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, The Center for Investigative Reporting

Description: This podcast features investigative reporting on a variety of social justice issues. While the scope goes beyond racism, there are numerous episodes which examine structural inequality in America.
Keywords: Education, Criminal Justice, Legacy of Slavery, Capitalism, Healthcare, Privilege/Precarity
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The Red Line: Racial Disparities in Lending
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Description: This episode explores both historical and current racial disparities in home loans.

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Pushed Out
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Description: This episode discusses the high rates of Black girls being pushed out of school and into the criminal justice system.

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Reproducing Racism
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Description: This episode examines the legacy of slavery and its impact on current racial disparities in maternal healthcare.

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1619, The New York Times
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Description: “1619” is a New York Times audio series, hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones, that examines the long shadow of American slavery.
Keywords: Capitalism, Education, Healthcare, History, Legacy of Slavery
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Episode 1: The Fight for a True Democracy
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Description: America was founded on the ideal of democracy. Black people fought to make it one.

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Episode 2: The Economy That Slavery Built
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Description: In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation.

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Episode 3: The Birth of American Music
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Description: For centuries, black music has been an expression of artistic freedom. No wonder everybody is always stealing it.

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Episode 4: How the Bad Blood Started
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Description: In the United States, racial health disparities have been as foundational as democracy itself.

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Episode 5: The Land of Our Fathers, Part 1
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Description: More than a century and a half after the promise of 40 acres and a mule, the story of black land ownership in America remains one of loss and dispossession.

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Episode 5: The Land of Our Fathers, Part 2
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Description: In the finale of the podcast, we hear the rest of June and Angie Provost’s story, and its echoes in a past case that led to the largest civil rights settlement in American history.

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About Race
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Description: “A lively multiracial, interracial conversation about the ways we can’t talk, don’t talk, would rather not talk, but intermittently, fitfully, embarrassingly do talk about culture, identity, politics, power, and privilege in our pre-post-yet-still-very-racial America.”
Keywords: (vary across episodes)
Selected Episodes

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#1702: Better Off…?
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Description: Discusses the assertion of President Obama’s farewell address that we’re better off in terms of race than we have been in the past 10, 20, 30 years.

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#1701: Will You Be My Black Friend?
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Description: What it’s like to be asked for advice on being better allies, and where to draw the line on when and where people of color should feel like they need to help white folks out.

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#1641: Asian-Americans, Represent!
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Description: The political and cultural representation of Asian Americans.

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#018: The “Because Colonialism" Episode
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Description: Debate as to whether xenophobia is quintessentially American.

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#008: The “Confederate Dementia” Episode
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Description: Discusses the presidential response to the Charleston massacre, the push to purge Confederate symbols, and the humanitarian crisis brewing in the Dominican Republic.

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Code Switch (NPR)
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Description: “The fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for! Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race head-on. We explore how it impacts every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, sports and everything in between. This podcast makes ALL OF US part of the conversation — because we're all part of the story.”
Keywords: (vary across episodes)
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A Decade Of Watching Black People Die
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Description: The last few weeks have been filled with devastating news: stories about the police killing black people. At this point, these calamities are so familiar that their details have begun to echo each other.

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Ask Code Switch: The Coronavirus Edition
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Description: Takes on some (tricky) questions about race, the coronavirus and social distancing.

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Puerto Rico, Island Of Racial Harmony?
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Description: Many Puerto Ricans grow up being taught that they're a mixture of three races: black, white and indigenous. But on the U.S. census, a majority of Puerto Ricans choose "white" as their only race. On this episode, we're looking into why that is, and the group of people trying to change it.

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When Xenophobia Spreads Like A Virus
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Description: As international health agencies warn that COVID-19 could become a pandemic, fears over the new coronavirus' spread have activated old, racist suspicions toward Asians and Asian Americans. It's part of a longer history in the United States, in which xenophobia has often been camouflaged as a concern for public health and hygiene.

