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Mending the Past: International Truth and Reconciliation
Series: Making Contact
From Making Contact
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After Apartheid, genocide, or after civil wars...how do nations, or people who've been pitted against each other, resolve their differences and liv...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2012
  • Length: 00:30:00
Bigger Than Hip-Hop: Youth Speakin' for Themselves
Series: Making Contact
From Making Contact
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Spoken word. It's poetry it's hip-hop and increasingly, it's the chosen means of expression for today's youth. On this edition, to celebrate Nation...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 00:29:01
Affrilachian Poet Frank X Walker
Series: With Good Reason news features
From With Good Reason
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The Kentucky poet who coined the term “Affrilachian” has a new collection of poetry. Allison Quantz reports he takes on historical and current racism.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 00:02:27
Justice in the Home: Domestic Workers Re-define the Labor Movement
Series: Making Contact
From Making Contact
Caption: Domestic workers in Texas., Credit: Flickr user: Nuevo Anden
With the passage of New York’s Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in 2010, workers are now organizing in California and other states to win basic righ...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2012
  • Length: 00:29:01
Hallelujah the Saviors are Here, by Rachel Smith of Louder Than a Bomb 2012
From Emily Corwin
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Featuring Louder Than a Bomb 2012 Poetry Finalist, Rachel Smith. When Rachel Smith's older sister was a second-semester high school senior, she an...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2012
  • Length: 00:11:03
Dinah Was
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
From L.A. Theatre Works
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Yvette Freeman reprises her Obie-winning performance as Dinah Washington.

Bought by KKRN, KMUN, WBEZ, KUOW, KRCB and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Ban the Box! The Campaign for Post-Prison Employment
Series: Making Contact
From Making Contact
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It’s not even the crime that counts sometimes. It’s that little box on an application that asks you to reveal if you have a criminal history. Chec...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 00:29:01
Cornel West & Carl Dix: Pursuing Justice in the Age of Obama
Series: Making Contact
From Making Contact
Caption: Cornel West and Carl Dix, Credit: Revolution Books
A dialogue between Princeton University professor Cornel West, and Revolutionary Communist Party USA spokesman Carl Dix about the future of America...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 00:29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Melissa Harris-Perry: Confronting Stereotypes of the Black Woman
Series: Making Contact
From Making Contact
Caption: Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America, Credit: Melissa Harris-Perry
On this edition, author and political science professor Melissa Harris-Perry speaks about the stereotypes black women face, the resulting impacts o...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KHNS, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 16, 2011
  • Length: 00:29:00
  • Purchases: 3
A Symphony of Hopes and Dreams
From With Good Reason
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A recent classical music piece was inspired by the poetry written by children in Birmingham, AL, in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Bought by 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Dec 05, 2011
  • Length: 00:29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Occupy: From Encampments to a Movement
Series: Making Contact
From Making Contact
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‘We are the 99 percent’ has become a rallying cry for people uniting to change a system based on greed and exploitation. We’ll look at what it’ll t...

Bought by KHNS and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 23, 2011
  • Length: 00:29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Words as the Way to Freedom: Jimmy Santiago Baca
Series: Making Contact
From Making Contact
Caption: Jimmy Santiago Baca
He went from illiterate street kid, to world renowned poet. But it was in prison that Jimmy Santiago Baca connected with his Native American and C...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Nov 09, 2011
  • Length: 00:29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Who Controls Black Women's Bodies?
Series: Making Contact
From Making Contact
Caption: Pro-abortion rally, Credit: Flickr user: ProgressOhio
Reproductive health services for women are under attack, leaving poor women and women of color lacking access. But a broad coalition of women is st...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 00:29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Voices From The Diaspora: Resistance and Community
Series: Making Contact
From Making Contact
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Riots all over the world are calling on us to get involved in societal change. But what kind of action is needed, and how do we create real change?...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 17, 2011
  • Length: 00:29:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Woman's Rise to Power: Struggle and Success
Series: Making Contact
From Making Contact
Caption: Former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, Credit: Flickr user: Alex E. Proimos
In 2011, why are there fewer than 20 female heads of state around the world? A former President, a Supreme Court justice and other women leaders re...

Bought by WEKU, 90.5 WSNC, KSJD, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 05, 2011
  • Length: 00:29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Encore Presentation: Tales from the South 002 with Grif Stockley
Series: Tin Roof Project Encore Presentations
From Paula Morell
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Author Grif Stockley on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front of a live a...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2011
  • Length: 00:29:00
Remixing Revolution: Art, Music and Politics
Series: Making Contact
From Making Contact
Caption: Artists Rich Medina and Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Credit: Flickr user: kuishimbo
Art and music have long contributed to society and our way of life. But in these dire financial times, it’s not always a priority in our schools. O...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 00:29:00
Re-humanizing Immigrants: Reflections by Maria Hinojosa
Series: Making Contact
From Making Contact
Caption: Maria Hinojosa, Credit: Michael Paras
Despite President Obama’s promise to change America’s broken immigration system, the dehumanization and detention of immigrants continues to rise. ...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 00:29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Rob Robinson and Beverly Corbin
Series: Housing is a Human Right Storytelling Project Vol. 1
From Rachel Falcone
Caption: Young man walking in Brooklyn, Credit: Michael Premo
Two first-person stories about the struggle for home. Shortly after being promoted and relocated from New York to Miami, Rob Robinson is laid off a...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2011
  • Length: 00:13:07
  • Purchases: 1
COINTELPRO 101 (Part 1)
Series: Making Contact
From Making Contact
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Over the next two weeks, we broadcast the documentary film “COINTELPRO 101,” about the secret FBI program which ran from 1956-1971, and disrupted m...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: May 05, 2011
  • Length: 00:29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Master Harold...and the Boys
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
From L.A. Theatre Works
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A story of friendship and racism in apartheid-era South Africa.

Bought by WCPN, Nevada Public Radio, KUT, KMUN, KUOW and more


  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 7
State of Siege: Mississippi Whites and the Civil Rights Movement
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History
From American Public Media
Caption: White students protest integration at the University of Mississippi in 1962. No state in the South was more resistant to the struggle for black equality. , Credit: Photograph by Flip Schulke/CORBIS
Mississippi occupies a distinct and dramatic place in the history of America’s civil rights movement. No state in the South was more resistant to t...

Bought by WRPI


  • Added: Feb 16, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Everyone's A Little Bit Racist
Series: Broadway Matinee - Songs from the Stage & Screen
From Janean Jorgensen
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Vaudeville and Broadway songs that are incorrect in these times

Bought by WHDD and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Feb 16, 2011
  • Length: 00:58:56
  • Purchases: 2
Michelle Alexander on the New Jim Crow
Series: Making Contact
From Making Contact
Caption: Michelle Alexander
Professor Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ makes the case that the US’ criminal ju...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Feb 09, 2011
  • Length: 00:29:00
  • Purchases: 1
This WE Believe - Race
From Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow- Phil Mariage
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3 'This I Believe' essays from older, middle and young generations on Race

  • Added: Feb 05, 2011
  • Length: 00:29:00