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Meet the BIPOC Press: Is Earth Day Still Relevant?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Corporate greenwashing has hijacked Earth Day, but the ideas behind the holiday are more urgent than ever. There are environmental issues all aroun...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, WNYE, and KWMR


  • Added: Apr 24, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
After Cleaning Up Gerrymandered State Senate & Assembly Districts, the Wisconsin Supreme Court Passes on Congressional Districts
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
After Cleaning Up Gerrymandered State Senate & Assembly Districts, the Wisconsin Supreme Court Passes on Congressional Districts

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 05, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Monica Guzman on the importance of curiosity to build relationships that bridge divides
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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Welcome to News in Context. I’m Gina Baleria. In this episode, we explore how bridging by building relationships and being curious can connect peo...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 29:30
A Majority of Americans Like Voting by Mail - Including Many Florida Republicans. Making it Harder May Keep Them From Voting, Too.
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
A Majority of Americans Like Voting by Mail - Including Many Florida Republicans. Making it Harder May Keep Them From Voting, Too.

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KICI Iowa City, and WUTC


  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
NY Times Columnist David Brooks on How to Know and See a Person
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In this episode, we talk with New York Times columnist David Brooks, about his new book - How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 29:30
Arizona Legislator and 2020 Fake Elector Proposes the State Legislature – Not the Voters – Should Pick the State’s Presidential Electors
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
Arizona Legislator and 2020 Fake Elector Proposes the State Legislature – Not the Voters – Should Pick the State’s Presidential Electors

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WUTC, and KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Not Wanted at Harvard? BIPOC Media on Claudine Gay, Anti-Zionism & Diversity in Education
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Dr. Claudine Gay made history as the first Black President of Harvard. She faced fierce backlash over the school’s statements on the Israel-Hamas W...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, Radio Catskill and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
BIPOC Media on the Fight for Fair Wages — & Anti-racist Unions
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Over 450,000 workers have gone on strike in 2023. Many are celebrating this revival of labor power, but what does it mean for workers of color — of...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, WNYE and more


  • Added: Nov 21, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Sonali Kolhatkar: “Rising Up” for Social Justice, With YES! Magazine
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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As the Israel/Hamas conflict continues, what is media’s role?  Across the globe, reporting shapes political and cultural landscapes — and Sonali Ko...

Bought by Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN, KDNK and more


  • Added: Oct 25, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 8
Connecting Outside of the Algorithm: Circumventing the Mediated World of Digital Media Via In-Person Connection, with Riaz Patel
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
Caption: Logo: News In Context, Credit: Joyce Cheng
In this episode, we explore how much of the information we get is mediated - edited - and we all get different edits based on what the algorithm th...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
Before the Ground Runs Dry: BIPOC Media on the US Water Crisis
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this episode of Meet the BIPOC Press, a monthly collaboration between The Laura Flanders Show and URL Media, we take a closer look at the US wa...

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


  • Added: Sep 27, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 8
Tracking & Defending Press Freedom in the U.S.
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In this episode, we discuss press freedom in the U.S. in the wake of a police raid of the local paper in Marion, Kansas. In that raid, officers con...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
Asian Americans & Anti-Blackness: Truth vs. Fiction on Affirmative Action (August 2, 2023 release)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Affirmative action's foes worked with conservative Chinese American organizations to sue two colleges over their admissions processes. The result w...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, WNYE and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Revolutionary Mothering and Reproductive Justice Encore
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs tells the birth story of the book she co-edited with China Martens and Mai'a Williams, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on th...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KMUN


  • Added: Jun 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Chesa Boudin on how criminal justice reform can improve public safety, and the importance of basing decisions on evidence and data
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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Welcome to News in Context – I’m Gina Baleria. In this episode, we talk with former San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin, founding executive director of ...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
Lynn Parramore on Reframing Economics for the People & Solving Systemic Economic Issues
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In this episode, we explore how economic issues are often talked about in ways that minimize the needs of those who may not have the means to withs...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
Eric Tars on How Seeing Humanity Helps Us Address Homelessness More Effectively
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In this episode, we explore how othering has led to increased marginalization and vilification of people who are un-housed, and how civity can help...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
Countering The Politics of Division by Coming Together in Solidarity, with Ian Haney López
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In this episode, we explore how engaging across our racial and class divides can help bring us together to care for and nurture our democracy. My ...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2023
  • Length: 29:32
The Effects of Strategic Racism on Democracy, with Ian Haney López
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In this episode, we explore the strategic use of racism in electoral politics to divide citizens across racial and other differences in an effort t...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 29:32
Strengthening Democracy by Increasing Social Trust & Cultivating Connections Across Difference, with Robb Willer
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In this episode, we explore a massive new study on improving the health of democracy. The Strengthening Democracy Challenge invited more than 30-th...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
BIPOC Media Covered the Elections Differently
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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When it came to the midterms, mainstream white pundits got a lot wrong that local, Black, Brown and BIPOC media got right, and they're still missin...

Bought by KWMR, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: Nov 30, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for November 2, 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: Progressives Can Play a Pivotal Role to Defeat Fascist Republicans in Midt...

Bought by WFHB, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, RadioStPete Florida, and WETS


  • Added: Nov 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Making Peace with Our News Anxiety
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, correspondent Danielle Preiss explores anxiety around the news with three guests who talk about how it may n...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KUNM, and KMUN


  • Added: Oct 21, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Melissa Weintraub, Resetting the Table to Heal Divides and Prevent Political Violence
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In this episode, we talk with Melissa Weintraub, founder & co-executive director of Resetting the Table. Resetting the table focuses on building di...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
Making DEI Work Transformative & Relational, with Jacqueline Font-Guzman
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In this episode, we explore concepts of privilege - and how they color our systems and perpetuate inequities. We also discuss how building relation...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:30