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EE 24-07: Author Jori Lewis on the natural and human history of the peanut , 2/16/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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While peanut butter is one of my favorite foods, I can’t say that I have given much thought to the peanut as a crop, or paid any attention to its r...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
EE 23-11: Jori Lewis on the complex story of the peanut, 3/10/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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While peanut butter is one of my favorite foods, I can’t say that I have given much thought to the peanut as a crop, or paid any attention to its r...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
God’s Little Acre: America’s Colonial African Cemetery preserving history in stone – Part 1
From: World Footprints LLC
Series: God's Little Acre
Caption: Arthur Flagg and family markers, Credit: Photo: Tonya Fitzpatrick
Tonya and Ian Fitzpatrick walk through the grounds of God's Little Acre--the oldest and largest colonial African burial ground, and they share unde...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:36
10-11: From Slavery to Stardust: What Would Healing Look Like?, 2/22/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Dedan Gills and Belvie Rooks
What’s it like to be in someone else’s skin? What if the color of the skin is different – say, black and white? What might happen when the descenda...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
World in Progress 06/16/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The remnants of slavery - June 19th or Juneteenth is the day where the US commemorates the end of slavery. Dealing with...

Bought by WVTF and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jun 17, 2022
  • Length: 24:29
  • Purchases: 2
Escaping The Narcissism of The American Dream
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Tiffanie Drayton, Credit: © Marcus Duncan 2021
Next, a conversation with Tiffanie Drayton, author of the new book Black American Refugee: Escaping the Narcissism of The American Dream. Drayton e...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and KVSC


  • Added: May 18, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Imani Perry: The Future of Democracy Depends on the South
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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As goes the South, so goes the nation. It may be a cliché but according to this week’s guest it’s true. In South to America: A Journey Below the Ma...

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


  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Behind the Sheet
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A story of bravery in the face of inhuman treatment.

Bought by KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, KUOW, WPCA-LP, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 17
Spreading Global Freedom, or the Divine Right to Traffic Drugs, Guns, and People
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our show today is with author Mark Driscoll, professor of East Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina, whose new book is The Whites Are ...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jun 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Babo In the Sunshine: Herman Melville and the Tryal Rebellion
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Anthony Imbert. Wrapper illustration for “Life in Philadelphia” (ca. 1829-30).
Today we revisit the great novella of Herman Melville, “Benito Cereno,” serialized in 1855 in Putnam’s Magazine. Written with the US Civil War on t...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Mariame Kaba: Rooting Out Our Culture of Harm
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this inspiring Juneteenth conversation, abolitionist Mariame Kaba joins Laura and the Reverend Dr. Jacqui Lewis, to discuss how each of us—paren...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Jun 16, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Slavery’s Imperial Skein: Knitting Together the Capitalist Empire
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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While US Slavery established the template for the production of staples like rice, sugar, and cotton, it also troubled the imperial imaginary: how ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jun 15, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Margaret Bourke-White’s Focus on Apartheid: The Remix Edition
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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This is a remix of our show Focus on Apartheid from July 2016 with guest Alex Lichtenstein, Professor of History at Indiana University. Our topic i...

Bought by KTSW 89.9 and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jun 08, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Pushing Lincoln Left: Thaddeus Stevens as Revolutionary
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our show is about the radical and revolutionary Republican Thaddeus Stevens. While Lincoln continually capitulated to white interests in the North ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Economics of Abolition (release date December 23, 2020)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Will the new abolition movement succeed in transforming how we invest public resources? And what really are the economic underpinnings of the syste...

Bought by KSPC and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 21, 2020
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 2
St. Louis: Gateway to Genocide
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today’s guest is Walter Johnson, author of The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States. St. Louis turns out...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Dec 08, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
World in Progress 11/26/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Legacy of slavery - We take a closer look at Britain's role in the transatlantic slave trade, the darkest chapter in t...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
The Electoral College’s Dirty History (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Given the election, and the difference between popular votes and electoral votes, we revisit our show on the Electoral College. It’s history in the...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
At the Crossroads of Commons and Closure with Historian Peter Linebaugh
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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The current uprisings, which are beginning to threaten the status quo of policing in the United States and bringing the demands of abolition into t...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2020
  • Length: 58:22
StoryCorps Griot: Rohulamin Quander and Alicia Argrett
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Rohulamin Quander at his home in Washington D.C. in 2016 and Alicia Argrett in Madison, Mississippi in 2010., Credit: Rohulamin Quander and Alicia Argrett.
An African American family that traces its roots back to Nancy Carter Quander, a woman who was enslaved by George and Martha Washington, talks abou...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2020
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 1
Ocean and Freedom
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: View of Table Mountain. Cape Town, South Africa, Credit: Unsplash
This week on World Ocean Radio we share the final episode of the five-part Slavery: Heritage and Identity series. In this broadcast we look at the ...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2020
  • Length: 05:18
Dr. Priyamvada Gopal: Self-Determination Arising from Resistance
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this episode of The Laura Flanders Show, author and scholar Dr. Priyamvada Gopal discusses her latest book, Insurgent Empire, which examines the...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Free Brooklyn
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
Important stories about the struggle for freedom in Brooklyn, from a young girl “auctioned” at Plymouth Church in 1860 to the story of Crown Height...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 27:37
  • Purchases: 1
December 30th RERUN - “Edge of Democracy”; Brazil, A Cautionary Tale
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In her new film, The Edge of Democracy, director Petra Costa tells the story of how Brazil went from a rising star among free nations to a democrac...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Living Deliberately: Laura Dassow Walls On The Whole Human Life of Thoreau
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In her biography, Henry David Thoreau: A Life, Laura Walls shows us a man deeply engaged with friends, relatives and neighbors, a man thoroughly of...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2019
  • Length: 58:55