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African-Americans have endured more than 246 years of slavery, 100 years of racism and segregation. The trauma from that experience continues to im...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Jan 31, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Since the 1970s, Republicans have controlled Southern politics, but according to one researcher, the Republican Party has reached its peak in the S...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 02:28
It took 40 years to build ACORN, but just a few months to bring it down. Local organizers are trying to rebuild, but how is ACORN’s absence affect...
- Added: Oct 19, 2012
- Length: 29:01
In this conversation, Juanita Brown wanted to go beyond the hype that President Obama's election marked "the end of history" in American race relat...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 38:28
This second installment in the series titled Bringing Down the New Jim Crow features the first ever dialog between legal scholar Michelle Alexander...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio, KFOK-LPFM, and WDSE
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
The United States imprisons more people than any other country. In California a new policy called ‘realignment’ aims to reduce the number of peopl...
- Added: Jun 22, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Raleigh Terrell a machine operator at US Sugar is joined by Dr. Myron Glick as he compares the cost of going to the doctor against the even greater...
- Added: Jun 17, 2012
- Length: 06:00
Award-winning producer, Dred-Scott Keyes takes us through an audio journey of the events and issues which led to the death of Trayvon Martin, the 1...
- Added: Mar 28, 2012
- Length: 58:30
The War on Drugs has made America the world's leading jailer. Increasingly, the casualties of the drug war are speaking out.
- Added: Mar 11, 2012
- Length: 12:39
This documentary views Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" through the lens of California's ma...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio, 90.5 WSNC, KFOK-LPFM, WDSE, and WZEN.org
- Added: Mar 02, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
Back in January, radio talk show host and political activist, Joe Madison, helped us launch our 2012 season of Bring It On! Mr. Madison was the pas...
- Added: Feb 28, 2012
- Length: 37:03
A dialogue between Princeton University professor Cornel West, and Revolutionary Communist Party USA spokesman Carl Dix about the future of America...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Dec 19, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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
LaDarrell Hagans is something of a full-time volunteer for Deval Patrick's reelection campaign for Governor of Massachusetts. Although LaDarrell k...
- Added: Oct 27, 2010
- Length: 04:44
- Purchases: 2
Does the conventional language used to discuss race actually impede our attempts to reach mutual understanding? We discuss the language of race wit...
Bought by KWMR, WGBH Radio Boston, and WTIP
- Added: Feb 09, 2010
- Length: 27:45
- Purchases: 3
New York City Comptroller Bill Thompson is a contender in the race for New York mayor.
- Added: Sep 13, 2009
- Length: 30:33
Councilman Ron Rice and his father, State Senator Ron Rice, both of Newark, have had some very public political differences in the past few years. ...
- Added: Aug 14, 2009
- Length: 59:58
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
- Added: Feb 11, 2008
- Length: 28:00
The issues of the black vote, race politics, and the 2008 election.
- Added: Feb 11, 2008
- Length: 28:00
The Bayview community's apprehension to a proposed redevelopment plan.
- Added: Jul 07, 2007
- Length: 14:13
Shareef Cousin was wrongly convicted and sent to death row for over a decade.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, 90.5 WSNC, and KTNA
- Added: Mar 16, 2007
- Length: 07:57
- Purchases: 3
The quest for understanding between peoples is always challenging. But that challenge can be extremely intense, even dangerous, when an African-Am...
- Added: Feb 25, 2007
- Length: 28:29
The quest for understanding between peoples is always challenging. But that challenge can be extremely intense, even dangerous, when an African-Am...
- Added: Feb 25, 2007
- Length: 28:47
