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Girls Are in a Mental Health Crisis. What Can Schools Do?
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Shekinah Jackson and friends.
Girls in the U.S. are in the midst of a growing mental health crisis, and schools are on the front line of finding solutions. But will Black and La...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2023
  • Length: 20:47
The Success of Guaranteed Income: Cash Relief for Black Moms (August 30, 2023 release)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This year, Mother’s Day, May 14th coincides with the formal end of the National Covid-19 Emergency. Poor parents will be taking a hit — but Guarant...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMUN, KDNK, KWMR, WNYE and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
BGR415 | Dr. Tani Sanchez
From: KRDP
Series: Boom Goddess Radio
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This week we're in conversation with Dr. Tani Sanchez, Professor of Practice in the Africana Studies department at the University of Arizona. Dr. S...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
BGR412 | Beverely Elliott (Rebroadcast)
From: KRDP
Series: Boom Goddess Radio
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This week we rebroadcast our recent interview with Beverely Elliott. This week our guest is Beverely Elliott, Executive Director of the African Am...

  • Added: May 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Cash Relief for Black Moms: The Success of Guaranteed Income
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This Mother’s Day, May 14th coincides with the formal end of the National Covid-19 Emergency. Poor parents will be taking a hit — but Guaranteed In...

Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KDNK and more


  • Added: May 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
BGR406 | Beverely Elliott
From: KRDP
Series: Boom Goddess Radio
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This week our guest is Beverely Elliott, Executive Director of the African American Museum of Southern Arizona in Tucson. Mrs. Elliott shares the j...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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
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
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
#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
Eloisa Diaz-Sanz: One of My Favorite Quotes Is by Malcolm X
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Eloisa Diaz-Sanz, Credit: Shefik
Freedom - Eloisa Diaz-Sanz is an American creative consultant and fashion designer from New York City, specializing in womenswear. Her experience i...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2020
  • Length: 01:36
Courageous Conversations with Reverend Zina Jacque & Jessica Green
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
Caption: Zina Jacque, Credit: Linda Barrett (lindambarrettproductions.com)
In this episode we explore how one community is working to have the hard conversations growing out of this moment. As protesters push for reforms t...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
Kimberlé Crenshaw: Intersectionality
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Kimberlé Crenshaw, Credit: Annabel Clark
Law Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw defined the concept of intersectionality 30 years ago. She developed that framework to understand how identities s...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jun 22, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
F-Word- February/March: The Pandering Months
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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::The latest commentary by Laura Flanders, The F-Word :: "Here we are again, ending Black History Month, starting Women’s History month. ...Do we n...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 03:30
Giving Birth While Black
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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Dr. Rochanda Mitchell is an expert in fetal medicine. She’s also a black woman pregnant with her first child who understands all too well that eve...

Bought by WKSU, KBIA, WCPN, High Plains Public Radio, WGTE Public Media and more


  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 20
Giving Birth While Black (Half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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Dr. Rochanda Mitchell is an expert in fetal medicine and a black woman pregnant with her first child. She understands all too well that even highl...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Kansas Public Radio, WLIW, KRDP, WYAP and more


  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
Unfreedom (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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- Children who interact in some way with the justice system—even if it’s just living near a justice system facility—have worse health and education...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRGY, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2019
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
The Dialogue of Race
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious continues the 2nd of a two part conversation with civil rights lawyer, Barbara Phillips, a contributor to the book “Voices of Civil R...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Mar 14, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Protecting and Defending Civil Rights
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with civil rights lawyer, Barbara Phillips, who is also a contributing writer to the anthology "Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Mar 07, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Solitary Confinement: Locked Away with No Human Contact
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious discusses solitary confinement and its physical and mental health impacts on prison inmates with Dr. Terry Allen Kupers, a forensic p...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Feb 14, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Arabia Mollette
From: The Hangar Studios
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If anyone epitomizes grit, determination and heart it's Dr. Arabia Mollette. Even though she always wanted to be a doctor, achieving that goal was...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
RDD: Marjory the Motivator
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Marjory is a keynote speaker, author, playwright, student, and advocate for children in the foster care system. Her success in these areas stems la...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 22, 2017
  • Length: 06:41
  • Purchases: 1
Mehret Mandefro
From: The Hangar Studios
Series: Sandi Klein's Conversations with Creative Women
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Meet this Ethiopian-American physician, anthropologist, filmmaker and businesswoman.

Bought by WCNY and CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Racism in America
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Annie Barnes author of "Everyday Racism, A Book for All Americans.” Barnes describes the effects of rac...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
LIVE LAW 10: Prison Break
From: LIVE LAW
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“After 22 years [of working in criminal justice], I didn’t think there was anybody that could tell me anything more about how broken the criminal s...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 13:10