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LaMont Dottin
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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Back in 1995, LaMont Dottin was 21 years old and a freshman at Queens College when, one evening, he didn’t come home. His mother went to the local ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 09:00
BLACK LIVES MATTER meets BLACK ROCK CITY
From: David Boyer
Series: THE INTERSECTION at Burning Man
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One principle guiding Burning Man is "Radical Inclusion." But it's never been racially diverse. Activists like Favianna Rodriguez are changing that.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 56:11
Out of Gas, In with Justice
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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NYC Housing Authority is the city's largest landlord. Pilot programs to electrify its decrepit housing stock find successes and stumbling blocks w...

Bought by WFHB and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Soledad O’Brien on Rosa Parks: The Untold Story
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Rosa Parks is best known to Americans as a national treasure — the little old lady who sat down on a bus and “ended racism.” What we lose in that d...

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


  • Added: Oct 19, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
For-Profit Business of Training Guns-for-hire is Literally Booming In Rural America
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The last US soldier to leave Afghanistan returned home this August, but private security personnel long outnumbered US troops in that war, and the ...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Aug 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Forgotten Coup, January 6th & the Small Town Americans on the Frontlines of Democracy
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Could a successful coup happen in the US? The ongoing Congressional hearings into the events of January 6 show that just a handful of election offi...

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


  • Added: Jul 20, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Detroit Hives: Honey Bee Farms as Urban Revitalization - EcoJustice Radio
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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Urban beekeeping is forging new paths in Detroit. Nicole Lindsey and Timothy Paule Jackson of Detroit Hives are generating a lot of buzz working to...

Bought by KTSW 89.9 and WFHB


  • Added: May 09, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
70 Million: Taking Mental Health Crises Out of Police Hands
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Asantewaa Boykin, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project, program director for MH First Sacramento, and an ER nurse, poses for a photo at her home in Sacramento., Credit: Photo by Sara Nevis.
Police encounters during a mental health crisis have a greater chance of turning deadly if you're Black. New response mechanisms bypass law enforce...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 09, 2022
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 3
Extremist Ties of Survivalist Groups at Paramilitary Training Camps In Rural America (Holiday ReAir - Week of 12/29/21)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The last US soldier to leave Afghanistan returned home this August, but private security personnel long outnumbered US troops in that war, and the ...

Bought by KDNK, WNYE, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, and KWMR


  • Added: Dec 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
In Buffalo with India Walton: An Insurgent Candidate Runs for Mayor
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Eyes across the nation are on the mayoral election in Buffalo, New York, where insurgent candidate India Walton could become the first Black woman—...

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


  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
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
"Divided States: Efforts to Pull Together When Things Fall Apart"
From: Shirley Jahad
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The theme of this special is a great fit for your programming needs in the days leading up to and the days following the July 4th holiday! This sel...

Bought by WRKF, KUAF Public Radio, KMXT, WABE, WJCT and more


  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 41
When you see a barricade, do you feel safe?
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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Slow Streets' hit a bump in Oakland and turned into something better.

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jun 11, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 143: Knock and Announce
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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“I didn’t do what they said I did. And it was like, I don’t know how to disprove the police. I mean, it’s my word against theirs. I don’t really st...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 33:00
Unprisoned Radio Hour: Stories of Being Black and Male in America
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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In this hour we hear three stories about what it's like being Black and male in the United States of America. The first story, from season 1 of Un...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Aug 08, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 1
You Never Get Nothing Back They Take: The Myth of Protect and Serve
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 2, Episode 7 You Never Get Nothing Back They Take is a verité romp following Zelly and his lawyer Kelly as they attempt to retrieve Zelly's...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 32:59
  • Purchases: 1
Victim/Criminal: The Myth of Difference
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 2, Episode 6 Victim/Criminal tells the story of Hakeem Carter, who was brutally attacked while walking home from work one night. This trau...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 24:40
  • Purchases: 1
The Myth of the Super Predator
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 2, Episode 4 'The Myth of the Super Predator debunks an idea first made famous by then-first lady Hillary Clinton, an idea we still haven't...

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  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 30:03
  • Purchases: 1
The Myth Justice is Blind to Money, Part 2: The System
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 2, Episode 2 Part 2 of The Myth Justice is Blind to Money looks at one prior attempt to get rid of money bail, and how this attempt was thw...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 10:05
  • Purchases: 1
This "Bad Child" Became a Judge With a Passion for Justice, Poetry, and Decency
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1.5, Episode 3 Retried Judge Calvin Johnson was a lot of firsts, including the first elected African American judge in New Orleans. Johnso...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 11:51
Pioneering Female Police Officer Repaired Bonds Through Talent Shows
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1.5, Episode 2 In 1968, Yvonne Bechet became one of the first female police officers in New Orleans. She was also the first African America...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 11:41
  • Purchases: 1
How are the record number of people returning from Louisiana prisons making their way in the world?
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 14 Here’s what it’s like when you’re released from prison. You’re given a $20 debit card and a bus ride home. You need housing, ...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 09:21
A Family Rallies Around Their Brother As He Leaves Prison Yet Again
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 13 In nearly every state, prison populations have exploded -- in large part, because of drug laws and the people, like Manny Hil...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 09:20
  • Purchases: 1
As New Orleans Incarcerates More People, More Children Have a Parent Behind Bars
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 12 Over the last forty years, as incarceration has surged across the nation, so has the number of children with a family member...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 09:20
  • Purchases: 1
The Bombing of MOVE, 35 Years Later (Updated)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Our radio adaptation of the film, Let the Fire Burn. Directed by Jason Osder, examines the controversial, 1985 clash between police in Philadelphia...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1