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Voting Rights: BIPOC Media Sound the Alarm
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Even as the nation celebrated the birthday and legacy of voting rights advocate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, the right to vote for which King fought ...

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


  • Added: Jan 26, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
A History of Traditional Root Healing
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Left is a Mullein Plant and the author Michele Elizabeth Lee , Credit: Photo by Anita Johnson
In some parts of the world, traditional herbal remedies are the norm. When we think of natural remedies we tend to think of older generations liv...

Bought by KVNF, WXDU, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
New York city elections 2021: Kristin Richardson Jordan and Art Chang
From: Ray Samuels
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Kristin Richardson Jordan is our featured LGBTQ candidate.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
#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
A Targeted Divide: What Bullets Do to Bodies and Lives
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Jooyoung Lee, Credit: Evan Doheny
This is the special 90-minute finale for our series A Targeted Divide. It’s called “What Bullets do to Bodies and Lives: Structural Violence, Firea...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WLPR


  • Added: Jul 17, 2018
  • Length: 01:28:38
  • Purchases: 2
Special for Mother's Day, Mothering: Love on the Front Lines
From: Making Contact
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For Mother's Day: we bring you a discussion by women of color writers and poets who contributed to the anthology, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on ...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: May 05, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Patrisse Khan-Cullors, “When They Call You A Terrorist”
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Patrisse Khan-Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter reflections on humanity, the end of policing and her new book, WHEN THEY CALL YOU A TERRORI...

Bought by KVNF, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRIR, WFHB, and WVAS


  • Added: Mar 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
I Am Not Your Negro: James Baldwin
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is ...

Bought by WVAS, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KCMJ Community Radio, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: Nov 07, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Interview w/ Sociologist ANNA HASKINS discussing prison reform
From: Out of Bounds
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Anna Haskins, Sociologist, discusses prison reform, how incarceration of parents affects children's educational outcomes

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
Monique Morris discusses "Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools"
From: Out of Bounds
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Morris, a long time advocate for equity in education talks candidly about her ground breaking book "Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
“Black Detroit” A People’s History of Self-Determination”-
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: The Cutting Edge
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“Black Detroit” A People’s History of Self-Determination”- is a rich account of African-American history in Motown, written by award-winning journa...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2017
  • Length: 40:51
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
The Acceptable MLK: Speech Over Action
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Host Doug Storm is joined by Rasul Mowatt and Jacinda Townsend to discuss why Martin Luther King, Jr. has been remembered and elevated to represent...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2015
  • Length: 56:50
Moyers & Company Show 320: Facing the Truth: The Case for Reparations
From: Moyers & Company
Series: Moyers & Company
Caption: Bill Moyers, Credit: Dale Robbins
The case for reparations: journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates on the nation’s legacy of slavery and white supremacy -- this week on Moyers & Company.

Bought by KRDP, WCUW 91.3 FM, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KFOK-LPFM, KBRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 24:00
  • Purchases: 33
StoryCorps: Lawrence and Simeon Cumberbatch
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Lawrence Cumberbatch (R) tells his son, Simeon (L), how he traveled from New York City to Washington DC with Brooklyn CORE for the March on Washing...

Bought by WEZU, WRIR, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and WTJU


  • Added: Aug 23, 2013
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 4
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
The Republican Party has reached its peak in the South
From: With Good Reason
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Since the 1970s, Republicans have controlled Southern politics, but according to one researcher, the Republican Party has reached its peak in the S...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:28
Who Controls Black Women's Bodies? (encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Rally in support of the Ohio Prevention First Act, Credit: creative commons Flickr user ProgressOhio
Reproductive health services for women are under attack, leaving poor women and women of color lacking access. But a broad coalition of women is st...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Jan 19, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
FuseBox Radio Broadcast with DJ Fusion & Jon Judah for Week of March 17, 2010
From: FuseBox Radio Broadcast
Series: FuseBox Radio Broadcast w/ DJ Fusion & Jon Judah
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Another 3 hour mixshow episode of Intelligent Hip-Hop Radio & 21st Century Black Radio of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast with DJ Fusion & J...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2010
  • Length: 03:00:47
Thurgood Marshall: Before the Court
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History
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In 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. But Marshall had already earned a place in histor...

Bought by Nevada Public Radio, WGTE Public Media, WMUU-LP, WFAE, KALW and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2009
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 22