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In her book, Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence, Kellie Carter Jackson contends that the history of abolitionism, ...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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In her new film, The Edge of Democracy, director Petra Costa tells the story of how Brazil went from a rising star among free nations to a democrac...

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  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 11:49
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On October 6, the Trump administration announced it was withdrawing US troops from northern Syria, essentially giving Turkish President Recep Tayyi...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
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HOUR ONE: "Filtering Free Speech" - Language is powerful. But what if someone tells you to stop talking? This hour, free speech and modern censorsh...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:58
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The September 20th 2019: Women Warriors — Voices of Change multimedia concert performed by Orchestra Moderne NYC, under the direction of Amy Anders...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2019
  • Length: 01:40
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Living From Happiness - deep, thoughtful, provocative public radio

  • Added: Aug 23, 2019
  • Length: 28:58
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American artists such as Faith Ringgold, Suzanne Lacy, and Judy Chicago insisted on ending the silence surrounding sexual violence and helped const...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 59:05
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Michele DiTomas, a hospice physician who cares for incarcerated men, races against the clock and slashes through bureaucratic tape to help a dying ...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 37:16
Caption: A still from Barbara Hammer's "Menses" (1974)
Barbara Hammer is an American feminist filmmaker known for being one of the pioneers of lesbian film. Hammer is known for creating experimental fil...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
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The image is of a badly abused enslaved man called variously “A Typical Negro,” “The Scourged Back,” “Gordon the Slave,” or “Poor Peter," who is tu...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2019
  • Length: 59:25
Caption: David Rogers
The twentieth century has been called the American Century, a time when American ingenuity, economic growth, military power, and vibrant cultural e...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2018
  • Length: 24:43
Caption: Orson Welles in production on It’s All True
Orson Welles, following hard upon the tailwind of Walt Disney, was strongly encouraged to travel in Latin America as a Goodwill ambassador at the b...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: Catherine Shakdam and Hanan Al-Zubaidy
John Shuck speaks with Hanan Al-Zubaidy and Catherine Shakdam about his recent trip to Iraq for Arbaeen

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  • Added: Nov 12, 2018
  • Length: 56:02
  • Purchases: 1
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HOUR ONE: "Building A Better Ballot Box" - Compulsory voting? Pay citizens? Let children vote? This hour, we'll find a better way to do elections. ...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
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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
Caption: Dwain Deets, Former NASA Engineer
Former NASA engineer explains evidence that an intelligence operation, Able Danger, knew Mohammad Atta was in the US yet was forbidden to share thi...

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  • Added: Sep 11, 2018
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 1
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
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Afrofuturism is a growing genre-movement that spans literature, art, music, and film. It provides radical alternatives to dominant Western narrativ...

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  • Added: Jun 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Photographer and essayist Allan Sekula was a critic of capitalism and an influential theorist of documentary photography and photojournalism. In "S...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2018
  • Length: 58:19
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The Living Well Show is proud to present Michael Isikoff, author of Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election o...

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  • Added: May 28, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
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The Living Well Show presents a two-part interview with David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times and author of It...

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  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
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The Living Well Show presents a two-part interview with David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times and author of It...

Bought by WPCA-LP and KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: (Top Clockwise) Nicole Correri, Brett Webb-Mitchell, Jeremy Rothe-Kushel
The rising threat to free speech, Muslim-Christian dialogue, and LGBTQ+ advocacy.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
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Xenophobia, austerity, and an activated constituency -- there's a lot in common across international progressive fronts. Voices from the Progressiv...

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  • Added: Mar 29, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1