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Sex, Pleasure, and Liberation: Desire in A World Transformed

Regulation, degradation, shaming, blaming - enough! Is it time for sexual liberation yet? We talk a lot about sex but not often enough about pleasure, On today's show we try to make up for...

Stimulus Checks Every Month?

The Compton Pledge is paying 800 families up to $600 per month to give them a leg up. So far, unemployment is down 50% and life is looking up for recipients and the community...

Kimberlé Crenshaw & Soledad O’Brien Call Out the Media on Critical Race Theory

The right wing has found its newest racist wedge issue: Critical Race Theory. This decades-old movement in legal scholarship has suddenly become a talking point for GOP activists, and a widely misused term in...

North Carolina: Courageous Conversations in a Climate of Fear

Prefer to Listen?Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform.North Carolina is in the headlines after an attack on Moore County’s electrical grid, which left tens of...

Lynching and Lunacy

AboutAcclaimed white anti-racist scholar Mab Segrest, author of the influential book Memoir of a Race Traitor, takes Laura through the US South to trace the racist roots of American psychiatry. Together, they explore the...

Linda Villarosa on the End of Roe: A Death Sentence for Women of Color?

Is the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health a death sentence for women of color? The overturning of Roe v. Wade not only creates an abortion disaster for millions of Americans,...

Black Journalists on Police Violence: Reporting from the Ground Up

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Black Pain / White media: Introducing URL Media, a new, BIPOC Network

If Black Lives Matter, how are journalists and media organizations considering Black pain in their coverage? And how are journalists and editors across the full spectrum of our media thinking about this? This week,...

Community Land Trusts: A Model for Reparations?

Our city's economy – what is it for? New York's has been very good at piling up profits and building tall buildings. But all that private profit has come at a cost to public services and public trust. Could it be different?

Saket Soni: How Trafficked Workers Pulled Off “The Great Escape”

Prefer to Listen?Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform (Available 2/5).“THE GREAT ESCAPE: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America” tells the...

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