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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
Gut Microbes & Hospital Wine
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Feed your head, Grace Slick cried in the song White Rabbit. How about feeding the bacteria in your gut? Beer won’t make you smart. How about wine, ...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2023
  • Length: 56:05
Black Pills
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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If there is no such thing as biological race, why do we have race-specific drugs?

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 54:18
Origin Stories
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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How race was invented to support racism.

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 33:44
One Doctor’s Crusade to Improve Health Literacy
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick believes plainspoken information from trusted messengers can help shrink health disparities, and some insurers are buying in., Credit: Ryan Levi
Black Americans report higher levels of mistrust in the health care system than white Americans and suffer worse outcomes in everything from matern...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 03, 2023
  • Length: 20:23
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Robert Bullard: Environmental Justice is Equal Justice
From: Broken Ground
Series: Season 2: Environmental Writers
Caption: Dr. Robert Bullard
Dr. Robert Bullard, widely considered the father of environmental justice, talks about the inequality of pollution and climate change.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:53
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for May 25, 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: GOP’s Embrace of ‘Replacement Theory’, Violence Imperils U.S. Democracy; N...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WETS


  • Added: May 25, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Unequal Justice: the Criminalization of Black Youth
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Nearly two thirds of all children in the U.S. juvenile justice system are kids of color. That’s according to a report by the Children’s Defense Fun...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Apr 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
180: Dr. Mae Carol Jemison
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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On September 12, 1992, Dr. Mae Carol Jemison became the first Black female astronaut. She's an engineer, a scientist, a physician, and an educator....

Bought by KMUN, WRFA-LP, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps Griot: Dr. Charlene Drew Jarvis and Ernest Jarvis
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Dr. Charles Drew, pictured in a lab at Howard University in 1942, was known as the father of blood banking for pioneering the way we store and transport blood today., Credit: Dr. Charlene Jarvis
In the 1940s, Dr. Charles Drew was a surgeon and blood scientist, and today he is known as the “Father of Blood Banks.” His daughter, Dr. Charlene ...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 2
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for July 28, 2021
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: Supreme Court’s Conservative Majority Deals Death Blow to Voting Rights Ac...

Bought by RADIOLEX, WKPW, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
Race and Research: Charita Castro on Representation in STEM (Bonus Episode)
From: After the Fact
Series: Race and Research
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Charita Castro, a social science researcher and ambassador for the American Association for the Advancement of Science IF/THEN Ambassadors program,...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2021
  • Length: 17:04
Race and Research: Higher Education and Diversity
From: After the Fact
Series: Race and Research
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In this episode, we consider the pipeline to the research workforce—higher education. We explore how the university supports undergraduate and grad...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2021
  • Length: 21:29
Race and Research: The Gaps in Health
From: After the Fact
Series: Race and Research
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Continuing our look at race and research, we turn to health care. We hear about the impact of COVID-19 on communities of color, how to build trust ...

Bought by WHFR


  • Added: Jun 04, 2021
  • Length: 25:27
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for April 21, 2021
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Derek Chauvin Trial Guilty Verdict Won't Fix Crisis in U.S. Policing; Bide...

Bought by WKPW


  • Added: Apr 21, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Shut Up And Listen
From: Laura Joyce Davis
Series: Vaccine Hesitant
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How can we make space for concerns about the vaccine and grapple with a difficult history? Infectious disease specialist Dr. Joyce Sanchez says th...

Bought by WFHB and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 2
151: G. A. Morgan and the Traffic Light
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Traffic lights, a hair relaxant, gas masks, the zig-zag stitch on sewing machines...all of these important inventions have one thing in common, Gar...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2021
  • Length: 05:57
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for July 1, 2020
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Politics, Not Public Health, Drives Policies Linked to Alarming Increase i...

Bought by WKPW


  • Added: Jul 01, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for June 10, 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: Protests Build Momentum for Police Accountability, Reforms to Address U.S....

Bought by WKPW and KMXT


  • Added: Jun 10, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Race and COVID
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Race and Covid
While citizens take to the streets to protest racist violence, the pandemic has its own brutal inequities. Black, Latino, and Native American peopl...

Bought by KWMR, CHSR-FM 97.9, KMUN, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 08, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
Ants, Ants, Revolution
From: Emily T Griffiths
Series: Device
Caption: Cover art by Alex Wild (www.alexanderwild.com): Argentine ants (Linepithema humile), an aggressive pest species introduced by human commerce to California, attack a native Pogonomyrmex harvester ant. Native ants in many places around the world have disapp, Credit: Alex Wild
Kingsolver takes us to 1950s Belgian Congo via the Prices, a missionary family. David Holway from UCSD gives us the rundown on local ant species wh...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2019
  • Length: 22:44
Mapping Asthma: The Geography of Inequality
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Health & Healing
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A doctoral student in education seeks to discover solutions to health inequities in the St. Louis region and beyond.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 12:15
Experts push for more African-Americans in STEM fields
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Doctor Scott Williams, African American mathematician retired from the Unviersit at Buffalo, discusses what it's like working as an African American in the STEM field., Credit: by ANGELICA A. MORRISON
Great Lakes states have produced several influential African-Americans in the sciences. There’s astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson – he’s from New ...

Bought by WVBI-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WDET Detroit Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WSKG and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2018
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 7
The Global Fight for Climate Justice and against Environmental Injustice with Jacqui Patterson Director of Environmental & Climate Justice at the NAACP
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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The Global Fight for Climate Justice and against Environmental Injustice with Jacqui Patterson Director of Environmental & Climate Justice at the N...

Bought by WCNY and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Feb 04, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
College Racial Health Gap
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
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A college education can leave some students with a health debt.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, KENW, and WLPR


  • Added: Dec 23, 2017
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 5