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A Jazz-Age Murder That Toppled Gotham’s Mayor
From: Francesca Rheannon
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We talk with Michael Wolraich about his book, The Bishop And The Butterfly: Murder, Politics, And The End Of The Jazz Age. Then, we re-air part of ...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 01:10:45
Season 1, Episode 21 - 'Beyond Bars' feat Fox & Rob Richardson
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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The need for prison reform in the USA.

Bought by WOJB


  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:25
  • Purchases: 1
Relativity
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Is melanin a genetic marker for superiority?

Bought by KCHW, KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KWMR and more


  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 31
McReele
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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An ex-con gets tapped to run for the Senate.

Bought by KCHW, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KWMR, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: Feb 14, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 37
865: The Year Of Return / 866: Wintering In The Wild, 1/20/2024
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "The Year Of Return" - 2019 marked the "year of return" to Ghana – attracting visitors from throughout the African diaspora. Now, scores ...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:01
863: Docupoetry / 864: Discovering America's Black DNA, 1/13/2024
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Docupoetry" - Have you ever wished there was a different way to read – or hear - the news? For generations, through wars and political u...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
Denial of the Funk: The Impact of Racism on our Nation's Health
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Portrait of Dr. Cornel West, Credit: Gage Skidmore (from creative commons)
On today's show, we hear from noted author, scholar, and self-described intellectual freedom fighter, Dr. Cornel West. In his discussions, West use...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN


  • Added: Jan 09, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Challenge
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Borrowed and Banned
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Student activists in York, Pennsylvania organized a silent protest when hundreds of books were banned from their classrooms, paving the way for las...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:10
The North Carolina Legislature’s Congressional Maps Go From Gerrymandered to Fair to Even More Gerrymandered in Two Years
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
The North Carolina Legislature’s Congressional Maps Go From Gerrymandered to Fair to Even More Gerrymandered in Two Years

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Oct 23, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Jazz Phools
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Perry Bradford
When the aging jazz artist was hospitalized, his doctors thought they should get some background information on his life, and he told them that he ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 10, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
835: Astonishing African Futures / 836: You're Not OK. That's OK., 10/7/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Astonishing African Futures" - The new Black Panther movie, "Wakanda Forever," dominated the global box office. This hour, a literary ta...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
EE 23-39: Jessica Wilson talks about what we get wrong when we focus on weight, 9/22/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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“Our bodies aren’t the problem,” rethinking the stories we tell about weight and health with dietician Jessica Wilson.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
The Evolution of Multicultural Education: The CUNY Brooklyn College Story
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this back to school special, we look at the grassroots movement led by student activists with the support of some faculty to establish Africana ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, WNYE and more


  • Added: Sep 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
825: Going For Broke: Making Up Our Minds / 826: Growing Justice, 9/2/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Going For Broke: Making Up Our Minds" - In episode two of our three-part series on the care economy: Mental health challenges can push p...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
National Writers Series: Geraldine Brooks
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Four
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Anne-Marie Oomen talks with writer Geraldine Brooks.

Bought by WKAR and Michigan Radio


  • Added: Aug 03, 2023
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 2
Asian Americans & Anti-Blackness: Truth vs. Fiction on Affirmative Action (August 2, 2023 release)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Affirmative action's foes worked with conservative Chinese American organizations to sue two colleges over their admissions processes. The result w...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, WNYE and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Kashimana Performs Songs About Becoming a Mother
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: Phantom Cries album cover, Credit: Kashimana Ahua
As a grant-supported Cedar Commissions artist, Kashimana created a set of songs about becoming a mother. The songs are now on CD, called Phantom Cr...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
The African Burial Ground
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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Is it possible to study human remains ethically?

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 44:44
Return, Rebury, Repatriate
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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Activists were angry that a museum held the skulls of enslaved people. Then they discovered it also had remains of Black children killed in 1985.

  • Added: May 14, 2023
  • Length: 56:58
Is America Too Obsessed With Race?
From: Open to Debate
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Sixty years ago, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his most iconic speech. "I have a dream,” he said, “that my four little children wil...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WNED Buffalo


  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 2
Roughhousing
From: ROS: Crushed
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Host Iggy Monda takes listeners inside America’s locker rooms and field houses to explore hazing in high school sports today. Through deeply person...

Bought by WUAL, WILL, WJCT, and WVXU


  • Added: Apr 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
781: The Year Of Return / 782: Listen To Your City, 4/1/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "The Year Of Return" - 2019 marked the "year of return" to Ghana – attracting visitors from throughout the African diaspora. Now, scores ...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:01
259: Creating a World Where Everyone Belongs: From a Change of Heart to System Change, 3/22/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: john a. powell and Angela Glover Blackwell , Credit: Alex Akamine
In this moment of radical transformation, shifting the societal pronoun from “me, me, me” to “we” may be the single most transformational pivot we ...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
God's Little Acre: Revealing underrepresented stories of America's African heritage, Part 2
From: World Footprints LLC
Series: God's Little Acre
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Join World Footprints as we uncover the hidden stories of this important piece of Newport's and America’s past from God's Little Acre.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 39:27
The Whipping Man
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A gripping Civil War drama with an unusual twist.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KFCF FM, KWMR, KMUN, KUOW and more


  • Added: Feb 14, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 25

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