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Affirmative Action: Too Little or Too Much?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Does affirmative action undermine the achievements of those who are supposed to benefit from it?

Bought by KRZA, KKWE Niijii Radio, KSKQ, and KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Greg Palast on Voter Suppression, and Buying Democracy
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Greg Palast, is an investigative reporter and documentary filmmaker. His new film, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: a Tale of Billionaires and Ba...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
Mwende Katwiwa at Community Book Center
From: Sarah Holtz
Series: The Poetic City
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Mwende Katwiwa performs a poem about a police killing in New Orleans that occurred on Lundi Gras.

  • Added: Oct 04, 2016
  • Length: 02:24
September 19, 2016
From: WFHB
Series: Bring It On!
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Clarence Boone and Leila Randle hear about the newly launched Progressive Thought Matters organization from leader Robin Winston. The organization...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2016
  • Length: 58:19
We Are the Bomb: Boots Riley and Dave Zirin Talk Activism and Politics
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Boots RIley, Credit: http://nycsocialist.org/
Boots Riley—activist, author, and “The Coup” front man is interviewed by Edge of Sports blogger Dave Zirin

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Feb 06, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
2021-02-07 W.E.B. DuBois
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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The life and thought of sociologist, historian, philosopher, editor, writer, and activist W.E.B. DuBois.

Bought by KMUN, KSKQ, KUAT, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 17
Bi-racial Identities
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is a person with one black parent and one white parent black? White? Neither? Both?

Bought by KSKQ, KMUN, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
#1501- Healing From Regret: Michelle Van Loon
From: Sandburg Media
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]
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Michelle Van Loon has been a writer for more than three decades. With her recent book, If Only: Letting Go of Regret, the author has written a prac...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
#1503- Exploring the Roots of Violence: E.L. Kornegay
From: Sandburg Media
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]
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In this episode, we talk with Dr. E.L. Kornegay, founder of the Baldwin-Delaney Institute for Academic Enrichment and Faith Flourishing, about sear...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
#1509- The New Jim Crow: Michelle Alexander
From: Sandburg Media
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]
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This week we take the full hour for David Dault's in-depth interview with Michelle Alexander, author of the groundbreaking 2010 book, The New Jim C...

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Congressman Charles Rangel on Conversations With Allan Wolper
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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Charles Rangel: a legacy interview. He has been a congressman representing Harlem and the Bronx for more than 43 years. Congressman Rangel gained n...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jan 06, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Theater artist Ping Chong shines a spotlight on race in America with Collidescope.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Moriamo Akibu in COLLIDESCOPE , Credit: Stan Barouh
Ping Chong, a visionary citizen-artist connects racial history to our current unrest in his recent play, Collidescope: Adventures in Pre-and Post-R...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Dec 11, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
Ferguson is Everywhere
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The protests carry on and for now, as the protestors say, Ferguson is everywhere — not just in the news, but in our institutions, our interactions,...

Bought by WDSE


  • Added: Dec 09, 2014
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 1
2011 National Book Award Winner Jesmyn Ward finds the past is often present in rural Mississippi.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Jesmyn Ward, Credit: Tony Cook
In her memoir Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward attempts to understand the links in the untimely deaths of her brother and four friends.

Bought by WABE, KPIP-LP, and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
This is Home: Journalism comes to the stage
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: RAW Talent poets in This is Home, Credit: Julia B. Chan/CIR
Donte Clark stands in the middle of a dimly lit stage. A projected photo of a dilapidated apartment building flickers on the wall behind him. In th...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 12:42
The Other Half Had a Dream Too
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The historic 1963 March on Washington with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech featured a number of other speakers -- all male. Or...

Bought by KRZA and WSLR


  • Added: Aug 19, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
What's What: Post-Racial America?
From: Paul McCarthy
Series: What's What Radio
Caption: Tricia Rose, Credit: Rama Hughes
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
On the Other Side of the Myth: A Conversation with Michelle Alexander and Tim Wise
From: Chris Moore-Backman
Series: Bringing Down the New Jim Crow
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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
Being Black and Green: African-Americans & the Environment
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Red, Bike & Green's inaugural ride in April 2010, Credit: Red, Bike & Green
African-Americans are helping to lead the environmental movement. We take you to a resettlement community in North Carolina, sustainable farms in W...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
An Imperfect Revolution: Voices from the Desegregation Era
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History
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The 1970s saw a tidal change in American race relations: for the first time, large numbers of white, black and other children of color began attend...

Bought by WGTE Public Media, WUFT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WBHM, Troy Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2009
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 20
P.O.V. - Revolution '67 Filmmaker Interview
From: P.O.V. / American Documentary, Inc.
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Filmmaker Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno talks with P.O.V. about the making of her film "Revolution '67"

  • Added: Sep 20, 2007
  • Length: 06:52