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66 | The Solidarity Economy
The idea of a cooperative, or co-op, where everyone who works at a company is also a part-owner, is nothing new. New York state is home to more co-ops than anywhere el...
65 | Slow Down A Little Bit
Historian Benjamin Hunnicutt has called the push for more free time the “forgotten American dream"; but somewhere along the way the pursuit of that happiness was repla...
64 | You Wanna Play?
They say, “love your job, and you’ll never work a day in your life.” But what happens when you turn a hobby or interest into a profession? This week, we spoke with mem...
63 | Get Up, Get Down, Brooklyn Is A Union Town
The COVID-19 pandemic demanded more of workers: longer hours, angrier customers, and increased exposure to disease. Now, workers across the country — from baristas to ...
62 | The Worker Doesn't Go Away
Art has long been a lever for working class solidarity and social justice. It’s also a collaborative form of labor that props up some workers and devalues others. This...
61 | Unions Are Cool Again
This season, we’re taking an in-depth look at work and the history and future of labor organizing in Brooklyn. To kick off our series, we spoke with Dr. Joshua Freeman...
60 | Carry Your Language In Your Heart
Ekushey February (or 21st of February) is commemorated by Bangladeshis across the world to honor students and activists who died in the 1952 Bengali Language Movement ...
59 | P U L Double-A R
The Pulaar Speaking Association on Fulton Street in Bed-Stuy provides the Fulani community in Brooklyn with a space to gather, connect, pray, and preserve their cultur...
58 | A Different Kind Of Crossover
It is believed that around 80% of the words in the English dictionary are borrowed from other languages. Musician Karim Douaidy grew up speaking French, Arabic, and En...
57 | The Language That We Feel In
The question of which came first between language and music is one that scholars will likely debate forever, but what is indisputable is how intertwined the modes of e...
56 | This Is Who We Are
For over three thousand years, the Aramaic language has been used throughout Mesopotamia. In Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, a community of Syrian immigrants preserves this ancie...
55 | Where The Spirit Of The Culture Comes Out
Before European colonization, varieties of Lenape were spoken for thousands of years in the New York City metropolitan area. Today, after centuries of genocide, disper...
54 | What’s All Around Us
This season, we’re celebrating Brooklyn’s linguistic diversity. To kick off the season, we spoke with New York-based linguist, and co-director of the Endangered Langua...
53 | سيف ذو حدين (A Double-Edged Sword)
#BHeardAmplified is a BRIC initiative that meets emerging producers where they live, and gives them the tools and the know-how to tell the stories that they think matt...
52 | Thicker Than Blood, Sisters By Oil
This week, we head out on the highway with the oldest and largest women's motorcycle club in New York. • Brooklyn, USA is produced by Khyriel Palmer, Emily Boghossian,...
51 | But Mostly, We’re Still Screaming
This week, we’re sitting down with a new generation of Arab activists. • Brooklyn, USA is produced by Khyriel Palmer, Emily Boghossian, Shirin Barghi, Charlie Hoxie, a...
50 | This Is Where It’s Supposed To Happen
This week, we’re sharing work and stories from Indigenous documentarians, poets, and performers who are setting the art world and its history of cultural and historica...
49 | To Have A Voice
This week, public access television rules the nation. • Brooklyn, USA is produced by Khyriel Palmer, Emily Boghossian, Shirin Barghi, Charlie Hoxie, and Mayumi Sato. I...
48 | We’ve Been Waiting For You
This week, we’re imagining our disability justice future, and asking you to do the same. • Brooklyn, USA is produced by Khyriel Palmer, Emily Boghossian, Shirin Barghi...
47 | How We Want To Be Now That We Know
This week, we’re sending radical love and care to our AAPI neighbors. • Brooklyn, USA is produced by Khyriel Palmer, Emily Boghossian, Shirin Barghi, Charlie Hoxie, an...
46 | We Close Our Eyes And We See The Whole Picture
This week, we’re going on an audio tour of BRIC’s Latinx Abstract exhibition. • Brooklyn, USA is produced by Khyriel Palmer, Emily Boghossian, Shirin Barghi, Charlie H...
45 | This Is Not To Be Lost
This week and every week, we’re celebrating Brooklyn’s Black history and future. • Brooklyn, USA is produced by Sachar Mathias, Emily Boghossian, Shirin Barghi, Charli...
44 | Home Alone
This week, we gear up for the long winter by taking a look at loneliness. • Brooklyn, USA is produced by Sachar Mathias, Emily Boghossian, Shirin Barghi, Charlie Hoxie...
43 | People Know About It, And They’ve Been Doing It For A Long Time
This week, we go behind the scenes of Flatbush Fists – our 5-part documentary series on the influence that martial arts has had on New York culture. You can watch the ...
42 | You Can’t Help But Feel Happy
This week, we reflect on the last two, then we hear from our friends up north at Free City Radio on how the U.S. Election impacts worker’s justice in Canada, and share...
41 | All Of This Couldn’t Just End Simply
This week, we tag along with voters across the country as they cast their ballots in the highest-stakes election in American history. • Brooklyn, USA is produced by Sa...
40 | When You Listen To Them Now
This week, we join research studio Extrapolation Factory, Brooklyn’s Speculative Fiction Writers Group, NYC Prepper Jason Charles and other community members in charti...
39 | I’ve Never Seen The Sun Like That Here
This week, we thought that we were getting back to normal, but instead, we’re redefining it. • Brooklyn, USA is produced by Sachar Mathias, Emily Boghossian, Shirin B...
38 | I’ve Never Seen A Rainbow In My Life
This week, we’re getting ready for school. • Brooklyn, USA is produced by Sachar Mathias, Emily Boghossian, Shirin Barghi, Charlie Hoxie, Khyriel Palmer, and Mayumi S...
37 | It Gets Hotter As The Day Goes Along | -19,'20
This week, we’re taking flight. • Brooklyn, USA is produced by Sachar Mathias, Emily Boghossian, Shirin Barghi, Charlie Hoxie, Khyriel Palmer, Ross Tuttle, and Mayumi...