Background Briefing – July 16, 2025
Background Briefing offers an educational approach to providing information in an era of “fake news.”
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Education Today – July 16, 2025
Dozens of studies indicate that Historically Black Colleges and Universities do a better job of educating and graduating Black students than predominantly white colleges do. Guest Rodney Trapp will explain the reasons and also report on a new HBCU project which allows students to monetize their innovations. Education Today is a radio show hosted by … Continued
Our World As We See It – July 16, 2025
A weekly talk show produced by Oakland School for the Arts high school broadcast students, Our World As We See It will focus on local and world issues giving a fresh youthful perspective on how to create change.
East Bay Yesterday – July 16, 2025
This series explores stories of culture, politics and nature from Oakland, Berkeley and other towns throughout Alameda and Contra Costa counties.
They fought to secure the vote for women. They used direct action, civil disobedience, and increasingly militant tactics to pursue their goals. Feyzi Ismail assesses the strategies and tactics of a group of British suffragettes with an eye toward building a more effective climate movement. Gregory Albo and Stephen Maher, eds. Socialist Register 2025: Openings … Continued
An interview with Beet and Mad Dog of A Better World Book Fair in Waynesboro, VA on their July 26th event as well as a member of DFW Support Committee on the 11 arrested around a noise demonstration in Alvarado, TX at the Prairieland ICE Detention Facility
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – July 16, 2025
On Today’s Show: Disappearing Video, Legal Threats: How UnitedHealth, Largest U.S. Health Insurer, Silences Critics New Release of Bob Dylan’s “Hard Rain” as Nobel Winners Warn of Nuclear Risk on Trinity Test 80th Anniversary “Farmworkers’ Voices Are Not Being Heard”: UFW President Teresa Romero on ICE Raids & Workers’ Lives Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news … Continued
Conflicting Signals in Two Consecutive Labor Reports; Plus, Niki Fortunato Bas on Measure W and Local Impact of Federal Funding Cuts
00:08 — J.W. Mason, associate professor of economics at John Jay College, and a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. 00:33 — Nikki Fortunato Bas is Supervisor of Alameda County District 5.
Democracy Now 6am – July 16, 2025
On Today’s Show: Disappearing Video, Legal Threats: How UnitedHealth, Largest U.S. Health Insurer, Silences Critics New Release of Bob Dylan’s “Hard Rain” as Nobel Winners Warn of Nuclear Risk on Trinity Test 80th Anniversary “Farmworkers’ Voices Are Not Being Heard”: UFW President Teresa Romero on ICE Raids & Workers’ Lives Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news … Continued
Robert Hockett/David Halperin/Matthew Hongoltz-Hettling
Trump Escalates His War Against the Fed and Its Chairman Jerome Powell We begin with Trump’s escalating war against the Fed and its Chairman Jerome Powell and look into how Trump wants to follow the disastrous path of dictators he admires, Hungary’s Orban and Turkey’s Erdogan, who took political control of their central banks causing … Continued