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American History Friday, September 08th 2023

Counting The True Costs Of War. The Secret Lives Of Young Arab Women.

Norman Solomon – War made Invisible: How America Hides The Human Toll Of Its Military Machine More than twenty years ago, 9/11 and the war...

African American Thursday, August 31st 2023

Bombingham & Dynamite Hill: Birmingham Civil Rights Trail with Julie Buckner Armstrong

We are republishing a few posts that Dr. Julie Buckner Armstrong wrote for WMNF when she was researching her home town, Birmingham. She is a...

African American Thursday, August 31st 2023

Walking Through Birmingham – Telling its Civil Rights Stories with Julie Buckner Armstrong

We are republishing a few posts that Dr. Julie Buckner Armstrong wrote for WMNF when she was researching her home town, Birmingham. She is a...

African American Thursday, August 31st 2023

A Surprise on the Civil Rights Trail in Birmingham

We are republishing a few posts that Dr. Julie Buckner Armstrong wrote for WMNF when she was researching her home town, Birmingham. She is a...

African American Monday, August 28th 2023

Episode 19: Earnest Coney Chief Executive of CDC of Tampa

CDC of Tampa is a social service organization that is responsible for making society better by providing skills for the modern workforce, real estate for...

African American Monday, August 28th 2023

Episode 20: Drew Ware owner of CEO Experience/The Ultimate Networking for Entrepreneurs’ Events

If your business needs resources; loans, networking, and collaboration with other businesses you should be there at the CEO Experience events. CEO Experience event has keynote...

American History Thursday, December 14th 2017

Are Republican Tax Cuts Setting the Stage for Another Depression? And Politifact Announces Its Lie of the Year

Radioactivity Wednesday 12 13 17 Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up— We’ll talk with an historian who will tell us how large tax cuts for wealthy interests led to the Great...

Media Friday, July 28th 2017

Fact checking websites to help get through the daily news

Some things are easy to check. They don’t even need a stinkin’ website (“For the past 17 years, Obamacare has wreaked havoc on the lives of innocent, hardworking Americans,” President Trump said on 7/24/17). Was...

Elections Monday, November 07th 2016

New film follows one of Florida’s 1.7 million disenfranchised voters; Political ads get fact-checked by Politifact deputy editor

http://sound.wmnf.org/sound/wmnf_161104_110617_radioactivityF1_337.MP3 By Rob Lorei The Florida Center for Investigative Reporting this week released a new web documentary called Unforgiven — in partnership with TIME, The Atlantic, the Miami Herald and other news media — about...

Elections Sunday, March 06th 2016

Politifact’s top fact-checks of latest Fox News GOP Debate

http://sound.wmnf.org/sound/wmnf_160304_110617_radioactivityF1_337.MP3 BY Rob Lorei Today we are joined by Josh Gillin from Politifact, a political fact-checking website run by the Tampa Bay Times, who was up late last night researching the facts and stats behind statements...

Elections Tuesday, December 22nd 2015

Donald Trump campaign statements given 2015 Lie of the Year award by Politifact

By Rob Lorei Fact-checking news website Politifact determined that Donald Trump has made so many blatantly false statements during his presidential campaign this year , that it has collectively awarded them the 2015 Lie of...

Abortion Rights Friday, September 18th 2015

Radioactivity fact-checks the GOP debate with Politifact editor Angie Holan

By Rob Lorei On Friday’s Radioactivity, we heard which comments from the latest Republican presidential debate were true, and which ones were a pants-on-fire lie. Angie Holan, editor of the fact-checking news website Politifact, joined host Rob...

Civil Liberties Wednesday, December 17th 2014

Equality Florida responds to Pam Bondi’s request to appeal gay marriage in Florida.

Equality Florida responds to Pam Bondi's request to appeal gay marriage in Florida

National Politics Thursday, December 11th 2014

Politifact’s 2014 Lie of the year, and a counterpoint to raising the minimum wage

Politifact's 2014 Lie of the year canidates, and a counterpoint to raising the minimum wage

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