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The Rough Draft Diaries Revisit: Peep Game Comix
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries Revisit, we're checking in with Imani Lateef of Peep Game Comix, a digital comics platform dedicated to the wo...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 06:02
2020-07-03 Real Talk: Racism and Climate
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The national uprising ignited by the murder of George Floyd has cast a spotlight on the country’s embedded, institutional racism, including the fra...

Bought by MPR News Stations, KCBX, WAMU, WHYY, WUTC and more


  • Added: Jul 02, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 13
88-01: Why Rosie the Riveter is "Not My Icon” - Betty Reid Soskin, National Park Service
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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For the past decade, now 98-year-old Betty Reid Soskin has served as the nation’s oldest Park Ranger, where she gives talks at the Rosie the Rivete...

Bought by WJCT, RadioStPete Florida, WLRH, KWIT, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
86-01: "So You Want To Talk About Race" author Ijeoma Oluo
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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An awkward conversation with her white mother about “good white people” inspired Ijeoma Oluo to take on the unenviable task of writing one of the m...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, RadioStPete Florida, WCPN, KWMR, KWIT and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Exploring White Privilege and Preventing Violent Extremism (29:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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On this edition of PEACE TALKS RADIO, Megan Kamerick interviews Layla Saad, the author of "Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World,...

Bought by WMPG and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Mar 31, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
World in Progress 03/12/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Fighting slavery worldwide - In this edition: Millions of people are forced to toil in forms of modern slavery across the ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
134: How A'shanti Gholar is Getting More Women of Color in Office
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: A'shanti Gholar
A’shanti Gholar is the founder of the Brown Girl's Guide to Politics and the national political director for Emerge America--a national organizatio...

Bought by KKRN, Louisville Public Media, KSJD, KUT, KCSB-FM and more


  • Added: Jan 08, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
WoodSongs 952: Smithsonian Folkways Celebration
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: “The American Songster” Dom Flemons on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's encore broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon honors one of the most important legacy’s in all of recorded music… Smit...

Bought by KKRN, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KUCO, Spokane Public Radio, KMXT and more


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 23
Entrepreneurship at its Best
From: Angel Livas
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Welcome to this week's WBB Talkshow. This week, we're excited to introduce you to a fantastic line-up of business owners.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:00
Newark: Fixing The People’s Water
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The people of Newark, New Jersey—the majority of whom are black and brown—are grappling with a lead contamination crisis that has drawn comparisons...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
Providing Services that Make a Difference
From: Angel Livas
Series: The Woman Behind The Business
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On this week's WBB talk show, we feature two amazing women who have found solutions to some of the problems affecting the African-American community.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:10
72-01: Inside The Ferguson Uprising - Sabaah Folayan, Director of "Whose Streets"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Sabaah Folayan
On the 5 year anniversary of the uprising in Ferguson, MO, we're re-airing this conversation--with new trax acknowledging the date. When Michael Br...

Bought by KWIT, KCSB-FM, KWIT, KSJD, KUT and more


  • Added: Aug 14, 2019
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Port Chicago Sailors: Separate and Unequal
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Freddie Meeks, sailor in the disaster at weapons shipping depot in Port Chicago, Calif., holds a picture of himself as a young seaman July 14, 1994. He died in 2003. , Credit: (AP Photo/Chris Pizzelo)
Wartime. Disaster. Trauma. Charges of mutiny for 50 Black sailors in a Jim Crow courtroom. Discrimination and a battle for civil rights. Listen to ...

Bought by KSFR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KVSC


  • Added: Jul 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Can Marijuana Create a Path to Justice?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The fight to legalize marijuana has never been easy, as evidenced by the recent collapse of months-long efforts in New Jersey and New York. A key i...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Apr 04, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Topical Race & Weather Blues
From: Media Humboldt
Series: Diddie Wa Diddie
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Blues songs about race relations, floods, hurricanes and fires.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:00
Why Career Choices are Fluid and Can Change At Any Age
From: Angel Livas
Series: The Woman Behind The Business
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Today on The Woman Behind The Business® Talk Show two fearless women in business join us to share their amazing journey to conquering their persona...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:51
Dare To Dream Out loud
From: Angel Livas
Series: The Woman Behind The Business
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Today on The Woman Behind The Business - our guests share why they dare to dream out loud and how their faith carries them through difficult times.

  • Added: Dec 29, 2018
  • Length: 59:57
103: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism & Sexism - Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Dr. Safiya Noble
What we think of as “the great equalizer”-- the internet--and the algorithms behind it, created by humans, is serving up content that is sexist and...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KWIT, KUT, KWMR, Louisville Public Media and more


  • Added: Nov 01, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
Living Planet 09/28/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: What happens when our water is contaminated, and who protects it? We meet the people cleaning our beaches, protecting our d...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KMUN, KUPR low power FM, and WFIU


  • Added: Sep 27, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
99: A Brief but Spectacular Conversation - Steve Goldbloom, Flossie Lewis and Mahogany L. Browne
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: At the Commonwealth Club of CA
After Brief But Spectacular creator Steve Goldbloom filmed 94-year-old retired English teacher Flossie Lewis and “Black Girl Magic” poet activist M...

Bought by KWIT, KWMR, KUT, KKRN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Sep 13, 2018
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 11
This Week in Blues History #50 - March 10-16
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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This time, we profile the March 1932 recording sessions held by Vocalion in New York City, as the nation was in the grips of the Great Depression.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2018
  • Length: 03:29
This Week in Blues History #49 - March 3-9
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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This time, we profile “Rocket 88,” by Jackie Brenston — widely considered to be one of the archetypal records of rock ‘n’ roll.

  • Added: Aug 28, 2018
  • Length: 03:29
This Week in Blues History #48 - February 24-March 2
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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This time, we profile “Baby Scratch My Back” by Slim Harpo — the only number one hit on the Excello label during its 23 year run.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2018
  • Length: 03:29
This Week in Blues History #47 - February 17-23
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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This time, we profile “Key to the Highway” — one of the enduring classics of the blues, first recorded by pianist Charlie Segar in 1940.

Bought by KLCC


  • Added: Aug 24, 2018
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 1
This Week in Blues History #46 - February 10-16
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: This Week in Blues History
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This time, we profile Stick McGhee’s 1949 anthem to good times and cheap booze — a big hit that saved a fledgling Atlantic Records from bankruptcy.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2018
  • Length: 03:29