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Top of Mind - What is Race?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Is race real? Two researchers say biological race is a myth, but that racism is very real.

Bought by KSTK, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 7
Episode 2- February 11, 2022
From: WMPG
Series: Amjambo Time
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Guest- South Portland mayor Deqa Dhalac.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2022
  • Length: 26:57
Bomb Threats Shake HBCUs During Black History Month
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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More than 20 Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs) received bomb threats at the start of Black History Month — including a threat on V...

Bought by KSFR, KWMR, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Re:Work Soul Force, Part 1
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Rev. James Lawson Jr., Credit: Reed Hutchinson
On Dec. 11, 2021, the UCLA Labor Center’s historic MacArthur Park building was officially named the UCLA James Lawson Jr. Worker Justice Center, in...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Feb 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
Imani Perry: The Future of Democracy Depends on the South
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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As goes the South, so goes the nation. It may be a cliché but according to this week’s guest it’s true. In South to America: A Journey Below the Ma...

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Voting Rights: BIPOC Media Sound the Alarm
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Even as the nation celebrated the birthday and legacy of voting rights advocate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, the right to vote for which King fought ...

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  • Added: Jan 26, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Bring It On! – January 17, 2022: Keynote Speaker for Annual Citywide MLK Celebration – Dr. Eddie Cole
From: WFHB
Series: Bring It On!
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Today’s Bring It On! hosts, Clarence Boone and William Hosea speak with Dr. Eddie Cole. He is the keynote speaker for the City of Bloomington’s ann...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Bring It On! – January 10, 2022: Cesar Valentino – Master of Voguing and Afro-Caribbean Dance
From: WFHB
Series: Bring It On!
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On today’s Bring It On!, hosts Clarence Boone and William Hosea spend the hour with Cesar Valentino, who is a sought-after educator in the fundamen...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
70 Million: An Effort to Hold Prosecutors Accountable
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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A legal matrix that incentivizes criminal convictions can motivate unethical prosecutors to bend or break the rules. In New York, a group of law pr...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Re-visit filmmaker CJ Hunt talking about his documentary The Neutral Ground
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: CJ Hunt, Credit: Paavo Hanninen
We're re-posting an interview with comedy writer and filmmaker CJ Hunt discusses his documentary The Neutral Ground which explores the struggle to ...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, RADIOLEX, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 28, 2021
  • Length: 27:56
  • 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 ...

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  • Added: Dec 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Bring It On! – November 15, 2021: Meet the Candidates – Valerie McCray for U.S. Senate and Jennifer Crossley for Monroe County Council
From: WFHB
Series: Bring It On!
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On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts William Hosea and Natalia Galvan speak with two women of color who are vying for local and national polit...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Law Professor Kristin Henning's Analysis of the Foundations of Racist Policing in America Endured by Black Youth
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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Drawing upon twenty-five years of experience representing Black youth in Washington, D.C.’s juvenile courts, Kristin Henning confronts America’s ir...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2021
  • Length: 18:16
A History of Traditional Root Healing
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Left is a Mullein Plant and the author Michele Elizabeth Lee , Credit: Photo by Anita Johnson
In some parts of the world, traditional herbal remedies are the norm. When we think of natural remedies we tend to think of older generations liv...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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
Community Safety in a Time of Insurrection
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, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN


  • Added: Oct 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
70 Million: How Black Women Are Rightfully “Taking Seats at the Table”
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Alesha Monteiro, an advocate to those incarcerated, poses for a photo at the state Capitol in Sacramento, California, Credit: Sara Nevis
Nearly one in two Black women in the US have a loved one who has been impacted by our prison system. On today's episode we look at the many ways B...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Paramilitary Industrial Complex is Growing in Americans' Backyards
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. "Veteran activists organizing across this state [Nor...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 04:00
Raj Patel and Rupa Marya, INFLAMED & Jimmie Allen, MY VOICE IS A TRUMPET
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with physician and activist Rupa Marya and her co-author writer and food activist Raj Patel about their book, Inflamed: Deep Medicine and t...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
The process of replacing Confederate names on military bases has begun, but likely will take years
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: At a Sept. 14 virtual town hall meeting, Fort Bragg Curator and Archeologist Linda Carnes-McNaughton, Retired Major General Rodney Anderson, and Fort Bragg Garrison Commander Scott Pence listen to comments from citizens about possible new names for the ba, Credit: City of Fayetteville, N.C. via Facebook Live
A federal commission is soliciting ideas to rename Fort Bragg, Fort Hood, Fort Rucker, Fort Lee, and several other military posts named for Confede...

Bought by KRPS, WRFA-LP, KPBS, and Texas Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 01, 2021
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 4
Gay Calif. Supreme Court Justice values struggle
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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Martin Jenkins makes history as the first openly gay Supreme Court of California justice, and only the third Black man ever to serve on the state's...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
Creativity Culture & Capital
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sheoyki Jones
This week is a bit different: the podcast is divided into two parts with one subject: investing in the creative economy with Laura Callanan, foundi...

Bought by KMUN, RADIOLEX, KFAI Minneapolis, KZUM, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 5
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
Black Candidates, BIPOC Media: Making Coverage Complex and Better
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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New York City will likely elect its second African American mayor in November. Eric Adams, currently the Brooklyn Borough President, was declared t...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KWMR


  • Added: Jul 29, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2

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