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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
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This week, we tackle misinformation and misleading narratives about mail in ballots and the 2020 election with New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie...
- Added: Oct 05, 2020
- Length: 49:21
The process of cooking a dish connects Toni Burnett Rands to her ancestors. She recalls cooking with her grandmas and how power can be found throug...
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- Added: Aug 20, 2020
- Length: 03:57
- Purchases: 1
How does historical wellness play out in race and gender? Tune in to learn about historical wellness and its relation to a Black student’s and Bla...
- Added: Aug 14, 2020
- Length: 58:06
In this year's celebration of Black History Month and the 50th Anniversary of Africana Studies at the University of New Mexico, author and journali...
- Added: Aug 14, 2020
- Length: 50:32
The question of whether and how to compensate descendants of people formerly enslaved in the United States has hung over the country since the end ...
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- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 03:21
- Purchases: 1
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
Private prisons in the South capitalized on the loophole in the 13th Amendment. In American Prison Shane Bauer takes us into Winn Correctional Cent...
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- Added: Oct 17, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
What does it mean to be Black in 21st century America? The expression of Blackness in art has a history of intricate connections to civil rights an...
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- Added: Sep 14, 2018
- Length: 56:29
- Purchases: 1
Charles Miles talks about the wrongful incarceration of his son.
- Added: Feb 27, 2018
- Length: 05:00
"You can play notes, but if you don't put anything in the notes, that's what it is...just notes." - Pharoah Sanders.
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- Added: Jul 06, 2016
- Length: 02:57
- Purchases: 11
In the streets of Johannesburg, South Africa, Khanvisile Motsa brings hope to orphans from Africa's rural areas through providing a home, education...
- Added: Jan 15, 2016
- Length: 03:57
Zena, from Oakland, is a singer songwriter, visual artist, storyteller – and one of the few women masters of the kora – a West African harp – taugh...
- Added: Sep 18, 2015
- Length: 06:21
In the summer of 1970, when she was 21, Patrice Gaines spent several weeks in jail facing charges for possession of heroin. She was a drug abuser s...
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- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 11:48
- Purchases: 1
Calvin Duncan spent over 28 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. In prison, he taught himself the law. He became a jailhouse lawyer and he...
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- Added: May 25, 2015
- Length: 17:08
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In the auditorium of Willard Middle School, about 300 people have gathered, many of them sitting on those rickety school bucket chairs, the ones th...
- Added: Apr 21, 2015
- Length: 09:31
- Purchases: 2
Three short "Moments" featuring 2014 NEA Jazz Master, Keith Jarrett. Narrated by Mark Ruffin of The Real Jazz channel on Sirius-XM, we learn about ...
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- Added: Dec 12, 2013
- Length: 03:27
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Christi was a pregnant teenager who gave up her baby for adoption and then changed her mind. The story from there goes places no one saw coming. Pr...
- Added: Apr 29, 2013
- Length: 07:28
4 Moments with legendary drummer and NEA Jazz Master Jack DeJohnette
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- Added: Apr 18, 2012
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 11
Since the 1994 demise of South Africa's apartheid system, photography in that country has taken on a new freedom, and a new meaning. It has evolve...
- Added: Jul 22, 2011
- Length: 06:05
The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from a symposium on Malcolm X, held at the Shomburg Center after the release of the late Manning Marable's book,...
- Added: Jun 11, 2011
- Length: 59:09
Sen. Lena Taylor addresses a crowd on the capitol square upon her return to Madison on March 12, 2011
- Added: Mar 12, 2011
- Length: 01:35
It can be hard being the new kid in school. It can be even harder being the new kid in a new country.
- Added: Feb 04, 2010
- Length: 07:25
Consider spending time on death row and turning that experience into the drive to get a doctorate?
- Added: Nov 16, 2009
- Length: 29:00
