN, Prairie Public, KVNF and more


  • Added: Apr 11, 2019
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 16
Can a Progressive Candidate Win in Rural America?: Anthony Flaccavento
From: Laura Flanders
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Anthony Flaccavento is running for the US House seat in Virginia's 9th district, a large, sparsely populated region in the southwestern corner of t...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
“Building a Wall”: Church and State in America (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-When Thomas Jefferson designed the University of Virginia’s central Rotunda, he set out to build a temple to the book, a stunning rebuke to the Ch...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, Harford Community Radio, WUGA (part of GPB), WVAS and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 9
Campaign '68
From: American Public Media
Caption: Robert F. Kennedy
Many see similarities between the presidential election campaign of 2016 and one almost half a century earlier. The 1968 presidential campaign was...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KERA, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, Wyoming Public Radio, WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 26
“.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO FAITH, FEMINISM AND HIP HOP.”
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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IN IT’S THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN;S DAY PROGRAM, CASA ATABEX ACHE & MOMMAS HIP HOP KITCHEN PRESENT “.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 54:15
"I do solemnly swear..."
From: With Good Reason
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A Presidential Historian plays clips from Inauguration speeches and tells us what to listen for in Obama's address. And Political Scientists reflec...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
The Boomtown Chronicles: Reflections on a Changing California
From: Coastridge Productions
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A documentary from the epicenter of California's housing crisis. Two versions available: 59 minute and NPR-Clock Friendly with cutaways.

  • Added: Nov 30, 2004
  • Length: 59:02