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Blexodus: The Black Exodus From The GOP
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Description: How did the party of the Ku Klux Klan become the party of choice for black voters? And how did the party of Abraham Lincoln become 90 percent white? It's a messy story, exemplified by the doomed friendship between Richard Nixon and his fellow Republican, Jackie Robinson.

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Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
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Description: Podcast hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory.
Keywords: Intersectionality + varies across episodes
Selected Episodes

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16. Under the Blacklight: Mobilizing Whiteness to 'Re-Open America'
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Description: Unpacks the central role that ideological Whiteness continues to play in the US response to COVID-19, including ongoing efforts -- on the part of individuals and institutions alike -- to unlock the lockdown.

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14. Under the Blacklight: History Rinsed and Repeated
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Description: Navigates the historical contours of the pandemic, and the pre-existing inequalities that shape its impact. Explores how intersecting systems of capitalism, patriarchy, racism, and nationalism have converged to define another dark moment in American history.

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13. Under the Blacklight: COVID & Disaster White Supremacy
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Description: Examines the different locations where White Supremacy has been deployed and unveiled amidst crisis -- from voting booths in Wisconsin, royal handshakes at 10 Downing Street, and gun stores in the “American heartland,” to overcrowded jails in Chicago, public housing in the American South, and the chambers of Congress.

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9. Under the Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities that COVID Lays Bare
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Description: While American society has taken precautionary measures to counter the spread of the virus, those most vulnerable to societal neglect remain most impacted. Coronavirus did not create the stark social, financial, and political inequalities that define life for so many Americans, but it has made them more strikingly visible than any moment in recent history.

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6. What Slavery Engendered: An Intersectional Look at 1619
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Description: Merges intersectional inquiry with The 1619 Project (which interrogates America’s history of slavery in order to understand racial disparities in 2019) to shed light on the lasting consequences of slavery, segregation, and White Supremacy, and their impact on Black women specifically. Highlights the relationship between the legacy of slavery and instances of modern oppression against Black women, such as the curbing of welfare, forced sterilization, and mass incarceration.

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Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
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Description: Features movement voices, stories, and strategies for racial justice. Co-hosts Chevon and Hiba give their unique takes on race and pop culture, and uplift narratives of hope, struggle, and joy in order to build the momentum needed to advance racial justice in our policies, institutions, and culture.
Keywords: varies across episodes
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Episode 07: Black Lives Matter
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Description: Addresses the events of spring 2020, from the coronavirus pandemic to the recent Black lives lost to police violence that have sparked a movement— and the resulting rebellion happening across the nation. Honest discussions are had on allyship, the insidious ways white supremacy shows up in our everyday lives, and ways to continue pushing back against systemic racism.

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Episode 06: Hyping Census 2020: My Family Matters, My Family Counts!”
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Description: Describes the framework of the “My Family Matters, My Family Counts” campaign, answers questions about families being accurately counted on Census Day, and talks about the impact of the census on communities of color in the next decade.

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Episode 03: Talking about Race and Marijuana, Police Abolition, and Stigma
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Description: Discusses advancing policy and community solutions to reduce the harms associated with drug use and the carceral system. They also touch on the importance of language as an organizing tool, and provide a framework that demonstrates racial justice work and marijuana policy reform are inextricably linked.

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Pod For The Cause, The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights
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Description: The Leadership Conference is a coalition of more than 200 civil and human rights organizations serving as the strategic hub of the resistance. Their podcast engages the critical civil and human rights challenges of our day: census, justice reform, policing, education, fighting hate & bias, judicial nominations, fair courts, voting rights, media & tech, economic security, immigration, and human rights.
Keywords: varies based on episode
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S01 E06: Immigration – Keeping Families Together
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Description: Discusses immigration and family separation. The conversation includes experiences of families on the border who are seeking asylum and safety, as well as the importance of immigration reform.

