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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
Post-Roe Abortion Access from The Response Part 2
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Digital Security Best Practices by Digital Defense Fund, Credit: Hazel Mead
Mutual aid efforts to provide pregnancy prevention and medical abortion in post-Roe southern United States.

Bought by KSQD Santa Cruz


  • Added: Nov 14, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for August 3, 2022
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: In Historic Breakthrough, Senate Bill Requires Medicare to Negotiate Price...

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Aug 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
70 Million: An Effort to Hold Prosecutors Accountable
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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A legal matrix that incentivizes criminal convictions can motivate unethical prosecutors to bend or break the rules. In New York, a group of law pr...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
In Buffalo with India Walton: An Insurgent Candidate Runs for Mayor
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Eyes across the nation are on the mayoral election in Buffalo, New York, where insurgent candidate India Walton could become the first Black woman—...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, KDNK, and KMUN


  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Austin Activist DaShawn Barr on Code-Switching and Summer 2020 Racial Justice Protests
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Akins High School Spring 2021
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DaShawn Barr played a prominent role in the racial justice protests that occurred in Austin, Texas in summer 2020.

  • Added: May 28, 2021
  • Length: 05:35
President Biden and America's Expectation
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Today, a divided nation experiences one of the most tumultuous presidential transitions in US history. Leaders from marginalized communities across...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Black Immigrants in the Whitest State
From: Feet in 2 Worlds
Series: A Better Life
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Two young Black African immigrants in Maine talk about their state, which has the widest racial disparity in the country when it comes to coronavir...

Bought by KMUN and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 20, 2020
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 2
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for October 28, 2020
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Urgent Lawsuit Launched to Stop Trump Regime Voter Intimidation; Despite R...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and WKPW


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for July 29, 2020
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Federal Forces Deployed to Portland Provoke Violence & Rebellion Against I...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
2020-07-19 Frantz Fanon and the Violence of Colonialism
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Should there be limits to violence in the service of liberation?

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KSKQ, KTSW 89.9, WLPR , KNVC Carson City Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 20, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 11
Black Don’t Crack: Debunking Racist Explanations About Black Lives
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today we’re joined by two of the four hosts of the Black Myths Podcast which is produced in Indianapolis: Too Black, a spoken word poet and teachin...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 59:04
  • Purchases: 1
COVID 19 - an Unequal Opportunity Killer, with Daniel E. Dawes, Esq.
From: Claudia Cragg
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KGNU's Claudia Cragg, @claudiacragg speaks here with Daniel E. Dawes, a nationally recognized leader in healthcare law and policy, who has been an ...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 28:33
StoryCorps Griot: Sydney Reed and Rep. James Clyburn
From: StoryCorps
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Rep. James Clyburn speaks with his granddaughter, Sydney Reed, about the lessons he’s learned from success and failure.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2020
  • Length: 03:04
70 Million: The Work of Closing a Notorious Jail
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Inex Bordeaux holds up a sign while doing street outreach in north St. Louis to raise awareness about the Close the Workhouse campaign., Credit: Carolina Hidalgo
Five years after Michael Browns death at the hands of a police officer galvanized criminal justice reform activists in St. Louis, they're gaining s...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jan 31, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Future of Abolition: Mark Lamont Hill, Michelle Alexander and Vonya Quarles
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Michelle Alexander, Mark Lamont Hill and Vonya Quarles discuss the modern prison abolition movement, what's changed in the past ten years, and the ...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Jan 29, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Michael Eric Dyson on Trump, Truth, and Race
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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America’s unwillingness to assess the ugly truth about systemic inequality has created a perpetual sinkhole of denial. A reality that existed long ...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Dec 07, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Patrisse Khan-Cullors, “When They Call You A Terrorist”
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Patrisse Khan-Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter reflections on humanity, the end of policing and her new book, WHEN THEY CALL YOU A TERRORI...

Bought by KVNF, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRIR, WFHB, and WVAS


  • Added: Mar 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Interview w/ Sociologist ANNA HASKINS discussing prison reform
From: Out of Bounds
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Anna Haskins, Sociologist, discusses prison reform, how incarceration of parents affects children's educational outcomes

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
“Black Detroit” A People’s History of Self-Determination”-
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: The Cutting Edge
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“Black Detroit” A People’s History of Self-Determination”- is a rich account of African-American history in Motown, written by award-winning journa...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2017
  • Length: 40:51
"Rude, Crude and Crass: The Rise of the Right in America-Part Two
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: "The Cutting Edge: Black News and Views- Where Journalism, Culture, Politics and Activism Converge"
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An audio collage of the development of the Klan, the Alt. Right and White Supremacy in the U.S.

  • Added: Aug 15, 2017
  • Length: 53:48
The Struggle Inside: The Murder of George Jackson
From: Making Contact
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On this edition of Making Contact we present, The Struggle Inside: The Murder of George Jackson, a program about the modern anti-prison movement.

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Aug 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Tragic Birth of Black Populism
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today, we’ll take a look at the development and destruction of Black Populism in the post-bellum South, discovering the strategies, institutions, a...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 1
Greg Palast on Voter Suppression, and Buying Democracy
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Greg Palast, is an investigative reporter and documentary filmmaker. His new film, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: a Tale of Billionaires and Ba...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
Dr. Fania Davis - Healing the Wounds of Racism - Part 2
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Dr. Fania Davis. Dr. Davis is Executive Director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, ...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2016
  • Length: 28:30