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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Discussion on the lingering history of racist ideology in the Americas and beyond.

  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:02
Caption: Slave Auction, Virginia, by LeFevre Cranstone, c. 1860s
The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry, by Constance and Ned Sublet, is an extensive accounting of American slavery, do...

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 58:11
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Refa Senay
The Black Panther Party combined Black Power’s militancy with socialist ideology, and infused funk music with Franz Fanon’s writings. Their impact...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
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Interchange reviews 2015 with a specific look at the programs which detailed the history and present moment of Black lives in the United States of ...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 29, 2015
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Mr. Badey's "glory days", Credit: ESPN
The band is finally back together! After a year and a half of hating each other, friends Rob Piccirillo "Bobby Pickles", David Bader "Mr. Badey" an...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:00
Caption: Sean Hill
Award winning Minnesota Poet Sean Hill joins Heidi Holtan to talk about his book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 17, 2012
  • Length: 27:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: John McWhorter
Does the conventional language used to discuss race actually impede our attempts to reach mutual understanding? We discuss the language of race wit...

Bought by KWMR, WGBH Radio Boston, and WTIP


  • Added: Feb 09, 2010
  • Length: 27:45
  • Purchases: 3
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Race issue in America's whitest communities.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Feb 09, 2010
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Consider spending time on death row and turning that experience into the drive to get a doctorate?

  • Added: Nov 16, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
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The Racial Wealth Gap

  • Added: Feb 11, 2008
  • Length: 28:00
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The issues of the black vote, race politics, and the 2008 election.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2008
  • Length: 28:00
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We are exploring the Booker T Washington National Monument in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

  • Added: Sep 25, 2007
  • Length: 12:39