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Decolonizing Dewey

From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library

A lot had changed since Melvil Dewey came up with a classification system to organize all known and not-yet-known knowledge into a string of number...

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio

LIVE LAW 8: Three Strikes

From: LIVE LAW

“I was born a girl, I was born black, and I was born to two alcoholic parents. I knew I was doomed.”

Some Thoughts On Mercy: An Essay on Race and Redemption, written and read by Ross Gay

From: Chris Moore-Backman
Series: Bringing Down the New Jim Crow

In this provocative radio essay, a commonplace encounter with racial profiling opens the door to the vast and painful reality of racism in the Unit...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and WYAP

The Real War on Xmas or Cities Scrooge the Homeless

From: Andrew Hiller

Pretty soon, you're going to start hearing warnings about the War on Christmas... Now, that battle may be hard to spot through the blinking red a...

Bought by WEZU

Why Ebola Should Be Treated As Though It Is Airborne

From: John Brice
Series: Commentary by John C. Brice, J.D.

Several reasons are presented which individually and collectively demonstrate why Ebola should be treated as though it is airborne.

Acoustic Stories: Aaron Brown On Foot-In-Mouth Syndrome - "I Talk (Lacking Knowledge). I Cause Problems (Because I Lack Knowledge)."

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories

Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry: How You Can Tell If a Government Is Becoming Corrupt

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook

Remember the sixty second moral inquiry asks questions about what is the right thing to do. Today, we ask "How can you tell If a government is bec...

Anne Elizabeth Moore reads from Hip Hop Apsara: Ghosts Past and Present

From: Radio K

People tell a lot of ghost stories around Halloween. But for some, ghosts aren't the supernatural figures we read about in books or see in movies. ...