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It is a cliché to say that the richest corporate media operate inside a bubble of their own making, but it's largely true. Today’s guests are breat...
- Added: May 29, 2024
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
Official history says the first Memorial Day celebration was held in Arlington National Cemetery on May 30, 1868, where Union and Confederate soldi...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 03:00
Where do we draw the line between righteous anger and ruthless revenge?
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 54:00
As a first generation American from a family of Zanzibar immigrants, Aidah Hawkins knows a lot about Community. Currently in college pursuing a deg...
- Added: May 07, 2024
- Length: 17:33
Baratunde Thurston describes his experiences as a Black man in nature and the influence his mother had on his positive outlook. He’s a comedian, wr...
- Added: Apr 24, 2024
- Length: 29:22
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews:
The U.S. Finally Has Allowed Passage of U.N. Gaza Ceasefire: What Happens ...
- Added: Mar 27, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
In 1963, a 12-year-old Freeman Hrabowski III accepted Martin Luther King's challenge to march, and that week set the course of his life.
- Added: Feb 29, 2024
- Length: 52:49
Two-way interview with author Deborah G. Plant about her new book, Of Greed & Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All
- Added: Feb 17, 2024
- Length: 17:22
The 16th President of the United States was born February 12, 1809.
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 53:59
The 16th President of the United States was born February 12, 1809.
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KTSW 89.9, KSKQ, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Feb 11, 2024
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 4
Back in 1995, LaMont Dottin was 21 years old and a freshman at Queens College when, one evening, he didn’t come home. His mother went to the local ...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 09:00
In the first of our 3 part series leading up to Black History Month, we focus in on how journalists and historians today are covering the Tulsa Rac...
Bought by KALW, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN
- Added: Jan 23, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
A bold experiment is taking place among Black farmers in the Southeast — a story of hope in an area with a history of plantation slavery, land thef...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KDNK, KWMR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WNYE
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 5
Three poems of loss, courage and resilience for these times.
- Added: Nov 08, 2023
- Length: 03:05
Historians said the renamings – like the removal of many Confederate statues in recent years – are part of a more accurate understanding of the Con...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Texas Public Radio, KRPS, WRFA-LP, North Country Public Radio and more
- Added: Oct 26, 2023
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 9
KMOJ's Public Policy Forum, hosted by Al McFarlane. Recorded live from Lucille's Kitchen in North Minneapolis. February 24, 1998. The discussion on...
- Added: Oct 25, 2023
- Length: 59:41
KMOJ's Public Policy Forum, hosted by Al McFarlane. Recorded live from Lucille's Kitchen in North Minneapolis. This episode featured a conversation...
- Added: Oct 25, 2023
- Length: 01:18:12
KMOJ's Public Policy Forum, hosted by Al McFarlane. Recorded live from Lucille's Kitchen in North Minneapolis. February 24, 1998. The discussion on...
- Added: Oct 25, 2023
- Length: 35:45
HOUR ONE: "Astonishing African Futures" - The new Black Panther movie, "Wakanda Forever," dominated the global box office. This hour, a literary ta...
- Added: Oct 06, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
One of medical science’s greatest paradoxes: The cancer cells that killed Henrietta Lacks revolutionized medicine -- medical care her own family co...
- Added: Oct 01, 2023
- Length: 59:14
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
In the annals of racist terrorism, few acts were more hideous or cowardly than the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama...
- Added: Sep 13, 2023
- Length: 34:47
Dr. David Fakunle believes storytelling is a crucial, and underutilized, component in public health.
Bought by PRX Remix, KMUN, WMPG, WSLR, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more
- Added: Sep 04, 2023
- Length: 28:51
- Purchases: 8
HOUR ONE: "Going For Broke: Making Up Our Minds" - In episode two of our three-part series on the care economy: Mental health challenges can push p...
- Added: Sep 01, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
One principle guiding Burning Man is "Radical Inclusion." But it's never been racially diverse. Activists like Favianna Rodriguez are changing that.
- Added: Aug 21, 2023
- Length: 56:11