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The Prophetic Lens: The Camera and Black Moral Agency from MLK to Darnella Frazier
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Phil Allen, Jr.
This program is a second in a conversation with author Phil Allen, Jr., in which he highlights the prophetic potential of the camera. Its imagery p...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Meet the BIPOC Press- Ibram X. Kendi: How to Make America Antiracist?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The fight over what can and can’t be taught in schools is shaping up to be one of the most controversial issues in a pivotal mid-term election year...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 8
07-17: Backlash Moment: Converging at the Crossroads of Identity and Justice, 6/30/2021
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Kimberle Crenshaw (foreground) with Eve Ensler
When Donald Trump rode a wave of white anxiety into the White House, it was part of a backlash to the Obama presidency, one that revealed an increa...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
No Common Ground
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Karen Cox
Polarizing debates over the meaning behind Confederate monuments have intensified lately. There are legal battles to remove them. Legislative maneu...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass: Pursuing Racial Justice
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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A wide-ranging discussion about the pursuit of racial justice in a historically white institution like the University of Iowa; racial barriers that...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2020
  • Length: 01:27:08
Political Songs for Pandemic Times
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 813 (Air Dates: July 27 - Aug 2, 2020) Today we present a special edition of Art of the Song featuring Political Songs for Pandemic Times. We ...

Bought by WMPG, GCR (Global Community Radio), KZMU Moab Community Radio, KNBA, WHRV and more


  • Added: Jul 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
Say I'm Dead
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: E. Dorolas Johnson
Most of us wish to know our family history. Our ancestry. It’s part of understanding and coming to terms with our own identity. But, what if there ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Uncivil War on Richmond's Monument Avenue
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Protesters and counter protesters, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Pro-Confederates and white supremacists faced off with counter-demonstrators on America's largest outdoor Civil War museum on Monument Avenue in Ri...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2019
  • Length: 26:39
Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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The home ownership gap continues to widen.

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
White Supremacy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Katharine Gerbner
Before the 17th century, being white didn’t even exist as a racial category. The idea of “whiteness” evolved in the slave-based economies of the En...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Luis Buñuel's The Young One: Anatomy of White Male Supremacy
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Actors Key Meersman and Zachary Scott in The Young One (1960)
As with our recent show on the 1954 Salt of the Earth, here is another “forgotten film” that seems a kind of impossibility. Made by a Spanish filmm...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2018
  • Length: 58:31
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
Toxic Inequality
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Thomas M. Shapiro
Income and wealth inequality is now a regular topic of conversation. The standard of living for most Americans’ since the Great Recession is either...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 20, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
I Heart Obama
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Erin Aubry Kaplan
In his nearly two terms as president, Barack Obama has solidified his status, as something black people haven’t had for fifty years: a folk hero.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
10-11: From Slavery to Stardust: What Would Healing Look Like?, 12/3/2014
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Dedan Gills & Belvie Rooks
What might happen when the descendants of a white slave trader and of slaves meet? That is the brave and wrenching journey of Thomas DeWolf, whose ...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
The Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People's Movement: The Struggle for Freedom and Transformation Continues
From: Chris Moore-Backman
Series: Bringing Down the New Jim Crow
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This radio documentary highlights the voices of nine men and women who have experienced the workings of the US criminal justice system from the ins...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, KVMR, WVAS, KUNM, WORT and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
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
Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Randall Kennedy, author of "The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency," and "Nigger:The...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Kansas City Central Debate: Rules of the Game
From: KCUR
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Kansas City Central's debate squad is shaking up the national circuit, by rapping their arguments to music, and making the case that the activity i...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2006
  • Length: 20:51
Active Voices: James Loewen- Sundown Towns
From: Chris Goldstein
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Best selling author James Loewen discusses his new book Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

  • Added: Nov 11, 2005
  • Length: 05:22