Civil Rights

In the twelve months since Michael Brown was shot dead by police in Ferguson Missouri renewed attention has been paid to interactions between police and residents of the communities they monitor, especially people of color;...

The death of Cecil the lion resulted in headlines around the world, filled with outpourings of concern for the welfare of African wildlife. Gareth Patterson has dedicated his life to caring for and understanding African wildlife. From his home...

Today on Radioactivity, Host Rob Lorei speaks with photojournalist Bob Fletcher, who photographed the struggles of the civil rights movement in Mississippi during the 1960s. Fletcher, a native of Detroit, moved to Mississippi to after facing...

A scholar looks at some of the common misconceptions about the US Civil war

Equality Florida responds to Supreme Court's marriage equality decision

Radioactivity airs speech by Princeton professor Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor on racism in post-civil rights era

Immigrant rights group to protest in Tampa against deportations

Radioactivity airs a speech by journalist and author Chris Hedges

Radioactivity remembers former state senator Helen Gordon Davis

Project Censored commemorates 45th anniversary of the Kent State University shootings

A rare Pacifica radio documentary on the 1965 civil rights marches in Selma, Alabama

at Gibbs High School in south St. Pete, citizens and police officers chatted about ways to make the police presence feel more responsive in the community.