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S01 E07: What Do Freedom & Justice Look Like?
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Description: Pod for the Cause host Ashley Allison and the iconic Rev. Dr. William Barber II, president and senior lecturer of Repairers of the Breach and architect of the Moral Mondays movement, discuss what justice and freedom look like in the Trump era. The conversation includes how young people are leading the movement and how we should all use our moral compass to continue the fight

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S01 E09: Gun Violence – Thoughts, Prayers, Action & Reform
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Description: David Hogg, activist and co-founder of March For Our Lives and Zion Kelly, activist and student at Florida A&M University, discuss their tragic experiences with gun-related violence — and the urgent need for reform on all levels.

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S02 E07: Black Lives and COVID-19
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Description: Explores the impacts of COVID-19 on Black lives in particular.


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Pod Save the People, Crooked Media
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Organizer and activist DeRay Mckesson explores news, culture, social justice, and politics with fellow activists who offer a unique take on the news, focusing on overlooked stories and topics that often impact people of color with a weekly one-on-one interview.
Keywords: varies by episode
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Keep the Fight (June 2, 2020):
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Description: Discusses the murder of George Floyd and the protests around the nation. Then, DeRay sits down with Justine Barron and Amelia McDonell-Parry, who have been researching the death and cover-up of Freddie Gray, which just hit a five-year anniversary.

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Justice for Ahmaud Arbery (May 12, 2020):
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Description: Discusses social distancing arrests, Ahmaud Arbery’s murder, pandemic-influenced police violence, and a Sioux tribe’s fight with South Dakota’s governor. Then, DeRay sits down with Maryland State Senator Bill Ferguson to explore what it means to be a legislator facing 2020’s unexpected problems.

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Exploitation of a Crisis (April 7, 2020)
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Description: Discusses Florida’s unemployment blowback, COVID-19’s impact on the disabled, and the disease’s spread across race and class lines. Then, DeRay sits down with David Cole from the ACLU to examine justice issues under coronavirus, including digital trials and discriminatory rationing.

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In Your Skin (December 3, 2019)
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Description: Discusses the hidden history of slavery in the North, alien encouragement provisions, misguided magistrates, and Iraqi protests. DeRay talks to author Nic Stone about her book “Dear Martin” and her flurry of new releases that aim to influence a younger generation’s understanding of racism.

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Clean the Grill. Start Fresh (August 6, 2019)
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Description: Discusses detention centers for immigrant children, ways Black WWII veterans were denied benefits from the GI Bill, how a school in DC founded by nuns gained profits from selling enslaved people, and a lawsuit to change how governors are elected in Mississippi. Comedian Gastor Almonte joins DeRay to talk about his album, ‘Immigrant Made.”

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Seeing White
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Description: Events of the past few years have turned a challenging spotlight on White people, and Whiteness, in the United States..this series explores what it means to be White.
Keywords: varies based on episode
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Episode 2: How Race Was Made
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Description:For much of human history, people viewed themselves as members of tribes or nations but had no notion of “race.” Today, science deems race biologically meaningless. Who invented race as we know it, and why?

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Episode 3: Made in America
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Description: Chattel slavery in the United States, with its distinctive – and strikingly cruel – laws and structures, took shape over many decades in colonial America. The innovations that built American slavery are inseparable from the construction of Whiteness as we know it today.

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Episode 6: That’s Not Us, So We’re Clean
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Description: When it comes to America’s racial sins, past and present, a lot of us see people in one region of the country as guiltier than the rest. Host John Biewen spoke with some white Southern friends about that tendency.

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Episode 9: A Racial Cleansing in America
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Description: In 1919, a white mob forced the entire black population of Corbin, Kentucky, to leave, at gunpoint. It was one of many racial expulsions in the United States. What happened, and how such racial cleansings became “America’s family secret.”

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Episode 13: White Affirmative Action
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Description: When it comes to U.S. government programs and support earmarked for the benefit of particular racial groups, history is clear. White folks have received most of the goodies.
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