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Reproductive health services for women are under attack, leaving poor women and women of color lacking access. But a broad coalition of women is st...
- Added: Oct 25, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Riots all over the world are calling on us to get involved in societal change. But what kind of action is needed, and how do we create real change?...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Oct 17, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
A half-hour radio documentary that examines the history and culture of a New Mexico border town. The piece explores issues of inter-ethnic relation...
- Added: Sep 21, 2011
- Length: 29:00
African-Americans have endured more than 246 years of slavery, 100 years of racism and segregation. The trauma from that experience continues to im...
- Added: May 05, 2011
- Length: 29:59
Mississippi occupies a distinct and dramatic place in the history of America’s civil rights movement. No state in the South was more resistant to t...
Bought by WDDE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WKMS, WCMU Michigan, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more
- Added: Feb 16, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 32
"Say It Loud" traces the last 50 years of black history through stirring, historically important speeches by African Americans from across the poli...
Bought by WDDE, WAMU, New Hampshire Public Radio, WGTE Public Media, Nevada Public Radio and more
- Added: Feb 16, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 81
Professor Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ makes the case that the US’ criminal ju...
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
We take a look at the Police killing of Oscar Grant in Oakland, and the debate over who gets to decide when an officer has done something wrong.
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Jul 15, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
An interview with James Lawson, the chief architect of the 1960 lunch counter sit-ins, and confidant to Martin Luther King. Lawson touches on every...
- Added: May 27, 2010
- Length: 29:00
Who gets to decide when an officer has done something wrong—the police chief or the people? Cities across the country are creating civilian oversig...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Aug 05, 2009
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 1
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -1: How the South (or White Supremacy?) Won the War (1865 - 1877)
From: Alan LipkeSeries: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
From the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers, through the defeat of Reconstruction: How history is made and remade, with histor...
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 58:19
- Purchases: 3
Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton believe in forgiveness, but from different perspectives.
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 03:37
- Purchases: 4
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
From: Chris Goldstein
Is Marijuana Prohibition Enforcement Institutionalized Racism? 85% of all the possession arrests in New York City and Philadelphia are mirrors to G...
- Added: Feb 05, 2009
- Length: 03:50
A LOOK AT THE MOVEMENT FOR REPARATIONS FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS
- Added: Feb 02, 2009
- Length: 59:11
Will Wright has been wondering: how will the New Year and Pres. Obama affect African-American men - their attitudes and futures?
- Added: Dec 31, 2008
- Length: 03:12
American icon Nina Simone in words and music
- Added: Oct 22, 2008
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 54
How some immigrants once considered non-white became white
- Added: Feb 13, 2008
- Length: 06:02
The Bayview community's apprehension to a proposed redevelopment plan.
- Added: Jul 07, 2007
- Length: 14:13
Hour-long documentary on the costs and causes of urban sprawl.
Bought by KTSW 89.9, WRPI, KXOT Public Radio, WBEZ, Iowa Public Radio and more
- Added: Jun 01, 2007
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 18
An audio history of the New York Police Department
Bought by WNYC, WFUV, Connecticut Public (WNPR), WGBH Radio Boston, and WAMU
- Added: Aug 25, 2006
- Length: 59:45
- Purchases: 5
Vermont Public Radio examines the circumstances surrounding the suspension of an African-American senior on allegations he intruded into other stud...
- Added: Jul 11, 2006
- Length: 02:56
Vermont Public Radio examines the circumstances surrounding the suspension of an African-American senior on allegations he intruded into other stud...
- Added: Jul 11, 2006
- Length: 08:20
News you don't get delivered to your front door or tune into at 6 and 11. A Small Voice from the Nation's Capital
- Added: Jun 05, 2006
- Length: 56:07
News you don't get delivered to your front door or tune into at 6 and 11. A Small Voice from the Nation's Capital
- Added: Jun 04, 2006
- Length: 01:00:09
