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An interview with the co-directors of the documentary Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes. The interview paints a comprehensive picture of Max Roach's...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2024
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Christine Yoo
For many of us, the holiday season presents an opportunity to spend some time thinking about people less fortunate than ourselves. This week on Sea...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Daniel Medwed
Many followers of the highly publicized Adnan Syed case were delighted to see an innocent man set free after over two decades behind bars. But the ...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Rod Graham
Back in 2016 the US Supreme Court established that the University of Texas could continue to consider race as a factor in admissions, in order to e...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rob Schofield
Come election season, some of us who live in solidly “blue” states like California or New York take our activist selves on the road to so-called “s...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: John Stoehr
It’s right in the Declaration of Independence that everyone is created equal. So why is an entire political party so scared of talking critically a...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 07, 2021
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
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The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the most diverse in the U.S., but that diversity is rarely seen in the make-up of the region's political leade...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2021
  • Length: 29:27
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Our guest is Brett Story, author of Pison Land: Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America and award-winning filmmaker of The Prison in Twelv...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 12, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Liberty  & Justice For Some: Two Centuries of Independent Black Leaders & Political Movements
Here’s a seemingly inexplicable historical event: How did the anti-slavery Republican party take the White House in 1861, only six years after its ...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2021
  • Length: 32:00
Caption: Rod Graham
Many of us grew up under the impression that “colorblindness,” or pretending not to see racial differences was virtuous. An important contribution ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 18, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Liz King
One front on which the fight for racial justice is being waged is in the area of education. We have been led to believe that education is the great...

Bought by WFHB and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: André Wallace, Credit: Shefik
Birds - André Wallace is a City Council Member at Mount Vernon, New York. He is also the owner of a construction company, CDCD, LLC.

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:26
Caption: Castle Redmond
In his book "Lies My Teacher Told Me," James Loewen writes that "race is the sharpest and deepest division in American life." We recognize the peac...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Maurice Plaines
This has been a difficult stretch for the country with millions sick, out of work, or simply stuck at home. But the horrific murder of George Floyd...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
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Police Psychological Screening with Dr. Richard Zonderman- Miami Dade College School of Justice Police Academy, Formerly CIA(Central Intelligence A...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Jun 05, 2020
  • Length: 27:50
  • Purchases: 1
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-What did the process of legal desegregation look like in everyday life and culture? Jennifer Ritterhouse shares the story of Sarah Patton “Pattie...

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, WFHB, WLIW, KRDP and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
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Artist Charles Gaines has been delving into philosophy, abstraction and mathematics to address politics and race since the 1970s. In August 2019, G...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2019
  • Length: 19:29
Caption: "The Arc of the moral universe is long but it moves toward justice."., Credit: Susan Cook
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry today asks if Alabama's long history of lack of compassion toward people of color now appears again in their lack of...

  • Added: May 20, 2019
  • Length: :54
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-We talk with one of six people suing the Trump administration for rescinding DACA, a program that allows people who came to the U.S. as undocument...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WJCT, KRZA, WFHB, WLPR and more


  • Added: Nov 01, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: Christine Rodriguez celebrates with a student she is helping apply to college, Credit: Juliane Dressner
Personal Statement takes us into the lives of three public HS seniors who are determined to go to college and take their classmates with them.

Bought by Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 12, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
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-In 1898, a black man named John Henry James was lynched in Charlottesville, Virginia, right across the street from what is now With Good Reason's ...

Bought by WCNY, WDSE, WCSU-FM, KWTF community radio for Sonoma County, WTJU and more


  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 12
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-In 1898, a black man named John Henry James was lynched in Charlottesville, Virginia, right across the street from what is now With Good Reason's ...

Bought by WFHB, WNMU-FM, KMUN, and WJCU


  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
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-“An Outrage’ is a documentary film about lynching in the American South. From the end of the Civil War well into the middle of the twentieth centu...

Bought by WJCT, WVAS, WUGA (part of GPB), KRDP, WYAP and more


  • Added: Aug 03, 2018
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Kyle Donnelly
Director Kyle Donnelly sees theater as interpretive history.

  • Added: Jan 31, 2018
  • Length: 26:59
Caption: Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan, September 24, 1957., Credit: Will Counts Collection: Indiana University Archives
2017 was the 60th anniversary of the stand-off between Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus and desegregation at Little Rock Central High School . Today ...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2017
  • Length: 58:59