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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
EE 23-22: Gloria Lucas of Nalgona Positivity Pride celebrates all body types, 5/26/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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Treatment for eating disorders is often inaccessible and ineffective, especially in communities of color. The founder of Nalgona Positivity Pride h...

  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
Drawing Deportation
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Silvia Rodriguez Vega
Family separation. Deportation. Border crossing deaths. Profiling. Limited access to resources such as quality education and healthcare. All of the...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Poet, Fiction Writer, and Memoirist Rigoberto González
From: New Letters on the Air
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In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we revisit this interview with Rigoberto Gonzalez, who won the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award from Associatio...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRZA, WCPN, and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
¿QPM? S5 EP 8: La lucha después de la nube de polvo
From: WNIN
Series: ¿Qué Pasa, Midwest?
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Ordered to stay in their homes early in the pandemic, residents of the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago are hit by a toxic dust cloud from a ...

  • Added: May 28, 2022
  • Length: 15:00
Los Olvidados - The Forgotten Ones
From: Michael Ambrosino
Caption: Los Olvidados, Credit: Art by Martin French
Featuring award winning contemporary musicians, authors and advocates of Pan-Latin music, Los Olvidados (The Forgotten Ones) explores how Latin bas...

Bought by WDCB, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WBGO, KMHD, and KJZX-Austin


  • Added: Apr 25, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:30
  • Purchases: 5
Decolonizing Dewey
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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A lot had changed since Melvil Dewey came up with a classification system to organize all known and not-yet-known knowledge into a string of number...

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 24:50
  • Purchases: 1
Award-Winning Poet Martín Espada discusses advocacy in writing
From: New Letters on the Air
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR celebrates the winner of the National Book Award for Poetry, Martin Espada, whose new book FLOATERS tackles the social issue...

Bought by WCPN and WNJR


  • Added: Nov 26, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
But Next Time Part 2: From the Ashes
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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As fires ravaged California's world-famous wine country in 2017,a community radio station, emergency dispatcher, and tenant organizers helped the m...

Bought by WXDU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Anna in the Tropics
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Jimmy Smits stars in the 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning play.

Bought by KKRN, KMUN, KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 05, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 27
But Next Time Part 1: Toward the Fire
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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As fires ravaged California's world-famous wine country in 2017,a community radio station, emergency dispatcher, and tenant organizers helped the m...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Queers in Comics: How are portrayals changing?
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Queer comic writer Gabby Rivera and artist Luciano Vecchio, Credit: Collage by Porfirio Rangel. Rivera photo courtesy of Giselle Flores; Vecchio photo courtesy of Luciano Vecchio
It's important for children and young adults to see images like themselves in media. Comics are increasingly popular and LGBTQ characters are poppi...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Jul 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Suketu Mehta, THIS LAND IS OUR LAND & Lew Daly, FALSE SOLUTIONS
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with Suketu Mehta about his powerful book, This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant Manifesto. Then, we speak with researcher Lew Daly about his...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
MS-13: The Making of America’s Most Notorious Gang
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Steven Dudley
Most of us, by now, are familiar with the gang known as MS-13. How it evolved into a violent group is a peculiar story with a twist on its evolution.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 13, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
CESAR CHAVEZ/ DOLORES HUERTA STORY 3
From: Cesar Chavez Foundation
Series: CESAR CHAVEZ ANECDOTES
Caption: resist, Credit: flocabulary
Celebrating the Month of our founder Cesar Chavez through his own words and with the people who were closer to him.

  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 01:01
In the Shadow of the Volcano: Guatemala's Unequal Disaster
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Thousands of Guatemalans are recovering from the eruption of a volcano called Fuego - Spanish for "fire" - which took place in the summer of 2018. ...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
WorldCanvass: The Politics and Impact of Immigration (Part 2)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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WorldCanvass begins its tenth season of internationally focused discussions with “The Politics and Impact of Immigration.” Arguments over reasonabl...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2018
  • Length: 25:33
WorldCanvass: The Politics and Impact of Immigration (Part 1)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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WorldCanvass begins its tenth season with "The Politics and Impact of Immigration.” Arguments over reasonable and desirable immigration legislation...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2018
  • Length: 41:31
Decolonizing Wealth Through Indigenous Leadership
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This week Laura speaks to Edgar Villanueva, about being one of the very few indigenous people working in grant-making, and ask what he thinks Nativ...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Jul 26, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Women on the Front Lines
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Immigration and Labor: Stories from the Texas Workforce (2018 Summer Institute)
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The Grupo de Mujeres, or Womens' Group, works tirelessly for the dignity of their families and themselves at the Workers Defense Project. Here are ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 02, 2018
  • Length: 04:19
  • Purchases: 1
Episode #5: "Law, Literature & Racism: Zeta Style"
From: Marcos Nájera
Series: ZETA PODCAST SERIES
Caption: Stanford Literature Professor Ramon Saldívar, Credit: Marcos Nájera
In the end, we wrap up our series at the beginning. Host Marcos Nájera reports on what he’s learned about Oscar Zeta Acosta. And the contributions ...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 17:24
Episode #1: "Who the F is that?"
From: Marcos Nájera
Series: ZETA PODCAST SERIES
Caption: Anita Acosta & daughter Stephanie at home in Northern California., Credit: Marcos Nájera
Host Marcos Nájera introduces us to the Zeta podcast series. Who is Oscar Zeta Acosta? If you know, you are way ahead of Nájera who admits the US p...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 13:29
StoryCorps: Jessi Silva and Maggie Marquez
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Jessi Silva (left) and Maggie Marquez (right)
Maggie Marquez and Jessi Silva grew up in the desert town of Marfa, Texas in the 1950s. At the time, segregation of Latino and white students was n...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 1
PN 17-06 "Keough Hall" by Francisco Aragon
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: Francisco Aragon, poet
Francisco Aragón describes a threatening incident against a college student after the 2016 election.

Bought by KALW and KENW


  • Added: Jul 25, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
PN 17-02 "La Bestia/The Beast" by Juan Delgado
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: Juan Delgado, poet
Juan Delgado describes a dangerous journey by a series of freight trains that migrants from Central America use to reach the U.S. border.

Bought by KALW, KHSU, and KENW


  • Added: Jun 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3