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The Georgia Way: Strategies that Work for Winning Elections
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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What happened in Georgia in 2020? The election of two Democrats to the Senate from that state handed the presidency to Joe Biden and control of Con...

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


  • Added: Oct 26, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
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
BIPOC Media: Amplifying Black and Indigenous Collaborations
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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How do Black and Indigenous communities intersect? This special feature for Indigenous People’s day explores the forces that have both facilitated ...

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


  • Added: Sep 28, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Art at the Intersection: Carlton Turner on Cultivating Community in Mississippi
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Community Farm, Credit: Courtesy of Sipp Culture
Carlton Turner talks about the work of Sipp Culture which uses story to uncover and support cultural and economic development in Utica, Mississippi.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., RADIOLEX, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 06, 2022
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 3
Lighting Up a Better Future (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Legalize parage
Advocates argue that after bearing the brunt of harsh marijuana laws, people of color deserve a spot in Virginia’s commercial cannabis industry.

Bought by WTJU, KHEN-LP, KWIT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11
Lighting Up a Better Future (Hour no BB or Bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Legalize parage
Advocates argue that after bearing the brunt of harsh marijuana laws, people of color deserve a spot in Virginia’s commercial cannabis industry.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KRDP, and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 3
Lighting Up a Better Future (Promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
Caption: Legalize Parade
Advocates argue that after bearing the brunt of harsh marijuana laws, people of color deserve a spot in Virginia’s commercial cannabis industry.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KWIT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, Troy Public Radio, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
Lighing Up A Better Future Half Hour
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Legalize parade
America has locked up hundreds of thousands of people on minor marijuana possession charges. And the majority of those arrests have targeted Black,...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, WJCU, WFHB, KHNS and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Zero Sum, Zero Change: What Racism Costs Everyone
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this week’s episode of World Affairs, Ray examines the legacy and lived-reality of zero-sum economics at home and abroad.

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
What if a different part of the women’s movement had gained more attention?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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(August 24th, 2022 release date) In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, imperiling all women’s freedoms, and creating a new pipelin...

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


  • Added: Aug 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Revisiting A Conversation with Filmmaker CJ Hunt
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: CJ Hunt, Credit: Paavo Hannien
We’re revisiting this 2021 interview with filmmaker CJ Hunt who discusses his Emmy Award nominated documentary The Neutral Ground which explores t...

Bought by PRX Remix, RADIOLEX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 22, 2022
  • Length: 28:32
  • Purchases: 5
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
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for August 3, 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: In Historic Breakthrough, Senate Bill Requires Medicare to Negotiate Price...

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Aug 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
2022-07-31 James Baldwin and Social Justice
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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The prolific writer and Civil Rights-era activist was born August 2, 1924.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KMUN, KICI Iowa City, KSKQ, KNVC Carson City Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 31, 2022
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 13
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
How to Hold Back the Ocean
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Maurice Bailey at Shell to Shore collection in Athens GA, Credit: Claire Reynolds
More and more coastal communities want to build sea walls to prevent catastrophic flooding because of rising sea levels. But do they work? We talk ...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 18, 2022
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 3
Linda Villarosa: the Dobbs Decision: a Death Sentence for Black Women?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Is the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health a death sentence for women of color? The overturning of Roe v. Wade not only creat...

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


  • Added: Jul 13, 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
Meet the BIPOC Press- Ibram X. Kendi: How to Make America Antiracist?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The fight over what can and can’t be taught in schools is shaping up to be one of the most controversial issues in a pivotal mid-term election year...

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


  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 8
Bring It On! – March 28, 20122: U.S. Supreme Court Nominee, Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson
From: WFHB
Series: Bring It On!
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In today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Eric Love, discuss the nomination of Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson, a judge on the U.S...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Bring It On! – March 21, 2022: Dr. Gladys DeVane – “Come Sit with Me: Life In Poetry, Prose, and Plays”
From: WFHB
Series: Bring It On!
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On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell spend the hour with Dr. Gladys DeVane. She is an author, thespian, playwr...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Bring It On! – March 7, 2022: The O’Neal Tennis Sisters
From: WFHB
Series: Bring It On!
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Bring It On!’s host Clarence Boone spends the hour with sisters Briah and Taylor O’Neal, who are African-American junior competitive tennis-playing...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Bring It On! – March 14, 2022: Monroe County’s Sheriff Primary Ballot Features Two African-American Candidates – Troy Thomas & Ruben Marté
From: WFHB
Series: Bring It On!
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On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell speak to Troy Thomas and Ruben Marté, who are the two African-American ca...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Bring It On! – February 28, 2022: Resilient Women of Color
From: WFHB
Series: Bring It On!
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In today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Maqubé Reese, welcome guests Nordia McNish and Teyaqua Davis, two resilient women of ...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Bring It On! – February 21, 2022: Desegregation of U.S. Armed Forces and Government
From: WFHB
Series: Bring It On!
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Today on Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and William Hosea, speak with James T. Averhart, the National President at Montford Point Marine Assoc...

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Apr 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1

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