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Activists in the Latinx immigrant community of Los Angeles share what they do to take care of their mental health. The issues these activist...

In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, we bring you a story at the intersection of therapy, healing and social justice. We'll hear about...

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Federal food programs, like WIC, face big changes coming out of the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health. Meanwhile, a sin...

For Black Maternal Health Week, we celebrate the important work that Black midwives do in their communities. In this week's show, we'll hear...

In the late 1990s, psychologist Dr. Joseph Gone, a professor and member of the Aaniiih Gros Ventre tribe, returned home during his doctoral...

On today's program we honor the life and legacy of civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs (27 June 1915-5 October 2015). Through the lens of...

Dr. Flemmie Kittrell was a Black home economist whose research in the field of early childhood education shaped the way we think about child...

In 1965 Margaret Crane was a young designer creating packaging for a pharmaceutical company when a scientist gave her a tour of the lab. Loo...

Dr. Rebecca Crumpler was the first Black woman to become a physician in the United States. Working in the aftermath of the Civil War, she ma...

Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute...

Our radio adaptation of the film, The Murder of Fred Hampton, produced by filmmakers Mike Gray and Howard Alk, provides a glimpse into the l...

On today's show, we take a look at the life and legacy of a central organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, Bayard Rustin. Rustin was an...

On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28th 1963, at the March on Washington, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered one of the most famo...

From its birthplace in an Oakland cafe in 1994 to the Battle in Seattle, international reporting projects, and a deep commitment to social j...

About two million Guatemalans live in the US. But, half of those here lack legal status, and tens of thousands of Guatemalans are deported b...

In dozens of countries around the world, millions of people live beside border walls. These heavily militarized and closely watched areas ca...

On November 30th, 1999, tens of thousands of people shook the streets of Seattle, Washington, in protest of the World Trade Organization. Th...

In 2019 a well known romance writer began tweeting about other writers in her community and concerns about racism. It led to a huge reckonin...
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