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Yale Panel: An Emotionally Intelligent Approach to Understanding and Managing Polarization
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
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A Council on Academic Freedom launched at Harvard March 2023 and has some similar goals to a panel I helped create with Yale President Peter Salove...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 35:37
Bold Women Of Montana - 0306 - Frieda and Belle Fligelman
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
Bold Women Of Montana - 0302 - Myrna Loy
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
Bold Women of Montana - 0301 - Eloise Cobell
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
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
D.A. Larry Krasner Facing Impeachment: Criminal Justice Reform in the Crosshairs
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Can a predominantly white state legislature overturn the votes of a predominantly Black city? Larry Krasner, Philadelphia’s District Attorney was e...

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


  • Added: Nov 09, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Going For Broke, Part One: Change Of Address
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Going For Broke (A Three Part Series from To the Best of Our Knowledge)
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In the first of three episodes of "Going For Broke," all about the care economy, we're thinking about housing. Many of us would consider it a basic...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WGBH Radio Boston, WKSU, WGUC/ WVXU, Iowa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Abbott Elementary Teaches Us All: Sheryl Lee Ralph & Joyce Abbott
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Can you remember the last time when the challenges that inner city public school teachers face were the subject of a popular TV series? Abbott Elem...

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


  • Added: Jun 01, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Women's History Month: How Trans People Are Reclaiming Their Stories: Laverne Cox, Sam Feder
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Trans liberation is the latest frontline in the struggle for civil rights. In their new documentary, Disclosure, director Sam Feder and producer Am...

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


  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
GN_6.25_ Radio Free Radio
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
KNCE True Taos Radio began in October of 2014 as a radical experiment in community radio in Taos, New Mexico.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 1
Building Power Through Media: Radio Kingston and DeRay Mckesson
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This week, we re-visit radio Kingston, a station connecting communities and lifting up voices. Than joining Laura in studio, activist DeRay Mckesso...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
94: What Happens When Sexual Assault Goes Unpunished? - Sarah Delia, "She Says"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Sarah Delia, Credit: Logan Cyrus
When radio journalist Sarah Delia heard a story about the sexual assault of one of her listeners, “Linda” (not her real name), she knew it was a st...

Bought by WCQS, KUER, Indie3 Radio, KUAF Public Radio, WNIN and more


  • Added: Jun 21, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
Our Search for Belonging
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Howard Ross
It wasn’t that long ago political pundits were expressing concern that our politics were becoming too centrist … too middle of the road.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 07, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Petra Bachmaier, Founder of Luftwerk
From: Alex Kime
Series: Alex Kime - Chicago
Caption: https://alexkime.com/podcasts/
Innovative artist, Petra Bachmaier, one of the founding members of Luftwerk – the Humboldt Park-based art studio specializing in temporary public a...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2017
  • Length: 19:36
ALLAN WOLPER TALKS TO DAVID ROZENHOLC
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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David Rozenholc is the tenant lawyer who took on Donald Trump in one of the most famous cases in New York City real estate history. Rozenholc preve...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2016
  • Length: 28:52
Episode 6: Anchor Dreams - The Passion of Scoop Nemeth
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
Caption: Brian "Scoop" Nemeth, Credit: Noel Black
In this episode of Wish We Were here, we tell the story of Brian "Scoop" Nemeth, a man with high-functioning autism whose singular goal in life is ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 59:05
Simmer 4: Citizen, Not Consumer
From: Carla Seidl
Series: Simmer
Caption: Yams simmering for fufu in Togo, West Africa, Credit: Carla Seidl
The fourth Simmer episode features the second part of the documentary "Telling Our Own Stories: Wally Bowen on Creating a Democratic Media," plus a...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
MIW #11 Alexander Sing - Video and Web Media Producer
From: Allegra Bandy
Series: Making It Work Radio
Caption: Alex Sing on MIW, Credit: Allegra Bandy
Making It Work Radio Season 1-Episode 11 with Alex Sing, Video and Web Media Producer

  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 22:05
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry: How Can You Tell When Political and Moral Ground Are Too Different From Each Other?
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
With the election season over, the next phase of elected politics has settled on our plates like a bowl of jello. How can you tell when the age-old...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2014
  • Length: 01:04
A Citizen's Guide to the "Fear of Gotcha" in American Political Life
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
In the 1950’s and 1960’s American citizens and the stalwart among them who were brave enough to run for political office had to learn to live with...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2014
  • Length: 06:04
Off-Ramp Presents: Norman Lear, legendary TV producer, helped TV grow up
From: john rabe
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Patt Morrison interviews legendary TV producer Norman Lear, whose credits include groundbreaking shows "Maude" and "All in the Family."

  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 06:15
Before You Do This
From: vanessa lowe
Caption: Toby Hawkins
This piece was produced for the 2nd Annual KCRW 24-Hour Radio Race, by Vanessa Lowe and Kent Sparling. It made it to the top ten finalists out of ...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 04:09
ABMLI 1- Twisting In the Wind PSA
From: New Jersey Radio Exchange Network
Series: American Black Male Leadership Institute Radio
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The American Black Male Leadership Institute Public Services Announcement #1

  • Added: Oct 15, 2014
  • Length: 01:10
Telling Our Own Stories: Wally Bowen on Creating a Democratic Media
From: Carla Seidl
Caption: Wally Bowen
Documentary on the life and work of media reform activist Wally Bowen, founder and executive director of the Mountain Area Information Network (MAI...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 47:43
Working With Nature to Heal Nature: Landscapes of Hope
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers Radio Series 12
Caption: John Liu, Credit: Frank Rogozienski (c)
Filmmaker-turned-ecological-restorer John Liu shifted from documenting China’s massive environmental and societal upheavals to filming a groundbrea...

Bought by KQUA, Panhandle Community Radio, KKRN, and KFCF FM


  • Added: Jun 26, 2012
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 4