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Celebrating Juneteenth, Robert Burch, Founder & Executive Director of the Sema Hadithi Foundation shares his take on the holiday and ways his organ...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Jun 16, 2023
- Length: 16:36
- Purchases: 1
This week on Making Contact we look at Bail Reform in the state of Texas with the help of our podcast partners 70 Million. For conservative lawmake...
Bought by WXDU and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jul 13, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
This week on the show: The remnants of slavery -
June 19th or Juneteenth is the day where the US commemorates the end of slavery. Dealing with...
Bought by WVTF and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)
- Added: Jun 17, 2022
- Length: 24:29
- Purchases: 2
We learn from Founder and Executive Director of Afromundo, Loida Maritza Pérez AND 18-year-old artist, Lauryn Mills-Bohannon, creator of the Afromu...
- Added: Apr 11, 2022
- Length: 41:36
Hope - Charisse Arrington is a R&B singer who was signed to MCA Records in the 1990s. Her biggest success was with the single "Down With This" whic...
- Added: Mar 14, 2022
- Length: 04:21
“What I recall most is the way that she grabbed my wrist and, shaking a bit, she said over and over again, ‘If it happens, run. Don’t let that happ...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 33:08
In 1968, Black American athlete Tommie Smith set a new world record. He became a gold medalist when he raced to win the 200-meter event at the Summ...
- Added: Jan 14, 2021
- Length: 20:52
Bernard Kinsey met Shirley Pooler in 1963, when they were both students at Florida A&M University, after a protest to integrate the movie theaters ...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 31:58
An interview with Eilidh McGinness, author of "JOSEPHINE: Singer, Dancer, Soldier, SPY"
- Added: Dec 10, 2020
- Length: 20:21
An interview with Dylan Howard, author of "Bad" and "Royals at War"
- Added: Jul 25, 2020
- Length: 22:23
Our radio adaptation of the film, Let the Fire Burn. Directed by Jason Osder, examines the controversial, 1985 clash between police in Philadelphia...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 14, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
When Drew Lanham was a child, he used to lie down in a field and play dead, just so he could get a glimpse of vultures flying over him. He made bin...
- Added: Jun 26, 2020
- Length: 37:14
On August 10th, 2014, one day after 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, Edward Crawford w...
- Added: Jun 24, 2020
- Length: 16:42
On May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls took command of a Confederate ship and liberated himself and his family from enslavement. His great-great-grandson, ...
- Added: Jun 24, 2020
- Length: 29:27
This show highlights the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi. I had the opportunity to interview the Active Executive Director, Shelley R...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 58:40
“The police had surrounded the house. They had been there for quite a while. They didn’t want to try to rush the house because they thought he migh...
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 29:07
We asked members of Tucson's black community to share insight on topics related to their blackness.
A series of short segments designed for broadca...
- Added: Jan 17, 2020
- Length: 14:29
In November 2019, Houston-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock brings his mythological “Moundverse” to Miami. Locust Projects gives over the entire s...
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 18:03
In the late 1800s, North Carolina was trying to build a railway system through the Western part of the state. In December of 1882, something went w...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 20:27
- Purchases: 1
“My first instinct, to be honest, was they shot this guy and now there’s a coverup.” -Liz Riley, Special Assistant Public Defender, Monroe County P...
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 31:22
Northern California Public Media's Adia White interviews Stacey Abrams at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, California, May 20, 2...
- Added: Aug 04, 2019
- Length: 59:00
In her new book, Carceral Capitalism, poet and scholar Jackie Wang confronts mass incarceration in the US by delving into the processes that feed i...
- Added: Jul 02, 2019
- Length: 01:03:54
The image is of a badly abused enslaved man called variously “A Typical Negro,” “The Scourged Back,” “Gordon the Slave,” or “Poor Peter," who is tu...
- Added: Jan 09, 2019
- Length: 59:25
This week on the show: Once they have completed their medical degree, many Ghanaian doctors prefer to move to Europe or North America instead of wo...
- Added: Jan 02, 2019
- Length: 30:00
Private prisons in the South capitalized on the loophole in the 13th Amendment. In American Prison Shane Bauer takes us into Winn Correctional Cent...
Bought by WWNO
- Added: Oct 17, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
