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Caption: Bayard Rustin, half-length portrait, facing front, microphones in foreground, Credit: Library of Congress
Today’s episode from our archives continues to honor Black history and heritage. We take a look at the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin, a central ...

Bought by WXDU, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WORT, Oregon Public Broadcasting, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Feb 13, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Today we feature four poets who help us see our own predicaments – one who shows us we contain multitudes; one whose life and writing was always an...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Producer's Award for 2021 Music Find- Art Bears!
Today we’ll hear four clips from four shows that weave together ideas of slavery, imperialism, and ideological and environmental pollution.

Bought by KNCT FM


  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 58:24
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Zhang Taiyan
Our show is on the Chinese scholar and philosopher Zhang Taiyan with guest Viren Murthy. In it we seek to detail the tangle of the so-called East a...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jul 06, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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On today's program we honor Bayard Rustin, one of the most central figures in the African American struggle for Civil Rights and Freedom. Rustin wa...

Bought by WXDU and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Edward Said, a Palestinian American, born in Jerusalem, was one of the most influential literary scholars in the United States, transforming the ac...

  • Added: May 04, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Mill Creek Valley (St. Louis) circa 1948
Part Two of our conversation with Walter Johnson about his must-read book The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the Uni...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
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Author and scholar Dr. Priyamvada Gopal discusses her latest book, Insurgent Empire, which examines a history of abolition and rebellion under col...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and WRIR


  • Added: Dec 11, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
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We think of enhanced interrogation as being a new invention - a kind of torture in use only since 9/11. But Rebecca Gordon disagrees. In this episo...

Bought by WVAS and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: May 28, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: PJ Raval, San Francisco, CA 10/16/18, Credit: Andrea Chase
PJ Raval talks connections, history, and changing the culture.

  • Added: Oct 18, 2018
  • Length: 28:03
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Alex Vitale’s The End of Policing is a critical examination on the history of the police, and the police’s evolution as a tool for social control t...

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


  • Added: Feb 13, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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This episode will explore the literary tradition of writing back.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 04:52
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“One of the ways that radical ideas become more mainstream is when those of us who hold them aren’t afraid to speak about them.” This thought has g...

Bought by Bandon Community Radio, WYAP, WMUU-LP, KRZA, KCMJ Community Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 6
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Robert Jensen is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin and author of “Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Human...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 23:37
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The borders that divide up our modern world hinge, sometimes, on decisions that have stopped making sense. The Middle East is still suffering from ...

Bought by KZYX, WRPI, KUOW, and Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)


  • Added: Jul 18, 2014
  • Length: 58:36
  • Purchases: 4
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Why are they here?. Many Latin Americans came to the US because dangerous or deadly conditions-which the American government helped create. In pa...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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Many Latin Americans were brought, or forced to come to the US by conditions our government had a role in creating We hear excerpts of “Harvest of...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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Reese Erlich brings us a special report from Libya on the chaos that remains in the wake of the overthrow of hated dictator Muammar Gaddafi. While ...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2012
  • Length: 29:01