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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
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
Is it possible to study human remains ethically?
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 44:44
Dr. Synnika's Topical Poem of the Week is a weekly show that uses poetry to explore the social, political, and racial conditions in America. Each e...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 03:30
Artist Hank Willis Thomas’ first major retrospective, “All Things Being Equal” is open at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Thomas’s work addresses the on...
- Added: Sep 25, 2020
- Length: 05:29
Even in complicated times, we tend to forget the simplicity of, “why we protest” even if the issue is a no-brainer or has complicated edges. We kno...
- Added: Aug 11, 2020
- Length: 07:34
Professors Marva Lewis and Marvin Dunn discuss "stereotype threat" and its effect on African Americans sense of safety when interacting with police...
Bought by WBST, RadioStPete Florida, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KPIP-LP
- Added: Jul 16, 2016
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 4
On 2/24/2016 President Obama will present the Selma voting rights marchers the Congressional Gold Medal. On March 7, 1965, the marchers were attack...
- Added: Feb 22, 2016
- Length: 03:57
Students at Lewiston High launched a town wide dialogue about race after the principal ordered to students to take down posters proclaiming “Black ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 07:35
- Purchases: 3
Victoria F. Pratt, the Chief Judge of the Newark,New Jersey Municipal Court, has won an international reputation for her efforts to reform the crim...
- Added: Apr 10, 2015
- Length: 30:09
Lacey Schwartz has written, produced and directed a documentary, Little White Lie, detailing how she grew up as a white, Jewish girl in Woodstock, ...
- Added: Mar 17, 2015
- Length: 29:59
Can you flip your middle finger at a cop? Hunger In America. Climate Change. Two movies you must see. And what's wrong with the DCCC? Weekly series...
- Added: Oct 31, 2013
- Length: 29:58
King County is home to one of the country's largest populations of Somalis. They've been fleeing since the Somali government collapsed in 1991. The...
- Added: May 23, 2012
- Length: 07:45
Former Traveling Vice Lord talks about how he got involved in gangs to being imprisoned for transporting a couple kilos of marijuana to deciding to...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 17, 2012
- Length: 03:45
- Purchases: 1
Jamaica has a long history of police violence and corruption. In May 2010 a government crackdown left 73 people dead and a city in chaos. The major...
Bought by KRUA
- Added: May 23, 2011
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
The Road to Rehabilitation is littered with good intentions and foreclosures. Host Audra Wilson discovers that many Americans were literally addic...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Oct 10, 2010
- Length: 09:52
- Purchases: 1
We take a look at the Police killing of Oscar Grant in Oakland, and the debate over who gets to decide when an officer has done something wrong.
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Jul 15, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Elder collected the final words of American serial killers, psychopaths and more. The book has an introduction by the late journalist Studs Terkel.
- Added: Jul 06, 2010
- Length: 28:53
Who gets to decide when an officer has done something wrong—the police chief or the people? Cities across the country are creating civilian oversig...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Aug 05, 2009
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 1
Marijuana has made big news again: The Michael Phelps photo and backlash against Kellogg's; The arrest of George Obama in Kenya and CNBC's Marijuan...
- Added: Feb 11, 2009
- Length: 29:33
News you don't get delivered to your front door or tune into at 6 and 11. A Small Voice from the Nation's Capital
- Added: Jun 05, 2006
- Length: 56:07
News you don't get delivered to your front door or tune into at 6 and 11. A Small Voice from the Nation's Capital
- Added: Jun 04, 2006
- Length: 01:00:09
A commentary about Alito, Corretta Scott King and Civil Rights
- Added: Feb 08, 2006
- Length: 03:10
One family talks about leaving their home in the New Orleans 9th ward as water rose toward the roof, floating their baby in a cooler toward safer g...
- Added: Oct 17, 2005
- Length: 04:20
- Added: Sep 13, 2005
- Length: 08:01
