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President Biden and America's Expectation
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Today, a divided nation experiences one of the most tumultuous presidential transitions in US history. Leaders from marginalized communities across...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
National Writers Series: Albert Woodfox
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Three
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WDET's Jerome Vaughn talks with Albert Woodfox, author of "Solitary."

Bought by Michigan Radio, WKAR, and WCMU Michigan


  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 3
EE 20-51: Food Desert Or Food Apartheid?, 12/18/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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The term food desert implies that it’s naturally occurring--but is it?

  • Added: Dec 17, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
Episode 143: Knock and Announce
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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“I didn’t do what they said I did. And it was like, I don’t know how to disprove the police. I mean, it’s my word against theirs. I don’t really st...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 33:00
1204: Breaking Through: A Year of Climate Conversations, 12/4/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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“Unprecedented” is one of the most overused words of 2020, but it reflects the superstorm of disruption brought on by an overlapping pandemic, raci...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
Tracing the Racist Roots of American Psychiatry
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Acclaimed white anti-racist scholar Mab Segrest, author of the influential book Memoir of a Race Traitor, takes Laura through the US South to trace...

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


  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
CBC S 1 E 2: Detroit- A Day in District Five
From: WNIN
Series: COVID Between the Coasts
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After decades of economic inequality ravaged the population of mostly African-American residents, the outcome of the coronavirus outbreak was predi...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Nov 21, 2020
  • Length: 20:56
  • Purchases: 2
2020-12-04 Breaking Through: A Year of Climate Conversations
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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“Unprecedented” is one of the most overused words of 2020, but it reflects the superstorm of disruption brought on by an overlapping pandemic, raci...

Bought by KUOW, MPR News Stations, WMUU-LP, KCPW Salt Lake City, WAMU and more


  • Added: Nov 20, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
Black Immigrants in the Whitest State
From: Feet in 2 Worlds
Series: A Better Life
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Two young Black African immigrants in Maine talk about their state, which has the widest racial disparity in the country when it comes to coronavir...

Bought by KMUN and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 20, 2020
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 2
#SayHerName: Black Women, Police Violence and Abolition
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: #SayHerName, Credit: Wikimedia Commons
2020 will marked six years since the #SayHerName movement was created. Today, the deaths of Black women and girls at the hands of law enforcement s...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
2020-11-13 Cropped Out: Land, Race, and Climate
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Harvest season is especially hard this year, as the pandemic strains farmers and food systems, highlighting a deeply divided and often unjust Ameri...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, WDSE, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 9
20201113: Cropped Out: Land, Race, and Climate, 11/13/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Harvest season is especially hard this year, as the pandemic strains farmers and food systems, highlighting a deeply divided and often unjust Ameri...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
2020-10-30 Power Shift: Climate and Justice in 2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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What is the role of power in deciding the fate of a planet? 2020 has seen a reckoning with various forms of power embedded in racial, gender, and g...

Bought by KZUM, KTSW 89.9, WDSE, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Oct 29, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
201030: Power Shift: Climate and Justice in 2020, 10/30/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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What is the role of power in deciding the fate of a planet? 2020 has seen a reckoning with various forms of power embedded in racial, gender, and g...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for October 28, 2020
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: Urgent Lawsuit Launched to Stop Trump Regime Voter Intimidation; Despite R...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and WKPW


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Buffalo NY: Grappling with Gentrification in one of America’s Most Unequal Cities
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Buffalo, New York, was once a booming industrial town fueled by cheap power from Niagara Falls, a center of commerce and trade, the first city in t...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Future of Museums
From: KUNM
Series: Augmented Humanity
Caption: Monique Davis and Jon Voss
On this program, we talk with Jon Voss and Monique Davis about the future of museums. Jon is a founding member of Shift Collective. Monique is the ...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
How can Philanthropy help bring a silver lining during the dark cloud of Covid-19 ?
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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How can Philanthropy help bring a silver lining during the dark cloud of Covid-19 ? With Elizabeth Barbella President of The Community Foundation M...

Bought by WCNY and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 02, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for September 30, 2020
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: Leak of Trump’s Taxes Reveal He Paid No Income Tax in 10 of Last 15 Years,...

Bought by WKPW and KMXT


  • Added: Sep 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Protesters weigh health risks of COVID-19 and civic responsibility
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Health on the Coast
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Angela Colon of Wilmington Advocacy and Protest Organization (WAPO) discusses the how protesters have addressed health risks related to COVID-19.

  • Added: Sep 23, 2020
  • Length: 04:10
Why are there so few Black admirals in the Navy? Some blame a culture of discrimination
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Rear Adm. Alvin Holsey (left) speaks with Ensign Dimitri Foster aboard the USS Lake Champlain in 2018. Holsey - one of the Navy's few Black admirals - heads the One Navy Task Force., Credit: Craig Z. Rodarte / U.S. Navy
A Navy Task Force is looking at why only a handful of African Americans reach top jobs. It's also examining discrimination in all aspects of Navy l...

Bought by WUSF, KPCC, Colorado Public Radio, and Texas Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 10, 2020
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 4
From Oakland to Johannesburg: Can We Reform the Police?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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The United States is three months into a mass movement against police violence. We are the midst of a national conversation about the relationship ...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Sep 09, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
2020-09-04 Polluting and Providing: The Dirty Energy Dilemma
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The cost and health burdens of electricity production have long been higher for low-income communities of color than for wealthy white ones. But fo...

Bought by KOWS, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Sep 03, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
In a little-discussed program, the VA is helping veterans deal with race-based stress
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: The Department of Veterans Affairs in St. Louis is one of several VA locations that have held small group sessions to help veterans deal with race and mental health., Credit: Department of Veterans Affairs
A group of VA psychologists across the country have formed race-based stress and trauma support groups for veterans of color.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, North Country Public Radio, Texas Public Radio, WUSF, KPBS and more


  • Added: Sep 03, 2020
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 6
Why We Still Need to Talk About White Supremacy
From: Mateo Schimpf
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It’s been three months since George Floyd was killed by a white police officer in Minnesota. The movement prompted an outpouring from lawmakers in ...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Aug 26, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2

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